Myrtle Beach Movies

In the "Mad Men" era, they were the pinnacles of sophisticated pin-upry: grown-up, smart and sexy. That's as good a reason as any for the recent explosion of biographies of iconic actresses of the 1950s and '60s.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The world isn't going to end in 2012. Although you wouldn't know it to look at the movie "2012," or online, where doom and "end times" theories roam free.

The first 20 minutes of "Precious," the full title of which is "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," are so intense and pitched so high, you may not feel like sticking it out. My advice: Stick it out. This is an exceptional film about nearly unendurable circumstances, endured. You will come out the other side of it a markedly enriched filmgoer.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - They lead wildly dissimilar lives, yet thanks to a movie they are inextricably linked.

Halle Berry has something else in common with fellow Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster: The Sherry Lansing Leadership Award.

Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

The new comedy "(Untitled)" has the punctuation and the thinness of a gallery wall label. It wanders the exhibition spaces, lofts and performance venues of Chelsea and other parts of Manhattan, eavesdropping on the narcissistic mutterings - funny, some of them, now and then - of a group of artists and bohemians and poseurs going up, or down, or sideways.