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Room 237, Rodney Ascher's documentary about the hidden puzzles and bizarre theories fomented by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, is one of only two American films selected for the Director's Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival this year (May 16-27). The prestigious berth signals keen attention will be paid...

Film: Dark Shadows (2012)
Cast includes: Johnny Depp (The Rum Diary), Michelle Pfeiffer (Hairspray), Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech), Eva Green (Casino Royale), Bella Heathcote (In Time), Chloë Grace Moretz (Hugo)
Director: Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
Genre: Comedy | Fantasy (113 minutes)

Barnabas Collins tells...

If you haven't heard of Movie Cloud, allow me to lay it out for you. Dov Simens (the world-renowned film instructor) and Derek Christopher (president of TV/Film Seminars) have set out to revolutionize the way independent films are produced, distributed, and consumed. The duo...

Film: I Wish (2011)
Cast includes: Koki Maeda, Oshiro Maeda, Ryoga Hayashe
Writer/Director: Hirokazu Koreeda (Nobody Knows)
Genre: Light Drama | Comedy, Japanese with subtitles (128 minutes)

Living in sight of a volcano, it's not easy to keep up with the ash that settles everywhere. Koi's not...

Recently, while attending New York's Tribeca Film Festival, I indulged in a guilty pleasure.

Wearing dark shades, and clutching my plastic media badge and a $7 bag of greasy popcorn, I stealthily ducked into a Chelsea multiplex to watch some of my youth flicker by across the big...

Film: Last Call at the Oasis (2011)
Cast includes: Erin Brokovich-Ellis, Jay Famiglietti, Peter H. Gleich, Tyrone Hayes
Writer/Director: Jessica Yu (Ping Pong Playa)
Genre: Documentary (105 minutes)

"My father said, someday water will become more valuable than oil," Erin Brokovich tells us, and it's happening now....

Dark Shadows
2012
113 minutes
rated PG-13

Dark Shadows is a movie with pretty much nothing to say.  It uses its culture-clash and fish-out-of-water narrative not for any kind of social meaning or parable, but...

While Tanya Wexler's new film Hysteria is at times a LOL-hysterical romantic comedy, it also skillfully navigates important issues about class and medical practices in the 1880s, and takes a good look at women's rights in general.

The story takes place in London and has an interesting...

Film: First Position (2011)
Cast includes: Aran Bell, Gaya Bonner Yemini, Michaela Deprince, Miko Fogarty, Rebecca Houseknecht, Joan Sebastian Zamora
Director: Bess Kargman (first feature film)
Genre: Documentary (90 minutes)

As they clear the stage for the Youth America Grand Prix competition, we get a brief introduction...

Film: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Cast includes: Maggie Smith (Gosford Park), Bill Nighy (Pirate Radio), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton), Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), Celia Imrie (Bridget Jones's Diary), Tena Desae, Ronald Pickup (Lolita)
Director: John Madden...

In his latest film Any Day Now, movie star turned airplane pilot, turned filmmaker Travis Fine reinvents the concept of family and in the process, gives his audiences...

Film: Bernie (2011)
Cast includes: Jack Black (The School of Rock), Matthew McConaughey (The Lincoln Lawyer), Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
Director: Richard Linklater (Fast Food Nation, The School of Rock)
Genre: Dark Comedy | Crime (104 minutes)

Bernie would settle for nothing less than perfection when...

Film: Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
Cast includes: Mohamed Fellag (L'ennemi intime), Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx (C.R.A.Z.Y.), Brigitte Poupart (Congorama)
Writer/Director: Philippe Falardeau (It's Not Me, I Swear!)
Genre: Drama | Humor (94 minutes) French with subtitles

The colors of Montreal's winter are "white, gray and dog...

Film: Headhunters (2011)
Cast includes: Aksel Hennie (Max Manus: Man of War), Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Black Hawk Down)
Director: Morten Tyldum (Fallen Angels)
Genre: Crime, Action, Thriller (98 minutes) Norwegian with subtitles

"Rules #1 through 4, leave nothing to chance. Rule #5... One of two...

It was an 'everybody wins' weekend at the box office as all three openers outperformed even the most optimistic expectations. The number one film of the weekend was not...

Next year will mark the 70th anniversary of the 1943 Best Picture Oscar winner, Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, and Conrad Veidt. Not only is Casablanca still regarded as one of the greatest American movies ever made, it features one of the most...

Since her 2004 debut album Get Away From Me, musician Nellie McKay has proved herself to be astonishingly versatile. The London-born, New York-raised songstress can change genres during the running time of a single tune.

"Sari" features her rapping to a Bach-like accompaniment, and "I Want to...