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Speed Racer On the Fast Track to Nowhere

J. HOBERMAN

Wed, May 7, 2008, 4:56 pm

Anime on overdrive from the Wachowski brothers

Mister Lonely, Harmony Korine's Way

JOSHUAH BEARMAN

Wed, May 7, 2008, 4:55 pm

The director on flying nuns and his Mexican Michael Jackson

Movie Reviews: The Fall, I for India, Mister Lonely

LA Weekly Film Critics

Wed, May 7, 2008, 4:53 pm

And other May 9 releases

Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film

Ernest Hardy

Wed, May 7, 2008, 4:52 pm

Monthlong UCLA series looks at the lives of Muslims worldwide

Harmony Korine's Singular and Sincere Mister Lonely

Jim Ridley

Wed, May 7, 2008, 3:54 pm

Finding Neverland

Behind the Scenes at the Sundance Labs

ELLA TAYLOR

Wed, May 7, 2008, 12:00 pm

Building a better screenwriter

New on DVD: Hiya, Kids!! A '50s Saturday Morning

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, May 7, 2008, 11:57 am

Attention-span hell or mother's little helper?

Jon Favreau's Iron Man Has a Heart

SCOTT FOUNDAS

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 3:00 pm

Director and Robert Downey Jr. bring soul to the superhero movie

Eastern Promises: Asian Pacific Film Festival

Ernest Hardy

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 3:00 pm

Documentaries dominate, including Against the Grain and Up the Yangtze

Marina Akbar's 10 + 4

Robert Koehler

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 3:00 pm

Life, by the numbers

Ashes of Time: Fugitive Pieces

ELLA TAYLOR

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:59 pm

Novel adaptation gives Holocaust survival the Harlequin treatment

Son of Rambow: Young Blood

JIM RIDLEY

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:58 pm

Garth Jennings' comedy illuminates the joys of DIY filmmaking

Standard Operating Procedure: Get Out of Jail Free

J. HOBERMAN

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:57 pm

Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack

Movie Reviews: Redbelt, A Walk Into the Sea, Swimming in Auschwitz

L.A. Weekly Film Critics

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:56 pm

Plus other releases opening May 2

PBS's Cranford: It Takes an Eccentric Village

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:53 pm

Gossip and gross-out humor blend with Masterpiece's high acting

Sex and the Globe: Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:52 pm

New York—based filmmaker Jennifer Fox has many issues as a modern woman in her early…

Sacred Monster: LACMA Celebrates 100 Years of Bette Davis

HAZEL-DAWN DUMPERT

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:52 pm

(Click to enlarge) “I don’t mind scaring people,” Bette Davis once told the writer…

Up in Smoke: Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

ROBERT WILONSKY

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 1:00 pm

Best friends get shipped to Gitmo in this forced Act 2

UCLA's Manoel de Oliveira Retrospective Enters Final Week

SCOTT FOUNDAS

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 12:58 pm

99-year-old Portuguese director translates the mystery

Movie Reviews: Body of War, Four Minutes, Shotgun

L.A. Weekly Film Critics

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 12:57 pm

Plus, Baby Mama, Deception and other April 25 releases

Jellyfish's Etgar Keret: The Wizard of Id

ELLA TAYLOR

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 12:00 pm

Writer/director shoots from the hip about his low-budget movie and his high-budget life

Etgar Keret's Jellyfish: An Israeli Movie With Neither Politics nor Religion

J. HOBERMAN

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 11:59 am

Predicated on the spectacle of functionally depressed types stuck in mildly ridiculous situations not entirely…

Have Movie Stereotypes Returned?

STEVEN MIKULAN

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 11:59 am

Back in black (and yellow) face

PBS's Carrier, Life and War Aboard the USS Nimitz

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 11:55 am

I’m three episodes into the 10-part PBS documentary series Carrier, which runs in double segments…

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Speed Racer
Release Date: May 9