Sean Penn

Soleil Moon Frye, 01.12.2012

Actress, Author, Entrepreneur

It would be easy to spend today reliving the tragedy of January 12, 2010, but if there is one thing I learned during my trips to Haiti over the past year, the best way to mark today's milestone would be to celebrate the progress that has been made.

Andy Ostroy, 12.31.2011

Political & pop culture analyst

There's nothing inherently wrong with being rich in America. What's wrong is when you use this wealth to disenfranchise and subjugate those who aren't.

Scott Mendelson, 11.07.2011

Film Critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

While there are many reasons to praise the $14 million six-day opening of The Debt, the most surprising thing about it is that Focus Features debuted the film wide enough to achieve that kind of opening in the first place.

Graham Bensinger, 10.03.2011

Sports writer

In a new interview, Ozzie Guillen tells me the surprising story of why he was drunk during both his interviews for the White Sox Manager job and explains why he thinks actor Sean Penn is a loser for his comments on Venezuela.

MeiMei Fox, 09.12.2011

Depth psychotherapy-trained life coach; author; speaker

Ten years ago on September 11, most New Yorkers fled lower Manhattan in horror as the first World Trade Center tower collapsed in a paroxysm of glass, metal and fire. Not Alison Thompson.

Cassandra M. Bellantoni, 08.28.2011

LA Freelance Reporter, Producer & Scriptwriter

Hal Holbrook was honored with the Julie Harris Award at the Actor's Fund 15th Annual Tony Award Viewing Party in Los Angeles on June 12.

John Farr, 08.14.2011

Editor, bestmoviesbyfarr.com

This was the not the first title I had in mind for this piece. But when I dug into Clint Eastwood's life and career, it seemed particularly apt -- and not even close to an overstatement.

G. Roger Denson, 08.05.2011

Cultural critic and essayist published with Parkett and Art in America

Eminently lyrical and rapturous in the cinematic manifold that it kaleidoscopically brings into and out of focus onscreen with each turn of the Terrence Malick lens, Tree of Life is one of those singular cinematic milestones.

Jesse Kornbluth, 07.24.2011

Editor of HeadButler.com

Why, a week after seeing it, am I still haunted by this movie? Why do the images float through my dreams? Why can't I look at our daughter without thinking of the children in Malick's film?

Michael Giltz, 07.20.2011

Freelance writer

This movie sounded like a train wreck: an aging rocker goes on a quest to hunt down the Nazi that tormented his father in Auschwitz. Out of this unpromising description comes one of the most eccentric performances of Penn's career.

Wajahat Ali, 07.16.2011

Playwright, attorney and commentator

The Tree of Life is maddening, exhilarating, gorgeous, ponderous, insightful, pretentious, epic, shallow, beautiful and strange. It will divide audiences like few films have in recent years.

Karin Badt, 07.16.2011

Associate Professor of Cinema and Theater in Paris

Chastain, the winsome, fresh-spirited redhead who plays in two films at Cannes this year, is said to be the new rising star on the film scene.

Michael Giltz, 07.16.2011

Freelance writer

This film is brilliant. Let's get that out of the way. That's not to say it isn't polarizing, as it looks certain to be the most hotly debated film of the festival.

Heather Paul, 06.20.2011

CEO of SOS Children's Villages - USA

There are as many different kinds of families as there are classrooms of life.

Mandy Moore, 06.03.2011

Singer-songwriter, actress and PSI Ambassador

Malaria rates are dropping across Africa because of the supporters who have joined the movement to end malaria. This weekend is our opportunity to see what more we can do to change the world.

Katie Halper, 05.25.2011

Co-founder, Laughing Liberally

This week, days before Miral's release, I talked to Rula Jebreal about her life, her story, the film, violence, and her optimism for a peaceful future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.