In the mid-1980s, the BBC ran a clever, nuanced, six-part mini-series written by Dennis Potter called “The Singing Detective.” The landmark series followed the experiences of Dan Dark, a novelist stricken with a debilitating skin disorder, who hallucinates that he is a 1950’s noir-style private eye with a side gig as a singer in a band. Read more...

I think I may be the only person over the age of, say, 7 to be excited for the release of “Brother Bear,” the newest animated film from Disney. Read more...

Say goodbye to cute and perky. Meg Ryan is back, and this time her orgasms aren’t fake. In the new film “In the Cut,” Ryan plays Frannie Avery, a seemingly conservative teacher living in lower Manhattan, who finds herself taking sexual risks she never imagined. Read more...

If you want an easy job, you can apply to pretend to hang out in a café for AMC’s new show “Sunday Morning Shootout.” The show, which has aired twice, is set in a coffee shop complete with anonymous coffee drinkers to add to the authenticity. Read more...

By Jake Tracer dB MAGAZINE SENIOR STAFF [email protected] At 6613 1/2 Hollywood Blvd., among the sex and novelty shops, east of the wax museum and tourist traps, there exists, well, a boarded up building with a big “For Lease” sign posted on it. Read more...

Toward the tail end of Salman Rushdie’s appearance at Royce Hall last night, a patron asked the internationally renowned author if one of the night’s main topics ““ storytelling ““ could possibly work itself into the political debate and, in turn, enrich it. Read more...

Sometimes a little can say a lot. Capturing the horrors of four years of warfare doesn’t require a three-hour film; director Paolo Ameli only needed ten minutes. Read more...