ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- A movie that began as a project in a University of Michigan film class has beaten out thousands of other entries for a spot at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. "Bilal's Stand," the creation of 25-year-old Michigan graduate Sultan Sharrief, will be screened Monday night as part of Sundance's new NEXT category for very low budget films.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- While Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock's chances for Academy Award gold were advanced with their trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the blockbuster "Avatar" may have felt a touch blue.

Mesmerizing Michael Jackson Swan Song Due on DVD

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The Cascade Festival of African Films features Water First: Reaching the Millennium Development Goals – a documentary film directed by Amy Hart. The matinee screening will be shown at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6, in the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, on the Portland Community College Cascade Campus. After the screening, Hart will be available for a question and answer session.

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"I Can Do Bad All by Myself" is the sixth Tyler Perry play to be adapted to the big screen. Much like his previous productions, this faith-based message movie was crafted with an African American audience in mind, between all the down-home humor and earnest moralizing around universal themes particularly of relevance to the black community.

Cautionary Sci-Fi Tale About Mind Control Comes to DVD

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Near the end of the hit film "Avatar," the villain snarls at the hero, "How does it feel to betray your own race?" Both men are White -- although the hero is inhabiting a blue-skinned, 9-foot-tall (2.74-meter-tall), long-tailed alien.

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