Ken Watanabe

The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has inspired a host of TV tributes, reminiscences and investigations. Here is a guide to some of the 9/11-related programs airing between now and Sept. 11, 2011: “Dr. Drew” 6......

Everywhere you look in the entertainment world these days, you see more and more people crossing the digital divide, using a staggering array of new devices to read books, watch TV shows, listen to music and, yes, even read the......

One of the best-reviewed movies of the year, and certainly one of the most challenging, writer-director Christopher Nolan's strikingly visual melodrama plays liberally with reality and illusion. Leonardo DiCaprio has one of his best roles to date as a...

Christopher Nolan's "Inception" has perhaps the deepest cast of any film this year, with six past Oscar nominees or winners at the top of the credits: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Michael Caine and Tom Berenger. With........

On Saturday at the Hero Complex Film Festival, we'll hear Christopher Nolan discuss his filmmaking accomplishments between our screenings of the underrated 2002 thriller "Insomnia" and billion-dollar blockbuster "The Dark Knight," but don't think that the...

HERO COMPLEX FILM FESTIVAL Night 2 of the Hero Complex Film Festival was a great success as Christopher Nolan took time from applying the finishing touches to "Inception" to sit for a lively Q&A session. There's plenty to tell you......

Christopher Nolan's Inception is a fairly conventional heist picture wrapped in a dream — a series of dreams, a thriller about stealing “your secrets” while you sleep, or worse, planting ideas in your head by invading your dreams....

In a recent interview, Christopher Nolan admitted to similarities between his new “Inception” and Alain Resnais' 1961 art-house classic “Last Year at Marienbad” (which he hadn't watched before writing the screenplay). If he sees sim...

This is a longer version of my upcoming Sunday Calendar cover story on the two young stars who play opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in "Inception," the most ambitious Hollywood film of 2010. These days, the term “young Hollywood” conjures up images......

At the afterparty for Tuesday night's Hollywood premiere of "Inception," the mind-bending new thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan, chanson singer Tera Hendrickson, backed by a guitarist and drummer, stood on a tiny stage and performed sweet...

No movie dreams bigger this summer than "Inception," and Ben Fritz has a cover story Tuesday in the business section of the Los Angeles Times about the commercial risks of the epic. During his reporting, he came up with an......

Kenneth Turan takes a look at one of the year's most anticipated releases in "Inception." Dreaming is life's great solitary adventure. Whatever pleasures or terrors the dream state provides, we experience them alone or not at all. But what if......