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  • Boiling Over

    By on February 22, 2006

    Has anyone else noticed that Julianne Moore keeps playing women whose kids go missing? In The Forgotten, her boy was grabbed by aliens. In Freedomland,...

  • Unpretty in Pink

    By on February 15, 2006

    February has never been a good month for movies, but this year the pickings seem awfully, well... awful. Last weekend's three major studio releases included...

  • The Weinstein Touch

    By on February 1, 2006

    Advertisement Transamerica The Weinstein Company is off to a solid start. Founded by brothers Harvey and Bob, who were recently ousted from their posts-on-high at...

  • London Calling

    By on February 1, 2006

    To a natural-born cynic like myself, the pre-release hype for Woody Allen's latest -- Match Point -- was almost too much to bear. Virtually every...

  • Comic Abroad

    By on January 25, 2006

    In Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, comedian Albert Brooks is approached by the U.S. government to find out what makes Muslims laugh. He...

  • Torture Garden

    By on January 11, 2006

    I'll admit to feeling a certain dread walking into Hostel last weekend. After all, as much as I love the horror film genre, I fall...

  • Cinema Magic

    By on January 4, 2006

    In the world of movies, 2005 will be a year remembered for the birth of Darth Vader and the death of King Kong (third time's...

  • Great Ape

    By on December 21, 2005

    With King Kong, director Peter Jackson follows up a monster achievement -- the massively ambitious Lord of the Rings trilogy -- with a massively ambitious,...

  • Film Reviews: Brokeback Mountain and The Chronicles of Narnia

    By on December 14, 2005

    'Brokeback Mountain' is every bit as good as you've wished, while 'Narnia' is more engaging than you might expect

  • Preview of 'Brokeback Mountain'

    By on December 7, 2005

    It was a gay night at the movies as the Human Rights Campaign and guests descended upon the Loews Cineplex in Georgetown for an advance...

  • Austen Powers

    By on December 7, 2005

    You don't have to be an rabid fan of Jane Austen to fully appreciate the romantic rush of the newly minted film version of Pride...

  • Squatter's Squalor

    By on November 30, 2005

    Christmas Angel: Heredia (center), with Rapp and Pascal One hundred thirty five minutes of my life wasted. One...

  • Magic Show

    By on November 30, 2005

    ''I love magic,'' beams Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) at the start of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. By the movie's end, however, Harry...

  • Cashing In

    By on November 16, 2005

    The problem with Walk the Line, the new biopic opening on Friday about the life of country music legend Johnny Cash, isn't Joaquin Phoenix --...

  • Marine Life

    By on November 9, 2005

    I've never been a big fan of war movies. (For that matter, I've never been a big fan of war.) But as a genre, they...