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“I Am Legend” Not an Ordinary Action Film—And That’s Good

Exclusive to The American Culture: Rebecca Cusey reviews I Am Legend and says there's much...

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Atheists Offended by Movie Trailer

Our friend Jeff Emanuel reports that atheist parents who took their kids to see The Golden...

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Fantasy Film Not Golden at the Box Office

The epic fantasy film The Golden Compass, based on the first book in British author Philip...

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“Golden Compass” Movie Opens Today

The controversial fantasy film The Golden Compass opens today in theaters across the Unite...

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The Splendid Mr. Rickles

I haven't got around to seeing Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project yet, but I certainly wi...

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Movie Audiences Remain Enchanted by Charming Disney Fantasy

Disney's Enchanted, which generated the second-biggest Thanksgiving opening weekend ever a...

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“Golden Compass” or Scary Trojan Horse?

We're a week away from the opening of The Golden Compass, the new film based on the first ...

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The Dr. Kildare Films

A very good movie series that has been unjustly overlooked since the cultural cataclysm th...

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Disney’s “Enchanted” Opens Strong at Box Office

 U.S. film audiences are continung to make it clear that their preference these days ...

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An Essential Mystery Film

There's an excellent mystery film on Turner Classsic Movies tonight at 7:00 EST: Green for...

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The Andy Hardy Films

Critics of the past half-century have never had much use for MGM's Andy Hardy movie series...

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The Falcon

One of my favorite movie detectives is Gay Lawrence, aka the Falcon, a gentleman-sleuth an...

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“Beowulf” Reinvented

In addition to its considerable literary merits, Beowulf is significant as the first Chris...

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Film Directors Criticize Media Treatment of Iraq War As Too Passive

Film directors Brian De Palma and Paul Haggis have attacked the media for not reporting en...

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Two Entertaining Detective Film Series

Two very entertaining detective-film series are on display tomorrow on Turner Classic Movi...

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“Lions for Lambs” Continues Run of Unpopular Films Opposing Iraq War

Robert Redford's oppressively earnest Lions for Lambs opened very weakly at the box office...

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The Saint on Film on TV

The trend of films to have multiple sequels and become theatrical series is nothing new, a...

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American Gangster, Bee Movie Open Big; Anti-Bush Films Continue Free-Fall

American Gangster, the story of a 1970s crime lord (played by Denzel Washington) and the u...

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Hollywood Writers Strike Begins

The Hollywood writers went on strike as planned at 12:01 a.m. EST today. Writers Guild of ...

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Hollywood Writers to Strike

The Writers Guild of America—the union representing oppressed professional screenwri...

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New Film Exposes the “Dark Side of Environmentalism”

The one big advantage environmental activists have is the presumed purity of their motives...

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Oscar Hopefuls in Box Office Freefall

The horror-suspense movie Saw IV handily won the weekend's movie box office competition, s...

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New Film “Bella” Rejects Latin Stereotypes

Guest critic Rebecca Cusey reviews the new film Bella: Eduardo Verastegui, a square-j...

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Horror Film, Comedies Strong in Weekend Box Office; Political Thriller “Rendition” Struggles

The new horror movie Thirty Days of Night led the weekend U.S. movie box office—and ...

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Perry Buries Competition at Weekend Movie Box Office

This past weekend's movie box office tallies provided more evidence that U.S. audiences ar...

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Dark Honeymoon Comedy Off to a Bad Start at Box Office

The past weekend's movie box office statistics provide another reminder that many people a...

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A Very Good Film Dealing with Devil Worship

Tonight at 8:00 EDT Turner Network Television is showing a very underrated movie from 1957...

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Action Star “The Rock” Goes Gooey

The new Disney film The Game Plan, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as an egot...

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“Eastern Promises” More Than It Delivers

Cronenberg's noble failure shows importance of a strong story. David Cronenberg's Eas...

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Appalling Scandal of Alfred Hitchcock’s Collaboration

A new exhibit opening Friday at Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art brings the a...

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Hollywood’s Antiwar Investment—Wasted!

Here's a big non-surprise: the spate of antiwar films Hollywood has begun to release in re...

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Boys Will Be Girls—on TV, in Movies, and in a Stylish Condo or Messy Apartment Near You

The tendency of the nation's schools to suppress boys' natural ways of seeing and doing th...

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3:10 to Yuma: Review

 The new film 3:10 to Yuma isn't going gangbusters at the box office, which is a pity...