The arrest of film director Roman Polanski in Switzerland and his threatened extradition to the US have stirred the baying hounds of 'law and order' into action.

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Academy Award-winning makeup, creature and visual effects artist Stan Winston died Sunday at his home in Malibu, California, after a prolonged illness. He was 62.

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With "The Dark Knight," Christopher Nolan, the film's director, hopes his vision of Batman can maintain its hold on the imaginations of comic fans and critics.

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What age is the right age to have "the talk," not just about where babies come from, but also about sex and AIDS?

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Memphis, perhaps, should be more Oscar-conscious than it is.

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Upton Sinclair, whose novel "Oil!" inspired "There Will Be Blood," never achieved a big movie strike.

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In popular culture, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has become shorthand for hopeless imprisonment and isolation.

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A look back at some of the more memorable elements of Oscar broadcasts past.

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Marketers will spend an estimated $1.6 million for a 30-second spot during the program, and many are planning to run ads previously unseen by consumers.

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"The Year My Parents Went on Vacation" is most seductive when it focuses on the details of daily life in the lower-middle-class São Paulo neighborhood Bom Retiro.

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Emotions are finally settling down in the entertainment industry's bubbling cauldron of labor disputes.

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The strike remains in effect until the governing boards of the two writers' guilds gauge the sense of their membership on both coasts.

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FINALLY!..."The governing boards of the two writers' guilds are expected to meet as early as Sunday, and the long and bitter strike could be over by Monday morning."

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The governing boards of the two writers' guilds are expected to meet as early as Sunday, and the long and bitter strike could be over by Monday morning.

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Franchise films and aggressive cosmetology have Hollywood men opting out of growing up.

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A genre once known for high quality is now a source of lazy commercial fodder.

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Mr. James was a British flier in World War II obsessed with escape plots during his five years in German captivity, most prominently the breakout portrayed in the movie "The Great Escape."

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Once a dumping ground for movies considered virtually unwatchable, the direct-to-DVD pipeline is becoming increasingly important to mainstream film franchises.

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For union film and television writers, life without employment is starting to exact its toll.

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After a slow weekend, the Sundance Film Festival's flock of film buyers finally began seeing movies they could take to the multiplexes.

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The list of Academy Award nominations reflects Hollywood's bleak state of mind.

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The auteurs of post-Ceausescu Romania are reinventing the European art cinema.

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Hollywood is in a bleak mood this year, and the Oscar nominees announced Tuesday reflected that state of mind.

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The Sundance Film Festival's opening weekend drew to a close looking more and more like a disappointment, if not an outright dud.

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The Sundance Film Festival, which opens with "In Bruges," the playwright Martin McDonagh's film debut, is one of the oddest ecosystems on earth.

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