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The first feature film created based on a Karen Kingsbury novel, Like Dandelion Dust features a strong ensemble cast including Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper and Cole Hauser, a trio that doesn’t necessarily seem like they’d be in the same film but that delivers a group of performances that have won

Family can be difficult, but when it’s a crime family, it can be deadly in the darkly amusing British comedy film Down Terrace. Down Terrace took home the Next Wave Award at 2009’s Fantastic Fest and the 2009 Raindance Award at the British Independent Film Awards. Recently the film released on DVD from Magnolia

Politicians are anything but insulated from controversy, but few political scandals were more public than that of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in March 2008 after a massive prostitution scandal. Sex, politics and New York…sounds like ripe content for a movie, which is exactly what happened with Client 9: The Rise and

The documentary “Super Size Me” shed more light than most Americans would’ve liked on the state of our fast-food society and the health issues to which such restaurants often contribute. We must be gluttons for punishment, though, because the film saw a huge response at the box office and home rental, and the

As fascinated as we all are by machines, technology and robots, they’ve always been a bit scary or creepy. Terminator, anyone? I, Robot? The Fifth Element? Good films, yes, but definitely ones that question technology and its application. But Generation X wasn’t the first to discuss the

When today’s moviegoers think of action films involving jungles, they conjure up images of movies like Predator or Apocalypse Now. But many years before those films, in 1964, a film called The Seventh Dawn (or The 7th Dawn, which is how its movie posters were printed) birthed the jungle action-film