Tim Robbins News

Who hasn't seen "The Shawshank Redemption" featuring aging convicts Red Redding and Brooks Hatlen ? The movie was set in the 1940s when most prisoners were young tough guys and of course in this case the cerebral Andy Dufresne .

Nowadays, nobody blinks an eye when hip-hop artists sample backwoods folkies and bands use multiple hyphens to describe their sound.

When it was released in 1992, the film Bob Roberts was the most effective and perceptive satire on US reactionary politics since Stanley Kubrick's 1964 cold war black comedy Dr Strangelove.

IFC announced today a roster of guest stars who will be visiting the network's hit original series Portlandia when the show returns in January.

It was a popular meme last fall to talk about how no one wanted to see movies about Iraq, when big Hollywood productions like The Kingdom and Lions for Lambs tanked at the box office.