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'The Truth' gets out: Erie graduate's comedy gets nationwide DVD release - Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Jason Schaver has always loved movies, but he didn't think of making one himself until he was 25 and saw a string of horrible ones.

A big fan of filmmaker Kevin Smith, he was especially inspired to do

Review: 'Remember Me' a sweet love story -- OK, drop the Kelvinator! - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
"Remember Me" tells a sweet enough love story and tries to invest it with profound meaning by linking it to a coincidence.

It doesn't work that way. People meet, maybe they fall in love, maybe they don't, maybe

At the movies: March 12, 2010 - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
New in theaters

Great Escape Theaters, Moline:

-- "GreenZone" (R)

-- "Our Family Wedding" (PG-13)

-- "Remember Me" (PG-13)

-- "She's Out of My League" (R)

Showcase Cinemas 53, Davenport:

Review: 'Out of My League' not a 10, but OK - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Molly is a perfect 10. Kirk is a 5. This scoring is provided by his best friends, who sadly inform him, "You can't jump more than 2." Because of reasoning like that, Aristotle Onassis remains a hero to 4's and

Review: In the 'Zone': a Bourne-style thriller in Iraq - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
"Green Zone" looks at an American war in a way almost no Hollywood movie ever has: We're not the heroes, but the dupes. Its message is that Iraq's fabled "weapons of mass destruction" did not exist; that neocons within the

Review: 'Our Family Wedding' has a flawed album - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
"Our Family Wedding" is a perfectly good idea for a comedy: A wedding between a Mexican-American woman and an African-American man leads to culture clash. The film, unfortunately, deals with the situation at the level of a middling sitcom. You

Roger Ebert: Paramount backed the wrong horse - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Questions for the Movie Answer Man:

Out of season

Q: When I saw that "Shutter Island," Scorsese's follow-up to "The Departed," was moved out of "awards season," I assumed it meant one thing: When the studio

Queens for a day: Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter in 'Alice in Wonderland' - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
LOS ANGELES -- Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter aren't obvious choices to play sisters. Hathaway's a tall brunette who looks like she just came from a Vogue fashion shoot. Carter's shorter, with a freestyle hairdo that looks like she

Spirit Awards vs. Oscars: Will the indie film industry shrink away? - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
CHICAGO -- The contrast between the indie and big-studio movie worlds doesn't get much starker than this year's Oscar race.

The front-runner, if its pre-Oscar awards are any indication, is Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker," which, with its $12.7

The curious case of Alice: The heroine of Tim Burton's new movie is an ageless icon - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
"One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small." -- Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"

Alice Pleasance Liddell was 3 years old in 1855 when her family met a shy deacon named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Oxford, England.

Robinson maps the future's gray areas - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
DAVIS, Calif. -- In science fiction, there's dystopia and there's utopia.

There are the dark wizards of apocalypse, terrifying us with visions of humanity's grim comeuppance. And the starry-eyed fantasists, insisting how much better the future will be than

In 'Poker Bride,' Corbett recounts the story of the Chinese and the Gold Rush - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
BALTIMORE — Imagine "McCabe & Mrs. Miller," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "Deadwood" hand-stitched together and given a novel slant as a mini-epic of Chinese immigrant life. That suggests the polyglot vitality of Baltimore writer Christopher Corbett's new