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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part I

These documentaries focus on outsiders and subcultures in Southern California.

The latest release in the Criterion Collection's Eclipse series, a mid-price line devoted to overlooked auteurs, is titled, with tongue slightly in cheek, "Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin."

"Chronicle" follows three teenagers who receive telekinetic powers after a supernatural encounter, but what they do with their newfound superpower is hardly heroic.

The commando sequel is already trying to win hearts and minds with the new commercial that airs on Super Bowl Sunday during the big game on NBC.

As he opens the next chapter in his film career, Radcliffe also is trying to sort out what it means to be a grown-up offset.

As he opens the next chapter in his film career, Radcliffe also is trying to sort out what it means to be a grown-up offset.

In a 60-year career that began on stage, the gravel-voiced Ben Gazzara appeared in more than 100 films and TV movies. He also starred in the 1960s series 'Run for Your Life,' enjoyed a renaissance in the '90s and won an Emmy in 2002.

A New York native of Sicilian heritage, Ben Gazzara was a strongly masculine, subtly menacing screen presence with a gravelly voice that one writer described as "saloon-cured" and another said could strip paint at 50 paces.

It's a season of contests and between last weekend and this one we've had some big ones

It's a season of contests and between last weekend and this one we've had some big ones

"The Theatre Bizarre" will screen in Los Angeles at the Nuart Theatre on Friday at midnight in addition to other limited engagements across the country.

The Austin festival continues its tradition of selecting unconventional genre pictures and R-rated comedies apt to play well with its rowdy young audiences.

The Austin festival continues its tradition of selecting unconventional genre pictures and R-rated comedies apt to play well with its rowdy young audiences.

It's rare enough when an awards season brings one movie from each superstar; it's even less common to get a pair of films from each of them.

It's rare enough when an awards season brings one movie from each superstar; it's even less common to get a pair of films from each of them.

The new movie tweaks the formula with a superhero slant and some teen angst, as three high-school dudes record themselves gaining telekinetic powers and trying to keep them in check. The result is ear

The new movie tweaks the formula with a superhero slant and some teen angst, as three high-school dudes record themselves gaining telekinetic powers and trying to keep them in check. The result is earning favorable reviews.

"It comes from an English book from an English author, from a Japanese studio," director Gary Rydstrom said. "We threw in our American cast, and the music, which is beautiful, is done by a lovely French composer, so it's incredibly international."

Louisiana's film industry is gearing up for another busy year, with movies starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Morgan Freeman, Harrison Ford and Russell Brand set to begin filming in the state early this year

Louisiana's film industry is gearing up for another busy year, with movies starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Morgan Freeman, Harrison Ford and Russell Brand set to begin filming in the state early this year.

Daniel Radcliffe stars as an attorney sent to an estate only to meet forces of evil in this well-done atmospheric thriller.

Daniel Radcliffe stars as an attorney sent to an estate only to meet forces of evil in this well-done atmospheric thriller.

Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski save the whales in this agreeable true-ish story.

The success of last year's "Dolphin Tale"proved this theorem: Imperiled marine animals + true-ish story + workmanlike sincerity + happy ending = a hit. Will the equation hold for director Ken Kwapis' whale movie"Big Miracle"?

'Chronicle' explores an old question — if you had superpowers, would you do good or evil? — energetically and intelligently.

Was it Superman's, Spider-Man's or Socrates' uncle who said, "With great power comes great responsibility?" Regardless, it would have proved sound advice for the suddenly telekinetic teens at the center of the raw, electrical charge of "Chronicle."

In Ben Wheatley's horror-thriller, two hit men go on a harrowing and bloody mission into the occult. It's so intense that some will look away.

If you're a hit man by trade, then you've already made a deal with the devil, even if those you eliminate fall into the category of human waste of the drug-dealing, kidnapping, warmongering sort. So really, it should come as no surprise that Jay and Gal, the murdering blokes in the twisted horror-thriller "Kill List," have gotten themselves into a bizarre fix, though having to seal a contract in blood should have been a tip-off.

Frederick Wiseman brilliantly reveals the inner workings of Paris' Crazy Horse nightclub and the artful nude dancers who perform there.

If Frederick Wiseman's involving new documentary "Crazy Horse" is any indication, that old rule about how you get to Carnegie Hall — "practice, practice, practice" — applies equally well to that Parisian temple of self-described "nude chic" known to its intimates simply as "Le Crazy."

The comedian is writing a new untitled script, he said, in which he envisions the "Bridesmaids" breakout playing his wife as the pair indulge in some boisterous dysfunction.

The comedian is writing a new untitled script, he said, in which he envisions the "Bridesmaids" breakout playing his wife as the pair indulge in some boisterous dysfunction.

Here's a snippet that, if you think about it, is a promotional teaser for a commercial about a ride based on a movie created around a toy line.