Kerry Condon

The unlikeliest of road trips, "This Must Be the Place" puts a retired Goth rocker, played by Sean Penn, on the very cold trail of a Nazi war criminal. If the movie doesn't entirely get past its hard-to-buy premise, director Paolo Sorrentino does have the...

*** (out of four) Fifty-year-old former rock star Cheyenne (Sean Penn) still dresses like The Cure’s Robert Smith and can’t tell if he’s bored or depressed with his mundane life in Ireland with wife Jane (Frances McDormand). His...

Tom Payne pulls off playing a jockey in HBO's "Luck," but the British actor says he won't be making a career change any time soon. "I value my health too much," Payne told me during a recent phone interview, laughing. "Jockeys—it's so difficult ......

In horse-racing terms, HBO's new drama "Luck" breaks poorly. If you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, get used to it. "Luck" (8 p.m. Jan. 29, HBO; 3 stars) is a sometimes confusing yet fascinating study of the colorful characters—the...

After bringing the worlds of late 19th-century South Dakota gold miners and 21st-century Southern California surfers to HBO, David Milch follows up "Deadwood" and "John From Cincinnati" with a multilayered, multifaceted portrait of the world of...

To suggest that HBO's latest original series Luck is solely about horse racing would be similar to dismissing The Sopranos as a mob show or Boardwalk Empire as a booze epic. Sure, the backdrop involves horses and the track, but first and foremost Luck...

HBO found an immediate victory at the horse track with it’s new series Luck, which debuted this past Sunday logging a gross audience of 3.3 million viewers to date. The network renewed the series for a 10-episode second season slated to debut in...

A recap of the second episode of HBO's "Luck," in which we found out why Ace Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) is interested in Santa Anita. Why would anyone want to invest in the dying sport of horse racing? So he can turn it into a casino....

In this recap of epsiode 4 of HBO's "Luck," jockeys have sex, gamblers handicap the horses and Ace Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) tries to make a deal...

The Envelope's Gold Standard tiptoes through the minefield that is the three shorts categories in its continued sweep through predicting the winners in all 24 Oscar categories....

We’re on a losing streak in Southern California, if not statewide, that just got worse with the recent cancellation of the HBO television series, “Luck,” which had none. As a result, more than a new TV series with poor viewer ratings but...

HBO's “Luck” would seem to have a lot of it. The cable channel has just announced it has ordered the drama series about horse racing and the gaming industry. Let's talk pedigree: Two-time Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman is the star. David M...