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Review: Expert hands bring contrived tale alive in `Wedding' (Albuquerque Tribune) - The Danish drama "After the Wedding" is more proof of how tough it was for Oscar voters to choose a winner for Best Foreign-Language Film this year.

Review may target Hamas-tied groups (Los Angeles Times) - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas authorized a review of all private organizations in the Palestinian areas, a sign that he may shut down Hamas-affiliated groups in the West Bank to counter the Islamist movement, which controls the Gaza Strip.

Movie Review: Now You Know (Smart-Popcorn) - Combined Rating: 75% (S:70%; P:82%) - Now You Know is an extremely low budget independent film, but it goes to show you that you don't need big budgets to make good entertaining films. All you need is a good script, and that's what Jeff Anderson has created here. So, if you get a chance, go to your video store and find a copy of Now You Know. Because it's a good, extremely likable movie, and also ...

Book Review: 'Throw Like a Girl' covers all the right bases (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) - Throw Like a Girl: Stories. By Jean Thompson. Simon & Schuster. 304 pages. $13. Jean Thompson's bright, funny, searching and occasionally agonizing new collection of stories, "Throw Like a Girl," reads like an answer to Hen...

Book Review: Remarkable characters populate 'Handbook to Luck' (San Antonio Express-News) - The lives of the characters in Cristina García's latest novel, "A Handbook to Luck," are driven by their beliefs in both destiny and chance.

Movie Review: A Mighty Heart (Blogcritics.org) - I went to see A Mighty Heart today because I wanted to be convinced that Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl would work. It didn’t. Not for me. If I could describe this movie as a food, it would be chop suey. It's a mixed-up mess of events. I could follow much of the police action because I’ve read the book, seen the many interviews, and watched a CNN special that traced all the known events ...

Families Pressure Kaine on Va. Tech (Washington Post) - RICHMOND -- The relatives of 20 students and faculty members killed during the Virginia Tech massacre met with Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) on Saturday to press their demands for a bigger role on the panel investigating the shootings and to raise concerns about how the university handled the incident.

Boulevard Bar & Grille In Las Vegas - A Review (BellaOnline) - Where do the locals eat in Las Vegas? They travel south of The Strip to this great eatery.

Review: 1408 (Canada.com) - John Cusack is Mike Enslin in Mikael Hfstrm's 1408. Stephen King, who may be the most successful author in history, has a knack for tormenting those lesser writers unlucky enough to dwell in that black and lonely place he calls his imagination.

Avalon man finds scrapbook with letters from WWI frontlines (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - The battered green scrapbook on eBay caught Pat Narcisi's eye. Photos showed a thick, frayed tome fastened with a rubber band. Curiosity piqued, he bid $20 and won.