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Variety reports that wanderin’ Dave Chappelle popped in unannounced Wednesday night at two Hollywood comedy clubs, the Hollywood Improv at 10 p.m. and the Comedy Store at midnight, and laid some of his patented patter on the stunned crowds. Chappelle told both clubs that he had just flown into town …

Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man is about as good a movie as you will ever see in the feel-good, underdog-triumphant genre. It’s also a very good fight picture. And it’s more than that as well. Along with a richly layered performance by Russell Crowe – all the more impressive because he …

Nine Inch Nails will not be performing at the MTV Movie Awards being taped on June 4 and aired June 9 (incidentally, why do they have bands playing at a movie awards show anyway?), because the network was, in their words, “uncomfortable with their performance being built around a partisan …

Written and Directed by Alice Wu Saving Face is a story set in a tight-knit Chinese community in the neighborhoods of New York City about a family dealing with the issues of love and family responsibility. Wil (Michelle Krusiec) is an attractive, twenty-something doctor who has to frequent social functions …

Wayward comedian Dave Chapelle — who cold bugged out to South Africa amid rumors of psychological breakdown, excessive partying, and plain old fear of success — has turned up back home in rural, artsy Yellow Springs, Ohio. For a guy who put the third season of his hit Comedy Central …

Directed by Deb Ellis & Denis Mueller This film is a documentary about an American patriot, Howard Zinn, historian, activist and author of the book A People’s History of the United States. The film is made up of archival news clips, interviews with colleagues and former students, and footage of …

Thumper’s observation about the frozen lake is one of my favorite lines from any movie, and the great 1942 Disney film from which it comes, Bambi, freshly digitally restored, is now available on DVD and will be given a special theatrical showing by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and …

Comedian-actor Chris Tucker wrapped up his testimony for the defense in the Michael Jackson trial today and the defense then rested its case shortly after 11 am PT after calling 50 witnesses over a surprisingly short 15-day period. Tucker ran through his experiences with Jackson’s accuser and his family, whom …

Just kidding: Bo will be on tour with American Idol all summer regardless of what happens tonight. Nonetheless, the most narowly defined reality show yet is coming to CBS beginning July 11, Rock Star: INXS, which will be hosted by former Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist and …

On the stand in the Michael Jackson trial yesterday, Jay Leno — the penultimate defense witness, preceding actor Chris Tucker — contradicted previous defense assertions that Jackson’s accuser and his family had asked him for money when the boy was suffering from cancer and receiving chemotherapy treatment in 2000. “I …