Bill (James Wortham) was making a decent enough salary crippling Third World economies as an international banker to be able to afford a great house in L.A. But when greed got the better of him, he ended up accused of embezzlement.

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, The Chaperone, I Am Number Four, Unknown, Brotherhood, Even the Rain, Immigration Tango, The Last Lions, Loveless

Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington) is winding down a 28-year career riding the rails with the Allegheny & West Virginia RR. Despite the lack of a blemish on his sterling record, the veteran engineer's being forced by the company to take an early retirement in a cost-cutting measure set to take effect in just a couple of weeks...

Gnomeo and Juliet, Just Go with It, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Carbon Nation, Cedar Rapids ...

On Thursday, Feb. 17 the African Film Festival will host Portland-based director Cambria Matlow for a screening and Q &A of her documentary "Burning in the Sun" at 7:30 p.m. at the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building at PCC Cascade. Like all films for PCC's African Film Festival, the screening is free. Matlow spoke with The Skanner News about her film, the struggles of filmmaker and businessman and the perils of filming in Mali.

Anyone familiar with the history of the Black Panther Party knows that it self-destructed during the Seventies after the FBI strategically created dissension in its ranks via a combination of infiltration, disinformation and assassinations.

The Roommate, Sanctum, American Grindhouse, Cold Weather, Dressed, How I Ended This Summer, Into Eternity, Mooz-Lum, The Other Woman ...

Nia Long talks about her new movie, Mooz-Lum, a dysfunctional family drama where she plays Safiyah, the long-suffering wife of an overbearing, religious zealot.

Everybody knows that the late Bruce Lee (Jiang Dai-Yan) was the greatest karate star ever to grace the silver screen. But have you ever wondered who taught him that "expert timing" and how to be "as fast as lightning," to borrow a couple of phrases from one-hit wonder Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting."

There aren't very many films being made out of the Republic of Chad. There are even fewer filmmakers. On the opening night of the 21^st annual Cascade Festival of African Films, festival organizers will host Chad's multiple award-winning director Matamat-Saleh Haroun for a screening of his new film, "A Screaming Man." On Wednesday, Jan. 27, Haroun spoke with The Skanner News from France about the film, the difficulties of making films Chad and how he (nearly) single-handedly brought cinema back to his home country.