Glynn Turman

The setting for August Wilson's magnificent "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is a boardinghouse in 1911 Pittsburgh, but the spiritual location is a crossroads between the ghostly past and the forbidding future, slavery and freedom, despair and hope. The...

Among the pleasures of seeing an August Wilson play, it's often said, is just listening to the people talk. As Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty has noted, Wilson stocks his scripts with "natural raconteurs" and lets them soar in...

You can't help but feel the maternal touch of Phylicia Rashad. She exudes warmth, calm and centeredness that brings to mind ideal qualities of a mom. Her voice is honeyed and clear, her answers are specific and instructional, and when she says, "Oh,...

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH A cinematic valentine of the highest order, Super 8 pays sincere tribute to Steven Spielberg's lens-flared opuses of the late 1970s and early '80s while telling a slam-bang story that hits all the right notes....

“Super 8″ is the movie of the summer, the movie of MANY summers going back to the '70s. It's a creature feature, a first-love romance and a movie buff’s movie about movie buffs trying to become movie makers. J.J. Abrams, with Steven...

"Frankie and Alice," which premiered Tuesday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, stars Halle Berry as a multi-racial stripper struggling with multiple personality disorder -- and one of her personalities is a racist. No wonder it's been called Oscar...

Kristen Bell cast as ruthless consultant on Showtime's "House of Lies"...

Friday April 20, 2001      "The Visit" powerfully depicts the flowering of spiritual redemption within a young man who has every reason to give in to despair. It marks the directorial debut of Jordan Walker-Pearlman, who in his adaptation of the...