brokeback mountain

Ang Lee's "gay cowboy movie" is too quiet and intimate to shoulder the expectations gay-rights advocates want to thrust upon i...

u2

Bono's recent interview with Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes stirred up all my mixed emotions about U2's "resurgence" in the 21...

2005: the year people stopped caring about movies

Patrick Goldstein in the Los Angeles Times distills Hollywood's paranoia about "The Slump" -- the year-long box-office slide...

john simon

Richard Schickel has a great piece on critic John Simon's new books on film, theater, and music. He and Simon both have valuable things...

hating 50 cent

A movie as execrable as Get Rich or Die Tryin' is probably best handled by utterly ignoring it. But I couldn't help myself.

harry potter and the goblet of fire

My review of the new Harry Potter film is up on Screen International .

what's worse: the dodgers or the sports coverage of them?

Great piece in the Los Angeles Times ' opinion section (now called Current) about the piling-on mentality of the Times ' sports wri...