What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Academy Award Nominated Animated Shorts Academy Award Nominated Live-Action Shorts Wow, this is totally cool: the Ritz at the Bourse is actually screening all the animated and live-action short films that have been nominated for Oscars this year. These films are usually quite difficult to see, so this is a really neat opportunity. Showing at: Ritz at the Bourse George Romero's Diary of the Dead It's......

So, what is Cloverfield? Probably if you've watched the ads, you've thought of Godzilla, and although it certainly has a lot in common with that series, it also has elements of The Blair Witch Project. It's a monster movie, but told in a hyper-realistic way, from the point of view of the people on the streets who are running between the toes of the monster. Critics (well, the cut-rate ones, anyway) will often compare films......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Check out this very creepy trailer for 30 Days of Night, an upcoming film based on a graphic novel about vampires attacking in the arctic circle during the time of year when the sun doesn't rise for a whole month. Awesome! We're sure there are worse ideas for movies, but right now a prequel to The Blair Witch Project sounds like......

Film: Once, S&Man Future Screenings: Once: No future screenings scheduled, but after two sold-out screenings, look for it in Festival Favorites! S&Man: No future screenings scheduled Once I only planned to see Once because it stars Glen Hansard of Irish band The Frames, and I'm reviewing their upcoming show (more on that in a few weeks). I've had their latest CD for a while, but I've only had time to listen once, and I was......

- Rick Mariano is back on the streets. No word yet on whether he'll be back to the office before his sentencing. - The biggest drama in this year's Philadelphia Film Festival may be about a movie, rather than in it. Quentin Perkins' fifteen minute short, The Messenger, has been pulled by investor Pat Croce. Croce invested $100,000 in the film, purportedly a true story, and said he felt "deceived" upon discovering an actor was......