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The Rundown Last night's Olympia Awesome Film Festival , the first ever, showcased the talents of twenty filmmakers from all over the U...

Near the Arctic Circle, Finland is ice cold. In educational circles, though, Finland is smoking hot, recently lauded by pundits as a model f...

Arcade Fire, The Suburbs "...a generously paced collection of meditations on familial responsibility, private disappointments, and fle...

If I was a little road-ragey on the drive home yesterday afternoon, it wasn't just because the freeway was clogged by idiots (58 in the ...

In lieu of The AV Club's recent list of trailers that function as art (and, in some cases, are superior to the films they advertise), I...

In advance of the opening of another why-are-they-remaking-it , two Jackie Chan appreciations. The first, a compilation of the 10 best Chan...

If you're not ready for the coming apocalypse--no matter which form it takes-- maybe you don't watch enough movies.

If you've ever found yourself nauseated by your own attraction to cinema's morally abhorrent mob figures like Michael Corleone or To...

Via Cory Doctorow , a clever little video highlighting the cell phone failures that angst up the modern thriller. (Warning: salty language...

Maybe Meryl Streep's too modest. Now, I know I'm a good actress. I'm Meryl Streep. I've won two Academy Awards, and I have b...

Clark Stooksbury on the natural history of the greatest television show of all time: Speaking at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, the actor Pa...

The Onion's heading to Cannes this May, and what a fantastic year it could be. The competition features a murderer’s row of European pr...

Warner is beginning to release obscure films from its vault, Mark Harris reports. The recent launch of the Warner Archive Collection could ...

Coraline 3D gave me a horrible headache. I thought it was the glasses (worn over my glasses), but it turns out that the 3D cinema experienc...

You are allowed only one neo- per noun. [via Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing ]

After sixty-three years, the opening of Robert Siodmak's The Killers still stands as one of the best in cinematic history. The big cit...

Thank you , Kunio Kato . (Why does the official transcript lack "Thank you, my pencil?")

Some people like the ad. (The ad, mind you, not the company behind it). Me, I can't get past the overwhelming aura of vapid pretentiou...

My wife and I watched Coraline in glorious digital 3D this afternoon. While the visuals are stunning, and nearly worth the ticket price, t...

Slumdog Millionaire Sentimental but never maudlin, gritty but never exploitative, dark but redemptive, Danny Boyle's latest is at times ...