Jack Black

Deep In the Heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's Bernie

This Week in the Voice: Bail is Busted

This week in the Voice, out today: Nick Pinto busts bail and explains how jail really works, writing about OWS and incarceration: "As the Occupy Wall Street movement has introduced a new young generation of mostly white, mostly middle-class activists to civil disobedience, arrest, jail, and the inne ... More >>

Can You Tell These Five Actors Apart?

I know they're all different ages and sizes and types blah blah, but to me they're one big lovable zhlub. In fact, not since the reign of Kate Bosworth and Kate Beckinsale have I been so simultaneously starstruck and confused.

MASTER OF PUPPPETS

Remembering the genius of Jim Henson

American Idol: It's Finally Over!

Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

Bear You Have It: Kung Fu Panda 2 Charms

Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet: Superhero Slob

Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

OFF THE AIR

Check out the TV rejects of Conan, Ben Stiller, and Judd Apatow

Oscar-nominated Shorts Roundup 2010

Check out the TV rejects of Conan, Ben Stiller, and Judd Apatow

News Roundup: Steven Tyler Isn't Dead, The Jay Leno Show, Them Crooked Vultures, Tenacious D Replace Beastie Boys at Outside Lands

​--Steven Tyler broke his shoulder and received some stitches in his head after falling off the stage during Aerosmith's show Wednesday in Sturgis, South Dakota (he's not dead, as some sites were reporting). Billie Perry, wife of guitarist Joe Perry, wrote on her Twitter: "[Tyler] hit his hea ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: July 15 through 21

​--Steven Tyler broke his shoulder and received some stitches in his head after falling off the stage during Aerosmith's show Wednesday in Sturgis, South Dakota (he's not dead, as some sites were reporting). Billie Perry, wife of guitarist Joe Perry, wrote on her Twitter: "[Tyler] hit his hea ... More >>

Who's Your Favorite Plus-Sized Male Movie Star?

Tim MowrerIn Hollywood, the men are allowed to pork it up, but if a dame does so, she's sent out back to scrub the toilet and freshen the laundry. It's a crazy double standard that would instantly end if I were in charge of da movies. I say let 'em ALL eat cake! In the meantime, put down your own b ... More >>

Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part II!

8:30 pm. Hmmm, Laurence of Arabia with a Cugat beat... pretty stage, more "intimate" than usual as promised, but a bit flat -- Oh no Hugh Jackman is doing a Billy Crystal. No, Hugh, you're too good for this. And we mean that literally. It's like watching Pavarotti play Jackie Gleason. At last, a g ... More >>

Kidrockers

8:30 pm. Hmmm, Laurence of Arabia with a Cugat beat... pretty stage, more "intimate" than usual as promised, but a bit flat -- Oh no Hugh Jackman is doing a Billy Crystal. No, Hugh, you're too good for this. And we mean that literally. It's like watching Pavarotti play Jackie Gleason. At last, a g ... More >>

Mos Def

8:30 pm. Hmmm, Laurence of Arabia with a Cugat beat... pretty stage, more "intimate" than usual as promised, but a bit flat -- Oh no Hugh Jackman is doing a Billy Crystal. No, Hugh, you're too good for this. And we mean that literally. It's like watching Pavarotti play Jackie Gleason. At last, a g ... More >>

Backlash Allows Us to Post Sorta-Funny Prop 8 Video

8:30 pm. Hmmm, Laurence of Arabia with a Cugat beat... pretty stage, more "intimate" than usual as promised, but a bit flat -- Oh no Hugh Jackman is doing a Billy Crystal. No, Hugh, you're too good for this. And we mean that literally. It's like watching Pavarotti play Jackie Gleason. At last, a g ... More >>

Tropic Thunder: A Consummate Movie-Biz Parody

Stiller's satire is way past its expiration date

Kung Fu Panda's Small Mercies

You can take your kids. It's OK.

Owen Wilson in Drillbit Taylor

You can take your kids. It's OK.

DVDs Just Released: Margot at the Wedding, American Gangster: Unrated Extended Edition

You can take your kids. It's OK.

Michel Gondry Celebrates the Bygone Days of VHS

Caught on tape: the best of do-it-yourself indie culture in Be Kind Rewind

Hock the Line

Sending up the pop biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs and lifeless Cox

Shitty-Band Street Team #1: Jugger-nut

Sending up the pop biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs and lifeless Cox

One Toke Wonder

Tenacious D gets the band back together, and . . . and . . . and?

The MTV Video Music Awards: A Running Diary

Tenacious D gets the band back together, and . . . and . . . and?

Fergie Is a Man

And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

'Real-life Mexicans not only don't care about those stereotypes, they embrace them'

And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

The Man in the Lycra Mask

Spandex-clad Jack Black anchors middling Napoleon follow-up

Rack Focus

Spandex-clad Jack Black anchors middling Napoleon follow-up

Second Hand Dose

Hand-me-down rock-qua-rock bands flatter via imitation

Planet of the Ape

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

The Reich Stuff: 'King Kong' vs. 'Producers'

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

Brooklynites Dish Up Fast Food That Sticks to the Ribs

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

Film

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

'Rock School'

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

Listings

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

Spray It Forward: Green-Eyed Loser Misses Shitty Opportunity

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

Music

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

It's a Small World After All

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

Michael Atkinson's Top Ten

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

Dennis Lim's Top Ten

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

NY Mirror

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

Shortlist

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

Hear My Song

A Slacker Musician Teaches Preppie Tykes a Lesson in Unleashing Their Inner Rockers

Pump Up The Volume

Sad Songs, Rock Legends, and a Naked Meg Ryan Dominate the Toronto Film Festival

Sax as a Weapon

You Didn't Know That Rock 'n' Roll Burned

Conspicuous Consumption

You Didn't Know That Rock 'n' Roll Burned

Sexy Beasts and Sweet Nothings

You Didn't Know That Rock 'n' Roll Burned

Slack Magic

You Didn't Know That Rock 'n' Roll Burned

Dairy Tales

You Didn't Know That Rock 'n' Roll Burned