Will Smith

After Earth: Smith Family Robinson

The adventure flick pretends it's not an M. Night Shyamalan film

After Auteur: How M. Night Shyamalan Became Just Another Director

Quick -- name the new M. Night Shyamalan summer blockbuster.

How to Spot Hollywood's Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM)

Rock Star Fashions, Without the Douchiness

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Almost everyone has once wanted to dress like a rock star, but most people realize how absurd they look in leather pants and sequins. Wisely, then, Holly ... More >>

Holy Ship!! Wrap-Up: It Was the Best of Times....

There were a lot of grim faces on Monday morning as the electro-loving masses emerged off the MSC Poesia -- aka the EDM party boat Holy Ship!! -- and did a slow zombie shuffle through U.S. customs and back into the real world (aka Fort Lauderdale). Here in the industrial port the sky was overcast, a ... More >>

Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff" History: "I Shot The Sheriff" was released in 1973. It's important for a number of reasons, but mostly because it made W ... More >>

The 1997 Edition Was the Best MTV Video Music Awards

Tonight is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Now in its 29th year, it's had its share of memorable moments, none more so than during the 1997 broadcast. On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, here's the case for why it was the best VMA's ever televised.

The Time My Dad Played "Nuthin' But a G Thang" At Our Church

I remember precisely where I was the first time I heard Dr. Dre's "Nuthin' But A G Thang": The song came out back when I was around 11. I'd accidentally avoided hearing it for the first few weeks/months it was out because my parents were pretty good at being parents. (Also, I was WAY more concerne ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Tom Cruise, Algeria and the End of the World

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 5-1

See also: *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 5. Radiohead Go ahead and turn on VH1 right now. You know those bands playing in the background of your favor ... More >>

Men in Black 3 Review

Bummer of '69

Dogs, Cats Less Likely to Be Adopted From L.A. Shelters if They're Black

Hipster racism we can handle. But cuddly kitten racism? There is no god! L.A. animal shelters went public with this disturbing trend (sometimes called Black Dog Syndrome) last year, revealing to Time Magazine that black shelter pets "are often the last to be adopted and the first to be euthanized." ... More >>

Five Music Videos Inspired by The Room, aka The Worst Movie of All Time

​See also: A View of The Room Widely regarded as the worst movie of all time, The Room has developed a cult following since debuting in 2003. Hundreds of fans armed with scripts, props, and costumes a la Rocky Horror Picture Show pack Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theater at midnight on the last Saturda ... More >>

"It Was Dark as F*ck on the Streets": Hip-Hop Does Halloween

TheUrbanDaily.com​The Halloween season is here again, which means very soon the streets will be filled with trick-or-treating children as well as women dressed as everything from slutty kittens to slutty paperclips to slutty sluts. If you're throwing a Halloween party you're going to want your ... More >>

Stage Raw: Krunk-Fu Battle Battle

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS   Stage FEATURE on William Leavitt's Spectral Analysis Courtesy of East West PlayersKrunk-Fu Battle Battle​Though Mayank Keshaviah found thin patches in the new musical Krunk-Fu Battle Battle (book by Qui Nguyen, lyrics by Beau Sia and vocal ... More >>

Today's Mystery: Why Does Will Smith's 9-Year-Old Daughter Sound Like a Grown-Ass Woman?

Will Smith's 9-year-old daughter: what's with the grown-ass voice???​Ok, today the fickle world of pop can't talk about anything other than the just-released video for "Whip My Hair," the hyper-hyped single by one Willow Smith, best known as "the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith" ... More >>

Who Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Who Really Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Maja Mataric: Who's Your Robot?

Mega-Telethon Broadcasting From L.A., Elsewhere

CNNAnderson Cooper.​A Friday telethon to raise money for the victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti will be broadcast from Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti, organizers announced Thursday. It will be everywhere: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Show ... More >>

Ghosts of Hong Kong Past

ROCK & ROLLS OF FILM

This Tallowed Ground: Wax Museum to Sell 200 Celebrities

If you can't take the heat -- well, let's just say that the Hollywood Wax Museum has announced plans to auction off James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and nearly 200 other wax figures on May 1. The housecleaning sale is the first in the museum's 44-year history and offers something for every genre of c ... More >>

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

Will The Real Joaquin Phoenix Stand Up? New Rhymes for (or from?) a Budding Rapper

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/Will_The_Real_Joaquin_Phoenix_Stand_Up'; Recently two comment posts have appeared as part of our Joaquin Phoenix Attempts a 'Reverse Will Smith' coverage, and we've been very impressed. In fact, we're kinda wondering whether MC Joaquin isn't floating us a few rh ... More >>

Will Smith Encores His Pursuit of Happyness

It's a miserable life

Heading into the Holidays

Fur goes big, Bond goes missing, girls go vamp and Dark Knight just goes

Best B-Star Fest: Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show

Hancock, America's Low-rent Superhero, Just in Time for the Recession

It's a bird... It's a plane... It's Superbum?

Cobbler to the Stars: Pasquale Fabrizio

Heeling ailing soles

Have Movie Stereotypes Returned?

Back in black (and yellow) face

The Orphanage: Lock Up the Kids

It’s a hard-knock life — and creepy

Will Smith: The Stuff of Legend

Infectious

Evidence Rooms

Glenn Ligon at Regen II, “The ­Seventies Revisited” at dnj

Too Cute for Their Own Good

Little children in the movies

Rolling With Big Boy

The voice of Power 106 What’s a few hundred pounds between friends?

No Trivial Pursuit

Happyness evokes Capra while examining underbelly of American Dream

Retro-futuristic Postmodern house Party

Top Dog

Cesar Millan

10 Albums That Stank Up the Room

Whip It Good

How To Cure Hollywood’s Summertime Blues, The Sequel

''Do Not Hesitate''

Homo for the Holidays

Edited by Kateri Butler

Alias Smith and Jones

Up and down the tubes with MIIB's J and K

Gloomy New Year!

From Sundance to sinking stars

When He Was King

Michael Mann’s Ali; plus, Gosford Park and Kate & Leopold

The Hot Young Black Communist Lunch Situation

Same Old, Same Old

Black (and white) at the movies

Down Town

Black Like Who?

Will Smith's disconnect

Too Deep

Chaka Khan and Lauryn Hill