Full Metal Racket: Consider This Ed Harris' Just Say No-No
During an impressive career in which he's played the good (The Right Stuff), the bad (Pollock) and the hideously ugly (A History of Violence), Ed Harris has no regrets.
During an impressive career in which he's played the good (The Right Stuff), the bad (Pollock) and the hideously ugly (A History of Violence), Ed Harris has no regrets.
Ashley Koff | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
This week the Center for Science in the Public Interest updated the findings of its' historic study about the caloric and fat overload found in many a movie-goer's favorite treat -- popcorn.
Meg Hemphill | Posted 11.19.2009 | Entertainment
The Twilight New Moon premiere featured beautiful stars, elegant outfits and the true strength of the Twilight franchise: the fans.
Trey Borzillieri | Posted 11.19.2009 | Entertainment
I know I'm not alone when I say Michael Jackson had been absent from my life... But in the documentary This Is It, he is back!
Carleton Bryant | Posted 11.19.2009 | Comedy
The Mayans had an advanced civilization but were conquered by Spain more than 300 years ago. If they were so smart, maybe they should have put that on their calendar.
Annie Stamell | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
The Twilight series has bad writing, ridiculous characters, and is excessive and unrealistic, but most importantly: it's fun. It's a lot of fun. Both the books and the film are so bad they're good.
Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment
The trailer for the movie 'Leap Year' hit the Web tonight. The New York Post offered one of the first reactions to the trailer, poking fun at the pre...
Alex Remington | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment
The Men Who Stare At Goats is a collection of tonally tin-eared, quirky setpieces that strain believability and almost completely ignore the human cost of the Iraq War, during which the movie is set.
Anne Hill | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment
Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up.
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
In anticipation of the film's premiere on Nov. 13 in New York, Director Philipe Diaz spoke with me to discuss the film's aspirations -- spurring a grassroots effort to banish poverty.
Regina Brooks | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books
Hollywood continues to bring out the movies based on popular YA books, because the guarantee of an audience is just too good to pass up.
Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 11.06.2009 | Entertainment
The Yes Men have a firm Michael Moore legacy (he appears in the trailer for their 2003 film, The Yes Men) but they do not yet have his audiences.
Posted 11.05.2009 | Comedy
Videogum blogger Gabe Delahaye does not love it. Not even a little bit. He's spent what looks like countless hours compiling every instance of this ph...
The Washington Post | Borys Kit | Posted 11.04.2009 | Books
The Berenstain Bears are heading to the big screen. Walden Media, the family-friendly studio behind the "Narnia" feature franchise, has picked up the...
Hermene Hartman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
Michael was at home on stage. He commanded it. He walked it, owned it, like a panther stalking prey. He knew every inch of the stage. It was his, and there's no denying it.
Jenna Busch | Posted 11.03.2009 | Entertainment
The Fourth Kind was one of the scariest things I've seen in years. I'm going out to see it again, which tells you how much I care.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment
Just 45 Minutes From Broadway is a stunning tribute to showbiz folks. It offers us a glimpse into family life that explores: sibling rivalry, long-term marriage, happiness and the secrets we keep.
Jake Brewer | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
Some really strange stuff went down when the Sunlight Foundation gave a Congressional bill and a camera to a couple. Totally unexplainable.
Mark Morford | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
How much more can an exhausted pop culture take, after the Twilight phenom and its never-ending cavalcade of Walmart-ready tchotkes?
Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
With Halloween here, and with many enjoying it for the wild parties and the sexy costumes, we thought we would go back to the basics. We want to be s...
Melissa Lafsky | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment
I don't have to tell you that Antichrist sucks. But if this audience-chafing, Cannes-enraging glob of rubbish is so irredeemable, why the hell is every publication still in existence racing to write about it?
Dan Glickman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Entertainment
We may love our Mad Men on television. But increasingly our society is moving beyond "the problem that has no name," as Betty Friedan once famously put it.
Michael Giltz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment
Nothing can replace being in the room, of course, but the 9 DVD set Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum Live takes some of the sting out of not being there.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment
The Children isn't the most violent film, nor the goriest or showiest. It haunts because it boils itself down to an unanswerable question: would you kill your own sick children to prevent them from killing you?
Michael Moore | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
I have 15 things we can all do right now to fix the very broken system in this country and to fight back against those who have brought us to where we are. C'mon people -- we can do this!
Michael Bialas | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver