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"I've been waiting for this film since the early days of the war," writes Roger Ebert about "Brothers at War," which he calls an "honest, on-the-ground documentary" about American soldiers fighting in Iraq. The Samuel Goldwyn Films release screens at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Malco's Stage Cinema, 7930 U.S. 64. Admission is $7, or $5 with military ID. Full story »

Bill Plympton — longtime artist, cartoonist and filmmaker — embraces his reputation as "the king of indie animation. "I'm sort of like the David Lynch or Jim Jarmusch of animation," says Plympton, who will be in Memphis today and Tuesday for two public events. What pleases Plympton as much as his reputation is that he actually makes a good living with his short and feature-length cartoons. Full story »

The Fourth Kind” is a “found footage” horror movie with a few new tweaks, though not enough to escape a certain clunkiness. At the onset of Olatunde Osunsanmi’s film, actress Milla Jovovich addresses the camera to announce that she’ll be playing real-life Alaska psychologist Abigail Emily Tyler in re-enactments of actual events. These re-enactments, we are assured, are based on genuine video and sound recordings of Tyler and her patients in Nome. Full story »

From movie critic John Beifuss' blog thebloodshoteye.com: You've heard of the Twelve Days of Christmas? Now, for the fourth straight year, The Bloodshot Eye counts down the Thirteen Days of Halloween with reviews of recently released All Hallow's Eve-appropriate DVDs, each day through -- well, through at least Nov. 4, I reckon... Full story »