Track-It Movies

In Japan, where the blades are shiny and sharp and if the fake blood isn't staining the lens, you're not trying hard enough, there' s a rich tradition of sword-and-splatter pictures. That's the tradition Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" leaned on,... Read more

"Anything's possible in this storm!" says the man with the badge in Werner Herzog's delirious "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," a true feat of daring and one of the craziest films of the year. Read more

"Quirky." "Eccentric." "Whimsical." Critics trot out the synonyms for "playful" and "odd" when talking about Wes Anderson. A 40-year-old director of wistful character comedies peopled with lovable screwballs -- "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums" --... Read more

He swaggered, an outsize personality who filled a room figuratively decades before he did it literally. Read more

MY SISTER'S KEEPER 2 { stars (Warner Home Video, '09) $28.98. 109 mins. A child conceived as a donor match to her leukemia-stricken sibling decides against painful operations and hires a lawyer to sue her parents for the right to decide how to use... Read more

Uplifting. Heartwarming. Schmaltzy but effective. Watching "The Blind Side," I felt my emotions being stage-managed, but once or twice I got something in my eye. It's inspired by a feel-good true story of interracial adoption and gridiron glory. The... Read more

In a sense, the soldiers at the center of "The Messenger" are engaged in house-to-house combat. Capt. Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) and Sgt. Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) are unwelcome visitors, wary of what might detonate behind the next door. Read more

Even by the sadistic standards of Lars von Trier ("Breaking the Waves," "Dogville"), "Antichrist" is a unique form of cruel and unusual punishment: an unrelenting orgy of graphic sex, violence and cynicism that also manages to be wildly pretentious.... Read more

HONG KONG — A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil. Read more

Nov. 20--BANGOR, Maine -- The documentary film about the Bangor International Airport troop greeters already has won plenty of prizes and awards, but an Oscar may not be one of them. Read more