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by Raj Ranade Don't let the movie star glamour and swooning operatic lyricism of Lars von Trier's Melancholia (playing at the Kentucky Theatre) fool you - at its heart,

by Raj Ranade The big running joke in J.C. Chandor's Margin Call (playing at the Kentucky Theatre), a fictional account of an Lehman-Brothers-esque investment bank on the eve of

In the Water Lexington-born boys George Clooney and Michael Shannon steal the holiday indie show by Raj Ranade The Oscar movie season is in a unique state of chaos this year,

by Raj Ranade The best works of writer Hunter S. Thompson adhere to a simple three-step pattern. Step 1: Thompson is assigned by an editor to report on some

Horror movies tend to arrive in waves and phases according to what feeds the audience appetite for fear at the time -- exorcism, vampires, torture porn, zombies, Japanese

by Raj RanadeA documentary about a race driver who most Americans know nothing about is a tough enough sell for a critic - selling a documentary about a

by Raj RanadeMoneyball has languished in movie development limbo for years and focuses on a story that's a decade old, but it's hard to imagine a movie that

In updating Sam Peckinpah's 1971 Straw Dogs, Rod Lurie tries to use a scalpel where his predecessor always went for the axe (to spectacular effect). Dustin Hoffman's nebbishy

Movie Briefs: I Don't Know How She Does It The takeaway from the latest Sarah Jessica Parker movie, I Don't Know How She Does It, will inevitably be