Arts & Entertainment

In writing the sequel to last year's The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven, director of the Scream trilogy, had a little help from someone who possesses a mind as sick and disturbing as his own: his son.
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

The problem with being funny in Hollywood is that once you've established your rep as a comedian, you're rarely allowed the chance to do anything except be funny.
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

With his Best Actor Oscar nomination for Hustle and Flow, Terrence Howard became a hot commodity in Hollywood.
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

Pride is so faithful to the sports underdog movie formula that a plot summary seems unnecessary. Let's instead imagine a montage sequence, much like the ones interspersed throughout the movie: begin with the run-down Philadelphia Department of Recreation on the brink of closure.
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

Yoshimi and crew throw away the childish eager-to-please vibe of lead single "UMA," from their latest album, Taiga, with this track, the second single off the album.
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

First Snow Four stars Directed by: Mark Fergus Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo PG-13, 121 min. First Snow follows a man named Jimmy (Guy Pearce) who's waiting for his death after a fisherman/cowboy/fortune-teller predicts that he will die after the first snow.
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

Early in Antoine Fuqua's Shooter, Marine Corps sniper John Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) decides to retire, retreating to a remote mountain hideaway.
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

rich boy Rich Boy On his new album, Maurice Richards (under the moniker Rich Boy) attempts to establish his hometown of Mobile, Alabama as the new epicenter of Southern Rap hotness.
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

In the beginning there was Napster. And it was good. But one day the Recording Industry Association of America decided it didn't really appreciate people getting their product for, you know, free.
March 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

Darfur. We learn about the terrible situation every day. But how often do we hear the stories of individuals who have escaped the carnage of the Sudan? Narrated by Nicole Kidman, God Grew Tired Of Us reveals the plight of young Sudanese men growing up in a Kenyan refugee camp and then traveling more than a thousand miles to the U.S.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

In the wake of such epics as Troy and Kingdom of Heaven, one imagines director Zack Snyder's 300, about the Roman Battle of Thermopylae, would have had little trouble getting picked up in Hollywood.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

Chris Rock is growing up. In his new film, I Think I Love My Wife, he attempts to incorporate his inimitable shtick into a more traditionally respectable format than, say, Pootie Tang.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

Gray Matters 2.5 Stars Directed by: Sue Kramer Starring: Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh R, 96 min. It is not often that a first-time writer/director snags big name talent like Alan Cumming, Sissy Spacek and Heather Graham for an offbeat romantic comedy about coming out.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

Whistling is like sex.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

A decade before Coppola made The Godfather, Alberto Lattuada released one of the first masterpieces about the mafia, appropriately titled Mafioso.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

Here is a preamble: The Arcade Fire is by far my favorite band of the 21st century. Their 2004 debut Funeral changed my life, and as a Montrealer, I have watched the band garner international success and their side projects, Final Fantasy and La Bell Orchestre, grow up with them.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar, whose pioneering work in Uncle Tupelo in the early 1990's (with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy) influenced a host of later artists, brushes his canvas with new colors on an impressive new effort, The Search.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

Kal Penn proves that he's capable of more than Van Wilder in The Namesake, an intimate portrait of a displaced Bengali immigrant couple forced to cope with isolation and culture shock while raising a son and daughter in Boston.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

Patriarch - of Palestinian blood, born in San Francisco - exists outside of both the floundering hyphy movement and the indie powder-rap scene of the Bay Area.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

Somewhere between dark and optimistic, Classic Case's latest album Losing at Life is a moody experiment, exploring the gray area between hard rock/grunge and alternative.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am