All of Hollywood had their eyes on the box office of popular hip hop group Outkast’s Idlewild from Universal this weekend since, historically, musicians who try to crossover into film rarely have luck ...

The hip-hop duo OutKast go Hollywood in their new movie Idlewild, which opens today. Nothing remarkable about that, of course — lots of hip-hop stars have made the transition to film. But OutKast is ...

THE air around OutKast’s “Idlewild” is humid and thick as gravy, and I’m not talking about the summer haze enveloping the fictional Southern town where the film takes place. The movie starring hip-hop ...

You OutKast fans didn't really think it would last forever, did you? By this, I don't mean OutKast itself -- even if the Atlanta hip-hop duo has been dogged by breakup rumors for most of this ...

Over their 12 years as recording artists, OutKast has defied hip-hop’s conventions with brilliant ease. André 3000 and Big Boi debuted as two ingénues from the uncool recesses of the South, then ...

If you’re a fan of both the movie Moulin Rouge and the rap duo OutKast, you’ll probably love Idlewild (HBO Films), the new musical starring Antwan A. Patton and André Benjamin (aka Big Boi and André ...

Given that the Atlanta duo Outkast is one of the most creative forces hip-hop has witnessed, it’s ironic that the biggest problem with its first feature film is that the music is so mediocre – a ...

It's tough to fault a filmmaker audacious enough to blend animation, Broadway dance, rap, gangster violence and religion in a period-costume melodrama. Then again, it's tough to praise a movie that ...

OUTKAST’S CD version of “Idlewild” defies pigeonholing – it’s a soundtrack that includes a little music from the movie, a few songs merely inspired by the film and the balance has almost nothing to do ...

*** 1/2 Disney delivers a rousing, guilt-free action movie, blowing away the brooding pretenders and extending the joy of the “Pirates” franchise. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are about to wed ...

On one of its last great albums, 1998’s Aquemini, OutKast declared in the title track: Nothing is for sure, nothing is for certain, nothing lasts forever/But until they close the curtain/It’s him and ...