The Spirit (movie)

The Independent Spirit Award may not have the international cachet of an Oscar or an Emmy, but Allison Janney still would like one to call her very own. The actress, who has won a shelf-sagging four Emmy Awards for her work on NBC's "The West Wing," is a...

British funnyman Steve Coogan welcomes challenges. "I like to scare myself," he says. So after a decade-long absence from the live stage, Coogan went on a stand-up comedy tour of England last year. "I did big, scary venues," he says. "It's like a...

Universal has set Frank Miller to adapt Raymond Chandler's "Trouble Is My Business" for star Clive Owen. Owen and Miller previously worked together on the comic book veteran's adaptation of "Sin City." Back in January, Universal and Strike Entertainment...

There were no long lines of costumed fans at the first San Diego Comic-Con, and certainly no movie stars or press coverage. Back in 1970, a small crowd showed up at a downtown hotel to sift through musty, vintage issues of "Whiz Comics" and "Sheena: Queen...

"Marley & Me," the tale of a boisterous dog, led a strong pack of movies at the box office over the weekend, but together, they still couldn't pull this year's movie attendance out of the doghouse. "Marley" made the most money ever for a Christmas Day...

A man whose best friend was a giant rabbit, a flying elephant and a mouse in a wizard's hat are all getting the U.S. Postal Service's stamp of approval. Legendary film actor Jimmy Stewart and a handful of Disney characters are just some of the American...

In a TV world where "ER" has been racing through the halls of County General for better than a decade and the interns on "Grey's Anatomy" are just big bundles of insecurity, it's easy to forget that medical dramas weren't always like that. That they...

Information courtesy of groundhog.org, the official site of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Prognostication Summary: Dating back to 1887, Phil has seen his shadow 96 times (six more weeks of winter!), has not seen his shadow 14 times, and no record was...

Five easy places for a weekend with the leaves: MICHIGAN HARBOR COUNTRY/BERRIEN COUNTY Distance from Chicago: 71 miles to New Buffalo. Peak season: Mid- to late October. Once the only way to get from Chicago to Detroit, U.S. Highway 12 through New...

This is what Sin City would have looked like without the restraining hand of co-director Robert Rodriguez behind the camera. And 300, shorn of Zack Snyder's reality? It might have had the same expressionist flourishes, the loony, loopy excesses of The...

This is what "Sin City" would have looked like without the restraining hand of co-director Robert Rodriguez behind the camera. And "300," shorn of Zack Snyder's reality? It might have had the same expressionist flourishes, the loony, loopy excesses of...

With four nominations, plus a pre-ordained ensemble acting award Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" lead the nomination field for Film Independent's 2008 Spirit Awards. While the inaugural Robert Altman Award helped the Bob Dylan semi-biopic lead the Spirit...