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Sidewalk highlights: Sunday

So Long Are You Young: Samuel Ullman’s Poem and Passion • Sunday • 12:45 p.m. • Young & Vann Bldg. Samuel Ullman should be better known here in Birmingham. He has a building named after him at

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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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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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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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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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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

The 2009 SHOUT out

The fourth annual Birmingham SHOUT, scheduled for May 29-30 at WorkPlay, will showcase features, documentaries and short films by new and established artists and offer attendees the opportunity to view topics of interest to the LGBT communities, as well a

By Carey Norris

The fourth annual Birmingham SHOUT, scheduled for May 29-30 at WorkPlay, will showcase features, documentaries and short films by new and established artists and offer attendees the opportunity to vie

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Star Trek boldly goes where many men have gone before

By Carey Norris

For the last decade or two, the Star Trek franchise has been in a pretty steady decline, combining ever-lessening creative quality with serious overexposure (three series and four movies in just the l

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Wolverine fails to put the human in superhuman

By Carey Norris

Origin stories in superhero movies are tricky things. Usually, they are just things that need to be gotten out of the way before the real action begins. So devoting an entire film to the backstory of