The Denver Post

It's hard to watch the NFL playoffs with your kids and try to explain to them a time when African-American athletes weren't welcome at the upper echelons of sports in the United States.  

Box office Last week's gross revenues at North American theaters for the top 20 films, followed by the total amount grossed in millions and number of weeks in release in parentheses.  

AP | Mark J. Terrill

Around the time "The Bourne Ultimatum" took its third Oscar, it was clear: However towering the films had been this year, there would not be an overwhelming victor at the 80th Academy Awards.  

Paramount Vantage

"Revolutionary Road" is the kind of name that is used to brand something by its opposite. In the Connecticut suburb where fictional characters Frank and April Wheeler find themselves, little breaks fresh ground.  

Columbia Pictures

This action comedy finds customer Dale (Seth Rogen) and toasted dealer Saul (James Franco) on the lam from a drug kingpin and his cop accomplice (Gary Cole and Rosie Perez).  

The Denver Post

In 2008, VHS finally died for good, DVD sales flattened, and Sony's Blu-ray format bested Toshiba's rival HD-DVD in the war for the next-generation high-definition media.  

Universal Pictures

Of all the Z-movies in the Roger Corman catalog, they had to remake "Death Race 2000."  

She chalks it up to coincidence, but whatever the cause, actress Amy Ryan is everywhere.  

American Zoetrope

"I don't deal with risk the way other people do," famed director Francis Ford Coppola said. "I think if you really go out and say you want to make money and start a business wanting to make money, you won't. But if you love to do something, or you're passionate about something, very often that does turn into a money-making venture."  

Focus Features

The defining performance of Heath Ledger's tragically foreshortened career — more or less equivalent to what Jim Stark in "Rebel Without a Cause" was for James Dean — will surely be the role of Ennis Del Mar in "Brokeback Mountain."