This gruesome splatter flick directed by Antoine Fuqua trades in profanity, ethnic slurs and gratuitous violence in service of a high attrition-rate crime whodunit designed for the blood sport demo. What makes "Brooklyn's Finest" unique is its triangulated plotline which keeps its three strands fairly insulated from each other until the dramatic conclusion when the protagonists' paths finally cross

For movies opening July 9, 2010

The court battle between Mel Gibson and girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva just got uglier.
Grigoriev, who last week filed for a restraining order against Gibson alleges the Mad Max movie star can be violent, threatening and abusive. And reporters from the website radaronline say they have heard audiotapes of Gibson verbally threatening Grigorieva, the mother of the couple's 7-month-old daughter Lucia, as well as calling here a "psycho c***, and a whore.

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The Wu-Tang Clan has just released the official trailer for their new kung fu film "Wu Tang vs. The Golden Phoenix."
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Raunchy Time-Travel Comedy Arrives on DVD

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Embed Documentary Offers GI-View of Afghan War

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) -- In real life he's a pharmacist, a polite young man who dispenses antibiotics and advice in a tiny Jalalabad shop barely 40 miles (60 kilometers) from where Osama bin Laden disappeared into the mountains.
But when evening falls, when Zhaid Khan shuts the pharmacy's gates and sends his young assistant home, he becomes someone else. Then he's a lover (albeit a chaste one). He's a singer (or at least a lip-syncher). He's a fighter, a hero, a defender of the powerless.
You've never heard of him, but Zhaid Khan is a movie star.

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