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Sean Penn

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Five Songs We Would Have Loved to Hear Eddie Vedder Play Tonight

    With a voice that has withstood the test of time (20 years of rock and roll to be exact), Eddie Vedder is still one of the greatest singers of our day. One thing we particularly love about him is his ability to make it big as a crossover artist in his own right. Let's be real: Most grunge guys don't ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, July 14, 2011

    With a voice that has withstood the test of time (20 years of rock and roll to be exact), Eddie Vedder is still one of the greatest singers of our day. One thing we particularly love about him is his ability to make it big as a crossover artist in his own right. Let's be real: Most grunge guys don't ... More >>

  • Film

    June 9, 2011

    The Tree of Life: What Terrence Malick Has to Offer Is Worth Working For

    With a voice that has withstood the test of time (20 years of rock and roll to be exact), Eddie Vedder is still one of the greatest singers of our day. One thing we particularly love about him is his ability to make it big as a crossover artist in his own right. Let's be real: Most grunge guys don't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Bono and The Edge Spice Up 'American Idol' Finale With 'Spider-Man' Performance

    ​Bono and The Edge of U2 will be performing with the cast of the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark on American Idol's live season finale Wednesday night, according to Billboard.The Spider-Man Broadway musical, for which they composed the music, has been delayed numerous times due to numerous c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2011

    Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations Season Premeire: Haiti

    ​​Anthony Bourdain is back! And he is looking a little grayer, and his pancita has expanded a bit as well, despite an attempt to cover it with those flowy shirts. Season 7 of No Reservations opens with Bourdain in Haiti. Haiti? What? Not the first place you think of these days as a ... More >>

  • Film

    December 30, 2010

    Rubber, Hugo Cabaret, Tintin, and Other 2011 Films to Look Forward To

    ​​Anthony Bourdain is back! And he is looking a little grayer, and his pancita has expanded a bit as well, despite an attempt to cover it with those flowy shirts. Season 7 of No Reservations opens with Bourdain in Haiti. Haiti? What? Not the first place you think of these days as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Ace of Base to Release a New Album, Even Though Nobody Saw That Coming

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • News

    November 12, 2009

    Party Favors: At Rasputin's Equestrian Manor, the Debauchery Continues Well Past Closing Time

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Film

    February 26, 2009

    Citizen’s Arrest For Wayne Kramer’s Tasteless Crossing Over

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Film

    January 1, 2009

    The Best Movies of 2008

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • News

    December 4, 2008

    Walloping Janet Napolitano for Her Prop 102 Stance, The Word-Wrangling Wren Looks to Harvey Milk for Inspiration

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Film

    November 27, 2008

    Gus Van Sant’s Milk Recaptures Californian Intolerance at Exactly the Right Time

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 5, 2008

    Summer Guide: The season of big-budget movies uses its brain

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Film

    May 29, 2008

    Steven Soderbergh’s Che wins the only Cannes award that matters: ours

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Film

    May 22, 2008

    Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Film

    May 22, 2008

    Cannes Class of 2008: A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Film

    May 22, 2008

    Cannes takes a decidedly serious tone with films featuring sites of social conflict

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    March 6, 2008

    Into the Wild, the movie The Oscars forgot

    ​Did anyone see the sign when it comes to the possibility of ever hearing a new Ace of Base album? Not I.Consequence of Sound reports that the Swedish pop group -- fondly remembered by all as a 90s ABBA -- will be releasing their latest studio album on September 24. Most of us forgot about Ace of ... More >>

  • Film

    September 27, 2007

    Wide-Open Spaces

    A soulful road movie that refuses to define its subject

  • Film

    April 12, 2007

    Peeping Bomb

    Bland voyeur thriller does its best

  • Home Entertainment

    September 14, 2006

    Hooked on Hookers

    Bland voyeur thriller does its best

  • Film

    January 5, 2006

    Enough, Already

    When good actors make bad movies

  • Home Entertainment

    October 6, 2005

    Another Look at a Legend

    When good actors make bad movies

  • Film

    June 2, 2005

    Skate Bored

    Truth is cooler than fiction

  • Film

    April 21, 2005

    Lost in Translation

    All talk, little action, no sense

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2005

    Toe the LINES

    SF ballet troupe's got rhythm and Blues

  • Music

    February 10, 2005

    George Harrison

    The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992
    (Capitol)

  • Film

    December 23, 2004

    Phantom Menace

    Musical comes up from the cellar at last

  • Dining

    April 1, 2004

    Wacky Wasabi

    Our resident foodie travels to the far reaches of the Valley for the best sushi

  • News

    March 18, 2004

    Letters

    Letters from the week of March 18, 2004

  • News

    January 1, 2004

    The Sorrow and the Pity

    In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

  • Film

    December 25, 2003

    Heavy, Man

    The heart wants what the brain has to fight for in 21 Grams

  • Film

    October 16, 2003

    All the Rage

    Eastwood takes a guilt trip down the mighty Mystic River

  • Film

    January 16, 2003

    Grand Dames

    The big-screen gals of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

  • Film

    April 25, 2002

    Chairmen of the Board

    Bad-boy skaters perpetuate their own myth in Dogtown and Z-Boys

  • News

    February 28, 2002

    Snow Job

    Phoenix counselor finds a different kind of gold at the Winter Olympics

  • Film

    January 24, 2002

    Sam I Slam

    Sean Penn plays retarded for Oscar, and audiences aren't rewarded

  • Film

    January 3, 2002

    Retro Grading

    Trying to remember the best in a forgettable year of film

  • Film

    January 25, 2001

    Oath Busters

    Sean Penn makes good on promising directorial career in angst-ridden The Pledge

  • Culture

    August 24, 2000

    The Bit Player

    Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

  • Film

    January 27, 2000

    Drunken Master

    Woody Allen's latest casts Sean Penn as a brilliant schmuck

  • Music

    December 23, 1999

    Secrete Santas

    For goodness sake, who's good and bad on Santa's list this Christmas!

  • Film

    January 21, 1999

    Dead Zone

    David Rabe reanimates his play Hurlyburly for the screen with mixed results

  • Film

    January 14, 1999

    Absence of Malick

    Twenty years after his last film, Terrence Malick reemerges with the complex but compelling The Thin Red Line

  • News

    October 9, 1997

    Southwestern Gothic

    Twenty years after his last film, Terrence Malick reemerges with the complex but compelling The Thin Red Line

  • Film

    October 2, 1997

    Compact High

    With modest U-Turn, Oliver Stone changes direction--a little

  • Film

    August 28, 1997

    A Second-Generation Filmmaker Under the Influence

    Nick Cassavetes gives She's So Lovely the old family try

  • Film

    May 2, 1996

    Death Row Becomes Her

    Nick Cassavetes gives She's So Lovely the old family try

  • Film

    January 18, 1996

    Robbins Hoodlum

    Nick Cassavetes gives She's So Lovely the old family try

  • Film

    November 30, 1995

    Pennitence

    Nick Cassavetes gives She's So Lovely the old family try

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