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'The Men Who Stare at Goats' is refreshingly unpredictable

'The Men Who Stare at Goats' is refreshingly unpredictable

"The Men Who Stare at Goats," starring Jeff Bridges as an army shaman and George Clooney as his best pupil, is a refreshingly unpredictable and fizzy comic fantasy. It tickles the fancy even when it strains credibility. It riffs off the American military's real-life exploration of unconventional intelligence-gathering and combat techniques as well as the U.S. Army's attempts to redefine itself after the bloody mess and stagnation of Vietnam.

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Tracie Thoms goes natural for 'Good Hair'

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Baltimore native shifts gears to just be herself in Chris Rock's documentary

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Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to co-host Oscars

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are taking on the Oscars.

Many at Hopkins irked by school's playing Harvard in Facebook movie

The Johns Hopkins University passed itself off as Harvard in a movie Monday without feeling the least bit flattered.

Z on TV: 'Without Bias' is without insight

Maryland is again the focus of the ESPN film series "30 for 30" this week as it premieres Kirk Fraser's "Without Bias," a look at the career, death and impact of one-time University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias.

Battle satire 'Men Who Stare at Goats' has a Maryland link

The makers of "The Men Who Stare At Goats" have planted this epigraph before the movie: "More of this is true than you would believe." But I heard one young man emerging from a preview saying, "I don't think any of this is true."

'This Is It' tops charts with $101 million worldwide

"Michael Jackson's This Is It" pulled in $101 million worldwide in its first five days, and distributor Sony is extending the farewell performance film beyond its planned two-week run.

Colin Farrell welcomes baby boy Henry

It's another boy for Colin Farrell.

Bill Cosby's take on Twain humor

No winner of the Mark Twain Award has been more in tune with Twain than Bill Cosby. He not only feels an affinity for the giant of American literary comedy. He also knows the underlying principles of Twain's oeuvre. Over the phone two weeks ago, when I ask him what he feels about winning the award,...

Director and his stars press on, despite odds

"Respire" is a made-in- Maryland feature centered around a secret formula for prolonging life. It's also a horror movie, so naturally the secret to prolonging life leads to gruesome deaths and mass derangement.

Movie about Facebook to shoot in Baltimore

The brick and marble of the Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus will double for the brick and marble of Harvard University in "The Social Network," a movie about the creation of Facebook that will shoot here Monday and Tuesday.