Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey shine in a cast packed with talented actors
Fidelity in flames
Timothy NorrisGene Ween: best David Bowie karaoke performer, ever [For more images of Ween's show see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Ween @ The Wiltern".] WHAT: Ween WHERE: The Wiltern WHEN: 1/29/11 1. Wow--Ween is huge in 2011: By 9:00 pm the line at the Wiltern went around and around (the ven ... More >>
Angelina Jolie's contradictions buoy an otherwise rote movie
If you've been web-surfing recently, you may have seen the trailer for the new movie from Sony Pictures titled Salt. No, sadly, the studios have not seen fit to make Mark Kurlansky's epic book Salt: A World History into a movie. Although it would make a fantastic film--if you're a CAA agent reading ... More >>
If you missed Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times, PBS's documentary about the Chandler family and the city's newspaper of record they once controlled, be sure to catch the rebroadcast this Saturday at 9 p.m. on KCET. (Or watch it online on the station's Web site.) It's a hypnotic train-wrec ... More >>
Ang Lee's latest cranks up the amp on faux '60s nostalgia
Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air
Also, Empty Nest, Newcastle and more
From Reverence to Rape: Plundering Meaning From the Holocaust
All the world's a remix
Love in the Time of Cholera, How to Cook Your Life, Salvador Allende
Also, this week's picks, Laura Smiles and This is England
Generational divides, from Hollywood to NYC
The actor-turned-director illuminates Foer with wit and compassion
Jane Fonda in Monster-in-Law
Jonathan Safran Foer on artistic boundaries, shitheads and why every writer in America hates him (not really)
As The Manchurian Candidate creeps back into our lives
Or, maybe you won’t: Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Michael Mann’s Ali; plus, Gosford Park and Kate & Leopold
A few of our favorite reads this year
The best of '99
The big documentary, plus Kane redux
A Long Island delight, a Santa Monica snore
