By STEVE PERSALL, St. Petersburg Times
Not exactly Mayberry
Sometimes the only things scarier than a home's devaluation are the next-door neighbors. Especially in movies where good and bad dreams come true.
Take the new film "Revolutionary Road," with stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Its scathing indictment of picket-fence living is one in a long line of nightmare neighborhoods depicted in movies over the years.
FDR, Lincoln outpoll modern-day presidents in movies
Oliver Stone's just-released "W." is the first-ever movie dramatization of a sitting U.S. president's term of office. Movies about presidents usually come decades or centuries after their terms. Most are documentaries and made-for-television productions.
Murray loses fire in 'City of Ember'
There's something wrong here, something very, very wrong; human-sacrifice, dogs-and-cats-living-together kind of wrong.Bill Murray isn't funny anymore.
A look at some film remakes that work -- and some that don't
They're often called reboots or re-imaginations because few filmmakers will admit they're doing remakes. It's a confession that you're out of ideas, resorting to someone else's.
