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Sidewalk opening night: BEST WORST MOVIE

In Alexander City, Dr. George Hardy is known as a dentist and one of the nicest people you could hope to meet. He’s active in the community and well-regarded by everyone in the town. He also starred,

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INTERPLANETARY combines horror & humor

Birmingham filmmaker Chance Shirley's INTERPLANETARY has been described as “OFFICE SPACE-meets-ALIEN,” a stab at corporate office life that just happens to feature a high body count.

By Kenn McCracken

Chance Shirley is a modern-day renaissance man, writing computer code for a local business by day and playing drums for several local bands at night when he’s not busy making movies. His first feature

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Whiteout chills but fails to thrill

Despite the potency of Antarctica as a setting, Whiteout is pretty lukewarm.

By Carey Norris

Antarctica is a great setting for a movie. It’s both claustrophobic and expansive, and the stakes there are incredibly high. There is really no margin for error: Make one mistake at the wrong moment a

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Extract falls short of fast-paced farce

By Carey Norris

Ten years after Office Space flopped at the box office and became a cult hit on video, writer-director Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead) has returned to the workplace-comedy well with his new film, but

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District 9 presents a splendid sci-fi spectacle

By Carey Norris

The idea of humans meeting aliens or other frightening creatures and turning out to be the real monsters has been done before, but it’s rarely been done better than in District 9 , the new sci-fi film

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Judging G. I. Joe

By Carey Norris

I was the perfect age to be absolutely obsessed with G.I. Joe as a child. I watched the show, I saw the movie and I put the toys together and never played with them again. But even then, it was pretty

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Life & death & Funny People

By Carey Norris

Comedy is serious business, and director Judd Apatow’s hilarious and surprisingly dramatic new film Funny People reaches deeper than his previous films to show just what kind of person it takes to mak

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Potter 6 puts fun back into the franchise

By Alyssa Mitchell

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince dispels the gloom found in the latest Potter movies by focusing on how much the three main characters have grown since the series began. Harry, Ron and Hermione

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Public Enemies presents the latest Dillinger drama

By Allen Barra

John Dillinger was far from the most successful bank robber in American history, but he is probably the most popular. According to Paul Maccabee, author of John Dillinger Slept Here, “‘The Gentleman

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Drag Me to Hell please!

By Carey Norris

If there’s one thing I have learned from the movies, it’s never to piss off a gypsy. Those guys don’t mess around. Director Sam Raimi makes this lesson painfully clear in Drag Me to Hell, a film that