Don Cheadle

Denzel Washington Sulks, Soars in Flight

Food & Film: Laguinats Beer Dinner - Boogie Nights

George Clooney: Hollywood Humanitarianism: To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Expected

A Very Special Message: The 10 Best Rock-Star Public Service Announcements

Ever since the Ad Council introduced the "Rosie the Riveter" poster, public service announcements have either warned us of the dangers of such risky behaviors as having unsafe sex, as well as reasons you should vote, or even to spay and neuter your pets. As rock and roll became more popular, artists ... More >>

Rappers Onstage: Who's Dramatic Enough For Broadway?

Some rappers happen to be thoughtful, intelligent people. Every Monday that isn't a national holiday Rocks Off will have some of them here discussing issues relevant to their culture. Have something you've always wanted to ask a rapper? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. Photo illustration by John Seabor ... More >>

20 Musician Biopics Currently In Development Hell

Happy birthday, Janis.​News came down last week that Sacha Baron Cohen will be stepping into the rhinestones and glitter as Queen icon Freddie Mercury. It's been a long time coming for Cohen, the Borat and Bruno star who is slowly becoming his generation's Peter Sellers and has been rumored to ... More >>

Green Zone: Win A Free DVD, And Learn Why Matt Damon Is The Best Of The Ocean's 11 Actors

Thank God Brad Pitt didn't star in this​Green Zone, by shaky-cam master Paul Greengrass, is the latest movie to try to buck the trend of box-office poison that is the Iraq War.Many have tried, but even the most celebrated of the Iraq War flicks, The Hurt Locker, wasn't a blockbuster. (Maybe ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Is Iron Man 2 ScarJo's Finest Performance?

​Unsurprisingly, Iron Man 2 was tops at the box office last weekend. The $128.1 million haul was considered a mild disappointment by some, proving once again that even the fifth biggest opening weekend in movie history can be spun as a negative in Hollywood, where it was also argued semi-convi ... More >>

Built to Last

Iron Man 2 will lead to 3 and probably 4, but that doesn't mean it's good.

NYPD Blue: A sleepy follow-up to Training Day

A sleepy follow-up to Training Day, Brooklyn's Finest cops out.

Logic Goes Out with the Intrigue in Ho-Hum "Thriller" Traitor

Spy Vs. Why

No End in Sight, Twin Peaks, The Other Side of the Mirror and Talk to Me

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

Ocean's Thirteen

Ocean's Thirteen is a washed-up threequel. How much you wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

Reign Over Me

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

Never Opening Near You

Music biopics Hollywood won't make

Some Kind of Joke

Rogues' Gallery

Racists, louts and terrorists earned their place among the best of 2005

We're No Angels

In Paul Haggis's Los Angeles, good and evil Crash into each other

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Run, Dick, Run

Sean Penn blames his problems on the president -- so what else is new?

Blade Runners

Hotel Rwanda finds hope amid the horrors of tribal genocide

Faker's Dozen

A rare superior sequel, Ocean's Twelve entertains with cinematic sleight of hand

Redemption Thong

Salma's shorts get top billing in an otherwise unwatchable caper

The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

Tucker-ed Out

Noisy Rush Hour 2 mistakes volume for humor

War Games

With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes an unblinking look at America's drug policies

Better in Pairs

Generally a letdown, the year in film offered some well-crafted works that are best viewed as double features

Recycled Gifts

The ghost of Christmas Movies Past pays a visit to The Family Man

Eight for '98

Leonard's Canny Charmer

Out of Sight satisfies the eyes, mind and emotions

Out of Time

Narcissism drives Warren Beatty into the 'hood

Porn Yesterday

The hugely ambitious Boogie Nights revisits the sex-film world of the 1970s

I Lava L.A.!

Volcano destroys the City of Angels with hot magma and cool affection