"Black Book" an old-fashioned wartime epic
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VENICE, Italy  - Paul Verhoeven's World   War II drama "Black Book" is an ambitious throwback to the days   of rousing all-action wartime pictures in which an intrepid   loner risks everything to fight a clearly defined enemy.
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An inside look at the elaborate secrecy campaign around the biggest book of all time
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The film's literary plot, about a man who hears an author narrating his life, never quite moves beyond generic.
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The Golden Compass comes to the screen, cleansed of theology, but with a few jaw-dropping moments
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If youâre not an âAmerican Mastersâ person, you might envision this venerable series â now nearly a quarter-century old â as a gilded slide show pedantically narrated by Alastair Cooke. You would be wrong, and for proof you might check out âOrozco: Man of Fireâ tonight on PBS.
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Sony Pictures Classics has  paid a high six-figure sum for North American rights to Dutch  director Paul Verhoeven's World War II drama "Black Book."
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Some of the biggest secrets of World War II have been revealed in a new book.
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Scarlett Johannson stars in an adaptation that is better than it has any right to be
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Another masterwork from Clint Eastwoodâs astonishing late period, and one of the best war movies ever.
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History looks primed to repeat itself.
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A new book, âRescuing Da Vinci,â chronicles the efforts of Allied officers and soldiers to save and repatriate stolen treasures during and after the war.
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The literary master's dazzling, dizzying 1,085-page new novel is not for those looking for a snack
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Patricia FoulkrodÂs documentary about the war in Iraq stands out as an especially pointed indictment of the American militaryÂs treatment of its own people on and off the battlefield.
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"The Coldest Winter" (Hyperion; $35; 719 pages), by David Halberstam: In what fate made his final book, David Halberstam remembered a "forgotten" war, exploring the 1950-53 Korean conflict with 719 pages of foxhole-level heroism and command-level folly. It's a work destined to endure as a popular history of one of America's most unpopular wars.
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Dee Brown's epic history makes it to the screen, but some say the title is all that survived.
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"Hitler's Hit Parade" is hardly a trip down memory lane. This film's juxtaposition of romantic songs and wartime brutalities can cause viewers to squirm or turn away in horror.
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Oliver Stone&#39;s epic account of the many long and pointless conversations about glory-seeking and peasant-conquering conducted by Alexander the Great between battles - is nothing if not thorough.