Peter Sellers

Similar But Not the Same: 5 Pairs of Movies That Are Pretty Much the Same Thing

​Friends With Benefits opens July 22, and more annoying than the fact that some studio executive probably said, "You know who I want to see in a movie? Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis!" is the fact that this movie comes out a brief six months after No Strings Attached, which is basically the ... 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 >>

Texas Rangers: World Series Tips From A Town That's Been There

Let a veteran city help you out, Metroplex​Tonight begins what -- to fans of the Peter Sellers movie The Mouse That Roared -- will always be known as the "so-called World Series."It (the Series, not the movie) features the Texas Rangers and the San Francisco Giants. If you wanted a Red State/Blue ... More >>

Not Bad for Government Work

Spoofing the run-up to war, In the Loop is political satire done right.

Remembering 1969, Part 3: The Beginning of the End for the Beatles

Note: see Part 1 here and Part 2 here. For most of 1969, the Beatles were pretty much comatose - after the disastrous Get Back sessions (which would later spawn the Phil Spector-produced Let It Be), they reconvened to the studio that spring to record the music for what would become their final reco ... More >>

Five Movie Presidents Worse Than W.

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 24

Reign Over Me

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

Kitty Litter

Steve Martin's Pink Panther piddles on its predecessor

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

Letters

Peter Panache

J.M. Barrie gets a Hollywood makeover in Finding Neverland

Thumb's Up

Construction continues downtown with "In Situ"

Garden of Good and Evil

Rachel Carson's environmental quest gets surreal at Main Street Theater

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Watching the Detectives

Tiki spy eclectic lounge band Clouseaux is no bumbling stumblebum

Fight the Powers

In Goldmember, Mike Myers's mojo is running low

Do Little Indeed

Who needs a plot when you have Eddie Murphy talking to the animals?

The Man of Many Face

Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously

Force of One

The late Sir Alec Guinness was a powerhouse long before Obi-Wan Kenobi

Whistlin' Trixie

You'll lap it up as the title character in Alan Rudolph's quirky comedy trips over her own tongue

Affairs of the Tart

Lolita's classy, but where's the comedy and character?

From Russia, with Love

With the loopy, retro Saint, Val Kilmer has himself a new franchise

Moving History

Cult restaurateur

Mickey Kapoor brings "Nouvelle Indian" inside the Loop

The Liberation of Steven Spielberg

Freed from his earlier studies in pop redemption, the prince of schmaltz has made what might be the year's best movie