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'The X-Files: I Want to Believe'

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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Mulder and Scully. The dark and the light. The sacred and the profane. A pair of ravens on a snowy West Virginia road - everything comes in twos in "The "X-Files: I Want to Believe" ...

'Step Brothers'

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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Nudie magazines, dog poop, words like "mangina" - if these are a few of your favorite things, " Step Brothers" is the comedy for you. Crudely and consistently funny, if never quite gut-busting, the movie gets a surprising amount of mileage from the sight of two grown men indulging their inner, giggling 10-year-olds.

'Baghead'

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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The mundane indie genre - all those talky, slightly trivial movies by and about talky, slightly trivial young people - gets a little shot of adrenaline in "Baghead," in which four would-be filmmakers are terrorized by a being of their own creation. The slasher is wearing not a hockey mask but a lower-budget prop: a paper bag.

'Dark Knight' sets weekend record

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0400

$155.34 million take topples "Spider-Man 3" for best opening weekend ever at the box office.

MOVIE BUZZ: Directors explore Brooklyn and pot smokers

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Directors explore Brooklyn and pot smokers

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With 'The Dark Knight,' film noir still lives

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

It's a visual style. It's a movie genre. And nearly 70 years after it first appeared, film noir is not only still with us, but has successfully moved into the worlds of science fiction, the graphic novel and comic books.

The Batsuit gets a makeover

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The 'Dark Knight' hero has tossed the sweaty rubber and molded-plastic costumes of yesteryear and sports a cooler, motocross-style flexi-suit this time around.

WHEN "THE Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan and Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming considered how they would retool Christian Bale's Batman armor for the new movie, one question leaped to mind immediately: "Why, in 2008, would a superhero put on a rubber suit?" Hemming asks. "Why would he wear something that made him less active and unbelievably, unpleasantly hot? He wouldn't. He'd use all the technology available to be as comfortable as possible."

Posthumous performances

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Heath Ledger isn't the only actor to be lauded in a film he never lived to see.

The Academy Awards are more than six months away, but already the late Heath Ledger is being touted as a shoo-in for a supporting actor nomination for his terrifying performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight."