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Many a man has spent a movie searching for a lost love. Few have wound up telling the story of revolutionary South America in the process. But when Juan Mandelbaum went looking for an old college girlfriend back in Buenos Aires, he came back with 'Our Disappeared,' a tender documentary that recalls how a decade of political upheaval wrecked families, ...

"In Treatment," HBO's intimate and innovative therapy drama, has resurfaced in its second season as a show both shot and set in the talking-cure capital, new york City.

After a 15-year run on television NBC aired the final episode of "ER" on Thursday night. Current cast members reunited with some former "ER" stars including Alex Kingston, Eriq La Salle, Noah Wyle, Laure Innes, and Sherry Stringfield. The two hour finale was an emotional one as an old man watched as the woman he had loved since grade school passed away, and a mother died after giving birth two twin girls.

Fifty Dead Men Walking is based on an IRA mole's true story. So why, asks Ronan Bennett, does it rehash so many hoary old cliches?In the subterranean warren of the Old Bailey, many years ago, I briefly shared a holding cell with two east London armed robbers who between them had just been sentenced to several decades in jail. Early in their trial, a third defendant had decided to sell them out and 'gone QE' - turned Queen's Evidence - in the expectation of lighter punishment. The robbers were naturally contemptuous of their former associate - toerag, slag, grass, prick, never had the bottle, couldn't even look me in the eye - and so, to their surprise and guffawing delight, was the judge, who told their treacherous friend: 'The police say you have helped convict two dangerous criminals. But as far as I am concerned you are just a sneak.' The sneak got 15 years.That is the critical problem the informer faces the world over. No one really likes him, not even the people to whose side he h

Plodding scenes, endless dialogue, pointless Hollywood mimicry - you'd think British directors had something against cinema ...Can British films get any worse? The Boat That Rocked has already triggered debate as to whether it's even crummier than Lesbian Vampire Killers. François Truffaut said, 'There's something about England that's anti-cinematic,' and English film-makers - quite possibly Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish ones, as well - always seem to fall over themselves to prove him right.I seldom go to see British films for pleasure. I go out of duty, and invariably regret it. Love Actually and The History Boys were so ineptly crafted and emotionally dishonest they left me depressed for days. The only thing that stopped me slitting my wrists after Atonement was that No Country for old men and Sweeney Todd were coming out a week later, and I was looking forward to seeing those. I got so bored during The Wind That Shakes the Barley that I actually started trying to read a

Believe it or not, this is the head of a multimillion-dollar film and TV empire that has revolutionised black entertainment in the US - and his name is Tyler Perry. Ed Pilkington reportsIt's Friday night at the 12-screen Cobble Hill multiplex in Brooklyn, new york, and the crowd are in high spirits. The largest auditorium is sold out. Bags of popcorn, heavy on the butter, are being crunched in the aisles; kids are slurping on giant Cokes; a baby is crying. But nothing distracts the almost exclusively African-American audience from the drama being played out in front of them. As the film gathers pace, it is as if the whole room is in interaction with the moving images. When the leading man rejects his spiteful fiancee at the altar, a huge cheer erupts. A few scenes later, when the same character holds his true love in his arms and says, 'I love you', several women stand up in their seats and shout at the screen: 'I love you, too!' The atmosphere is electric. This isn't cinema. This is

Ryan Adams publishes his first book next month, joining an elite group of rockers with literary ambitions. Graeme Thomson asks four top author-musicians why they write'I always, always dreamed of being an author,' says Ryan Adams. 'I never dreamed of being in a rock band, but the possibility of publishing a book - man, that was a serious dream of mine.' In January, Adams announced via his blog that he was taking a 'step back' from a 'music situation'. One of the reasons cited was an inner-ear problem that was causing him increasing amounts of distress; the other was to spend time furthering his literary ambitions (Or, as he blogged: 'I LOVE writing - yay!').At 34 and after an abundance of solo records, next month Adams publishes Infinity Blues, a collection of free verse he describes as 'reality coated by dreams', with a novel and another volume of poetry, Hello Sunshine, in the pipeline. He enters a field populated by a fairly select band of musicians, most notably Nick Cave, Bob Dyla

Tom Rothman, chairman of Twentieth Century Fox, is speaking out about the internet leak of the film 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' -- read on for more details.The unauthorized version of the film that surfaced on the internet is an earlier and outdated copy of the new movie, Entertainment Weekly says on their website."The version that went out is unfinished," Rothman tells EW.com. "It's about 10 minutes shorter, doesn't have key scenes, it wasn't edited, and none of the effects shots were in any remotely final form. It's a complete misrepresentation of the film and is deeply unfair to the people who have worked on it for years."

Front Page: NBC affiliate opts to launch newscast instead -- The first great NBC-affiliate battle over the new primetime Jay Leno show is poised to take place in Boston -- the host's hometown.

A 22-year-old man claims he was robbed twice in a 30-minute span in Iowa City on Thursday morning. Police said the man said he was approached by a group of about six men asking for cigarettes early Thursday morning. The victim said he was attacked by the...