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Dogs of War

The genre-busting animated documentary Waltz With Bashir was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but last week it lost to the Japanese...

Mad Money

Madea Goes to Jail is Tyler Perry's seventh film as writer or director in only four years. In that short period of time, his...

But I’m a Cheer-leader

Fired Up is a comedy about cheerleading, which immediately places it in danger of being overshadowed. The makers of this film find a creative...

Compañero

The prospect of a four-and-a-half hour film about Ernesto "Ché" Guevara is enough to make everyone quail except unreconstructed Latin American Communists and the...

Financial Times

It's easy to read too much into the similarities between a movie and the moment that it comes out. Two markedly different movies out...

Eye Popper

For Hollywood this year, 3-D filmmaking seems to be the new old wave. At least 12 more 3-D movies are slated to hit our...

KP Duty

Unlike most of the local filmmakers I profile, John Venable is someone I've known for a long time. That's because he's a film critic...

Not So Minny Laughs

The whole time I was watching New in Town, I was wondering why Renée Zellweger didn't fit her role. In this throwaway comedy she...

Ram Jam

Everyone's calling The Wrestler a comeback vehicle for Mickey Rourke, but he hasn't really been away. He has worked steadily in this decade, and...

Playing the Heavy

Fat men sometimes serve as tragic figures in movies. Notorious is a tragedy, but the main character's fatness isn't what marks him for doom...