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Casualties of war

5555One by one, his comrades are killed by fire from a machine-gun nest in a shattered church. When the firing stops, Dunne approaches the remnants of the nest. There is only one survivor, a German boy, who weakly says, "Kamerad" ... before Dunne plunges his bayonet in the boy's forehead. Updated 2:50 AM 10/09/08

1. Actress enjoyed long night in New York

   Kat Dennings wrote on her blog that the feature film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is "the movie of my soul." That's big praise. Updated 2:50 AM 10/09/08

2. TV, film industries applaud Tories' tax credit reversal

   MONTREAL -- A decision by the Conservative government to reverse its plan to scrap tax credits for productions it deems offensive to Canadian viewers has come as a pleasant surprise to those in the film and television industries. Updated 2:50 AM 10/08/08

3. Period, please

   5555 Updated 2:50 AM 10/02/08

4. Wag the dogma

   TORONTO -- During recent interviews at the Toronto International Film Festival, both comedian Bill Maher and director Larry Charles pitched their upcoming movie, Religulous, as a Saturday night entertainment alternative to mainstream movies like The Dark Knight and Tropic Thunder. Updated 2:50 AM 09/28/08

5. Bollywood triumphs in big Hari movie deal

   Bollywood triumphs in big Hari movie deal Updated 2:50 AM 09/24/08

6. Watch Sparks fly

   Think of legendary Hollywood pairings and the likes of Bogie and Bacall, Kate and Spencer or William Powell and Myrna Loy take shape on the big screen in your mind. Updated 2:55 AM 09/21/08

7. Quebec film selected to compete for Oscar

   MONTREAL -- The Necessities of Life, a Quebec movie about an Inuit hunter in the early 1950s, will be Canada's bid for an Oscar in the category of best foreign-language film. Updated 9:15 AM 09/19/08

8. Quebec film selected to compete for Oscar

   MONTREAL -- The Necessities of Life, a Quebec movie about an Inuit hunter in the early 1950s, will be Canada's bid for an Oscar in the category of best foreign-language film. Updated 2:55 AM 09/19/08

9. Spirited energy

   TORONTO -- It's an accepted fact that Hollywood likes to make movies that are nice and predictable and as universally appealing as possible. Updated 9:25 AM 09/18/08

10. Unintelligent design

    TORONTO -- In the 2001 movie Spy Game, Brad Pitt plays a novice CIA agent mentored by Robert Redford's old-school operative. He is a classic conflicted movie spy, a handsomely chiseled man of action who is troubled by the consequences of his missions. Updated 2:55 AM 09/12/08

11. Smooth sledding for comedy film short

    Morley Walker Updated 2:55 AM 09/12/08

12. Cage's 'global mind' led him to Bangkok Dangerous remake

    HOLLYWOOD -- Nicolas Cage didn't wind up in Bangkok by accident. As the Oscar-winning actor explains it, there were reasons both personal and professional that compelled him to change gears after the mega-dollar success of the family-friendly action-adventure National Treasure: Book of Secrets and travel across the globe in pursuit of a new career iteration. Not least was the impulse to shake up his image by appearing in a foreign-made film. Updated 12:32 PM 09/05/08

13. Holy blockbuster! Bat-flick hits $500 million

    LOS ANGELES -- Batman's rich alter-ego Bruce Wayne has added half a billion dollars to his riches. Updated 12:40 AM 09/02/08

14. Tropic Thunder holds on to top spot for second week

    LOS ANGELES -- The action comedy Tropic Thunder weathered a rush of new movies to remain No. 1 for a second-straight weekend with $16.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Updated 12:50 AM 08/25/08

15. Stars lined up for Toronto film fest gala screenings

    The organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival this week announced the complete lineup of 312 films -- 249 features and 63 shorts -- that will screen next month at TIFF. Updated 12:40 AM 08/21/08

16. Rhythm and blues

    In the Beatles, he was the first guy fired. In the Who, he was the "crazy" one who died. Updated 12:40 AM 08/21/08

17. 'Tropic Thunder' rumbles past 'The Dark Knight' with $26M

    LOS ANGELES -- It took four of Hollywood's biggest stars to take down Batman. Updated 12:15 AM 08/18/08

18. Harry Potter pulls a vanishing act on Entertainment Weekly

    LOS ANGELES -- Maybe Harry Potter should have brought a note from his parents saying he would be missing school. Updated 12:15 AM 08/18/08

19. Controversial film deals with horror in the heartland

    Ellen Page, Catherine Keener and director Tommy O'Haver look like they've just buried the family dog. Sitting around a table, their heads bent over in silence, the trio are the antithesis of glitzy celebrity glam. Updated 12:30 AM 08/14/08

20. Atomic Indy arrives on on Blu-ray this October

    LOS ANGELES -- Indiana Jones entered the atomic age in his latest movie. Now he's joining the Blu-ray era. Updated 12:30 AM 08/13/08

21. This is bats! The Dark Knight finishes on top for fourth straight week

    LOS ANGELES -- Batman was higher than Hollywood's newest pot heads. Updated 12:00 AM 08/11/08

22. Remember when movie themes recapped plot as credits rolled?

    Huey Lewis' newly unveiled Pineapple Express theme song has us flush with movie nostalgia, and thinking of a purer, simpler time -- a golden era when movie producers and pop stars could put aside their differences and/or raging blow habits to come together and create songs that would directly reference summer blockbusters for no apparent reason other than to rake in a few extra bucks and make it onto nostalgia lists, such as this one, 20-odd years in the future. Sigh... someone cue an alto sax solo. We're going to take a YouTube-assisted stroll down memory lane. Updated 2:00 AM 08/08/08

23. The album isn't dead; it's just moved onstage

    NEW YORK -- Play it again, Sam. The whole album, please -- and in order. Updated 2:00 AM 08/08/08

24. WWII pilot who planned Great Escape dead at 92

    LONDON -- Eric Dowling, nicknamed "Digger" for helping excavate tunnels used in the breakout from a Second World War German prison camp that became known as the "Great Escape," has died in England. He was 92. Updated 2:00 AM 08/08/08

25. Montrealer feels water buffalo's Thunder

    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Don't mess with a pregnant water buffalo. Updated 2:00 AM 08/08/08

26. Director has fairy-tale luck with debut

    Richie Mehta doesn't want you to waste your hard-earned money on slapdash cinema for the sake of escapist entertainment. The Toronto filmmaker certainly understands the desire to make thoughts scatter like spiders in a rain storm, but when he set down to make Amal, his debut feature about a dirt poor rickshaw driver in New Delhi, he wasn't setting out with big dreams of mainstream fame. Updated 2:00 AM 08/08/08

27. Cover this bud's for you

    Sam Updated 2:00 AM 08/07/08

28. Gossip Girl shys away from gossip in real life

    Blake Lively is in the celebrity spotlight, but not thrilled with the unrelenting exposure of it all. Updated 2:00 AM 08/07/08

29. Wahlberg to make rare Entourage appearance

    The 37-year-old actor-producer has upcoming productions in film, television -- and his own family. Updated 2:00 AM 08/07/08

30. Princes make premiere of Bond film a royal event

    LONDON -- The producers of the latest James Bond movie say princes William and Harry will join Britain's most famous fictional spy on the red carpet at the London premiere. Updated 12:50 AM 08/06/08

31. Bush film portrayal has Net buzzing

    George W. Bush gulping booze from a funnel. Sauntering into jail wearing a Yale sweatshirt. Dancing on a bar with a curvy blond. Driving onto a lawn with a lit cigarette in one hand and crashing into a garbage can on the way. Berated by his father, and the two men nearly coming to blows. Updated 2:00 AM 07/31/08

32. Batman poised to sink Titanic's record as biggest box-office hit in U.S. history

    LOS ANGELES -- The Dark Knight continues to obliterate box office records, crossing the $300 million mark in just 10 days. Updated 12:35 AM 07/28/08

33. Ruling reveals identity of online Oscar ticket seller

    LOS ANGELES -- A judge's ruling has brought the organization that hosts the Academy Awards a step closer to discovering how tickets to this year's show got online. Updated 12:50 AM 07/25/08

34. Do you believe the truth is out there?

    LOS ANGELES -- Some Mulder and Scully fans were dubious when the title for the new movie based on their favourite TV show was announced: The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Updated 12:35 AM 07/24/08

35. 3D wave hitting Cineplex theatres

    The digital 3D cinemas that debuted at Polo Park Silver City and Grant Park cinemas earlier this year were only a first wave of 3D upgrades to hit Canadian cineplexes. Updated 12:25 AM 07/23/08

36. Richard Roeper leaving movie review TV show

    CHICAGO -- Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper says he is leaving the syndicated TV show At the Movies With Ebert and Roeper after eight seasons. Updated 12:25 AM 07/22/08

37. Stoner role a cinch for B.C.-raised actor

    MONTREAL -- Seth Rogen says his experiences smoking dope as a kid came in handy when he played a stoner on the run in his new movie Pineapple Express. Updated 12:25 AM 07/21/08

38. Truth is out there... Scully no easy role for Anderson

    NEW YORK -- Gillian Anderson says getting back into Dana Scully's character for the movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe was harder than she expected. Updated 12:25 AM 07/21/08

39. Wisecracking, fun animated adventure like Star Wars of old

    SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- A tinge of Anakin Skywalker's coming dark side clearly is visible in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Yet the animated adventure mostly harks back to the fun, swashbuckling times of the original Star Wars trilogy. Updated 12:25 AM 07/21/08

40. Dark Knight is box-office king

    LOS ANGELES -- Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood's box-office superheroes. Updated 12:25 AM 07/21/08

41. Harlequin of horror

    There is nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight. Updated 12:45 AM 07/17/08

42. Winnipeg-born filmmaker knows the truth is out there

    UFOs. Alien abductions. Hybrid human-aliens. Updated 12:25 AM 07/15/08

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