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• Coming Soon — To A Theater Nowhere Near You
  Feel like you're the last to see the new Hollywood blockbuster? You may be right — because studios have started premiering big films overseas before they come to the United States.
  
  
• Cannes Film Festival Has American Slant This Year
  Melissa Block talks to Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Zeitchik about what's popular this year at the Cannes Film Festival.
  
  
• Pop Culture Happy Hour: TV Season Postmortem, Old People, Young People
  On this week's show, we talk about how the recently concluded TV season went, we touch on pop culture portrayals of older and younger people, and as always, we discuss what's making us happy this week.
  
  
• What To Expect When You're Expecting In A Movie
  It's tempting to hope the new film based on the self-help book of the same name will be better than the poster that's promoting it: It has some genuinely funny people in it, and a writer who scored a hit with Whip It.
  
  
• Down In 'Virginia,' Where The Crazy Runs Deep
  Milk writer Dustin Lance Black directs a swampy Southern melodrama about a single mother's affair with the married sheriff of a small Virginia town. Critic Scott Tobias says the film suffers from inconsistent direction that treats its characters with contempt and its place as caricature.
  
  

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