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Featured films for Monday, March 15, 2010 at 11:08 am

Inglourious Basterds A funny, violent Tarantino film about guerrilla soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.  Rating: 10  2009 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Get Smart Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway are super-secret spies or whatever. Can their gadgets defeat KAOS?  Rating: 6  2008 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Thumbsucker A quirky 17-year-old who still sucks his thumb grapples with the anxiety of impending adulthood.  Rating: 7  2005 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Werckmeister Harmonies Darkness descends. A bleak, mysterious and meditative art film. It's also cryptic, tedious and pretentious.  Rating: 7  2001 Foreign IMDb Page Genres/categories:

The Animation Show A collection of short films (mostly comedy) put together by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt.  Rating: 9  2003 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: The Incredible Hulk Too bad the awkward computer-generated creatures killed the movie, despite Edward Norton. Noisy and boring.  Rating: 6  2008 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: The Spirit Frank Miller's self-aware film noir is gorgeous, vapid, overacted and emotionless. Based on Eisner's comics.  Rating: 5  2008 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Gamer Brainless, ultraviolent sci-fi mishmash of bad writing, bad acting, jerky editing, digital effects and boobs.  Rating: CRAP  2009 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: