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River Road creatives

Richie Adams, one of 225’s 2007 People to Watch, officially became an auteur this summer when the movie titles designer (Babel, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) and owner of River Road Creative shot his passion project, a feature length semi-autobiographical comedy he wrote and directed, called Inventing Adam.

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Roedel's Hollywood

Salinger on screen

With J.D. Salinger's death at age 91 last week, fans of his iconic novel The Catcher in the Rye and his many celebrated short stories are eagerly awaiting the release of something, anything, that the reclusive and enigmatic author may have written but chosen not to publish after his self-imposed exile from public life in the late 1960s.

What Avatar means for the future of movies

Disclaimer: I have not seen Avatar, nor do I have plans to see the film.

Get briefed on Hideous Men

If you're the first one in your group to hate on a movie because "people don't talk like that in real life," then Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is not for you.

A movie with Heart

Comedienne Charlene Yi doesn't believe in love. At least the quasi-fictional movie version of her self does not.

2010's movies, see 'em again for the first time!

In terms of big studio films, 2010 looks like a year loaded with remakes and sequels.

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The girl behind the films

BR native navigates Hollywood as a production assistant
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When a good director goes lowbrow

This month Martin Scorsese delivers a new film, and for the first time in a decade it is one from the New Yorker that does not focus on gangsters or larger-than-life heroes.
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When a good director goes lowbrow

This month Martin Scorsese delivers a new film, and for the first time in a decade it is one from the New Yorker that does not focus on gangsters or larger-than-life heroes.
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You say you want 
a revolution?

The Latin root means “a turn around,” and at its essence, revolution refers to any fundamental change of power or structure in a relatively short period of time.
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Holiday movie preview

Holiday movie must-sees
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Will the real Sherlock please stand up?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1893 short story The Adventure of the Final Problem begins with Sherlock Holmes returning home with “abraded knuckles,” a perfectly British euphemism for scraped near to the bone.
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Let the wild rumpus continue

Director Spike Jonze’s tasteful expansion of Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children’s book Where the Wild Things Are into a feature-length dream opened two weeks ago.
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