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Every movie needs a gimmick and Act of Valor's is a doozy: imagine a combat film starring real soldiers! Finally the real experience of batt...

Set in the dystopian future of 1983 (yes, you read that right), Beyond the Black Rainbow is an unrelentingly bizarre, hyper-stylized work of...

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Roger Corman's "Nursing Cycle" was one of the great low-budget box-office bonanzas of the early '70s. Packing drive-ins and grindhouses, the...

After the highly successful Dogtown and Z-Boys reintroduced the world to the history of modern skateboarding and painted an indelible pictur...

Saying, "it's time" on a successful, well loved and not least of all, moneymaking project is difficult for any artist. Consider how many tir...

Les Momies de Palerme are two pretty girls from Montreal named Marie Davidson and Xarah Dion, who are unabashedly and unashamedly making str...

Upon first glance, Grand Duchy seem like a group of folks stuck between stations, trying to mix glam-y electro-clash disco with introspectiv...

Remix albums are often as ill-advised a career move for rock'n'roll bands as gold lamé suits and hair plugs, but Nick Cave was never one to...

Few performers were built for the early sound era of Hollywood as well as Katharine Hepburn. She had a deft command of the English language...

If you've ever let out a sneering, nasally, "yeeeeahhh seeeee" in casual conversation trying to emulate a classic Hollywood tough guy, then...

The latest offering from Canada's favourite oddball, Guy Maddin, Keyhole is bizarre, discomfiting, grotesque and perverse, in other words, a...

Albania is a country of three million people and 11, 000 square miles. It is part of the Balkan region of Europe, bordered by Montenegro, Ko...

In the way we think about the term today, writer/director Preston Sturges was the first modern auteur, beating Orson Welles to the box-offic...

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At 85, master sushi chef Jiro Ono may be old, but he never misses a day of work, overseeing every minute detail of the food on offer at Suki...

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Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are obsessed with two things, both of which appear in abundance in the Adult Swim stars' debut feature: the...

Brazilian director José Padilha originally burst forth with his tense, brutal and tragic documentary, Bus 174, a dramatic reconstruction of...