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Seasonal sequel finds reunited BFFs romancing and reminiscing

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Kam Williams reviews the latest film releases including: Best Man Holiday, The Book Thief, and Charlie Countryman

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Credit charismatic Edward James Olmos for keeping the movie compelling, although Yolonda Ross and LisaGay Hamilton manage to hold their own

Written and directed by two-time, academy Award-nominee John Sayles (for Passion Fish and Lone Star), Go for Sisters is a deliberately-paced crime drama which benefits as much from absorbing character development as from the intrigue surrounding solving the underlying whodunit.

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'The Book Thief,' 'Thor: The Dark World,' 'Go for Sisters,' and more

Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun         

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'About Time,' 'Ender's Game,' 'Last Vegas,' and more

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How the engine stopped working leaving 99 percent of us stranded

The documentary "Inequality For All," sets out to explain the huge gap between the rich and the  middle-class in America. Following former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he teaches a class on wealth inequality at U-Cal Berkeley, the film explains why the United States has become so unequal over the last 40 years. And it asks the million dollar question? What's wrong with inequality?

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The film recounts the women's effort to open the first ice cream shop in Rwandan history

One survivor, theater director Kiki Katese, determined to do something to alleviate the suffering, asked, "How do you rebuild a human being?" So, she founded Ingoma Nshya (meaning "new drum, new kingdom"), an all-female drumming troupe comprised of both Tutsis and Hutus, with admission being conditioned on checking ones tribal allegiance at the door.

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Unapologetically graphic in its depiction of the institution of slavery, the film contains nary a comic aside

Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) was a black man born free in upstate New York in 1808. A skilled carpenter and fiddler, he and his wife (Kelsey Scott) settled in Saratoga Springs where they were raising their children (Quvenzhane Wallis and Cameron Zeigler) when their American Dream turned into a nightmare.

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'12 Years a Slave,' 'Carrie ,' 'The Fifth Estate ,' and more

Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun        

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'Captain Phillips,' 'Machete Kills ,' 'The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete,' and more

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