I had almost come to terms with the rampant misogyny in IFired Up!I, given that its a teen comedy too dumb to know better. But it was the rampant homophobia, tossed in everywhere it didnt belong, that convinced me IFired Up!I is just a hateful mess. With its PG-13 rating it doesnt fulfill its own mandate of raunch comedy, and everyone in the movie is either obnoxious or bland beyond...

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Frankly, My Dear: "Gone With the Wind" Revisited By Molly Haskell (Yale University Press; 272 pages; $24) Film critic Molly Haskell is interested in the meeting points between film, sociology and history, and she writes about all of them, together and...


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Two Lovers RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE)Drama. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Vinessa Shaw. Directed by James Gray. (R. 110 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) If you want to get an idea of what makes "Two Lovers" an exceptionally well-written and...


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Circumcise Me: As part of the Contra Costa International Jewish Film Festival. "Circumcise Me" screens at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center, 2071 Tice Valley Blvd., Walnut Creek. Tickets: $5. The festival begins Saturday and ends...


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The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Documentary. Directed and written by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath. In English and Lao with English subtitles. (R. 96 minutes. At the Lumiere and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.) There are a smattering of...


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