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We have learned from five seasons of "24" that Jack Bauer was married (until a terrorist killed his wife) and has a daughter (who pretty much doesn't want any part of him now). In the coming season, we'll also find out that Jack has a father. Oscar...

Given the state of his career over the last decade, it was only a matter of time before Harrison Ford went the aging-actioner route and made a movie about a devoted husband and father who risks everything to save his family. Never mind that he's played...

Hollywood, the site of so many blockbusters, is also the home of the annual Los Angeles Film Festival, which champions cinema's more independent cousins. Zap2it will be on hand for all 11 days to chat with stars and celebrities, consume lobster and...

Still basking in the glow of its first Emmy win for outstanding drama series, FOX's "24" will premiere with a two-night, four-hour event in January. Following the formula that brought the yielded boffo ratings last year, FOX plans to kick off the sixth...

Rick Schroder's evolution from "Silver Spoons" tyke to all-around tough guy continues with a stint on this season's "24." FOX announced on Monday (Dec. 4) that Schroder will join the cast of the Emmy-winning drama playing Mike Doyle, a forceful CTU agent...

The sixth season of "24" has added yet another actor to its already sprawling cast, with Jamison Jones taking a recurring role on the show. Jones has signed on to play the head of President Wayne Palmer's (DB Woodside) Secret Service detail, according to...

A bad day for Jack Bauer is a good thing for Kiefer Sutherland. Keeping its now-traditional pattern, the FOX suspense series "24" has waited until the new year to launch its sixth season. On the added strength of its five recent Emmy wins -- including...

3 stars (out of 4) In "Mysterious Skin," Gregg Araki, director of "The Living End" and "The Doom Generation," plunges us into a world of homoerotic ecstasy and danger, wrecked lives and possible redemption. Araki's often-moving film is based on Scott...

"Love is strange," the old rock lyric insists, and it's never been stranger, more unsettling and more exuberantly unexpected than in the daring high-wire act Paul Thomas Anderson shrewdly calls "Punch-Drunk Love." Anderson, the gifted writer-director...

Between the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...

A poetic fable that takes a subtle approach to an explosive subject, Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin" takes the viewer to bucolic Hutchinson, Kan., where one fateful sunny day two 8-year-olds are playing in a Little League game. Dark-haired, self-confident...