*You know you're asking for trouble when you make a movie with a white actor in blackface wearing a lower lip extension who's always talking jive jibberish, and with a mentally-challenged character who is repeatedly teased about his disability.

19 Nov 2008

LOS ANGELES - Jack Black discovered the painful part of acting through his role in the action movie spoof "Tropic Thunder." The work that left him bruised now can be seen on DVD. In the film within the film, Black plays one of a group of actors filming a big budget war movie. An attempt by the director to give the production more of a real feel puts the actors in a real battle for their ...

18 Nov 2008

LOS ANGELES - Jack Black discovered the painful part of acting through his role in the action movie spoof "Tropic Thunder."

18 Nov 2008

Ben Stiller co-wrote, directed and stars in this action comedy about a gang of self-important actors whose Vietnam War shoot turns into real combat as they encounter a ruthless drug gang in the jungles of Asia.

18 Nov 2008

Directed by Ben Stiller, who also plays a lead role, the explosive "Tropic Thunder" uproariously attacks egotistical actors and the movie-making process.

18 Nov 2008

New releases→"Wall-E”: A waste-pickup robot of the future is the title star of this animated, typically clever Disney-Pixar collaboration. With the "voice” of Ben Burtt, Wall-E leads a solitary existence on a pollution-wracked Earth until he crosses paths with Eve, another machine that takes him back into outer space. Also in the voice cast are Sigourney Weaver, Fred Willard. Kathy Najimy and ...

18 Nov 2008