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Born to a teenage mother and gang member father in East Los Angeles, Maria Reyes always expected that she would be a statistic.

Where the Wild Things Are - I think the best appraisal I've read of Where the Wild Things Are was by Jonathan Durbin in Interview Magazine .

The judges had a difficult task picking the three best haikus. Your winners: Alex: Two Oscars are fine, but The Next Karate Kid is her greatest role.

It's easy to imagine why the producers thought of Hilary Swank to play famed aviator and feminist icon Amelia Earhart; she has cornered the market on tomboyish heroine roles.

'Amelia' ** This Amelia Earhart biopic has magnificent period settings and airplanes, majestic aerial photography and solid performances from Richard Gere and a perfectly cast Hilary Swank.

IN KEEPING with her reputation for delving deep into research for a role, actress Hilary Swank took flying lessons to prepare playing the lead in Amelia.

Look at a grainy black-and-white news photograph of Amelia Earhart climbing from her plane after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

This 2001 film centred on one of history's wildest scandals. So how did they manage to make it so dull? Under cover of night a Hilary Swank as Jeanne in The Affair of the Necklace Director: Charles Shyer Entertainment grade: D History grade: C+ The Affair of the Necklace Production year: 2001 Country: USA Cert : 12 Runtime: 117 mins Directors: ...

Capsule reviews of films currently playing at area theaters by Elkhart Truth movie columnist Ben Ford , the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times .

THE sky's the limit for Hilary Swank's dedication to making a screen role come to life.

Thoughts on 'The Wizard of Oz' at 70 Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic It's impossible to watch "The Wizard of Oz" today without feeling, within minutes, some kind of mystical connection to people you will never know.

Talking pictures This is how bad things have gotten. There's some speculation that Hilary Swank might actually get an Academy Award nomination for her performance as aviator Amelia Earhart in "Amelia." Make no mistake about it, the two-time Oscar winner was the one decent thing in the otherwise unmemorable and less-than-impressive biographical ...

For director Mira Nair, making a film on a legendary aviatrix who died in 1937 is personal.

Hilary Swank has revealed that she would consider starring in a musical or action film one day.

Gary Wolcott's "Mr. Movie" column has appeared in the Tri-City Herald since 1992.

This Amelia Earhart biopic has magnificent period settings and airplanes, majestic aerial photography and solid performances from Richard Gere and Hilary Swank.

One star is immediately obvious in Airbound Aviation's Hangar 5 here at Essex County Airport: the silver Lockheed L-10 Electra , built in the mid-1930s for military and corporate use.

The key to selling a story is making people believe it's real. That's the trouble with "Amelia" - I didn't buy a minute of it.

Serial killers, boy robots, nice vampires, and women living on the edge: you don't have to go to the multiplex to get any of that this weekend.

Amelia the biopic is many things that Amelia Earhart the pilot never was: decorous, conventional, sanitized, dull.