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December 1, 2008
Blues Man

Jeffrey Wright’s latest role, playing music pioneer Muddy Waters, is the perfect last beat to a life-changing year.

November 24, 2008
Documenting Lies: Ellen Kuras

Ellen Kuras started filming Thavisouk Phrasavath and his family in 1984.

November 17, 2008
Repo Man: Anthony Stewart Head

Anthony Stewart Head, best known for playing librarian Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, clearly appreciates a cult following.

November 17, 2008
An Animated Best Picture Race

We’re calling it: Slumdog Millionaire will get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. But what of the other four slots? This year’s hopefuls include some quirky choices�but not so quirky that there aren’t precedents.

November 17, 2008
Slumdog’s Underdog

Danny Boyle’s new film, a Hindi love story made for peanuts, could be 2008’s best picture.

November 10, 2008
Agent of Change

Marc Forster was a surprising choice to direct Bond, and he may be the most subversive yet.

November 10, 2008
�JCVD’: �Synecdoche’ for Dummies

Interested in Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York but worried you might not be smart enough?

November 3, 2008
In Defense of �Saw V’

Why High School Musical 3: Senior Year just might be scarier than torture porn.

October 27, 2008
Dossier: Noah Emmerich

What you need to know about New Yorker Noah Emmerich, who stars with Edward Norton and Colin Farrell in the brutal cop drama Pride and Glory.

October 20, 2008
Hubris Inc.

Oliver Stone’s new film, W., is about a man many would sooner forget�which didn’t stop him from making it.