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Lead Photo Cheri

Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 (midnight)

Still stunning at 50, Pfeiffer has graduated to the Marquise-like role of Lea de Lonval in an adaptation of Colette’s novel Chéri.

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Lead Photo Whatever Works

Jeffrey M. Anderson | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 (midnight)

Woody Allen returning to New York and casting the cynical miscreant Larry David in the lead role in his new film sounds potentially like a nasty throwback to Allen’s angrier films like Deconstructing Harry and Celebrity.

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Lead Photo Food, Inc.

Josh Bell | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 (midnight)

Kenner’s well-made if overreaching film takes on the corporatized food industry in America, exposing lax safety standards, poor treatment of workers and incestuous commingling between food conglomerates and regulatory agencies.

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Lead Photo Interview Issue: Charles Geocaris

Josh Bell | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 (midnight)

You know all those films set in Nevada? They may have been shot some where else, like Albuquerque. The Director of the Nevada Film Office talks about the biz and how it affects Las Vegas.

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Lead Photo Public Enemies

Josh Bell | Tue, Jun 30, 2009 (7:33 p.m.)

Public Enemies is the slightly fictionalized story of the takedown of notorious bank robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), who, at the height of the Great Depression, brazenly walked into banks bearing arms and walked out with bags of money.

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Lead Photo A breezy trip

Josh Bell | Thu, Jun 25, 2009 (midnight)

Faced with an uncertain future both terrifying and exciting, happy couple Burt and Verona set off on a trip to find a new place in which to start their new family, along the way visiting friends and family who conveniently each teach the couple something about the kind of parents (and people) they wish to be.

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Lead Photo My Sister’s Keeper

Jeffrey M. Anderson | Thu, Jun 25, 2009 (midnight)

My Sister’s Keeper is a perfect example of a disease-of-the-week movie done wrong.

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Lead Photo Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen delivers the “more”

Josh Bell | Thu, Jun 25, 2009 (midnight)

You can say this for Michael Bay: He delivers what he promises. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is everything the original was and more. “More,” of course, is Bay’s mantra.

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Lead Photo Easy Virtue

Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Jun 18, 2009 (midnight)

Jessica Biel plays Larita, an American race-car driver and divorcée who’s just married into a highly starched English family and must do brittle battle with her new mother-in-law and other snooty relations.

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Lead Photo The Proposal

Josh Bell | Thu, Jun 18, 2009 (midnight)

Oh Sandra Bullock, why do you do this to yourself? Haven’t you moved past this yet? Hasn’t America?

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Lead Photo Adoration

Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Jun 18, 2009 (midnight)

Tom Egoyan may be the only filmmaker in the world who would go to the trouble of inventing fictional technology for a movie that couldn’t even remotely be considered science fiction.

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Lead Photo Adam

Tasha Chemplavil | Tue, Jun 16, 2009 (9:08 p.m.)

Biopics about famously accomplished people who succeed despite their handicaps are prime Oscar fodder. But fictional films about ordinary people with disabilities are much more unpredictable.

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The Headless Woman

Julie Seabaugh | Tue, Jun 16, 2009 (9:01 p.m.)

Betrayal, unconditional love, decay and the disparate lots in life (and death) doled out by chance make for implicit yet meaty themes.

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Lead Photo Palermo Shooting

Julie Seabaugh | Tue, Jun 16, 2009 (12:09 a.m.)

Palermo is a visually stunning meditation on living life to the fullest. It’s also refreshingly dark, brooding and a little disorienting, though nearly to the point of self-indulgence.

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Lead Photo Bronson

T.R. Witcher | Mon, Jun 15, 2009 (1:24 p.m.)

Bronson tells the story of petty thief Michael Peterson, sentenced to prison in 1974, who changed his name to Charles Bronson and over the next three decades gained notoriety as Britain’s most violent prisoner.

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A&E

Hella Nation
These hard-won tales, dragged in from the grubby margins of America—where Wright’s anarchists, grifters, white supremacists, porn performers and one very gonzo war documentarian all hang out—deserve a wider audience than the latest fad diet manual.
Red, white and green!
Isn’t it time we gave up those noisy, environmentally unfriendly fireworks, anyway?
Blip of a blooper
KTNV Channel 13 got its 15 minutes of fame on YouTube this week with footage of reporter Steve Ryan’s live feed from the Fremont Street Experience being crashed by a drunken reveler.

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It’s 107 degrees out, my eyes are sweating, and the very thought of clothing makes me want to cry. Time for a trip down to DCR for George Austin Sproule’s ...
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