Will Smith

How to spot Hollywood's non-threatening black man

The ten best movies featuring rappers

Wu-Tang has been immersed in kung-fu for so long, it was inevitable that one member of the Clan would make a major appearance in a martial arts movie at some point. The RZA appeared briefly in Ghost Dog in 1999, but only for a passing moment, though he did produce the soundtrack. In The Man with the ... More >>

Men in Black 3 goes forward into the past

My Teenage Angst diary reading packed with stories of perms, popularity and prudes

As a willing participant at Friday night's My Teenage Angst on-stage diary-reading event, I had some pre-show fears: What if my entries weren't as funny as I remembered them being? What if other people's entries weren't funny? What if the whole thing fell apart because someone unintentionally read f ... More >>

The best and worst of sitcoms starring musicians

We feel the same way about you, Fred Durst.​The bad news is that Snoop Dogg is getting a sitcom, a no-doubt hackneyed affair starring the Doggfather as a patriarch with his mind on his family and his family on his mind. The even worse news is that Limp Bizkit front-penis Fred Durst is apparent ... More >>

Top five shark-related pop-culture references, in honor of Megalodon

​A new exhibit is opening at the Wildlife Experience Museum tomorrow: Megalodon: The Largest Shark That Ever Lived. The exhibit includes a life-sized replica of megalodon (pictured above) and comparisons with other sharks we think of as scary-big, like the Great White, along with explanations ... More >>

Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family is this week's most ridiculous trailer

​It's a pretty sad statement about race in America that every black man in Hollywood except Will Smith and Chris Rock is still somehow required to have a fat, sassy, female alter-ego to periodically provide the machine with a few cheap yuks about -- looka here, kids! -- how black women are, fa ... More >>

Ten and a half actor replacements that give Charlie Sheen a run for his boatload of money

You can be replaced, possibly by a rotating cast.​It's hard out there for a pimp. Or at least a warlock like Charlie Sheen. When it was announced that CBS had begun looking for actors to replace his role on Two and a Half Men, the cogs started turning and the rumor mill spit out one replacemen ... More >>

The Rodenator comes to Boulder: Top five varmint killers

​Some people in incorporated Boulder County are dealing with their pesky prairie dog problems by blowing the fuckers up with something called The Rodenator. Other people wish they wouldn't, since it turns their block into a mini suburban Baghdad, complete with flaming, screaming animals runnin ... More >>

Battle: Los Angeles is this week's most ridiculous trailer

​By our informal count, there are about forty explosions in the two-minute trailer for Battle: Los Angles -- which breaks down to about one explosion every three seconds. That number gets even more impressive when you take into account that the explosions don't even really get started until ab ... More >>

We brought this upon ourselves: A Michael Bay career retrospective

​America's favorite action auteur-savant, Michael Bay, has spent years telling whoever will listen that his directional style is too hardcore for 3D, that adding depth would be too extreme and punishing on the average filmgoer. With last week's official announcement that Transformers: Dark of ... More >>

T.G.I. Friday's gets crafty with a New Belgium Brewing tasting party

​We knew rap had gone mainstream when Will Smith's The Fresh Prince of Bel Air began airing in 1990, and we know craft beer has done the same now that T.G.I. Friday's is pairing its new menu items with selected beers from New Belgium Brewing. On December 21, the casual dining chain will host ... More >>

The ten highest-grossing movies of 2010, and what that says about America

We'll take it.​The top grossing movie of 2009 was, of course, Avatar, and this year the title goes to Toy Story 3. We're calling that social progress, although there's something a little too futuristic about computer-animated movies taking the crown back-to-back -- we're pretty sure it means ... More >>

Glimpse the future of girl pop with Wonder Girls, Korea's most awesome export

​Many awesome things come from Korea: Samsung, kimchiand Hyundai all hold a special place in our hearts. But all that is secondary to the greatest Korean export of them all -- the K-pop genius of Wonder Girls.

In honor of San-Diego Comic Con, here are the five worst comic related music videos

​San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing this weekend, with nerds, dorks and geeks combining forces to create a Mecca of awesome in California. While we're stuck at home twiddling our thumbs and reading, ahem, books, we found our minds returning to comics no matter what we did. So, in honor of t ... More >>

Top 10 weirdest musician movie roles

​It's not unusual for musicians to try out acting or vice-versa, but sometimes those roles take unusual turns. Now, with "I Kissed a Girl" songstress Katy Perry (who, interestingly, recently called Lady Gaga's new "Alejandro" video "blasphemous") gearing up to play Smurfette in the upcoming ad ... More >>

Ten band inspired costume ideas

​Halloween, the time when adults decide to don their favorite witty getups, whether it be the intellectual "Freudian slip" or the pop culture driven "Christian Bale Yelling." We're sure some of you are short on ideas, so we've compiled a list of band inspired costumes to wear to your favorite part ... More >>

Flick Pick

Big Man Japan at the Esquire

Did anyone else notice this, or am I out of my tree (don't answer that)?

All right, so I've been meaning to make mention of this, but somehow I keep forgetting: Last weekend, I finally saw Seven Pounds, the Fresh Prince's latest blockbuster, and I noticed something that I'm wondering if anybody else noticed: Without giving the plot line away, there's this scene in which ... More >>

Final Days

Remakes can’t hold a candle to The Last Man on Earth.

Seven Pounds

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still misses the point, and that's a Klaatu Barada no-no

Over the Weekend: Will Smith, Coldplay and various drunk people rock Denver

The weekend has evaporated, as weekends tend to do. After the jump, a user's guide to what you (probably) missed. -- Joe Tone

An empty I-25 outside Invesco Field for the Obama speech

An empty I-25 outside Invesco Field for the Obama speech

Baseball, Hot Dogs, Money Woes and Beetlekill

Hancock

Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero.

Friday Rap-Up: DJ Bedz, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Flavor Flav

Redemption Song

Celebrate Bob Marley's life and music at What About Bob?

Beyond Playlist: Dwight Yoakam and More

I Am Legend

That old “last man on earth” setup? It really works.

The Sounds of Summer

Tunes that take us back to those lazy, hazy days.

The Pursuit of Happyness

Money does indeed buy happi(y)ness in this riches-to-rags-to-riches film.

Lost in Space

Myspace is the place for local bands to finally be heard. Or not.

What's So Funny

Just One Hitch

Will Smith helps others find love, though probably not with this movie.

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

Sunday, September 5, the Church, 303-832-3528.

Sacrificing Isaac

I, Robot owes little to Asimov and much to sci-fi cinema.

Bet on Black

The fast-paced MIIB looks like a sure summer crowd-pleaser.

The Greatest Challenge

Will Smith packs a punch in Ali.

Backwash

Dire predictions for music in the Y2K.

The Mild Bunch

Disco Redux

A new boxed set argues that disco didn't suck after all.

Starr Chamber

Night & Day

July 30 - August 5, 1998

The Outer Limits

Close Encounter of the Special-Effects Kind

CHARMED LIVES