“Persepolis” was one of the best reviewed films of last year, picking up the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and numerous nominations during awards season. Its recognition might not be over either, as some believe it might pull off an upset on Oscar night and beat out “Ratatouille” for...

LOS ANGELES-- Television producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike. On Sunday, guild leaders recommended a tentative three-year contract to members and asked them to vote separately on...

LOS ANGELES-- A resoundingly retro Grammy Awards left its biggest winners nearly speechless. On a night filled with nods to the show's 50-year history, the most trophies went to a 24-year-old singer known for her old-soul voice, and the most sought-after prize went to a veteran jazzman's Joni Mitchell...

The uninformed might be tempted to lump Kate Nash’s debut, Made of Bricks, into the same category as former Myspace music champion Lily Allen. The comparisons, though, are merely surface-deep. It’s true that Nash is young, cute, British, creates bouncy pop melodies and has gained a large amount of...

David Benioff was sitting on a plane, having a perfectly pleasant conversation with an elderly passenger about his job as a screenwriter, when he mentioned that he was working on an adaptation of ''The Kite Runner.'' ''She grabbed my arm and said, 'That's my favorite novel. Don't change a word!''' Based...

“When we were a band starting out in Ohio, I don’t think any of us thought that we’d go past high school,” Relient K guitarist Matt Hoopes admitted to me over the phone. “Then we got a record deal right before we went to college … so we made our first record, and then we made a second record...

“I think there’s a moment in everyone’s life where it’s this do or die moment,” Stephen Christian of Anberlin said, minutes after another terrific performance at Anaheim’s House of Blues on Dec. 3. “You have this one chance. Do you jump off the train and try to save the day? Do you go...

The title of OneRepublic’s new album, Dreaming Out Loud, may prove curiously prophetic for the alternative rock band’s debut release. For the time being, the relatively new band, fronted by the talented Ryan Tedder, seems to be living every band’s dream career. Just one short year ago, the band...