Studio/Run Time: Sony Pictures, 138 mins. When the film opens, the Pope has died. Someone is killing, one by one, the men who would ascend to the highest office in worldwide Catholocism, although ...

Capsule reviews of films opening this week: “Angels & Demons” – Blessedly, “Angels & Demons” is more entertaining and less self-serious than its predecessor, the dense and dreary yet enormously ...

Ron Howard's new adaptation of Dan Brown's novel provokes Catholic criticism. April 23, 2009 — -- When God's got a role, someone's bound to get upset. Ron Howard's "Angels & Demons," his prequel ...

Author Dan Brown leveraged the old adage “the truth is stranger than fiction” by blending them together in his bestselling books - which have also been turned into movies – including his latest: ...

While all decades are chaotic in their own unique ways, the 1990s were an especially wild time when it came to American culture. It was the time of an explosion in alternative music and independent ...

Dan Brown’s novel “Angels & Demons” is essentially made up of talking and running; Ron Howard’s new film is much the same. But this is one of those cases where the film is just a bit better than the ...

Following the murder of a physicist, Father Silvano Bentivoglio, a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and a scientist, Vittoria Vetra, are on an adventure involving a secret brotherhood, the Illuminati. Clues ...

Capsule reviews of continuing films: ANGELS & DEMONS — In adapting another of Dan Brown’s religious-mystery page turners, Ron Howard wisely gave in to its beat-the-clock thriller elements, but its ...