Friend of the program Charlie Crow checks in with this “live musical recounting of the tragic self-destruction of former Arkansas Razorback coach Bobby Petrino…”

By Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times CANNES, France — If all film festivals are balancing acts, it stands to reason that the annual extravaganza at Cannes, likely the world’s most celebrated cinematic event, has more to balance than …

Albert Nobbs (R, 113 minutes) — The two key performances might be reason enough to see Albert Nobbs, a rather sad story of a 19th-century Irishwoman living as a man. The titular Nobbs (Glenn Close) is a waiter in a …

The problem with movies like Battleship is that they corrupt and derail promising careers. Each of Berg’s movies has been bigger and costlier than the last, and now that he’s gotten a taste of blockbuster success (“Hancock” earned more than $600 million, and “Battleship” has already grossed $215 million overseas), he’s unlikely to return to smaller, more challenging filmmaking. That’s what happened to Brett Ratner, who once talked about a Miami-based remake of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie but no longer seems capable of making a movie that costs less than $100 million.

I’ve been on assignment. More later.

By Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — I am sitting on a couch facing two turntables, a DJ mixer, a dual-drive CD player/ recorder, a cassette deck and a wireless two-terrabyte hard drive half full of …

The semi-documentary about the exploits of Navy SEALS is out on DVD today. And your monkey is very busy with his real job.

We’re discussing summer movies. I think he’s more excited about them than I am. What think? Kind of a Siskel and Ebert vibe?

Maybe sports do reveal character.

“I’d be the laughingstock of baseball if I changed the best lefthander in the game into an outfielder.” — Boston Red Sox manager Ed Barrow to veteran outfielder Harry Hooper early in the 1918 season, after Hooper urged Barrow to …