Pop Culture | Dec 26, 2008

High and Low: The Top 5 and Bottom 5 Films of 2008

This was a mediocre year for movies, and that's being generous. Compared to the bumper crop of outstanding films released in 2007, the last 12 months have been a dreary slog. By Michael Fox

DVD Review | Dec 24, 2008

10 last-minute, locally relevant DVD gift ideas

When giving the gift of DVD (or Blu-ray, if you're there yet), the easy rule of thumb is to always get something you'd want to watch with the person you're giving it to. By Jonathan Kiefer

Event | Dec 19, 2008

Other Cinema: New Experimental Works

Other Cinema's quasi-annual New Experimental Works showcase packs so much bewitching, perplexing, WTF'ing, un-boring cinematic fringery into a single evening that it might even counteract a whole month's worth of over-serious multiplex Oscar bait. By Jonathan Kiefer

Film Review | Dec 19, 2008

Timecrimes

Timecrimes is one of those super lean independent films that unfolds with clockwork efficiency -- just a few characters, a remote location, no wasted action, and no extraneous dialogue. By Mark Taylor

Film Review | Dec 13, 2008

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

There's no polite way to say this, but you wouldn't think a documentary about Liberia could be uplifting. By Jonathan Kiefer

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NPR Topics: Movies
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    The new film Frost/Nixon tells the story of Richard Nixon's 1974 interview with David Frost. Nixon's encounters with Frost were perhaps the closest the former president came to apologizing to the American public for the Watergate scandal. Author Jim Reston Jr., the man who helped Frost prepare for those interviews, gives host Guy Raz the real back story.

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  • Kenneth Turan Picks His Favorite Films Of 2008

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