Watching Rainn Wilson gyrate in “The Rocker,” you can’t help wondering if Mr. Wilson is inhabiting a role that was originally turned down by Jack Black.
The dark heroes of Warner Brothers’ “Watchmen,” set for release next March, have a new problem on their hands: A federal judge has ruled that they may belong to 20th Century Fox.
Two harsh but hauntingly beautiful fables — “Wings,” released in 1966, and “The Ascent,” from 1977 — are the best-known films of the director Larisa Shepitko.