Vera Farmiga has an astonishing ability to transform herself completely. In the past few years, she’s played a worn-out drug addict, a cop shrink, a depressed young mom, and the carefully coiffed wife of a Nazi Commandant, to name a few. In Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, she stars as a confident frequent flyer who happens to be George Clooney’s leading lady – and has more control over their on-the-run relationship than he does. Read more

If you’re a heavy metal fan, you’ll probably be fascinated byfilmmaker Audrey Ewell’s documentary that tracks the Norwegian branch of the heavy metal music movement, its anti-social behavior and musical mayhem. Read more>>

British screenwriter-director Kirk Jones, 45, looks startlingly like Russell Crowe, but with a demeanor far gentler than the legendarily ferocious actor’s. Jones is thoughtful, reflective, and bursting with a self-aware sense of humor. Those are the qualities that make his films so utterly delightful. Read more

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Sex doesn’t sell, as it turns out, sexism hurts everybody, and the end of Oprah Read more

In this informative documentary, director Philippe Diaz presents a fascinating history lesson showing the world’s wealth disparity beginning with European military conquest of other continents and enslavement of indigenous peoples. Colonization resulted in seizure of land, minerals and other resources, and forced labor that continues today due to the existence and enforcement of unfair debt, trade and tax policies. Read more>>

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The continued invisibility of women in Hollywood; a new part of our bodies we gals must learn to hate; Sex Slave: The Movie won’t be exploitive, the (male) director promises and more. Read more

This decidedly mediocre second installment in Stephanie Meyer’s best-selling series about a teenager’s infatuation with vampires and werewolves in the Pacific Northwest has already shattered box-office records, proving that ardent fans will not be deterred! Read more

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