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Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?

This filmed adaptation of the first book in the proposed Lorien Legacies series follows the tribulations of an alien refugee on Earth.

A stunning doc on the civil rights era

James Franco plays a gay activist who finds God

Tilda Swinton brings a haunting mix of ethereality and carnal gravitas to this fearlessly melodramatic Italian movie, which she also co-produced.

The architect of rock & roll gets a detailed but thin biography

I Am Cuba was actually shot as an elaborate pro-Castro piece of Soviet propaganda, but instead it's as if everyone in question just went gaga, drunk on the sheer beauty of Cuba and making up new film techniques as they went along. The film is a stylistically brilliant quartet of vignettes set during the waning years of the Batista regime. The interconnecting stories that propel the film along were written by Russian poet laureate Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

The architect of rock & roll gets his flowers in new documentary

Director Billy O'Brien on adapting the story of a young monster

Harris Glenn Milstead, the actor better known as the 300-pound sex symbol named Divine who appeared in those early John Waters' movies, is remembered in this doc.

After a terrific start marked by the film's striking views of a desolate Manhattan island, Will Smith's mostly solo action movie devolves into a monster-movie malaise.

If you leave the theatre with that awkward too-much-information feeling after peering into the director's self-exposed psyche, you will also remember his high-wire act that combines fact and fiction, drama and self-deprecating humor, honesty and self-delusion.

Pan Am still flying

Life inside the feather suit

Tom Shadyac, the director of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective has found spirituality and now wants to fix the world's problems.

Darian Harvin and Sama’an Ashrawi on their origins and influences

A teen sociopath on the trail of a monster

Director Ryan Wise and the adventures of a metal strongman

Biography of the architect of rock & roll is built on shaky foundations

A daughter recalls growing up with a punk icon mum

Dream folk conjurors enlist Thor Harris on powerful single

The public, private, and secret lives of the folk icon

A rare journey behind the words of America's poet laureate

Several hundred words of highly uninformed and recklessly speculative commentary