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CROSSING OVER ** DIRECTED BY: WAYNE KRAMER STARRING: HARRISON FORD, RAY LIOTTA, ASHLEY JUDD, ALICE BRAGA Another Homeland Security-inspired fret about the state of California's borders, this is at once ambitious, familiar in its multi-stranded storytelling, and suspect in its underlying politics.

Some movies are bad but still entertaining, and you don't lament the decision to buy a ticket.

SCREENWRITER and director Wayne Kramer emigrated from South Africa to the U S 23 years ago.

Jimmy Smits was born in Brooklyn on July 9, 1955, son of Cornelius Smits, a silk-screen plant manager who came from Dutch Guyana and Emelina Smits from Puerto Rico.

It was announced today that Billy Crystal will bring 700 SUNDAYS, his Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster, to six cities for limited engagements this fall, launching at Washington, D.C.'s National Theatre September 8 - 17.

The surprise Liam Neeson hit "Taken" is now spawning a range of imitators and they didn't take away the obvious plus but that pretty young girls are useless and need saving.

Media 8 Entertainment, a leading film company engaged in the production, financing, acquisition and worldwide licensing of theatrical features in a variety of genres, announced today that it has acquired worldwide rights to the breakout SXSW hit film "The Horseman," directed by Steven Kastrissios and starring Peter Marshall.

OPENING: The Cross: The Arthur Blessitt Story Matthew Crouch's documentary about a Christian missionary who has walked 38,000 miles around the world with a 12-foot cross on his back.

The internet is abuzz with news that B.C. actor Cameron Bright will play Alec, Jane's twin brother in the second movie in the Twilight teen vampire series.

'FAST and Furious' features Vin Diesel as Dom Toretto and Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner, both old rivals from years earlier after undercover cop Brian betrayed Dom's trust.

Taking a page - OK, the entire playbook - from the Crash school of filmmaking, Crossing Over uses the interlocking stories of a group of disparate Los Angeles residents to present a panoramic look at the state of immigration in the United States.