Some time ago, I placed a personal moratorium on the use of the word "brutal" in my reviews. It's a lazy adjective, so often overused, and used to such a generally hyperbolic effect that its real power has been diffused. But I'm bringing it out of the attic today. The Killer Inside Me, Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's classic crime novel, is a brutal piece of cinema, and it earns that descriptor more than a few times over. more ›

FRIDAY: >> Seems like it's an unofficial Film Noir Week all over town. The National Film Registry is rolling out all their classic Noir prints at the Library of Congress' Mary Pickford Theater — we'd recommend the chance to catch a free screening of Blake Edwards' 1967 feature film version of the classic television detective, Gunn, at 7 p.m., preceded by a 30-minute episode of the show it's based on, ABC's Peter Gunn, from 1959... more ›