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• Cut Chemist mixes African music for 'Sound of the Police'
• 'Inception' dreams big, unlike its architect
• Dora: The pint-sized superstar
• Israeli filmmaker revisits his army stint with 'Lebanon'
• 'Peepli Live' explores a troubled India rarely seen by outsiders
• TCA Press Tour: Eric Mabius ditches the fashion world for a space odyssey in 'Outcasts'
• New On DVD: 'Date Night' and 'Death at a Funeral'
• A Second Look: Revisiting Terry Zwigoff's early documentaries
• TCA Press Tour: 'Spartacus': 'Gods of the Arena' or gods of TV?
• The Sunday Conversation: Conrad Anker

Cut Chemist mixes African music for 'Sound of the Police' Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT The 'Sound of the Police' mix is part of a growing trend of appreciation of the continent's music from the '60s and '70s. The 'Sound of the Police' mix is part of a growing trend of appreciation of the continent's music from the '60s and '70s.

'Inception' dreams big, unlike its architect Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT It's understandable why director Christopher Nolan would lean so heavily toward familiar architectural forms, but too bad such a mind-bending narrative lacks equally inventive structures. Everybody has an opinion about "Inception," and mine comes in the form of a question: Why are the movie's architectural settings, for the most part, so hackneyed?

Dora: The pint-sized superstar Posted: 07 Aug 2010 03:54 PM PDT The fearless Latina character has helped transform children's TV into a bilingual, multicultural world, spawning a lucrative franchise along the way. The fearless Latina character has helped transform children's TV into a bilingual, multicultural world, spawning a lucrative franchise along the way.

Israeli filmmaker revisits his army stint with 'Lebanon' Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT It took a long time for memories to stop taunting Samuel Maoz. Then a new conflict arose, and he felt he had to act. What strikes you most listening to Samuel Maoz, the soldier-turned-director of the Israeli war film " Lebanon," is how many traumatic battlefield stories he didn't include in his movie.

'Peepli Live' explores a troubled India rarely seen by outsiders Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT The satiric comedy-drama takes a different approach than 'Slumdog Millionaire' to cast a light on the country's rural citizens. If the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" was a Western outsider's cheery fantasia of modern India, "Peepli Live" can be seen as its funhouse-mirror opposite: an insider's satiric comedy-drama about a troubled India rarely glimpsed by foreign tourists.

TCA Press Tour: Eric Mabius ditches the fashion world for a space odyssey in 'Outcasts' Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:29 PM PDT Mabius is ditching those oh-so-colorful ties and bed buddies from "Ugly Betty" and is heading out of this world.

New On DVD: 'Date Night' and 'Death at a Funeral' Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT Also out on DVD: "The Joneses" and "Max Headroom: The Complete Series."

A Second Look: Revisiting Terry Zwigoff's early documentaries Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT Zwigoff's first film, 1985's 'Louie Bluie,' and his most disturbing movie, 1994's 'Crumb,' are reissued on DVD. A habitual crank with a pronounced antisocial streak and an aversion to mainstream culture, the director Terry Zwigoff has one of the most distinctive sensibilities in American movies. This past decade, he has collaborated with the cartoonist Daniel Clowes on "Ghost World" (2001), a sardonic chronicle of teenage alienation in strip-mall America, and "Art School Confidential" (2006), a contemptuous attack on art-world strivers, and also directed Billy Bob Thornton in the cult favorite "Bad Santa" (2003), a relentless one-joke movie about an alcoholic, misanthropic Saint Nick.

TCA Press Tour: 'Spartacus': 'Gods of the Arena' or gods of TV? Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:32 PM PDT Though only a week into production, "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," is shaping up to be just as much of a guilty pleasure as its predecessor.

The Sunday Conversation: Conrad Anker Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT The mountaineer and author scales new heights with the film 'The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest.' After discovering the frozen remains of British explorer George Mallory on Mt. Everest in 1999, mountaineer and author Conrad Anker, 47, returned to the world's tallest mountain in 2007 with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Anthony Geffen to retrace the steps of Mallory, the first adventurer believed to have reached the summit, in 1924. "The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest," their National Geographic Entertainment film narrated by Liam Neeson, opened in theaters this weekend.

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