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Panettiere is eye-opening

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:53:00 -0400

What's refreshing about "I Love You, Beth Cooper" isn't just that the debate-team captain emotionally connects with the cheerleading captain. It's also that the cheerleader may be the deepest character -- and that the actor who plays her plainly gives the best performance.

The small screen thinks big

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:29:00 -0400

Telling stories about the obese and full-figured, TV is embracing a new kind of heavyweight programming

Call it the summer of plus-sized love. While everything else in the culture and on television these days seems to be getting down-sized, now comes a series of shows featuring fuller-sized contestants and characters.

'Bruno' is no 'Borat'

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:05:00 -0400

Sacha Baron Cohen's follow-up to his riotus 'Borat' -- is just a hot mess

Documentary opens Pandora's box of Lyme disease

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Disease becomes a lens for foibles of modern medicine in 'Under Our Skin'

Under Our Skin is a documentary wake-up call.

'Plan 9': so bad it's good

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Pratt's Southeast Anchor branch to screen free

A half-century after it was made, movies still don't come any worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space , Edward D. Wood Jr.'s grade-Z sci-fi opus about aliens looking to take over the Earth by raising the dead and having them ... well, having them do something that will put us all in our place. (The movie's a little sketchy on the details.) Tomorrow at 2 p.m., the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Southeast Anchor branch, 3601 Eastern Ave., will celebrate Plan 9 's golden anniversary with a free screening of the film, as well as an appearance by Maryland's own Conrad Brooks, who played a policeman in the movie. Library officials promise prizes to anyone who can sit through the whole movie. It's only 79 minutes long and defines the term "so bad, it's good," so take them up on it. Information: 410-396-1580 or prattlibrary.org/events.

BSO to bring the piercing strings of 'Psycho' to life this weekend

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:29:00 -0400

Taking a shower has never felt truly safe ever since Janet Leigh stepped under the spray in the bathroom of nondescript Cabin 1 at the Bates Motel, during the most famous scene of Alfred Hitchcock's stylish horror film from 1960, Psycho .

Senator owner lauded by theater group

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:25:00 -0400

Members of the Theatre Historical Society of America converged on the Senator Theatre Friday to laud owner Tom Kiefaber and lend their support to efforts aimed at keeping the 70-year-old movie house in operation.

A trip to see the man on the 'Moon'

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Slender plot but strong performances in space flick with a retro look

Director Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son, has brought a retro-fresh look to the futuristic story Moo n .

Art film's restoration is a work of art

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Film historian's four-year effort shows off the luminosity of the masterpiece 'Manhatta'

A masterpiece of avant-garde filmmaking becomes a masterpiece of restoration with Manhatta .