As Jamaica prepares for an uneasy election summer, Milwaukee's Eric Blowtorch becomes Mr. Bassie with the band at Kingston's legendary Alpha Boys School. KINGSTON 4, JAMAICA -- Today is the last ...

“Alpha,” presented in 3D IMAX and other formats, is an epic fantasy set 20,000 years ago somewhere in Europe. It begins as a father-son saga. Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee, 22 playing 14) is the sensitive ...

BOTTOM LINE A rugged adventure story for young viewers with strong stomachs. Albert Hughes’ “Alpha” feels like a movie from another era. For starters, it’s set in the last Ice Age and focuses on a Cro ...

Studio 8‘s titles Alpha and White Boy Rick are swapping release dates on Sony‘s August-September release schedule. Alpha, from director Albert Hughes, was originally scheduled for September 14 and ...

Right out of the chute, “Alpha” demands that the audience accept a great many impossible-to-believe things. Like: the hero, a young Cro-Magnon kid named Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), surviving being hurled ...

I probably have said it before, but I am a sucker for boy-and-his-dog movies ever since I saw Disney’s Old Yeller and in recent years the magnificent My Dog Skip. Nothing hits the emotional buttons ...

Author's note: It is with a heavy heart that we bade farewell to Dave Cox, who died last week after a short illness. We are grateful that Providence gave us a chance to make this good man better known ...

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Part wilderness survival tale, part prehistoric boy-meets-wolf love story and part American Museum of Natural History exhibit come to life, Albert Hughes’ rugged, rich epic feels just as out-of-time ...