Movies/TV

Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian famous for pranking unsuspecting Americans in the over-the-top mockumentaries “Brüno” and “Borat,” makes a much more conventional comedy with “The Dictator,” a satiric...... Full story

Five college students head out for a weekend of fun in a remote bungalow. But things don’t go as planned, and it’s only a matter of time before blood spurts, heads roll and the bodies begin to pile up. If you’ve seen any horror...... Full story

If you’re looking to stretch your movie-superhero dollar, here’s some serious blockbuster bang for your cinema buck. “The Avengers,” the long-anticipated Hollywood coalition of several Marvel Comics do-gooders into one...... Full story

With roots as a vaudeville act in the 1920s, “The Three Stooges” — the holy trinity of knuckleheaded nyuk-nyuk-nyuks — became comedy icons decades later as television began syndicating their short films, nursing a new...... Full story

If you’ve ever felt misled, confused or ill-informed by the title of a movie, here’s a film that’s about exactly what you think it’s about when you hear what it’s called.“Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” a...... Full story

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?”The answer, of course, is Snow White, the fair-skinned maiden foretold by a magic looking glass, menaced by an evil queen, poisoned by a spiked apple and — perhaps...... Full story

When the pioneering French sci-fi novelist Jules Verne was writing his mid-1800s yarns about trips to the moon, under-the-sea explorations and journeys to the center of the Earth, he had no idea one of his stories would eventually be played out by a...... Full story

Fans of author Suzanne Collins’ smash 2008 novel “The Hunger Games,” the first in a trilogy about a freaky future in which kids are forced into a fight to the death, scarfed down the movie over its box-office-busting, $152 million...... Full story

The Ozark Music Festival occupies a strange place in the history of epic, awesome, disastrous, horrifying American music festivals. On one hand, it ranks as the second-largest three-day festival ever, with more than 200,000 people invading Sedalia...... Full story

The ‘80s TV series that kick-started Johnny Depp’s acting career gets a raunchy, rollicking reboot in the year’s first laugh-out-loud comedy for grown-ups.Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star in “21 Jump Street” as two...... Full story

On Thursday evening, Sedalia was in for a long weekend of hardly any local entertainment events, with rainy weather threatening to wipe out any outdoor sports and activities.But Hollywood and Galaxy 10 bailed out thrill-seekers with the premiere of...... Full story

Dr. Suess’ 1971 save-the-planet wake-up call gets a big-budget, 3-D animated update with the voices of Taylor Swift, Zac Efron and Danny DeVito.In “The Lorax,” the author of “Green Eggs and Ham,” “Horton Hears a...... Full story

A short edit of “No Hassles Guaranteed,” an Ozark Music Festival documentary, will be at 7 p.m. March 31 at the Liberty Center, 111 West Fifth St. in Sedalia. A reception will be at 6 p.m.Admission is a $5 donation at the door. Hors...... Full story

A 100-year-old pulp-fiction character finally makes it into the movies in “John Carter,” the rollicking new Disney 3-D romp about an astral-traveling Civil War veteran and his wild adventures on the planet Mars. John Carter, created in...... Full story

A CIA rookie plunges out of his humdrum day job into an international gauntlet of conspiracy, lies and life-or-death danger in the action-adventure drama “Safe House.” Ryan Reynolds plays Matt Weston, a greenhorn field agent assigned to...... Full story