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THIS WEEK AT THE THEATRE...

* A Mighty Heart, a surprisingly guarded film from Michael Winterbottom, featuring an incredible performance from Angelina Jolie

* Sicko, the new film from controversial filmmaker Michael Moore is touching, poignant, and enraging--and all in a good way

* You Kill Me, a dry hitman comedy from John Dahl, lit up by Sir Ben Kingsley

THIS WEEK IN DVD REVIEWS...

* Atlantic Records: The House that Ahmet Built, a toe-tapping documentary that will send you scrambling to iTunes

* Bryan Ferry: Dylanesque Live - The London Sessions, a runthrough of the Roxy Music main man's Dylan covers album

* Hell and High Water, Sam Fuller and Richard Widmark team for some submarine action

* Late Ozu - Eclipse Series 3, bringing together five of the Japanese master's last films

* The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - Friendship Edition, a straight Disney reissue of their classic cartoons with the bear with very little brain

* Peach Girl, vol. 2, continuing the romantic soap opera based on the Miwa Ueda manga (a big influence on my book, Love the Way You Love)

* The Peter Sellers Giftset, housing four previously released Sellers movies in a keen box

* WR: Mysteries of the Organism - Criterion Collection, Yugloslavian avant-garde agitprop that leaves this critic baffled

Current Soundtrack: "Mod-ified Music" Podcast

Current Mood: cheerful

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