The Judd Apatow–ish I Love You, Man is a string of amusingly revealing situations that examine the unspoken codes of North American guy time.

Knowing starts off with a great deal of promise, but becomes weighed down by cheesy special effects and a disturbing, almost evangelical undertone.

In his documentary RiP! A remix manifesto, Brett Gaylor argues for a world without draconian copyright laws.

In Examined Life, documentary filmmaker Astra Taylor takes her philosophers out of the classroom and into the streets.

Nicolas Cage says that the choice his father made influenced his decision to take a lead role in the movie Knowing, which tells the story of a college professor who concludes he may have found the secret to the universe.

In I Love You, Man, Paul Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a newly engaged man who is told by his fiancée that he needs to find male friends for the wedding party.

Love’s a bitch between spies. Sure, international espionage lends itself to steamy rendezvous in opulent hotel suites from Rome to Miami, but then there’s the questions—and the accusations.

12 is credited as being based upon 12 Angry Men, a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose and also the better-remembered movie, directed by Sidney Lumet three years later, after the height of the Red scare.

In Polytechnique, Denis Villeneuve’s brilliant, partially fictionalized account of the December 6, 1989 Montreal massacre, the focus is on three students and the impact a now anonymous misogynist would have on their lives.

In RiP! A remix manifesto, B.C.’s innovative Brett Gaylor argues persuasively that the organic, self-starting nature of creativity, especially in the connected age, is stifled when corporations put toll booths on every stretch of the information highway.

If, as Socrates is reported to have said, the unexamined life isn’t worth living, it follows that the well-considered life is worth examining. That’s the premise of this frequently engaging, occasionally annoying collection of interviews with that rare breed called public intellectuals.

Most, but not all, of what’s wrong with Virtual JFK is in its title and related premise: that there’s a “counterfactual” version of history ready to be studied parallel to the stuff in textbooks.

DVD releases for March 24, 2009.

On both the domestic and international films box office lists in Canada, two films debuted at the top spots for the week of March 6 to 12.

The new Race to Witch Mountain is a case study in the way “family entertainment”—and the Mouse House—have changed in the past few decades.