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New Film Queens of Country Has a Bizarre Vibe That Is Distinctly Arizona

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Five Must-See Movies in January

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Robrt Pela on Local Theater Troupes' Tough Times in 2011

WTF for the Holidays: Seven Wacky Holiday Records

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Halloween Guide 2011

Desert Stages' Hairspray Holds Strong

The Company Men Takes Pity on the Emasculated Executive

L.A. Weekly's Karina Longworth Names Her Top 10 Films of 2010

Christmas Crime Is Beauty

Nobody sends a Yule log and expects to live

Hairspray Dolls Up Phoenix Theatre

Silver Agonistes

Is there a psychoanalyst in the house?

Curious George

Underground filmmaker gets exposed

Roadkill Bill, Vol. 3

Bisbee Cannibal Club director strikes again

Locals Only

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Arizona Artists Cover Each Other on the When in AZ Compilation

Peter Pans Head for the Strip in Todd Phillips’ The Hangover

Help!

Run for your life if you can, little girl: this musical is a bust

Hairspray, Get Back to Your Roots!

Nowhere near divine

Hussy ´n´ Flow

God-fearing black man tames slutty white girl

Classic Coke

Scents and Sensibility

An attempt to turn smell into cinema

A whiff of Weimar-era Berlin...

Ford Tough

White Trash

Bad remake of an awful show

Curious George

"Fame is better after you're dead"

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

Empty Sex

Shallow Waters: A Dirty Shame lacks substance

Hairspray Holds Its Style

There's nothing stiff about this John Waters-inspired extravaganza

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Reel As It Gets

Film competition looks at the big picture

Art and Soul

From our innermost insecurities to the wildest flights of fantasy, 2002 stimulated both heart and head

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Citizen Arcane

John Waters lacerates Hollywood in divinely inspired Cecil B. Demented

J.S., Back

Can you dig Shaft?

Stalkin' Trash

Trailer-park culture unhitched in lowbrow Drowning Mona

Hit Me, Baby, One More Time

Jimmy Eat World gets some Rolling Stone-size love from Blink-182

Kane Is Able

A Slightly Dirty Dozen

Although many standout films were released in 1998, no single movie really stood out

Art Spray

Skewering New York gallery scene, John Waters comes into his own with Pecker

Bullet Broad

A survivor of the L.A. Confidential heyday, Mesa-born mob darling Liz Renay is still going great guns

Cel Block Riot

Animation fest smacks of TV anarchy from Saturday mornings past

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