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If that doesn’t work, he — and all the other men in the same situation, who would like to share their geeky movies with their nongeek significant others — can just tell her than this is the movie that features George Clooney’s naked butt.

Interchangeably Perfect Students run through the hall. God forbid they should be late for class, what with them being the children of privilege and all and do they have any idea how they’d shame the family name if they were a nanosecond out of lockstep? Not that that wouldn’t be the end of this family’s annual endowment if you got a single demerit. Straighten up, young man, and pay attention when I’m talking to you.

‘I say,’ said 10-year-old Jimmy Bond as he stepped into the glory of an English summer afternoon on Royal Albert Street in the village of Little Balderdash, ‘what an absolutely corking day for an adventure!’

If you don’t get your fill of po’ white trash throwing everything from insults to chairs at one another on Jerry Springer, then this deliciously mean-spirited and wryly observant flick is just for you. Writer/director Frank Novak’s ready-for-reality-TV flick — the unlikely darling of Cannes and the very likely darling Slamdance — was called Good … more…

The Valhoulis talk to some of the ‘plus-size’ models themselves, and here there is much to hope for. You won’t believe how gorgeous, vibrant, and not-fat these women are, when they’re so unlike — so wonderfully unlike — the kind of women we’re used to seeing presented as beautiful.

As a character study of one man’s descent into paranoid schizophrenia, Tim McCann’s Revolution #9 is a far more harrowing and far less prettied-up picture than Ron Howard’s oh-so-Hollywood A Beautiful Mind. New York tech writer James Jackson (an astute Michael Risley) looks over the edge when he accuses his coworkers of reorganizing his desk … more…

If the Blair Witch guys decided to remake Oliver Stone’s JFK, it might look something like Neil Burger’s spare and stunning mock documentary Interview with the Assassin. Out-of-work news cameraman Ron Kobeleski (Dylan Haggerty: The Postman) has the story of the century drop in his lap when his neighbor, creepy ex-Marine Walter Ohlinger (Raymond J. … more…

But I can imagine how much more thrilling it must be for all of Harry’s preteen and early teen fans, who get to relate to Harry onscreen as a contemporary just as they can in the books. They get to see Harry growing up at the same pace they are, and it only makes even more genuine the delicious feeling that Harry and Hogwarts and magic are real.

As a portrait in cluelessness, Dylan Kidd’s debut as a writer and director is a hoot: Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott: The Imposters) considers himself a real ladies’ man, the dude with the inside scoop on this whole sex thing that drives the rest of us crazy. He is, of course, wildly mistaken. Scott’s having a … more…