If you pay attention to latenight TV at all, you probably know that Uncle Frank, a fixture of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" from the very first episode, passed away recently. Frank Potenza was a retired New York cop a...
Yes, it was manufactured: a fading Ol’ Blue Eyes was not in the studio with any of the guest artists for their duets, but it ushered in a whole new way of remote recording and became Sinatra’s only triple-...
"Warrior" star Joel Edgerton was in talks to star in the "300" follow-up, "300: Battle of Artemisia," but it looks like the actor has other plans instead.
In the Frank Miller-penned fi...
As a break from the normal list-making shenanigans, In Contention offers up a list of my top 10 must-watch Christmas movies. Some that made the cut include "A Christmas Story," "Die Hard" and "...
Every year, only a select few entertainers in the fields of film, television and music manage to "break out" and make a big splash in the mainstream. In 2011 names like Michael Fassbender and Jessica Chastai...
While the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise made Johnny Depp a global superstar, the popularity of the franchise didn't rest just on his shoulders. It's no secret that most of the fun in the first a...
The 1980s was a largely fallow period for Disney animation, but the studio closed out the decade in high style with "The Little Mermaid." It boasted an irresistible recipe which mixed a classic fairy tale (a...
