Sunshine Cleaning is about people like you and me.

The first half of Steven Soderbergh’s ode to revolutionary Che Guevara covered the Cuban Revolution, touched on his relationship with Fidel Castro and Castro’s brother Raul.

I love character actors. The most fun I’ve had interviewing actors over the years has been those that do the small roles that can make or break the movie. One of my favorites is Clifton Collins Jr.

Yes, I have EARTH tickets.

Miley Cyrus is the world’s most popular teen.

Lucky us.

Carmike will not be showing Che: Part 2 this week.

The name play with the The Fast and Furious sequels is far more creative than the plot of the latest installment which has a line in it that indicates it may be the prequel to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Set in the 1980s, Advertureland casts Jesse Eisenberg as James Brennan who was supposed to get trip to Europe as a graduation present.

Carmike is presenting Che in two parts. Part one this week, part two will come next.

Takva means understanding God.

Remember the first time you saw Shrek? This is that kind of treat. Dreamworks--who also put together our favorite Ogre films--did Monsters Vs. Aliens as a 3-D project. Most are two dimensions turned into three after the filming is completed. Both techniques boggle the mind--and are definitely the future of film--but the difference between the two is astonishing.

Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) gives two running times for The Haunting in Connecticut: 98 minutes and 102 minutes. Neither is accurate. The film runs two hours. Two hours too many.

Sometimes even movie critics can be prophets. We don’t do things in biblical proportion or anything close, but often prescience in the realm of mystical movies is a given.

Industrial espionage is Duplicity's theme. Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson head up rival mega-corporations. They hate each other. Their revulsion spills over into an original, and quite creative, slow motion fight at an airport early in the movie.

Carmike Cinemas and Regal's Columbia Mall 8 are stretching outside normal movie fare. Regal has been doing Thursday night flashbacks that have included such great films as Top Gun, Dirty Dancing, Back to the Future, Scarface, and my personal favorite, Pulp Fiction.

Disney Studios used to churn five or six of these out a year. Their cookie-cutter plots and use of TV talent or washed-up former superstars nearly ruined the company.

Watchmen is based on 12 comic books published in 1986 and 1987. So popular was the series that it has gained cult status.

Winnipeg — according to My Winnipeg — is the heart of the heart of the continent.

Both Regal’s Columbia Mall 8 and the Carmike 12 have been experimenting to give you a different movie experience.

Few pieces of literature deserve the adjectives “timeless classic” such as The Velveteen Rabbit.

Hugh Jackman is the host for the annual Academy Awards? Tradition says Oscar’s show is fronted by a comedian or comedienne and not by the sexiest man alive.

Drag out the anti-depressants.

The Squid and the Whale is a difficult character study about a couple and a family with deep emotional problems that surface during a divorce.

Rebecca Bloomwood can’t resist clothes shopping. No el-cheapo mall stuff, or clothing from mainstream department stores. It’s high-end swank or nothing. Her problem: expensive taste on a pauper budget.

Two unfortunate groups of young people get too close to Camp Crystal Lake get jabbed, stabbed, slammed, slashed and pruned by Jason Voorhees.

Actresses with Anne Hathaway’s girl-next-door looks struggle to find meaty parts.

On paper this thriller is a good one.

Again this year Regal’s Columbia Mall is doing classic movie flashbacks on Thursday nights.

PORTLAND -- You see them on TV at the Oscars and other events, but it’s nothing like the real thing.

Coraline is a pre-teen girl who just moved into an apartment in a decrepit old house with parents that all but ignore her. She’s forced to eat like a rabbit and mom and dad seem more interested in the vegetable books they write than their child.

There isn’t much to director Darren Aronofsky’s (Requiem for a Dream) film.

Push is a science-fiction thriller where some people have telekinetic powers. They can see the future. Others have the ability to move objects with their minds and with powers so great they can even stop bullets.

Typically, second movies are usually light-years inferior to the first.

He’s Just Not That Into You has an ensemble cast featuring some name stars: Scarlett Johansson, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly and Drew Barrymore.

RICHLAND -- Here is something sci-fi, horror and fans of the art of the short film won’t want to miss.

In Germany after World War II, an older woman befriends and has an ongoing sexual relationship with a young man who is still in what we would consider high school.

It puzzles me that the Hollywood Foreign Press completely ignored Milk at the Golden Globes.

Taken casts Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA agent struggling to reestablish a relationship with his daughter.

Renee Zellweger plays a corporate climber exiled to small town Minnesota to manage the dismantling of one of the firm’s non-producers. She clashes immediately with and is also instantly attracted to a union boss played by Harry Connick Jr.

Emily Browning is Anna, a young woman just out of an asylum for the mentally disturbed.

Slumdog Millionaire tracks the lives of Jamal Malik and his older brother Salim and an orphan girl Latika.

In 1977, I saw all four of TV journalist David Frost’s famous 90-minute interviews with former president Richard Nixon.

Don’t expect pheromone-charged adventure with the reconnection of former teen heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio and his Titanic co-star Kate Winslet.

Inkheart has a lot in common with Harry Potter.

The Oscar nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences offered some interesting surprises.

My question today -- which movie did you see in 2008 that you thought was the worst?

Of all the questions I've been asked about movies since beginning this gig in 1991, this is No. 1. I write about it once a year.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop is pretty basic.

Rap and hip hop’s first superstars were Tupac Shakur on the West Coast and Notorious B.I.G. on the East Coast.