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Dedication
Actor Justin Theroux makes an auspicious directorial debut with a disarmingly funny romantic comedy full of emotional life and witty…
The Brave One
As its blandly heroic title forecasts, "The Brave One" is a revenge fantasy that floats like a narrative helium balloon…
Rendition
After overblown stories of walkouts by critics during its Toronto film festival debut, "Rendition" proves to have enough substance, momentum…
Margot at the Wedding
Nicole Kidman gives her best performance since "To Die For" (1995) in this neurotic cultural zeitgeist comedy that methodically goes…
Gone Baby Gone
For his directing debut Ben Affleck, and co-writer Aaron Stockard, adapt a Dennis Lehane ("Mystic River") novel that resists being…
Becoming Jane
Jane Austin’s real-life inspiration for writing "Pride and Prejudice" is the subject of this temperamental period piece with Anne Hathaway…
Martian Child
Another installment in a current spate of magical realist films, "Martian Child" focuses on the primal fear of abandonment of…
Michael Clayton
Screenwriter Tony Gilroy ("The Devil’s Advocate" and "The Bourne Supremacy") makes his directorial debut with the assistance of pedigreed producers…
Talk to Me
The outsized talents of Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Taraji Henson go a long way in compensating for the undernourished…
Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections
Anyone who doubts that the Republican Party, using systematic methods that were supported by an irresponsible media, stole the 2000…
A Mighty Heart
"A Mighty Heart," like the other post-9/11 Hollywood movies ("United 93" and "World Trade Center"), is a would-be documentary subject…
Glue
Writer/director Alexis Dos Santos sets his distinctive coming-of-age comedy/drama in the small town of Patagonia, Argentina where 15-year-old Lucas (Nahuel…
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Without a doubt the Salton Sea is one of the weirdest places in America. Documentarians Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer…
Who’s Been Talking?: Johnny Thunders In Concert
The last recorded concert of the late New York Dolls guitarist occurred in Osaka, Japan just weeks before John Genzale’s…
1408
DVDJohn Cusack Brings Stephen King Story to a Boil By Cole Smithey Adapted from a short story by Stephen King,…
Year of the Dog
Minimalist non-romantic comedy from debut writer/director Mike White (writer on "School of Rock") asserts that substituting the love of animals…
300
Apart from its pro-war propaganda, which comes in the form of unrelenting voice-over narration, "300" is a dog of a…
PAN’S LABYRINTH: 2 DISC PLATINUM SERIES
Childhood Fantasies By Cole Smithey "Pan’s Labyrinth" is set at the end of World War II when the Spanish resistance…
OVERLORD
D-day From the Inside Out By Cole Smithey "D-Day, June 6, 1944" is as much a part of "Overlord’s" enigmatic…
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