Like Hanna Montana before them, The Jonas Brothers are ‘tween idols, releasing multimillion selling records and selling out stadiums nationwide. So it’s a blessing to parents’ wallets that youngsters can enjoy this peppy, 75-minute performance in a movie theater rather than scrambling for hard-to-get tickets and trekking to a ‘live’ concert. Read more

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Getting nude for Oscar glory… and starving yourself in order to look good on camera. It’s all in a day’s work for Hollywood gals. Read more

Jay McCarroll, Project Runway’s flamboyant first season winner, bases his bid to become a real life fashion player on an eleven-minute debut show at NY’s September 2006 Fashion Week. Read more>>

As guilty pleasures go, “Fired Up!” ranks right up there with supersize cheeseburgers, trashy romance novels and deep-fried Snickers bars. Despite the by-the-numbers story, the PG-13 teen sex comedy exceeded my low expectations. The charming chemistry between the leads and the crackling and clever one-liners keep the laughs tumbling along. Read more>>

As dumb teen sex comedies go, this one is a dud. Read more

FTA is an anti-war documentary that went missing shortly after its premiere in 1972. Now restored and available to the public, the film is an important record showing the strength of the American people’s opposition to the Vietnam War. Read more>>

Courtney Hunt credits “Frozen River’s” success to a great story–one that motivated her cast and crew to work through sub-freezing shooting conditions and warms audiences who see the film, which is now releasing on DVD. Read more>>

Judging from the well-deserved accolades that continue to roll in, “Frozen River” is unmistakably being hailed as one of 2008’s best films. Written and directed by Courtney Hunt, and starring Melissa Leo and Misty Upham as two compelling female lead characters whose thrilling adventure and evolving relationship have a remarkably feminist arc, “Frozen River” is an exemplary expression of a woman’s perspective on women’s issues and women’s solutions. Read more

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