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Celebrated salsa musician is the subject of the film El Cantante. Our music critic takes a look at his career, marked by dazzling musical highs and personal lows including heroin addiction and a suicide attempt.

A father's death brings a family together — physically, at least — in a brightly funereal farce that mixes last rites with comic wrongs. Director Frank Oz fills the screen with Muppetlike faces and stages comic catastrophes with Monty Pythonish excess.

By day, women from the group Girls Drawin' Girls are animators for shows such as Futurama and South Park. But in their spare time they draw pin-up girls. They're bringing a different perspective to this sexy genre.

Michael Harvey created the A&E cable show Cold Case Files, a documentary series that follows forensic experts and detectives as they investigate long-unsolved murder cases. Harvey has also written a novel, The Chicago Way.

The Body Snatchers remake, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, proves the pulp classic is still startlingly in tune with the U.S. zeitgeist.

In this week's roundup of the latest releases from the online magazine Slate, we'll hear what critics are saying about The Bourne Ultimatum, Becoming Jane and Bratz.

Paul Rudd, who co-starred in Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin, produced and stars in the new independent film The Ten — a series of irreverent vignettes that reinterpret the Ten Commandments for a modern audience.

The Hottest State sounds like the ultimate vanity project — it's based on director Ethan Hawke's semi-autobiographical novel — but the film turns out to be an affecting story of a young man's first love.

British documentary is disturbing, unnerving and wire-to-wire involving — the story of a dream that got so wildly out of hand that it ensnared the dreamer in an intricate trap of his own creation.

In the film Resurrecting the Champ, actor Samuel L. Jackson plays a homeless, broken-down former heavyweight contender. The movie is directed by Rob Lurie and set to open Aug. 24.