[Year in Film] Will Jeff Bridges Finally Get That Elusive Oscar for 'Crazy Heart'?

Tiny ViolinIn The Soloist, Joe Wright turns a beloved LA Times series into schlock The Soloist opens with newspapers thudding onto lawns, a quaint sight that makes the movie practically a period piece, even though the events that inspired it took...

A Very CGI ChristmasThis canNt be what Charles Dickens had in mind ItNs not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much lampooned) Dickens tale that has survived nearly two...

Like most people who bake bread for a living, Dean Kim gets up at an ungodly hour and goes home when the rest of us are already in our pajamas. But he wouldn't have it any other way. “How many people do you know look forward to punching out?” he...

Shiksa v. JewBut nobody wins in James GrayNs ridiculous Two Lovers If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James GrayNs Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might make a touching, if not noticeably fresh, romantic drama for...

Theo Rossi is a pita bread and hummus connoisseur. The actor deems the pita and hummus at Bavel in the Arts District downtown to be among the best he’s ever tasted. He should know — he eats some form of the bread-and-dip duo every day. Rossi, who...