Election News

Don't worry that the set of Heidi Schreck 's Creature invokes both the 15th century and a Pottery Barn franchise; it's an appropriate choice.

Matthew Broderick was witty and kind after his film "Election" played at the Culbreth Theatre on Sunday night.

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, 9 p.m., HBO. Emotions flow freely in this two-year portrait of a long-shot presidential campaign.

The great maverick filmmaker Alexander Payne has worked with some great ones -- launching Reese Witherspoon with Election, bouncing Giamatti, Sandra Oh and Thomas Haden Church with Sideways, making Jack Nicholson do a lot more than phone it in with About Schmidt.

Matthew Broderick doesn't mind doing the red carpet thing, but don't expect him to get all gussied up.

That meant, of course, that she struggled badly during an interview challenge. Like, painful bad.

Funny business - in comedy , business, politics, wine and more - is the theme for the 2009 Virginia Film Festival, Nov.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - After months of anticipation, Jody Kielbasa unveiled the lineup for the 22nd annual Virginia Film Festival - the first under his directorship - in a Wednesday afternoon event at the University of Virginia Art Museum.

Annette Bening, Matthew Broderick and Norman Jewison are among the special guests at this year's Virginia Film Festival, which runs November 5-8. Bening will be at the Paramount November 7 for a sneak preview of her new film,A Mother and Child .A Broderick premieres Wonderful World and hosts a screening of 10-year-old Election .

J. Smith Cameron, Stephanie Cannon, Kieran Culkin, Jonathan Hadary, Grant Shaud and Missy Yager will join Matthew Broderick and Catalina Sandino Moreno in The New Group's upcoming Off-Broadway world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's The Starry Messenger.

In my favorite episode of The X-Files, a psychic played by Peter Boyle remarks, "You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation." Leave it to comedian Bobcat Goldthwait to write and direct a humane and moving film commencing with that very indignity, and starring a sad, silvering Robin ...

The Coen Brothers ' A Serious Man is very comparable to Alexander Payne's masterwork Election , which just happens to be one of my favorite films of all time.

"Sorority Row's " sisters of Theta Pi are a nasty dose of high-heeled, back-stabbing bitchery and arrogant stupidity.

For the week of Sunday, Sept. 6, through Saturday, Sept. 12. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

The marketing for Extract wants to remind you that this is the latest from writer-director Mike Judge, creator of Office Space .

With each installment of the "Our Favorite Movies" series, in which I ask various folks what their favorite movies are abut their professions, I will also offer a list of my own favorite films on the subject.

The strongest message sent by Bucks County school officials investigating a teacher's alleged affair with a 17-year-old student may be the ouster of three fellow teachers said to have kept quiet after learning of the relationship.

It's the time of year when kids load up their backpacks and educators make sure all their red pens are in working order.

Reese Witherspoon stars as the ambitious Tracy Flick in 1999's "Election." It's the time of year when kids load up their backpacks and educators make sure all their red pens are in working order.

The mayors of two major Southeastern cities are finishing their talks about the formation of a megaregion that would stretch from North Carolina to Alabama.