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Film Shorts

NOW PLAYING: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (PG) If the word "squeakquel" is in the title, the movie must be good, right? The animated...

The Top 10

America's economy may still be in recovery, but our film industry is in good health financially and (more importantly) artistically. That seems to be...

The Best Horror Films of 2009

Why horror? I just happened to notice a bunch of interesting films in the genre this year. (That will be a theme in my...

The Best Documentary Films of 2009

We’re coming to the end of the year in movies, and I’m going to be posting lots of these Top 10 lists to the...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (PG) If the word "squeakquel" is in the title, the movie must be good, right? The animated singing...

Maestro

The flawed, fabulous musical Nine is based on a Broadway show, which in turn was adapted from Federico Fellini's film 8½. Set in 1965,...

Holmes for Christmas

In a series of 1940s Hollywood films, Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes as a suave, unflappable Victorian gentleman. His interpretation held sway until a...

The Best Movies of 1999 (and other years)

With the end of the decade fast approaching, movie critics are putting out lists of the best movies of the last 10 years. I’m...

R.I.P. Brittany Murphy

I got knocked back by the news that Brittany Murphy has died at the age of 32, apparently of natural causes. She had a...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Beaches of Agnès (NR) An autobiographical documentary by French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda (One Sings, the Other Doesn't) looking back over her long...