Long holiday weekends used to be a kind of purgatory for TV lovers. Broadcasters hung out their "Gone Fishin'" signs, and about the most you could hope for were all-day marathons of middling series like "Knots Landing," "Happy Days," or "The ...
If you only know Ricky Jay from his side career -- as a character actor looming like a sinister talisman in the films of David Mamet, and in other work requiring an enigmatic and sometimes menacing presence -- then you don't know the man at all.
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Susanne Bier, the Danish director who emerged from Lars von Trier's militantly minimalist Dogma school, is hardly known for her rom-coms. Damaged war veterans, paralyzed accident victims, dark family secrets ... not exactly a laff riot.
And so, ...
AFTER EARTH (PG-13): The once-formidable director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense") tries to regain his cred with this science-fiction thriller about a father and son (played by Will Smith and his son Jaden) who crash land on Earth 1,000 ...
There are times when I wish the French hated Jerry Lewis.
If they didn't love him so much, perhaps Americans would love him more.
But many Americans have a knee-jerk reaction to anything French. If the French love something, there must be ...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Jonathan Davis, lead singer of nu metal band Korn, says over the phone that he's "in vocal hell" -- in the studio in California, left by the rest of the band to complete his parts on a new album to be released by the end of ...