By Elisabeth Vincentelli Just like the space creature it’s named after, the 45-year-old “Alien” franchise has proved hard to kill: Every...

By Alex Williams Maurice Williams, the singer and songwriter whose 1960 single “Stay,” recorded with his doo-wop group the Zodiacs, shot...

By Anita Gates Gena Rowlands, the intense, elegant dramatic actress who, often in collaboration with her husband, John Cassavetes,...

By Alexis Soloski Alex Moffat, an actor and comedian best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live,” rarely shouts at deer. But during...

By Esther Zuckerman There are two new films this year in which Academy Award-nominated actresses in their 70s whip out tiny sex toys. In...

By Gia Kourlas By the time the B-girl finals wrapped up on Friday, the newly introduced Olympic event of breaking had passed a test. It...

By Robert Daniels ‘The Arctic Convoy’ Set in the summer of 1942, “The Arctic Convoy,” directed by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, tells the...

By Sarah Maslin Nir and Christopher F. Schuetze Less than 24 hours after the arrest of two teenagers who Austrian authorities say planned...

By Orlando Mayorquín Aerosmith, the venerated American hard rock band whose hit records like “Dream On” have reverberated across the...

By Wesley Morris A good musician’s relationship with the past is tricky. You want to move forward without entirely forsaking what you’ve...