Contributor: Steven Isaac

Hotel Rwanda

In 1994, nearly 1 million Rwandans lost their lives in fewer than 100 days. Most of us here in America barely noticed.

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Shanghai Noon

The Wild West meets the Far East when Chon Wang heads to America in the 1880s to rescue Princess Pei Pei from a Chinese slave trader.

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Osmosis Jones

The story is split between live action and animation. Bill Murray’s slovenly Frank serves as the host for the war soon to explode. A nasty virus has come to call.

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Zodiac

In one of the Zodiac Killer’s last letters he asked who would play him in the movie about his life. Now he knows the answer.

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The Haunted Mansion

Using its popular Haunted Mansion theme ride as inspiration, Disney has created an assembly-line ‘horror-comedy’ about what happens when ghosts and people collide.

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“Safe & Sound”

It looks like Taylor Swift herself has volunteered to be a Hunger Games tribute, singing what may turn out to be the movie’s tear-jerking anthem.

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Anne of Green Gables

Revisit a simpler time. Turn of the century Prince Edward Island creates a stunning visual backdrop for Anne of Green Gables, one of the finest examples of pure family entertainment ever produced for television.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Grab your towel if you decide to take this silly, yet oddly philosophical romp through space based on the late Douglas Adams’ novels.

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

On Tuesday, Adam posted a blog entry titled “57 Channels (and Nothin’ On)” That’s, of course, a reference to the Bruce Springsteen song. So I thought I’d just keep the tuneful inspiration alive by giving a nod to classic David Bowie today. He sings, “J …

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Mapping Our Muddled Minds

In a recent interview with mega-Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, Time magazine’s Belinda Luscombe asked about our growing dependency on GPS maps. The context was Jennings’ new book, Maphead, which is subtitled, Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geograp …

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The Hours

The ripples of influence wash forward in time. From the ravaged, brilliant mind of Virginia Woolf, to a 1950s California housewife, to a thoroughly modern New York City businesswoman.

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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Instead of creating a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, Joe Berlinger brings to the big screen a clumsy ‘documentary’ about what happened afterward.

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Dawn of the Dead

When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. That’s the only explanation given for why zombies have replaced the living as the dominant species in Milwaukee.

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The Constant Gardener

Ralph Fiennes heads up this message movie that borrows the shape and size of a political thriller … and then adds love and marriage to the mix.

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Factoring in the X’s

The X Factor is back on TV tonight. And I wish I could say I was happy about that. I do. I really wish that. Last Wednesday, Simon Cowell made his not-quite victorious comeback to star-search TV on Fox. The ratings weren’t stellar, but an hour into the …

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