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Film: Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Director Stefan Forbes recaps the Republican strategist's greatest hits—and hit jobs.

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| Mon Oct. 20, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Film Review: Up the Yangtze

Filmmaker Yang Chung documents the new China below deck on a Yangtze River cruise ship full of Americans.

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| Fri Oct. 3, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Film Review: Critical Condition

Roger Weisberg's forthcoming PBS documentary about 4 of the 47 million people in America without health insurance feels like <i>Sicko</i>, only sadder.

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| Tue Sep. 30, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Roundtable Review: Trouble the Water

<i>MoJo</i> staffers riff on a new Hurricane Katrina documentary about one Ninth Ward couple's journey to higher ground&#8212;and back.

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| Thu Aug. 28, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

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Film Review: Heckler

Coproducer and oft-mocked comedian Jamie Kennedy talks brickbats with Arsenio Hall, Carrot Top, and other heckled celebs in a look at pop culture from the factory floor.

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| Tue Aug. 26, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Not Another Teen Movie

Three <i>MoJo</i> staffers dissect <i>American Teen</i>.

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| Wed Jul. 16, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Film Review: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez

Eleven years after Marines killed an American teenager near the US-Mexico border, director Kieran Fitzgerald's movie sifts through the details of the shooting.

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| Tue Jul. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Film Review: The Judge and the General

Now retired Chilean judge Juan Guzman conducts a long, tedious investigation into the brutal killings and disappearances that took place during the country's Pinochet regime in The Judge and the General, an 84-minute documentary film that had its world premier recently at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film is Guzman's journey toward discovery; of the atrocities linked to Pinochet, and to his...

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| Thu May. 15, 2008 2:35 PM PDT
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Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

Warrior Poets. <i>90 minutes</i>.

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| Thu May. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Interrogating Errol Morris

The Oscar-winning filmmaker talks about turning his camera on Abu Ghraib for <i>Standard Operating Procedure</i>. Plus, the best political ads you never saw and why

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| Thu May. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Wag the Free Speech

The docudrama <i>Strange Culture</i> combines Tilda Swinton, genetically modified foods, death, bacteria, and censorship. <i>MoJo</i> sits down with the film's creator.

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| Mon Apr. 7, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Film Review: Chicago 10

What do slick CGI and Rage Against the Machine have to do with 1968?

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| Fri Feb. 29, 2008 1:00 AM PST

MPAA Accidentally (On Purpose?) Exaggerated Impact of Piracy

Hey, remember the MPAA? The Motion Picture Association of America? Well, like their buddies in the RIAA, they've been using every tactic they can think of to fight illegal downloading of movies, especially on college campuses; that includes lobbying lawmakers to sanction educational institutions on whose intertubes the naughty downloading was done. But it turns out the numbers they used as the basis for...

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| Thu Jan. 24, 2008 4:43 PM PST

The 300 Somehow Manages to Avoid "Worst Picture" Razzie Nomination

Now this is an awards ceremony I can appreciate. The Razzies have been honoring the worst films and performances for 27 years now, and the 2007 nominees were just announced today. While the Lindsay Lohan vehicle I Know Who Killed Me led the pack with nine nominations including Worst Picture, Eddie Murphy's Norbit received eight, with Murphy getting five of those on his...

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| Mon Jan. 21, 2008 12:58 PM PST

Cloverfield: New Kind of Monster Movie or "The Real World" With Giant Frog?

I saw Cloverfield (herein I shall refuse to type that ridiculous title and will refer to it as "Monsterfield" or "Cloverfrog") at the press screening Tuesday night, and I suppose waiting three days to write about was probably a good idea. I'm a sucker for apocalypse (my cinematic motto is "The World Must Be Destroyed;" I dragged friends to "The Core" on opening night)...

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| Fri Jan. 18, 2008 9:44 PM PST
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Taxi to the Dark Side

THINKFilm. <i>106 minutes</i>.

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| Thu Jan. 17, 2008 1:00 AM PST
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Sharkwater

Sharkwater Productions. <i>89 minutes</i>.

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| Thu Jan. 17, 2008 1:00 AM PST
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Joe Strummer Calling: Know Your Rights!

A film about the Clash frontman includes all the little people that Strummer befriended, inspired, and pissed off along the way.

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| Thu Nov. 8, 2007 1:00 AM PST

The Anime Within

Fans of cosplay ask: Are you fact or fiction?

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 | Wed Nov. 7, 2007 5:28 PM PST

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox

Reckon So Productions. <i>88 minutes</i>.

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2007 12:00 AM PDT