Film&TV: “Angels in America” HBO Dec. 7 and 14, 8 p.m. HBO’s $60 million movie has arrived. The Mike Nichols-directed, Al Pacino-and-Meryl Streep-starring six-hour movie epic based on the hugely successful Tony Kushner plays will premiere on Dec. Read more...

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like Hollywood is trying to ruin my holiday season. As I consciously try to see all the Oscar-contending films before the nominations so I can complain about how wrong the Academy got it this year, Focus Features released “21 Grams” right around Thanksgiving. Read more...

Although Massoud Amir Behrani (Sir Ben Kingsley), one of the main characters in “House of Sand and Fog,” and director/screenwriter Vadim Perelman have different backgrounds, they both pursue the same thing. Read more...

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A Mother’s Journey: Photographs from Orissa, India, by Tara Colburn Fowler Museum Dec. 7 to Feb. 29 Colburn set out on a journey to India to find her son, who had joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, but came back with a wealth of amazing photographs from rarely viewed parts of rural India. Read more...

Vans Off The Wall Tour Henry Fonda Theater Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. Death By Stereo, The Suicide Machines, T.S.O.L., Avenged Sevenfold, The Unseen, and Western Waste perform for those of you who have been able to uphold the punk rock high school dream or at least who can still listen to it. Read more...

There might not be any us v. them mentality brewing between theater students and professors and their film counterparts, but inhabitants of Macgowan Hall (home of the theater department) and Melnitz Hall (home of film and television) aren’t exactly sending each other holiday greeting cards either. Read more...