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Film & TV

The movies been berry, berry good to her

On tour promoting her sexy new suspense thriller Perfect Stranger -- no, not an adaptation of that 80's sitcom with Balki Bartokomous - Oscar-winner Halle Berry had a quick chat with 34ST. STREET: What have you not yet accomplished in your film career?

by STEPHEN MORSE

Catch Me If you can

A man who thinks he can get away with fabricating the autobiography of the most famous man alive deserves everything he gets.

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Barrel full of monkeys

Remember the kid with the mullet from third grade that always wore that Dungeons and Dragons T-shirt?

by JOSHUA COOK

The Plagues of n.o.l.a.

Those who frequent Bible Study (or anyone who's watched The Prince of Egypt) are probably familiar with those 10 little inconveniences called the deadly plagues: locusts, frogs, rivers of blood and all that jazz.

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Pass over

Hilary Swank must be content with her two Oscars; she certainly isn't trying for a third with the supernatural thriller The Reaping.

by PHIL MALACZEWSKI

Hollywood hotshots

These guys and gals may be all over Hollywood - big screen, small screen, behind the camera, in front of it, possibly on the side of it - but they all come from the same place: the University of Pennsylvania.

by EMILY LASKY

shot through the heart

Early in Antoine Fuqua's Shooter, Marine Corps sniper John Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) decides to retire, retreating to a remote mountain hideaway.

by JESS PURCELL

A frosty thriller

First Snow Four stars Directed by: Mark Fergus Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo PG-13, 121 min. First Snow follows a man named Jimmy (Guy Pearce) who's waiting for his death after a fisherman/cowboy/fortune-teller predicts that he will die after the first snow.

by CAROLINE HENLEY

All hustle, no flow

Pride is so faithful to the sports underdog movie formula that a plot summary seems unnecessary. Let's instead imagine a montage sequence, much like the ones interspersed throughout the movie: begin with the run-down Philadelphia Department of Recreation on the brink of closure.

by PHIL MALACZEWSKI

Bringing 'pride' To philly

With his Best Actor Oscar nomination for Hustle and Flow, Terrence Howard became a hot commodity in Hollywood.

by LEAH FEDER

Happy G, We hardly Knew Ye

The problem with being funny in Hollywood is that once you've established your rep as a comedian, you're rarely allowed the chance to do anything except be funny.

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Craven family values

In writing the sequel to last year's The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven, director of the Scream trilogy, had a little help from someone who possesses a mind as sick and disturbing as his own: his son.

by ASHLEY BELTON

Starter Up

Starter for 10 2.5 stars Directed by: Tom Vaughan Starring: James McAvoy, Alice Eve PG-13, 96 min. A screenwriting professor at Penn used to say, "If you aim for The Godfather and come up short, you still have Goodfellas.

by ROB COHEN

marty mcfly rolls in his grave

It's rare to be so entertained by one of the worst movies you'll ever see. In her latest time-travel disaster Premonition, Sandra Bullock awakes one day to find that her husband has been killed in a random car accident, but when she wakes up the next day, he is alive and well.

by ROB COHEN

indian summer

Kal Penn proves that he's capable of more than Van Wilder in The Namesake, an intimate portrait of a displaced Bengali immigrant couple forced to cope with isolation and culture shock while raising a son and daughter in Boston.

by PHIL MALACZEWSKI

Mafioso

A decade before Coppola made The Godfather, Alberto Lattuada released one of the first masterpieces about the mafia, appropriately titled Mafioso.

by ROB COHEN

the boys from sudan

Darfur. We learn about the terrible situation every day. But how often do we hear the stories of individuals who have escaped the carnage of the Sudan? Narrated by Nicole Kidman, God Grew Tired Of Us reveals the plight of young Sudanese men growing up in a Kenyan refugee camp and then traveling more than a thousand miles to the U.S.

by STEPHEN MORSE

A Gay Affair

Gray Matters 2.5 Stars Directed by: Sue Kramer Starring: Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh R, 96 min. It is not often that a first-time writer/director snags big name talent like Alan Cumming, Sissy Spacek and Heather Graham for an offbeat romantic comedy about coming out.

by ALEX CHAN

No sex in the bedroom, either

Chris Rock is growing up. In his new film, I Think I Love My Wife, he attempts to incorporate his inimitable shtick into a more traditionally respectable format than, say, Pootie Tang.

by JOSHUA COOK

directing '300'

In the wake of such epics as Troy and Kingdom of Heaven, one imagines director Zack Snyder's 300, about the Roman Battle of Thermopylae, would have had little trouble getting picked up in Hollywood.

by JEFF LEVIN

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