For me, seeing Milk was a transformative experience because it restored my belief that Hollywood can make quality pictures that have broad appeal.

This year's movie awards season has played out like Oscar night at Minsky's. At least a dozen of the supposedly hottest contenders -- among them "The ...

In a private text message obtained by The Daily Beast, Mickey Rourke bashes Sean Penn--his chief rival in the Oscar race--as a "homophobe" and an "ave...

LOS ANGELES — The Batman epic "The Dark Knight," the political biopic "Milk" and the gritty drama "The Wrestler" were among critical favorites t...

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NEW YORK — Sean Penn and "Milk," Gus Van Sant's biopic about gay rights leader Harvey Milk, continued to gain awards momentum Wednesday, winning...

Brad Pitt versus Angelina Jolie. Heath Ledger versus Robert Downey Jr. Bruce Springsteen versus Miley Cyrus. Those are some of the matchups for the...

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Milk manages to balance the needs of two very different films in its running time. It is, first of all, a superb biopic, as well as a meditation on the responsibility activists have to the people.

One failing of the otherwise interesting film is that it never gives any insight into the reason behind Milk's rapid career change from insurance to gay insurgency. It's not too much of a stretch to say that Milk was born again.

With the release of Gus Van Sant's new bio-pic, MILK, covering the life and times of gay activist Harvey Milk, Prop 8 and gay rights are the focus of ...

There she was, on the screen, in Milk. Anita Bryant, speaking out about "the homosexual agenda." Back in 1977, she was hugely controversial.

Gus Van Sant has spent the past few years making dreamy, amorphous meditations on life and death that seemingly were intended for his hardcore fans, h...

Harvey Milk inspired hundreds of thousands of gay people in his lifetime and now with Gus Van Sant's new film Milk, he has the opportunity to reach millions more in death.

LOS ANGELES -- When the movie "Milk" comes next month to Claremont, a college town about 30 miles from here, Patrick Milliner intends to greet it with...

"Milk" actor James Franco (he plays boyfriend Scott Smith to Sean Penn's Harvey Milk) went on "The Late Show" Friday night to promote his new film, op...

Bryant became the gay community's public enemy No. 1 for leading a movement to overturn antidiscrimination laws. I called her office to find out what she thinks about the upcoming movie.

James Franco is loosening up. That may seem an odd way to characterize an actor who is pursuing an MFA in fiction writing at Columbia University, taki...

SAN FRANCISCO — It was only fitting that "Milk," the film about Harvey Milk's life and death, premiere Tuesday night in the Castro. Milk, San F...