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  • Quirkiness outdoes charm in "Splinterheads"

    Reuters – Fri Nov 6, 9:31 pm ET  

    NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Depicting an awkward romance between two young misfits set in the backdrop of a traveling carnival, "Splinterheads" mainly comes across as a low-rent version of "Adventureland." Although Brant Sersen's comedy, which opened Friday (November 6), has amusing moments, they come too far between to elevate the film above the standard indie level of quirkiness for its own sake. Full Story »

  • Billboard CD reviews: John Mayer, Morrissey, Blind Boys

    Reuters – Fri Nov 6, 6:28 pm ET  
    Musician John Mayer performs during memorial services for pop... Reuters

    ARTIST: JOHN MAYER

    ALBUM: BATTLE STUDIES

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - With all of his recent tweeting and tabloid coverage, it's a wonder John Mayer had time to write new music -- much less the best and most adventurous of his four studio albums. Full Story »

  • Billboard singles reviews: Rascal Flatts, Janet Jackson

    Reuters – Fri Nov 6, 5:40 pm ET  

    ARTIST: RASCAL FLATTS

    SINGLE: WHY

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rascal Flatts' third single from the album "Unstoppable" tackles what might be the group's darkest subject yet: the loss of a friend to suicide. Full Story »

  • Review: Arsenault's latest novel a fast-paced romp

    AP – Fri Nov 6, 2:15 pm ET  
    In this book cover image released by Minotaur Books, 'Loot the... AP

    "Loot the Moon" (Minotaur), 276 pages, $24.99, by Mark Arsenault: Billy Povich, former investigative reporter, has been reassigned to write obituaries — his newspaper's way of encouraging him to quit. Full Story »

  • New Woodrow Wilson bio presents a complex figure

    AP – Fri Nov 6, 7:26 am ET  
    In this book cover image released by Knopf Books, 'Woodrow Wilson,'... AP

    "Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy. Full Story »

  • Japanese "Love Exposure" a giddy mix of sex, religion

    Reuters – Thu Nov 5, 8:56 pm ET  

    TOKYO (Hollywood Reporter) - A priest's son embarks on a path of sin and panty photography motivated by confession-compulsion in "Love Exposure." Full Story »

  • Capsule reviews: `Precious' and others

    AP – Thu Nov 5, 7:01 am ET  

    Capsule reviews of films opening this week: Full Story »

  • Intriguing racial saga better as a documentary

    Reuters – Wed Nov 4, 8:39 pm ET  

    NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Some true-life tales are better suited to documentaries than fictionalized feature films. Full Story »

  • Return "The Box" to sender

    Reuters – Wed Nov 4, 7:36 pm ET  

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Maybe the movie should be called "The Chinese Box." Full Story »

  • "La Danse" an elegant tribute to ballet stars

    Reuters – Wed Nov 4, 7:35 pm ET  

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Frederick Wiseman has been making documentaries for the last 40 years, turning a sharp eye on a huge number of social and cultural institutions. Full Story »

  • Diaz, Marsden, Kelly's `Box' is empty

    AP – Wed Nov 4, 6:12 pm ET  
    In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros., James... AP

    Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly's "The Box": Press a button on a mysterious container, they'll get $1 million, and someone they don't know will die. Full Story »

  • 'Fourth Kind' is a half-baked mess

    AP – Wed Nov 4, 4:17 pm ET  
    In this film publicity image released by Universal Pictures,... AP

    The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller "The Fourth Kind" offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum. The movie's unwieldy mix of degraded pseudo-documentary footage and "Unsolved Mystery"-style re-enactments is as unconvincing as it its distancing, making the small charms of "Paranormal Activity" all the more apparent by comparison. Full Story »

  • Robert De Niro movie a "Fine" mess

    Reuters – Wed Nov 4, 6:56 pm ET  
    Actor Robert De Niro arrives at the premiere of the film "Whatever... Reuters

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There isn't much that's fine in "Everybody's Fine," an embarrassing misfire for Kirk Jones, who once gave us the exhilarating comedy "Waking Ned Devine," and for Miramax, a storied company now reduced to little more than a film library. Full Story »

  • Review: Willem Dafoe stars in an absurdist comedy

    AP – Wed Nov 4, 3:10 pm ET  
    In this theater publicity image released by The Public Theater,... AP

    NEW YORK - The Idiot Savant asks Marie, "Am I no longer capable of saving us from magic words?" In turn, she asks him, "What makes chosen words — magic?" Full Story »

  • Review: `A Christmas Carol' suffocates in glitz

    AP – Wed Nov 4, 2:13 pm ET  
    In this film publicity image released by Disney, Ebenezer Scrooge,... AP

    Lionel Barrymore. Alastair Sim. Laurence Olivier. Albert Finney. George C. Scott. Bill Murray. Michael Caine. Mr. Magoo. Scrooge McDuck. Full Story »

  • "Fourth Kind" needs more paranormal activity

    Reuters – Wed Nov 4, 7:34 pm ET  

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Landing very closely on the sleeper heels of "Paranormal Activity" comes "The Fourth Kind," an alien-abduction thriller that combines purported raw case study footage with dramatic "recreations" to unsuccessful effect. Full Story »

  • Review: 'The Road Out of Hell' a chilling tale

    AP – Wed Nov 4, 1:40 pm ET  
    In this book cover image released by Union Square Press,  'The... AP

    "The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders" (Union Square Press, 304 pages, $24.95), by Anthony Flacco, with Jerry Clark: This is a darkly disturbing true account of a 13-year-old boy, Sanford Clark, sent to live with his uncle on an isolated chicken farm in California in 1926. Full Story »

  • "Inferno" a definitive look at obsessive director

    Reuters – Wed Nov 4, 7:33 pm ET  

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Anyone who believes that directorial self-indulgence is a new phenomenon will find Serge Bromberg's documentary, "Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno," to be a revelation. Full Story »

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