Entertainment

LOS ANGELES — Common was trying not to crack a smile...

With the music industry clamoring to find ways to make...

With Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, director Brad Bird makes his live-action feature debut, having made a name for himself and a few hundred million for Disney/Pixar with The Incredibles and one of the freshest comedies of the last few years, Ratatouille. It’s ...

Actors so rarely get paid to sit still. This week at the movies, as Tom Cruise is on Imax screens playing a frantic, hamster-like intelligence gatherer in the new Mission: Impossible movie, we have also a superb adaptation of the John le Carre spy novel Tinker, ...

The Adventures of Tintin...

Comedy legend Mitch Hedberg once cracked that Pringles’ original intention, given the weird tubes the snack comes in, was to sell tennis balls. But when trucks filled with potatoes showed up at the factory, the people in charge of the operation cried, “Fuck it, cut ’...

When Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and his band Orleans Avenue released their breakthrough CD Backatown in the spring of 2010, there were few outside his club-circuit fan base and the New Orleans cognoscenti who would have predicted how far it would take the 24-year...

In a world where the Adam Sandler fiasco Jack and Jill makes $68 million at the box office, it’s easy to forget that movies are pretty much magic...

LOS ANGELES — The longtime husband of terminally ill...

LOS ANGELES — Howard Stern is going to have some more company on the “America’s Got Talent” judging table...

Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging...

’Twas  the week before Christmas, and all through the town, some people were up while others were down. Some loved the snow and the cold  and the lights; some felt the whole thing just wasn’t right. Whether this time of year makes you joyful or crass, the holidays ...