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The "One Last Big Heist" is a theme of the crime caper genre which has proven to be quite popular over the years. Takers employs that tried and true formula in entertaining fashion, recycling vaguely familiar scenes from the likes of "The Italian Job," "Ocean's 11," "True Romance," "District B-13" and, perhaps most obviously, "Heat."


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Opening this week, Jan. 21, 2011: The Company Men, No Strings Attached, Evangelion 2.0, Johnny Mad Dog, Mumbai Diaries


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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tyler Perry dominated the nominations for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's 42nd annual Image Awards.


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If you like for your screwball comedies to come with a smorgasbord of scantily-clad females, boy have I got a film for you.


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Opening this week: The Dilemma ... The Green Hornet ... Repo Chick ... Ong Bak 3


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In "The Big Shot-Caller," Jamie Lesser (David Rhein) is a nearsighted nerd with two left feet who has wanted to learn to Salsa dance since he was child. Now an adult, he regrets never pursuing that dream


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NW Film Center's Reel Music Festival Opens with Sly Stone Doc

Weekly previews for movies opening Jan. 7


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Phil Ochs (1940-1976) came to fame in the Sixties on the strength of his defiant, anti-establishment anthems which dared to indict American militarism, racism, imperialism and expansionism


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Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) set a stratospheric bar rarely reached by other filmmakers in terms of the suspense genre. Now, the legendary director gets a chance to star in a psychological thriller, albeit posthumously, courtesy of archival footage interwoven with a dizzying montage of snippets from movie classics, TV commercials and newsreels shot during the height of the Cold War.


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Kam's Annual Assessment of the Cream of the Cinematic Crop


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