This summer teen romance hopes to sidestep cliche with doses of sweetness, intelligence -- and Hayden Panettiere

The darndest things happen when Olympic medalists make music videos.

The director's Oscar victory is a win for women -- and plain old great moviemaking

Salon exclusive: The gutsy, mercurial actor and musician opens up on the magic behind his creative process

Confident, curvy Reese Witherspoon, the thinking man's cupcake, nearly salvages this silly romance.

"From the beginning, I was skeptical of Billy's story," Netflix documentary director Olivier Megaton told Salon

The Netflix phenomenon returns with a bigger budget and a larger world with a more acute nostalgia for '80s films

Judgment bad! Acceptance good! This movie about religious hypocrisy not only thumps us over the head with its kumbaya message, but also gives us Macaulay Culkin as a sex symbol. And that's just wrong.

Apologies to Emma Goldman, but nobody knows more about political subplots than dance movies

Academy voters: There is still time to repent! In this year's dramatic Oscar race, is one more plot twist coming?

Like Michael Jackson, another icon lost to addiction and fame, Whitney was an awe-inspiring, genre-crossing pioneer

Strip away the villains, and the stuntmen, and the whooshing 3-D effects, and "Spider-Man 2" is irresistible

Today on the Salon 5, D. Watkins and Gilbert Gottfried — yes, really! — compare their all-time favorite MCs

Subtle, breezy, serious and smart, Sofia Coppola's gorgeous directorial debut gets to the heart of adolescent longing -- singing chewing gum notwithstanding.