Let’s get one thing straight ““ I’m angry. This column is both fun and frustrating to write. On one hand, I get to provide commentary on A&E ‘s first-ever year-end top 10 TV shows list. Read more...

Though the best films of the year tend to come at the end of December, just in time for awards season, these are A&E’s staff-voted top 10 films of 2006, based on what we’ve seen so far: 1. Read more...

The Nutcracker Universal Ballet Thursday, Nov. 30 There is nothing quite like seeing “The Nutcracker” to officially welcome the holiday season. The children’s fairy tale is an eternally popular family-friendly fixture of winter. Read more...

Pimp City Duckfeet Entertainment, LLC For the average college student, the scary, sexy world of pimps and prostitutes is far away (or at least across town over by USC). Read more...

Screamers Director Carla Garapedian MG2 Productions “Screamers” is an apt name for this documentary ““ an impassioned, often incoherent, but always affecting look at genocide throughout the past 90 years. Read more...

Since the time of the Soviet Union, Russia has been a country of great secrecy and oppression. Even now, there is a scandal over the suspicious death of a prominent Russian journalist. Read more...

The Good German Director Steven Soderbergh Warner Brothers Pictures It only gets worse in Berlin. Or so say the characters in Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, “The Good German,” an attempt at film noir about post-World War II Berlin. Read more...