By Gareth Higgins The Sundance film festival is in full swing, with the quaint and cold streets of tiny Park City, Utah swarming with movie fans, celebrities, and entertainment lawyers. Sundance is the world’s best known festival of independent film, and every year the industry’s representatives flock to Robert Redford’s personal movie club in hopes…

Because 2008 was a pretty lackluster year at the movies and because award season has kicked into high gear, I have been thinking about some of my favorite moments in film– more specifically, my favorite haunting moments. No, I’m not talking about haunting as in “scary,” but rather in the way that great Catholic writer…

In the new movie “New in Town”–which hits theaters January 30–Renee Zellweger plays a businesswoman adjusting to life in a small town. In this clip, a co-worker shares a special gift with her.

Edward Zwick, the director of the new Holocaust movie “Defiance,” is well-known for both historical dramas (“Glory”) and intimate personal stories (the television series “Thirtysomething”) – and for finding the small moments in big stories and the big emotions in small ones. This is the ideal sensibility for the new Holocaust drama “Defiance,” the true…

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