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'Trailer Trash' Shows Poor White Folks Differently Than 'Cops'new

Don Diego Ramirez's documentary humanizes its subjects without flinching from the horror of what they perpetrate upon each other.

Baltimore City Paper | Violet Glaze | 09-18-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Don Diego Ramirez, Trailer Trash: A Film Journal

Monica Bellucci Knows What's in Store for Hernew

The Italian actress has become an international star -- and one who, rather than losing work after 40 as is the general complaint of American actresses, appears to be getting even more of it.

Baltimore City Paper | Cole Haddon | 09-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up

Adam Goldberg is the New Woody Allen?new

2 Days in Paris is a casually heady, observationally nuanced peek inside one couple's romantic foibles -- for good and, most humorously, ill.

Baltimore City Paper | Bret McCabe | 09-04-2007 | Reviews

Tags: 2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy

'The 11th Hour' Directors Hope to Deliver a Global Warningnew

The film distinguishes itself from other talking-head documentaries not only by the sheer emotional fervor, but also by demonstrating that our species can engineer its survival.

Baltimore City Paper | Violet Glaze | 09-04-2007 | Reviews

Tags: The 11th Hour, Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners

'September Dawn' Just Feels Made-upnew

The story of the Fancher party's massacre at the hands of the Utah Mormon militia, with help from manipulated local Indians, needs nothing more than a deft telling of fear and discrimination in an innocent field -- unfortunately, here it receives unnecessary melodrama.

Baltimore City Paper | Wendy Ward | 08-28-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Christopher Cain, September Dawn

'Fear of Clowns 2': Blow Up Real Goodnew

Kevin Kangas' horror sequel debuts at a Baltimore theater before heading direct to DVD.

Baltimore City Paper | Bret McCabe | 08-21-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Fear of Clowns 2, Kevin Kangas

'My Best Friend': Who Needs Strangers?new

In the end, the film is too gimmicky -- it climaxes with Bruno on the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire -- to ever be a great movie, but it offers plenty of small pleasures.

Baltimore City Paper | Geoffrey Himes | 08-14-2007 | Reviews

Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte

'Introducing the Dwights': An Indie Yawnernew

The only reason movies like this exist is to provide targeted upscale art-house audiences with colorfully ignorant lower-class exotics to whom they can vicariously feel superior.

Baltimore City Paper | Ian Grey | 08-14-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Cherie Nowlan, Introducing the Dwights

'No End in Sight': Sobering Observations Soberly Presentednew

The truly horrible thing about Charles Ferguson's absolutely depressing documentary is that nothing it says is really new.

Baltimore City Paper | Bret McCabe | 08-14-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight

'Rescue Dawn': The Sheltering Flynew

As usual, a Werner Herzog movie isn't what it looks like on the surface.

Baltimore City Paper | Ian Grey | 07-31-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog

Novelist Thomas Long Hits The Big Screennew

Long's book A Thug's Life, a novel about a pair of West Baltimore drug dealers turned into a direct-to-DVD movie adaptation, 4 Life, on a big screen with celebrity guests, radio personalities, and fans.

Baltimore City Paper | Jason Torres | 07-31-2007 | Movies

Tags: 4 Life, Tony Austin