Eddie Murphy

"Black Don't Crack"

“Black Don't Crack”

Life lessons by Paul Mooney

Best Films: 10 for 2012

You better watch out.

Shrek stinks up Fair Park; In Closer to Heaven the devil's in the deets.

You better watch out.

Year in Review: Sampling the Best DJ and Dance Music of 2009

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Section 8 Improv Comedian Mark Orvik Fights Back From a Near-Fatal Illness With Sidesplitting Humor

The past year brought the worst economy since the malaise of the 1970s, and like that era, it also saw dance music sweep the nation. Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs all dabbled in the sound. Even Michael Jackson was said to be working on a dance album with the Peas ... More >>

Role Models is Smarter and Bawdier Than Your Average Boys-to-Men Movie

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Back...and Loving It

Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Last Night: Michael Ian Black at House of Blues

Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Can't Get a Fix on Crix' Pix for Best Flix

Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Mat Finish

The Wrestling Season takes a strong hold on tough teen issues; Den of Thieves steals time

Search Party

Bill Parcells is looking for a few good men. Good luck.

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

Live Long, Prosper

Jim Kirk didn't die. Bill Shatner just got scared to death.

Devil's Advocate

Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

A Top 10 Odyssey

Looking back (and backward), 2001 had a few worthy mementos

Sly Foxx

He steals Ali, but will Hollywood give Jamie Foxx a shot at the title?

The Enemy Within

William Shatner is no longer afraid of his shadow

Fly By Night

Don't Rush to see Chan and Tucker in this warmed-over rehashing

Izzy Funny

Kevin Pollak

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

Not-so-Funny Lady

I'm The One That I Want may work for Margaret Cho fans, but it won't win her converts

Pimping ain't easy

Pimpadelic's Kord Murphy finds time

Yo Momma

Martin Lawrence proves there's a fine line between fat and phat

Let's get it on

Andre Williams may be 63 years old, but he's still agile, mobile, and hostile

Lots o' libido

SNL's latest breakaway, Molly Shannon, makes herself large for the big screen in Superstar

No guts, no glory

David O. Russell gets to the heart of the matter, down to the last detail

Read? What am that?

The year in rock books which isn't such an oxymoron, really

Chan's still the man

Jackie's latest trots out some familiar moves while avoiding traffic problems

Pop, pop, fizz, fizz

In Fathers' Day, Crystal and Williams need some comic relief

Oh, God

The Preacher's Wife is a tepid remake of a tepid original

Weird science

Jack is the latest summer flick to mix quasi-fantasy with toothless comedy

If hell were a musical

Faint praise isn't damnation enough for Damn Yankees

The House of Cottrell (Part I)

The untold story of bitterness and betrayal in black Dallas' royal family

Breathless

Waiting to Exhale triumphs with unforgettable characters

Heavy load

White Man's Burden can't carry its flawed premise

Events for the week

White Man's Burden can't carry its flawed premise