The Cascade Festival of African Films features Water First: Reaching the Millennium Development Goals – a documentary film directed by Amy Hart. The matinee screening will be shown at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6, in the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, on the Portland Community College Cascade Campus. After the screening, Hart will be available for a question and answer session.

Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun

"I Can Do Bad All by Myself" is the sixth Tyler Perry play to be adapted to the big screen. Much like his previous productions, this faith-based message movie was crafted with an African American audience in mind, between all the down-home humor and earnest moralizing around universal themes particularly of relevance to the black community.

Cautionary Sci-Fi Tale About Mind Control Comes to DVD

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Near the end of the hit film "Avatar," the villain snarls at the hero, "How does it feel to betray your own race?" Both men are White -- although the hero is inhabiting a blue-skinned, 9-foot-tall (2.74-meter-tall), long-tailed alien.

Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun

The very best African American film fare from 2009 was released early on, starting with Notorious, Medicine for Melancholy and Not Easily Broken, all of which arrived in theaters last January. That same month, Precious made its big splash at the Sundance Festival, walking away with a trio of awards: best picture, director (Lee Daniels) and actress (Mo'Nique).

To land on this 10 Worst List, a movie has to be more than merely disappointing. No, it must be walk-out bad, except that my job as a film critic is to sit there and watch it anyway, and simply be subjected to the torture. Sometimes, a film turns out to be so awful that it's actually funny, but that doesn't count as a miserable enough experience to warrant inclusion here. No, these flicks are the ones with no redeeming qualities which left me savoring this opportunity to get even.

Ryan Bingham's (George Clooney) services have been very much in demand during these dire economic times marked by downsizing and the outsourcing of jobs overseas. Although he euphemistically refers to his line of work as career transition counseling, what he actually does for a living is fire people for companies that don't have the guts to terminate their own employees. In this capacity, the heartless hatchet man finds himself on the road, or should I say "up in the air" over 300 days a year, crisscrossing the country on assignments as dictated by his boss, Craig (Jason Bateman), from corporate headquarters in Omaha, Neb.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Movie producer and actor Tyler Perry says he is taking his sharp-tongued character ``Madea'' back on tour.