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OPENING   American Underdog (PG) This has much better acting than your typical Christian football film, and better production values, with real NFL teams lending their stadiums and logos. These things make a difference, just not enough of one. Zachary Levi portrays Kurt Warner, an undrafted quarterback out of

No. 1 for the year is ‘Belfast,’ Kenneth Branagh’s black-and-white love letter to his childhood in the Northern Ireland of the late 1960s.

In the opening scene of Guillermo del Toro's new film "Nightmare Alley" we watch a man dragging a dead body, tightly wrapped in a bed sheet, across the dusty floor of a remote ramshackle farm house. He strikes a match and sets the place ablaze. The man makes his way to a bus station where, once onboard, he lowers his floppy brimmed fedora over his tired heavy eyes and falls asleep, only waking up when the bus reaches the proverbial "end of the line."

The versatile supporting actor found himself "excited by the challenge but feared I wasn't gonna be able to pull it off," after reading the script.

OPENING   American Sicario (R) This gangster film stars Philippe A. Haddad as a Mexican gangster whose rise to power makes enemies both outside and within his crime family. Also with Danny Trejo, Maya Stojan, Maurice Compte, Johnny Rey Diaz, Jaylen Moore, Margo Quinn, and Dionysio Basco. (Opens Friday in Dallas)

Actor Corey Hawkins is incredibly grateful to know Denzel Washington, his legendary...

The Harvest Ball is a debut cannabis celebration that marks the start of the journey to the 18th annual Emerald Cup Awards.

We’ve got a quick release news update here at The Bits for you today. But first, more new disc reviews... I’ve just given a pair of titles from Sony’s...

Jake Gyllenhaal admits his crush on Jennifer Aniston was “torture” when filming 'The Good Girl'

Gyllenhaal and Aniston in 2002 - Jon Kopaloff/WireImageJake Gyllenhaal admitted that it was "torture" filming the 2002 romantic drama The Good Girl with Jennifer Aniston -- because he had a big, fat crush on her. "Oh, it was torture. Yes it was," the 40-year-old actor confessed on The Howard Stern Show. "But it was also not torture. I mean, come on, it was like a mix of both." Gyllenhaal also described what it's really like to act out an intimate scene...