Werner Herzog ("Grizzly Man,'' "Rescue Dawn'') again fills his thirst for adventure by traveling to the South Pole and encounters a strange but fascinating collections of scientists, researchers and laborers who call Antarctica home during the  summer.  

Director Alex Gibney follows up his Oscar-winning documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side,'' with this examination of the 1970s cult hero whose odd-ball writing style evolved into what is now known as Gonzo journalism.

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis? On the same record? Well, why not? In a time when Ludacris and Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee are getting together to save the environment, an album culled from two live shows featuring legends in their respective fields – Nelson in country, Marsalis in jazz – isn’t so far out there.

In the wide wake of “WALL-E,” the best Pixar film since “The Incredibles,” “Short Circuit” is the movie most mentioned as its touchstone. Both have lonely robots with a thirst for knowledge and companionship that defy directives to forge destinies. Thankfully, only one has Steve Guttenberg.

Will Smith's "Hancock" suffers from trying to be too many movies at once.

Till recently, Brendan Fraser was not the world’s biggest fan of 3-D movies. Even as a kid, he couldn’t put up with the red/blue glasses that made you dizzy while objects sort of jumped off the screen and waved in your face.

Abigail Breslin turned 12 in April, yet she’s a veteran actor. The TV commercials started at age 3, and now she has a starring role — and her name above the title! — in the new film “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl."

In "Hancock,'' Will Smith is a drunken, abrasive superhero with worse PR than NFL bad boy Adam  "Pacman''  Jones.

Warner Bros. just re-released all the Dirty Harry films on DVD, so I sat down and watched the original.

50 Cent and the family release a full-length album that plays like a mixtape, only without the annoying air horns and DJ promos interrupting the music. Is it groundbreaking? No. It is an alright outing from one of rap's top dogs and his buddies? Sure.

Those who know Lee as the soulful crooner who sings “Arms of a Woman” will be surprised to hear the Philly musician singing songs about infidelity (“What’s Been Going On”) and feeling that a relationship is doomed (“Better Days”).

In an age of music downloads and declining album sales, it was an amazing feat last week when Lil’ Wayne sold more than one million copies of “Tha Carter III” its debut week.

With only a few releases for the week, the choice should be simple, but is it?

“Definitely, Maybe” is a romantic comedy from the producers of “Love, Actually” and “Notting Hill” with a young man at the center of the action.

Writer-director-animator Andrew Stanton left his native Rockport, Mass., and headed west when he was 18, but he still carries a piece of home with him — in fact, it’s a piece of the Red Sox.