Jane Eyre (movie)

John Caird brings blockbuster cred to L.A. Opera's 'Tosca'

2013-05-16 06:30:00

John Caird, who's directing the L.A. Opera production of "Tosca" that opens Saturday, played crucial roles in launching two of the biggest stage blockbusters of modern times. The fact that the British director remains somewhat below the radar, at...

The Underground aims to take krump from the street to the stage

2013-02-09 06:00:00

In a small Inglewood house near the end of a quiet, dead-end street, Marquisa "Miss Prissy" Gardner and Christopher "Lil' C" Toler are mock arguing about a bag of Martha's burritos he's carrying. "You didn't bring me any?" she taunts. "Chris-TOE-pher!"...

Herman Wouk, a novel force

2012-12-19 00:00:00

The year Herman Wouk was born, Woodrow Wilson was in his first term in the White House, the Lusitania's sinking was on the front page and "The Birth of a Nation" was playing in silent movie theaters. In the 97 years since, with such books as "The Caine...

PASSINGS: John Wood, Charles L. Gittens

2011-08-12 00:00:00

John Wood Award-winning British actor John Wood, 81, a British actor who won a Tony Award in 1976 for his role in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," died Saturday in his sleep inEngland, his agent announced. Best known for his...

Scene Stealers

2011-10-28 16:37:14

Spring full of film adaptations of favorite books

2011-03-06 00:00:00

As grand as the spectacle of film can be, books offer a different set of pleasures: There is time to ponder, to turn the page back, to sit with characters' thoughts and share in their heartbreaks, their revelations. Some big movies are coming this...

Weekend movies: 'Battle: Los Angeles,' 'Red Riding Hood,' 'Mars Needs Moms'

2011-03-11 16:36:36

'Jane Eyre' opens to highest per-theater average of 2011 in limited release

2011-03-13 16:33:06

Stephenie Meyer talks about 'The Host'

2013-03-23 14:58:00

In the midst of separating a generation of young female readers into Team Edward and Team Jacob, Stephenie Meyer, author of the wildly popular "Twilight" novels, started a new book called "The Host." Published by Little, Brown in 2008, "The Host" is a...

1st trailer for Michael Bay pirate series 'Black Sails'

2013-04-17 08:22:00

It's been a long time since pirates have sailed onto the small screen. The first trailer for Starz's upcoming pirate adventure series "Black Sails" has me ready for the high seas.� Executive produced by "Transformers" producer Michael Bay and set to...

Road to good reading may be paved in cheesy books

2012-09-14 00:00:00

Name a book that shaped you as a person, as a reader. This book should be something you would call "a book that mattered" or "a favorite piece of literature." I had to pick such a book the other day after being invited, along with a dozen other people,...

Is it an earthquake, or simply a shock?

2012-08-17 14:12:00

Whatever its literary merits, “Fifty Shades of Grey” can take credit for a few things. The phenomenal best-seller has brought kinky erotica out from under the covers and into the mainstream. It has provided comedians and parodists with ripe...

Maybe that's asking too much. But Chastain appeared in seemingly every movie this year anyway, turning in great work in films both very good ("Take Shelter"), OK ("The Help," "The Debt"), very bad ("Texas Killing Fields") and everything in between.

2011-12-28 14:52:28

's proto-feminist 1847 novel, but this actor's turn as Eyre's crush Rochester isn't to be lost in the film's Gothic mist.

2011-05-20 16:12:27

Australian actress Mia Wasikowska stars as the title character in the latest cinematic retelling of Charlotte Bronte's novel "Jane Eyre."

2011-03-10 11:56:49