Street Kings casts Keanu Reeves as a maverick cop who does away with low-life druggies, child kidnappers and other street vermin.

Set in the 1920s, Leatherheads follows the antics of a mythical founder of modern-day football. Long on vision but short on cash, George Clooney’s Dodge Connelly grabs a World War I hero and makes him a star. The young man draws huge crowds and brings overdue popularity to the game.

In 1999 Kimberly Peirce rocked the movie world with her first film Boys Don’t Cry, the story of Teena Brandon, a young woman murdered for pretending to be a man.

Desperate to keep its numbers up, stop-loss is where the military forces a soldier due to be discharged to do an extra tour of duty.

There are kids in schools around the country who don’t think Drillbit Taylor, a movie about three bullied kids who hire a body guard, is all that funny. It’s too personal.

I have the honor of serving as the master of ceremonies for Friday's performance of La Vie En Rose at the Battelle Auditorium.

Seuss’s Cat in the Hat and the Grinch got their time. Now it’s Horton and his Whos who are rhyming sublime. Steve Carell and Jim Carrey and the rest of the cast, have lots of fun, yes, they have a real blast. Horton the elephant is made fun of one day, as he hears Whoville’s Whos whispering away. The Whos all in Whoville sit on a speck, and saving their lives makes Horton a wreck.

Half the fun of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is the film’s simplicity. The other half is its complexity.

I’ve seen a dozen Will Ferrell movies and can say I have given him an honest shot. While re-creating scenes and uttering classic lines from those movies, friends have tried to no avail to explain to me why he’s funny.

KC from the Tri-Cities writes:

A few things stand out about the 80th annual Academy Awards on Sunday.

A news crew is covering a terrorism conference in Spain.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards ceremony almost didn't happen because of the writers strike.

Erick from Shanghai writes:

Arid Lands gets another week in the Tri-Cities.

The quantum physics String Theory says there are multiple dimensions we don’t know about and the ability to use them means you could actually be somewhere before you leave. Or something like that. It’s a fascinating hypothesis that is way beyond me, and apparently beyond the creative talent of Jumper.

Erick from Shanghai writes:

Gary Wolcott, a movie critic for the Tri-City Herald and tricityherald.com, conducted an interview with "Arid Lands" co-director Josh Wallaert.

Derek in Pullman writes:

There Will be Blood uses oil as a metaphor for power.

Duane from Richland writes his 2008 movie predictions:

The boom in technology has given ordinary people like you and me the opportunity to be our own filmmakers.

In January, last year's critically acclaimed but limited release films begin to filter down to the smaller markets like Tri-Cities.

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I have the pleasure of hosting the Battelle Film Club's showing of Venus on Friday, one of those terrific treasures that few people saw in when it was in theaters in 2006.

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The Golden Globes have been handed out.

Diane from the Tri-Cities writes:

It looks like director Joe Wright made Atonement with one goal in mind: awards. To date it has grabbed a slew of them and will likely win a bunch of Golden Globes in whatever incarnation the Hollywood Foreign Press's awards show takes.

Johnny Depp was last year's big box office draw.

Junoearned a respectable three Golden Globe nominations: best motion picture musical or comedy, best actress in a musical or a comedy for Ellen Page and best script. And the film ended up on many critics' best-of lists last year.

Five items stand out in 2007.