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Welcome winter and cold weather using one of these short and funny snow quotes that embrace all the magic of the season including snowflakes, snowmen and more.

Let me level with you: 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is one of my very favorite films. You know how movie people like to wax poetic about how…

Home Alone, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Apollo 13 and Fame are among the movies inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. 

Paddington director Paul King revisits Roald Dahl’s candyman with a musical prequel that’s fine, not magical. Starring Timothée Chalamet. In theaters Dec. 15.

Ryan O’Neal was the great American cypher: good-looking, facile, capable in blue-collar pursuits, and largely interchangeable in the dreamlife of this country.

Steven Spielberg was Hollywood’s wonder boy, best known for films about sharks, aliens and archeologists. Then he turned his attention to the Holocaust.

Matt Singer has written a charming, well-deserved tribute to those two fellows in the balcony, Siskel & Ebert.

In case you haven’t heard, Como Audio, the company that made a name for itself building high-quality table radios incorporating traditional FM radio and internet radio, closed its doors earlier this year. The company faltered when, amid the worldwide supply-chain shortage, chipmakers stopped producing chipsets needed to manufacture its radios. “We estimated it would take at least two years to be back in production with a product that may not be as good as the one we were making before.

Every spring, when the month of April arrives, pastel colors herald the arrival of a new holiday season. And whether you are a Christian commemorating the

Sam Rockwell is one of the best parts of Iron Man 2, and voicing a guinea pig in a silly children's movie helped get him the job.