Giancarlo Esposito

Quienes estén buscando una oportunidad para escapar de las producciones de Hollywood, no deben perderse la programación del Festival Internacional de Cine de Fort Lauderdale, evento que llega a su edición número 23. Considerado como uno de los...

'Hair" is not the only modern theater legend being revisited this summer. The Negro Ensemble Company, a huge force in the tumultuous '60s and '70s, is the focus of a retrospective by Off-Broadway's invaluable Signature Theatre Company. Like "Hair,"...

SOMETIMES life really does imitate art. As the Democratic National Convention was kicking off, actor Richard Schiff, who played the White House communications director on "West Wing," was holding court with a pack of reporters on a concrete version of...

When James Earl Jones takes the stage as Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," the Broadhurst Theatre fairly trembles. For all the fussin' and flitterin' of Maggie (Anika Noni Rose), Mae (Lisa Arrindell Anderson), Big Mama ( Phylicia Rashad), Gooper (...

2½ stars (out of four) This loopy, clever comedy opens with Shakespeare's "all the world's a stage" passage, a concept the movie takes to heart. Beautiful young actress Helen (Michi Barall) arrives at her Manhattan apartment after being propositioned...

Sherrybaby is the intentionally ironic title of a movie about a trashy, drug-addicted tart who gets out of prison and tries to get to know the little girl who has been growing up without her. Maggie Gyllenhaal is Sherry, an impulsive recovering heroin...

Maggie Gyllenhaal is becoming so adroit at playing coy that it won't be long before her every screen appearance will make viewers look up the word "coy" in the dictionary. It won't be to find Gyllenhaal's picture, but to make sure that the definition is...

Big question: Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) finds out she has three weeks to live and makes a beeline to Europe. Will this remake of "Last Holiday" (1950) inspire you to live each day as though it were your last? Catch it: Latifah is the firecracker...

3 stars (out of four) A word to the wise: If you're ever told you have three weeks to live, you should seriously consider liquidating your life savings and making tracks to the world's most outrageously luxurious five-star resort. A word to the even...

3 stars (out of four) Maggie Gyllenhaal can't brush her teeth without making another movie, and by this point in her screen career we can take stock of her considerable and rather deceptive abilities. Why deceptive? Because in every film she has a way...

As the year turns into an ongoing Maggie Gyllenhaal film festival, there's the danger she'll be overexposed. Yet you wouldn't ant to miss seeing her in her latest, "Sherrybaby." The material isn't exactly fresh -- drug-addicted mom just out of prison,...

You'd have to do the math to know for sure, but casual analysis suggests that stories about drug addicts, especially recovering ones, make up a disproportionate number of stories told on the screen. American movies are fixated on the twin forces of...