It's impossible to avoid the comparisons, so we may as well just get them out of the way early so we can move on. “The Amazing Spider-Man” (蜘蛛人：驚奇再起) — a reboot? Prequel? New chapter? It's hard to decide what to call it — is pretty much different in every way from the staggeringly successful Marvel Comics-inspired trilogy that preceded it.

Sparkling insights on the issue of one's identity and the subtleties of twin sisterhood lie at the core of “Cha Cha for Twins” (寶米恰恰). The puppy romance spun around the central theme is sweet but also callow and somewhat stifling.

In analyzing Sacha Baron Cohen and the array of offbeat characters he's created, it's clear that it's become a matter of diminishing returns.

It's a good thing that J.R. Ewing only shot himself in a mirror in the final episode of “Dallas” back in 1991. Now he can rejoin the rest of the gang for a revival of the cult TV series.

Director Zoya Akhtar's road trip drama “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” swept the top honors, including best picture and best director, at the “Bollywood Oscars” held late Saturday in Singapore.

Nothing could possibly satisfy the fervent expectation that has built for Ridley Scott's sort-of-prequel to his genre-defining “Alien,” but “Prometheus,” the director's return to science fiction for the first time in more than 30 years, comes close.

The look and the energy of 'Snow White & the Huntsman' are what keep it engaging, if a bit overlong

There's a moment early on in “Men in Black 3” when Will Smith's Agent J sits down next to his longtime partner, Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K, and bemoans the fact that he's too old for this sort of thing — for running around New York in matching dark suits, chasing down aliens and zapping them with their shiny metal weapony doo-hickeys.

Directed by John Madden, the film is old-fashioned, safe and resistant to stray from its comfort zone — like visiting a foreign country and only eating the foods you already know you like.

The cheap visual effects are so bad that you'll be wondering if you misplaced your 3-D glasses.