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Published Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

"Anything's possible in this storm!" says the man with the badge in Werner Herzog's delirious "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," a true feat of daring and one of the craziest films of the year.

People Parker Broderick
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FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 file photo actress Sarah Jessica Parker films a scene on location for "Sex and the City 2" in New York.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The jury in the trial of an Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick ended five hours of deliberations Friday without a verdict.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" has set a box-office record for midnight screenings.

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Mainland China's Lou Ye poses in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. The prominent Chinese director banned by Beijing on Friday brought his new gay romance to Hong Kong for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil. In 2006, Lou Ye was banned from shooting movies for five years after he screened "Summer Palace" at the Cannes Film Festival without government approval. But the 45-year-old director defied the ban, secretly shooting the love story "Spring Fever" with small, digital cameras in the eastern city Nanjing last year. He also entered it at Cannes earlier this year, where it won best screenplay in May.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

In Japan, where the blades are shiny and sharp and if the fake blood isn't staining the lens, you're not trying hard enough, there' s a rich tradition of sword-and-splatter pictures. That's the tradition Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" leaned on, and it's the foundation of "Ninja Assassin," a more run-of-the-mill Hollywood ninja movie with "Matrix" ties.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

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Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Wesley Snipes' attorneys asked a federal appeals court Friday to review an "unreasonable" three-year prison sentence for the film star, who was convicted a year ago on federal tax charges.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

"Quirky." "Eccentric." "Whimsical." Critics trot out the synonyms for "playful" and "odd" when talking about Wes Anderson. A 40-year-old director of wistful character comedies peopled with lovable screwballs - "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums" - he brings it all on himself, inviting the label "patron saint of moody hipster comedies" that Newsweek hangs on him.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

He swaggered, an outsize personality who filled a room figuratively decades before he did it literally.

China 2012 Movie
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A Chinese cleaner removes trash from a bin near a poster advertising the Hollywood blockbuster 2012 at a theater in Beijing, China, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Chinese movie goers are flocking to the movie that appears to portray China as a savior of the world in a doomsday scenario where the earth's overheating core destabilizes the planet's crust and destroys humanity.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon," also known as "Twilight: The Squeakquel," is actually pretty good - a tick better than the first "Twilight," which wasn't bad either. These are hardly superlatives on the order of "shattering" and "beautiful," but compared to the film versions of "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons," the only two movies ever made with less sex than the first two "Twilights," they're matchless.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Uplifting. Heartwarming. Schmaltzy but effective. Watching "The Blind Side," I felt my emotions being stage-managed, but once or twice I got something in my eye. It's inspired by a feel-good true story of interracial adoption and gridiron glory. The project could have been designed by scientists synthesizing the crowd-pleasing-movie genome. Bullock + football + Kumbaya = Ka-ching!

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

In a sense, the soldiers at the center of "The Messenger" are engaged in house-to-house combat. Capt. Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) and Sgt. Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) are unwelcome visitors, wary of what might detonate behind the next door.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Even by the sadistic standards of Lars von Trier ("Breaking the Waves," "Dogville"), "Antichrist" is a unique form of cruel and unusual punishment: an unrelenting orgy of graphic sex, violence and cynicism that also manages to be wildly pretentious.

People James Caan
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In this June 10, 2001 file photo, actor James Caan, left, is shown with his wife, Linda Stokes at the opening of Planet Hollywood in Miami Beach, Fla.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

James Caan is seeking a divorce from his wife of 14 years.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The wife and two children of Roman Polanski are bearing the brunt of the director's imprisonment in Switzerland as he awaits a decision on his extradition, his lawyer said in an interview to be published Friday.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The end, when it comes, may look a lot like this - grey skies shrouding the ash-covered ruins of civilization.

Pedro Almodovar
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In this film publicity image released by Sony Pictures Classics, director Pedro Almodovar watches actress Penelope Cruz on a monitor on the set of "Broken Embraces."

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Sex. Drugs. Prostitution. Pedophilia. Rape. Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humor.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

As moviegoers across the nation watched the end of the world with the opening of "2012" last week, news of Earth's demise spread quickly across the Web. Scientists, fed up with the misleading prophecies, quickly set the record straight with their own series of articles and a YouTube video.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Wearing a floor-length pastel striped evening gown, Sandra Bullock walked the red carpet in New Orleans Thursday for a special premiere of her latest film, "The Blind Side."

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

There are loads of references to other sci-fi movies in "Planet 51": "E.T.," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "Star Wars," even to a cute little mutt with a head shaped like the monster from "Alien" that squirts acid urine. The movie, about a far-flung planet of green aliens whose civilization resembles 1950s malt-shop and doo-wop America, is also crammed with subtexts about the era's paranoias, from UFO invaders to McCarthyism.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Apparently few things are as entertaining as watching the Earth shake itself to pieces.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

"(Untitled)" is a funny movie set in New York City's fashionable art galleries and experimental music scene. Its characters are erudite and foolish, not always likable, but fun to observe.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Don't get on their bad side. This powerful coven enforces the laws of the vampire world.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The title of Adam Goldberg's new movie is intriguing: "(Untitled)" really doesn't have one.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

"The Blind Side" flirts with terminal cuteness but wins us over, thanks to a lump-in-the-throat real-life story of selflessness and triumph.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The "Twilight" soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and far less erotically charged sequel, "New Moon," a movie directed by a man and not a woman.

Austria Tom Cruise
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Actor Tom Cruise waves to media when arriving at the Salzburg airport in Austria, on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Tom Cruise is in Salzburg ti shoot scenes for a movie called "Knight and Day".

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Tom Cruise has arrived in the Austrian city of Salzburg to shoot scenes for the new action comedy "Knight & Day."

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

"Planet 51" takes off like a rocket with its glitzy and alien look, but it never achieves orbit because of a sputtering plot and lackluster performances.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

A marginal improvement on last year's "Twilight," "New Moon" is a bit like being locked in a room for two hours with a very moody teenager.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

LOS ANGELES - Despite her lofty Hollywood status, Sandra Bullock's ready to take a break from acting.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Nicolas Cage received his marching orders for "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" several years ago in a phone call from the filmmaker, Werner Herzog.

Film Jason Reitman
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FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2009 file photo, Canadian director Jason Reitman poses during a photo call to present the movie "Up in the Air" at the 4th edition of the Rome Film Festival, in Rome.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The publicity for a Hollywood movie is a machine to behold, especially from the inside.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is a dead-on adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer book. That's not necessarily a good thing, because the second novel in the romantic vampire series is considered by some fans to be the weakest of the four stories.

The Twilight Saga:New Moon Los Angeles Premier
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Kristen Stewart, center, arrives at The Twilight Saga: New Moon premiere on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, in Westwood, Calif.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Where would Hollywood be without that old standby, the vampire-werewolf-schoolgirl love triangle?

Canada Michael Moore
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Documentary maker Michael Moore speaks at a health-care conference in Toronto on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

Of the 89 documentary films eligible for Oscar consideration this year, 15 were selected for a short list of potential nominees. And Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" wasn't one of them.

APTOPIX The Twilight Saga: New Moon Los Angeles Premiere
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Actors Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart arrive at The Twilight Saga: New Moon premiere in Westwood, Calif. Monday, Nov. 16, 2009.

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

The "Twilight" series may have changed the lives of fans worldwide, but perhaps no one has been more affected by its success than the three stars of the film: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner.

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

LOS ANGELES - A hallway at the Four Seasons Hotel room lined with shoes of various shapes and colors leads to Ashley Greene, who's become a fashion plate in film and in her own life.

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

LOS ANGELES - Kellan Lutz felt far less pressure making "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" than he did making "Twilight."

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

LOS ANGELES - Chris Weitz wasn't looking to make a vampire movie when he got the call to direct "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

John Lee Hancock has made three feature films, each based on real people and events.

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

Actress Kristen Stewart wanted to make the right fashion statement when attending a screening of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" in Knoxville.

People Johnny Depp
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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2009 file photo, actor Johnny Depp attends The Museum of Modern Art's film benefit tribute to Tim Burton in New York. Depp was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009.

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

Get lost, Hugh Jackman. This year's "Sexiest Man Alive" is once again Johnny Depp.

Film Nicolas Cage
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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2009 file photo, actor Nicolas Cage poses for a portrait at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto.

Published Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

Nicolas Cage figures he owes no apologies when critics gripe about all the Hollywood action flicks he's done.

Published Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

Looking for a new project after finishing a comedy, Zhang Yimou is considering adaptations of novels set against China's Cultural Revolution and the Japanese invasion in World War II, his assistant said Wednesday.

Published Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made based on the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnapping her.

Film Nicolas Cage
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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2009 file photo, actor Nicolas Cage poses for a portrait at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto.

Published Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

Nicolas Cage is being sued by his former business manager, who claims lavish spending, not his advice, is to blame for the actor's financial problems.

Published Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy know the Michael Oher story better than anyone, at least better than anyone other than Michael Oher himself.

People Parker Broderick
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FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 file photo actress Sarah Jessica Parker films a scene on location for "Sex and the City 2" in New York.

Published Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

A paparazzo testified Tuesday that an Ohio police chief told him he had access to ultrasound photographs belonging to the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.


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