DVD & TV All right, Oscar. If you don't go to Bill Murray for Best Actor in Lost in Translation, the gloves are off. You always shaft the comedians, but not this time. Because Murray isn't just some unshaven S ...   More

DVD & TV HBO Watch: Iron Jawed Angels "In oranges and women," says the state psychiatrist who's just examined suffragette leader Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) during her 1920 prison stay following a fiery protest ...   More

DVD & TV The Battle for L.A.: Footsoldiers, Vol. 1The culture of hip-hop has been so corrupted and co-opted by the mainstream that it is not so much a culture as a commodity. Of course, this is nothing new. It ...   More

DVD & TV Howdy, Sportsfans. Get your game-face on, polish your helmet and mash that guacamole--it's Super Bowl weekend. To get you in the mood, here are a few classic sporting flicks to have you spitting testo ...   More

DVD & TV This past Friday morning promised to be just another day at the office. But as I sat at my desk and turned on the computer, one of my co-workers asked me, "Did you hear that Ron O'Neal died?""No," I r ...   More

DVD & TV The Shield: Season 2--When the hardboiled FX cop drama The Shield debuted in 2002, it proved to be one of the best television series to come along in the past 10 years. And as its second season--now a ...   More

DVD & TV Viewers, be warned: There's a sickness loose in Hollywood these days, and its name is Victor Salva, director of Powder, Jeepers Creepers and the recently released-to-DVD Jeepers Creepers 2. What's wro ...   More

DVD & TV You just got a new DVD player for the holidays--or maybe you're a dinosaur who still watches movies on VHS. Either way, you're looking to rent some movies. You could head over to the nearest corporate ...   More

DVD & TV My sole mission during the summer of 1981 was simple: Sneak in to see Escape from New York. The problem was that I was only 12, I looked about 10, and the movie was rated R. Before the summer was up, ...   More

DVD & TV It's no big secret that I hate Christmas, and if I had my way, we'd just do away with the damn holiday season all together. But since that's about as likely to happen as my proposed "license to use a ...   More