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HEIGHTS

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IN THEATERS! In her best performance of three Sundance 2005 movies, Glenn Close stands out as a legendary actress who lectures at Juilliard about how it is hard to pull off Shakespeare in this modern age when passion has disappeared…

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HEIGHTS

The earnest personal drama always risks straying from its its stabs at meaning with all-too-familiar revelations and character types. But the genre...

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DEATH 4 TOLD (DVD)

It’s getting to the point where horror fans know what to expect from anthology films. Either the wrap-around is more compelling than the stories told...

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BATMAN BEGINS

SPOILERS AHEAD! The state of superhero movies is becoming more and more questionable as time progresses. With the exception of X2, there really hasn’t...

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HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

Animation demigod Hayao Miyazaki has returned for the first time since 2001’s Oscar-winning “Spirited Away” with “Howl’s Moving Castle,” the...

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THE TALENT GIVEN US

A 10-day car trip with the ultimate dysfunctional family, “The Talent Given Us” is a cross between a road movie, a documentary and a therapy session....

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ETHAN MAO

Quentin Lee, the highly talented creator of "Shopping for Fangs" and "Drift," has returned with a provocative and poignant new feature called "Ethan Mao." ...

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BOY! WHAT A GIRL! (DVD)

One of the most extraordinary retro discoveries to come along on DVD in ages is the 1946 obscurity "Boy! What a Girl!" Made in Harlem with an all-black...

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THE GODFATHER PART II (DVD)

I’m not sure what I can say about Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather Part II” that hasn’t been said already, and probably more eloquently, by...

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THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN (DVD)

This 1938 oddity, Hollywood's first and (to date) only all-midget musical Western, was resurrected from obscurity in the late 1970s thanks to the Medved...

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THE CAT WITH HANDS

"You know this is the place dontcha? Where it comes from… so they say." A man and a boy are standing by a well, and the man tells the boy a story. I...

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