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K.C. Bailey
Fire in the theater! Run! Susan Sarandon can sing,
 Review: Romance and Cigarettes

The first impression at seeing a cast that includes Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, James Gandolfini, Mary-Louise Parker, Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore and so many more begs a question:

By MICHAEL SMITH World Scene Writer
12/14/2007

The first impression at seeing a cast that includes Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, James Gandolfini, Mary-Louise Parker, Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore and so many more begs a question:

New Line Cinema
You may not want to wait for the DVD on this one; the visuals will be most fully appreciated on the big screen.
 Review: The Golden Compass

More worlds than these: Visually stunning, ‘Golden Compass’ offers a fantastic voyage

By KIM BROWN World Scene Writer
12/7/2007

Things aren’t so great for kids in the parallel universe at the center of the epic fantasy “The Golden Compass.”

 Catch your favorite Christmas characters on DVD

There's a kid in all of us, especially during the holidays.

By KIM BROWN World Scene Writer
12/4/2007

There's a kid in all of us, especially during the holidays.
ThinkFilm
Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman are the brothers in crime.
 Review: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Brothers grim: Lumet’s ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’ delivers the gritty goods

By MICHAEL SMITH World Scene Writer
11/30/2007

“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” has an opening shot of such graphic sexuality that it is meant to slap you in the face and warn you: Director Sidney Lumet has some tawdry business to present.
Sony Pictures Classics
Michael Caine (left) and Jude Law.
 Review: Sleuth

Nasty, brutish and short: New version of “Sleuth” is leaner and a lot meaner

By JAMES D. WATTS, JR. World Scene Writer
11/30/2007

It’s a little surprising that it has taken nearly 40 years for people to connect “Sleuth” and Harold Pinter.
MOVIE REVIEWS
   A new DVD and a slice of pie
Just in time for holiday sweets season comes “Waitress,” new to DVD this week, which is sure to leave you craving more — pie, that is.
 
 
   Review: Enchanted
Happily ever always: In ‘Enchanted,’ fairy-tale cliches collide with modern-day reality
 
 
   Review: My Kid Could Paint That
Young at art: Film about 4-year-old phenom leaves unanswered questions
 
 
   Review: The Mist
Clouded vision: ‘The Mist’ less a monster fl ick than a tale of fear of the unknown
 
 
   Review: August Rush
With the soul of a musical and the heart of a weepie, "August Rush" is going to prove attractive to a certain segment of the filmgoing audience.
 
 
   Review: No Country for Old Men
Evil in the everyman is chilling premise in four-star film
 
 
   Ho-ho, holy moley!
Take your pick: holly-jolly or hoity-toity.
 
 
   Review: Beowulf
A remarkable achievement, “Beowulf” impresses and dazzles even in those rare moments when it doesn’t totally succeed. And those are rare indeed.
 
 
   Review: Love in the Time of Cholera
Unrequited, unrealized: Filmmakers remove the heart from‘Love in the Time of Cholera’
 
 
   Review: Lust, Caution
The spy who loved me: Ang Lee’s ‘Lust, Caution’ is an extraordinary espionage thriller
 
 

MOVIE FEATURES
   This is cool. We need this in Tulsa.
“This is for all the people who say there’s nothing going in Tulsa, that nothing comes here for us to go to,” said Los Angeles-based writer/director Todd Lincoln, who along with Tulsa filmmaker Jeremy Lamberton founded the Tulsa Overground Film Festival.

 
 
   Overground Film Festival primer
 
 
   At the movies: One solution to NYC’s overcrowding…
 
 
   At the movies: A time of killing, a season of joy
 
 
   At the movies: A movie to sleep through?
 
 
   Do you know-ho-ho-how?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, if you’re a fan of Christmas movies and specials on TV.
 
 
   At the movies: A killer movie
 
 
   Ho-ho, holy moley!
Take your pick: holly-jolly or hoity-toity.
 
 
   Award-winning filmmaker to screen documentary
 
 
   From ‘Stardust’ to ‘Beowulf ’
 
 
   Opening Wednesday
 
 
   At the movies: Tragic and inspiring
 
 
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Movie Critic Michael Smith
An irreverent look at movies and more.
Dance fever trivia
   Wednesday, December 12, 2007
"No Country" for odd endings
   Thursday, December 06, 2007
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