Killer Diller, which opens today in a limited Midwest release (Kansas City, Columbia, St. Louis, Memphis and Nashville), is about a college half-way house, a guitar playing car thief, an autistic piano player, and some great blues music. I would highly recommend seeing this film if it’s in your area, and if it’s not yet hopefully it will do well enough to earn a wider release over the next few weeks.
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How cool are spelling bees? The film asks that question multiple times and the answer shifts from person to person over the course of the film including our title character. Akeelah and the Bee actually makes the National Spelling Bee look pretty darn cool. Now c’mon folks, that should pique your interest.
Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is an underachieving student in Crenshaw, California with an older sister (Erica Hubbard) who has a baby, a brother (Julito McCullum) who wants to become a gangbanger, and a mother (Angela Bassett) who works all the time and has little time or patience for her kids’ problems and screw-ups.
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A hitman who quotes Nietzsche and believes the London Underground is a political movement, a stuttering animal lover who keeps accidentally killing small dogs, an English barrister stuck in a loveless marriage, a thief used as a patsy, and a woman named Wanda who wraps each one of them around her little finger to get what she wants. Rarely are romantic comedies this good.
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2046, the latest from Kar Wai Wong, is a mysterious tale of love and loss. The film is a follow up to In the Mood For Love and although some of the same characters appear as in the first movie it really isn’t what you would describe as a sequel. What it turns out to be is a complex love story spanning years and distances, time and space, in the search for 2046.
What is 2046? It’s a time, it’s a place, it’s the title of a novel, it’s a state of mind, and it’s the number of a hotel room that houses a series of women who catch the attention of our protagonist who lives across the hall. 2046 is as much art as film and tells a winding, sometimes confusing but thoroughly enjoyable, story through times and memories, both real and imaginary.
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My five favorite comic book heroes in no particular order are Batman, the Silver Surfer, Captain Marvel (Shazam!), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan, except no substitutes), and the Silver Age Flash. The Flash uses the origin and character of the Barry Allen Flash but puts him in modern times while incorporating characters from both the Silver Age Flash and the current Wally West version (such as Tina McGee).
Barry Allen (John Wesley Shipp) is a police scientist. While working late at the lab one stormy night a lightning bolt strikes through the window hitting a rack of chemicals and the mild mannered Allen. After the accident Barry finds he is always hungry and what starts as a short run might make him end up 30 miles away in just seconds.
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