Catherine Zeta-Jones

The Most Bizarre Chicago Cast Ever?

It's the fifth day of rehearsals for Chicago, and the director is presenting two numbers to the press, "All That Jazz" and "We Both Reached for the Gun." She's noticeably nervous as she gets things started, apologizing for any potential lack of preparedness. The cast just got these numbers yesterday ... More >>

Red 2 Isn't Great, but Helen Mirren? Fabulous

At the Prism Awards, Hollywood Honors Accurate Portrayals of Mental illness

Hollywood has a checkered history of covering mental health and substance abuse, reaching bottom with Nightmare on Elm Street. A young Johnny Depp played the killer as a schizophrenic, imprinting that image of mental illness on millions. To counteract such stigma, the Entertainment Industry Counci ... More >>

Lay the Favorite Review: Rebecca Hall Almost Saves Stephen Frears' Sports-Betting Film

Rock of Ages Review: Why Hair Metal Is 'Bone Stupid, Creatively Bankrupt, Morally Debased Pop Trash'

Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions--guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater--so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage productio ... More >>

13 Badass Bob Cut Girls: Quorra, Aeon Flux & Other Short-Haired Antiheroes

​ Why is it that every time they need an edgy, bad-ass, anti-hero-type chick, they stick her in a skintight bodysuit and a bob cut? Presented here are a baker's dozen of pop-culture's greatest bob cut women. An homage, if you will, to the hairstyle preferred by little girls, dominatrixes and f ... More >>

Music Picks: Grizzly Bear, Muse, Dark Dark Dark, the Charlatans UK

Also, Tonya Watts, Modeselektor, Heart and others

Up in the Air: Open Skies

Juno director's latest steers clear of the predictable route

Movie Reviews: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Jennifer's Body, Love Happens

Also, Crude, You the Living and more

GO LA: Fringe Artists, Porno Films and Lisa Lampanelli

Plus some high-brow stuff to do, February 27-March 5

Your Placenta or Mine?

Movie Reviews: Kabluey, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Meet Dave

Also, Homo Erectus, Garden Party and more

Henry Self: He's the DJ, Esq.

Secret Agent Men

How the tenpercenters formed a road map to peace during the strike’s dark days

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again

What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

No Reservations: Light Dining

Sweet and savory fare — without the foam

Film Reviews: Arctic Tale, One to Another, Punk's Not Dead

Also this week's pick, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me and Who's Your Caddy?

Badly Drawn B(h)ummer

And an intriguing new anti-Starbucks campaign

Wendy's Posse

High-paid yes men and women guide newspaper owner McCaw further into the mire

More Lists

Water Water Everywhere

Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve

How To Survive a Children’s Birthday Party

No, we don’t mean a margarita bar. That would be wrong.

Brother From Another Planet

Tom Hanks in Spielberg’s The Terminal

Intolerable?

More cruelty for Coenheads

Not So Blaine

A Dope Show

Edited by Kateri Butler

When Moore Is Not Enough

The Oscars give peace a glance

Killer Chorines

Chicago's dream world of criminal girls

'Everyone’s Too Stupid!'

Ghost World, plus America’s Sweethearts

Go! Go! Go!

Steven Soderbergh and his new film, Traffic

In a Lonely Place

Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, plus Cast Away,The House of Mirth and The Family Man

The Song Remains the Same

Stephen Frears and John Cusack’s High Fidelity