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3 July 2008 10:05 AM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Didn't we invent film festivals so we could sequester all the star-studded "how I spent my summer vacation" indie film projects and keep them out of our arthouses? Who let Diminished Capacity escape? Based on a novel by Sherwood Kiraly, and directed by character actor (and Steppenwolf Theater vet) Terry Kinney, Diminished Capacity stars Matthew Broderick as a Chicago newspaper editor who's busted down to proofreading the comics page after a car accident leaves him with short-term memory issues. Ordered to take a vacation, Broderick heads to Missouri to visit his uncle (Alan Alda), an Alzheimer's-afflicted eccentric who's invented a device that translates the movements of fish into typewritten poetry. No sooner does Broderick arrive than he's heading back, accompanying Alda on a mission to sell a rare baseball card. The addled duo is joined by Virginia Madsen, Broderick's childhood sweetheart, who has her own appointment in Chicago with a.

Noel Murray

30 June 2008 7:46 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

This 4th of July week finds Will Smith's belligerent man of steel sending the rest of the summer tentpole movies running scared, leaving only the indies to offer any alternative.

"Brutal Massacre"

Does the horror genre need its own "This Is Spinal Tap"? Ready or not, here comes "Brutal Massacre," a mockumentary comedy about a once-successful horror director (played by "An American Werewolf in London"'s David Naughton) attempting to make his big comeback film against increasingly insurmountable odds. Be on the lookout for appearances by Gunnar Hansen ("The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"'s Leatherface), Ellen Sandweiss ("The Evil Dead") and other horror movie stalwarts.

Opens in limited release.

"Diminished Capacity"

Terry Kinney made a name for himself as Tim McManus, the idealistic but world-weary warden of Emerald City in the hard-hitting prison drama "Oz." "Diminished Capacity," his debut as a director, also finds Matthew Broderick

Neil Pedley

10 March 2008 8:21 AM, PDT | From TheWatcher | See recent The Watcher news

"Canterbury's Law" (7 p.m. Monday, Wfld-Ch. 32) is one of those shows that has you making comparisons almost from the first moment. The main character, Elizabeth Canterbury ( Julianna Margulies), is as unorthodox in her methods as Dr. Gregory House of Fox's "House." She drives a Porsche and likes to drink, like Grace Hanadarko of "Saving Grace." Like Patty Hewes of Fx's "Damages," she's a hard-driving lawyer who'll go to extreme lengths to win a case.

Though it's competently made and catches fire dramatically from time to time, "Canterbury's Law" doesn't have quite as much dramatic depth as those other shows do at their best.

All three programs are also anchored by deeply compelling actors, and though Margulies is up to the challenge of playing an edgy attorney, she doesn't have the guarded, interior quality that Hugh Laurie brings to "House" or the flinty intensity that Glenn Close gives Hewes on "Damages.

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3 articles from 2008