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Wall-E With the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight. Directed by Andrew Stanton. Walt Disney Video. $29.95, Blu-ray $35.95 **** Few moviegoing experiences in recent memory are more sublime than the first half of Wall-E, an exercise in cinemagic from...

'My Name is Bruce" is a bad movie. It's also a good movie, not in a so-bad-it's-good way, but in a we-know-we-suck-wink-wink way. It's schlock parodying schlock, and it has such clichéd, stupid fun with its schlockiness that leaving the theater without...

next friday Ballast (Strand Releasing) A single mom on the Mississippi Delta copes with a man from her past while struggling to raise her son. With Tarra Riggs and JimMyron Ross. Let the Right One In (Magnolia Pictures) A 12-year-old bullied boy finds...

Spin City: The Complete First Season Shout Factory!, 1996 Michael J. Fox takes public relations to zany new heights in this sophisticated sitcom set in the New York City mayor's office. His Deputy Mayor Michael Flaherty keeps a goofy mayor (Barry...

-------------------- FOR THE RECORD: "The Tale of Despereaux": In Sunday's Calendar section, the Holiday Movie Sneaks entry for the upcoming "The Tale of Despereaux" listed only one of the animated film's directors, Sam Fell. Robert Stevenhagen co-...

People who love politics will be feeling a little empty a week from now, when the campaign is over and the decisions have been made. Two highly anticipated films opening in the upcoming Oscar season will fill the bill. "Frost/Nixon" is Ron Howard's...

The Night of the White Pants, Image Entertainment, 2008: Tom Wilkinson is fun to watch in this otherwise uninteresting comedy. It's about Max, a Dallas millionaire on the skids. His trophy second wife left him, he lost his business, he's ill, his son is...

Bigger Stronger Faster (Magnolia Home Entertainment, 2008) Chris Bell's absorbing documentary about performance-enhancing drugs is remarkably even-handed and wide-ranging. The movie criticizes people who are addicted to anabolic steroids, including his...

Disembodied shadows dance on a wall. Invisible assailants attack a man. Barks are heard, but there are no dogs. A vampire, and the vampire's assistant, lurk in the shadows. Carl Theodor Dreyer's legendary "Vampyr" could be the closest any movie has...

GANJA AND HESS (Image Entertainment) Somewhere between my junior and senior years in college, rumors of an avant-garde vampire movie written and directed by the African-American screenwriter of "The Landlord" kept finding their way to my mental mailbox....

"Dylan Speaks," a DVD from Eagle Media, lets us revisit a revealing moment in the career of the revolutionary young poet named Bob Dylan — a scene that underscored how difficult it was for the mainstream media to make sense of the most important...

THERE'S a montage in the middle of James Spooner's documentary "Afro-Punk" in which young, African American punk rockers talk about their hair. Particularly, how hard it is to fashion naturally curly hair into the genre's trademark — a towering...