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Meet the Hoovers, a dysfunctional family of quirky individuals who have bad traits ranging from overzealous optimism to heroin addiction– but who remain, through a series of ordeals that would stress out saints– endearing, engaging and utterly entertaining. Read more

AWFJ’s Defying Age and Agism EDA winner does it again with sexy quips and a juicy kiss at Santa Barbara International Film Festival, reports LAT.com’s Elizabeth Snead. more

“Dakota Fanning’s performance in “Hounddog” is mature, powerful, and everything it should be,” write’s Cinemarical.com’s Kim Voynar. But the film could be better.

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As every journalist knows, you can spin stats to support any argument. I don’t want to spin, only to ask whether these stats herald good news or bad. Read more

Katja Von Garnier shapeshifts this werewolf movie into a deft romance. Read more

MoMA presents a tribute to Lillian Ross, longtime journalist for The New Yorker, with screenings of five films illuminated by her writing Read more

The more I think about this movie, the more annoyed I get. Written and directed by Susannah Grant, who did such a great job with Erin Brockovich, and starring the inimitable Jennifer Garner, this catch should have been a sparkling mid-winter release.

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Referring to David Poland’s cleverly cloaked “Little Red Writing Hood”, Anne Thompson reveals in THR’s Risky the background on screenwriter Lizzy Bentley’s credit on “Nanking.”

Fox Searchlight paid just under $4 million for worldwide rights to Adrienne Shelley’s “Waitress,” according to THR’s Risky Biz Shelley’s third film premiered posthumously at Sundance.

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