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5% Code Name: The Cleaner
The affable Cedric is wasted in Code Name: The Cleaner, a limp action/comedy flick which juggles between lame, worn-out jokes and cheesy kung-fu sequences.

Tears of the Black Tiger
This highly-stylized Thai western mixes action with romance. [Not rated]

65% Music and Lyrics
Music & Lyrics is a light and pleasant romantic comedy that succeeds because of the considerable charm of its co-stars.

53% First Snow
In First Snow, an interesting premise gives way to a slow and tedious noir that adds little to the genre.

Moriarty Writes Amber Tamblyn A Mash Note Regarding STEPHANIE DALEY And NORMAL ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR!
Hi, Amber… It s funny, the way an audience forms an impression of…

Sarah Silverman to Host MTV Movie Awards
She might not be all that big of a movie star, but I bet most of you will still be pretty psyched to learn that comic Sarah Silverman will be hosting this year’s MTV Movie Awards. Plus the show will be live for the first time ever, so that should…

A brilliant writer has great new story (AP)

AP - “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” (HarperCollins. 414 pages. $26.95) — Michael Chabon: When did great writers quit telling great stories?

‘Next’: Writer Blocked, By Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder reviews “Next” — a Philip K. Dick story transformed beyond recognition into a Nicolas Cage thriller — plus, horses and the men who love them, in “Zoo.”

Monday Morning Quarterback
David Mumpower: We are 12 days away from Spider-Man 3. This release will be followed by Shrek 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End.

TiVoPlex: 4/17/07
From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!