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...attentive grownup filmgoers for her small roles in Brokeback Mountain and Lost in Translation, funny Anna Faris finally gets the screen time she deserves in the stoner comedy Smiley Face. Faris stars as a pothead actress sent on a series of misadventures after she devours some weed-laced cupcakes. OK, so director Greg Araki's picture is not a huge departure from Faris' spacey blonde cinema roots, but it is that rare physical comedy that stars a young woman who is more than just some guy's girlfriend. Ben Stiller, you might want to get tickets to this...
...OK, I'll drop the T.S. Eliot references. But only if you promise not to waste your time and money on - oh, let's say Smokin' Aces. It's possible that in some half-forgotten pitch meeting someone murmured the phrase "black comedy" in describing their intentions for the movie. It is also possible that names like Scorsese or Tarantino or the Coen brothers were bandied about in that conclave. But what they meant to say was "blood bath...
...tierra, and Winslet a thoughtfully adulterous mom, but their films have not been widely seen. Streep is superb, but in a supporting role (though she does play the title character). It'd be funny if, having been nominated five times in the past decade for work that was just OK, Dench were finally to do great work in a juicy role and lose. Funny but predictable. In the duel of the Dames, Mirren will win in a royal walk...
...race the "Pursuit of Happyness" (oh, sorry, happiness) is, how often, the runner flirts with its opposite. We do not leave The Italian beaming. We leave it with relief, but with an ashen taste in our mouths, in our souls. Yes, Vanya emerges from his travels and travails OK. But we can't help think that in the hopeless world he inhabits, there may be worse to come...
...past 10 years than in the last 100," says Mumbai-based writer Shobhaa D?, who has written both fictional and non-fictional explorations of love. "You can't discount the very important influence of things like satellite TV. Not only have young people seen that it's OK to show your feelings, their parents have seen it's OK to show your feelings...