Andrew Hosford traveled to Chile to teach and see the sights. He didn’t expect to become a movie star. Read more...

Ice Cube’s inevitable, uplifting sports bioflick, “The Longshots,” is here. It’s not as dopey as the gangsta rapper’s family comedies. Read more...

ATLANTA – Rainn Wilson is 42. He has a wife named Holiday, who writes short stories, and a young son named Walter. He is nominated, again, for a best supporting actor Emmy for playing Dwight Schrute, the alpha underling on “The Office.” He talks in soft, precise sentences, which seem to pair perfectly with his endearingly dorky persona. Read more...

Those sounds you hear? The chattering of machine guns, the whooshing flamethrowers, the ka-booming of vehicles, up in flames and down in pieces? Listen close and you’ll hear something else. Read more...

“The Rocker” might really have rocked if it didn’t feel like a cover of a couple of superior comedies. Read more...

Just in time for back-to-school comes “The House Bunny,” which won’t teach you anything new or useful, but it will prepare you for sorority rush. Read more...

When horror spoofs itself – sacré bleu! – French director Alexandre Aja gets mad. Read more...

“American Teen” is so real that at times it’s almost unbearable to watch. Read more...

They’re talking about love. They’re talking about relationships. They’re talking in “Woodyspeak” in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Talking and talking and talking and talking, they’re talking their subjects to death. Read more...

Leave it to George Lucas, or somebody he’d hire, to see Jabba the Hutt’s “uncle” as an English-speaking, hookah-puffing blob voiced by a Truman Capote impersonator. Read more...

Charles Ryder is deeply fond of Sebastian Flyte. He loves Sebastian’s sister Julia. Above all, he loves their aristocratic lifestyle, the aura of power and privilege that surrounds them that is symbolized by Brideshead, their immense English country estate. Read more...

I see a room. It’s full of smoke and the sounds of maniacal giggling. Read more...

The connections between the characters in the Israeli drama “Jellyfish” are unclear at first. Read more...

Too, too long, these traveling pants. They’re dragging on the ground, wearing out and wearing out their welcome. Read more...

He was decades past his “gonzo” glory days, well into a lifetime of substance abuse and just a couple of years away from the moment he would take his own life with the final evidence of what he liked to call “my gun problem.” Read more...