US – Saturday, March 13

Photo: ALISON MAYFIELDThis week, celebrate girl power
Last year, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, published “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. The book is a sobering study of many societies’ suppression of women through terrible — and culturally accepted — measures such as genital mutilation, sex slavery, forced marriage, honor killings and other atrocities. But the book also focuses on the small, empowering steps these oppressed women are taking to change the status quo and show that women really can hold up “half the sky,” as the Chinese proverb says.
 

New York Music
‘Here We Go Again,’ indeed
Stop the presses! Demi Lovato has posted something on Twitter!
 
Movies
Pattinson: A vampire in Brooklyn
Robert Pattinson has been playing Americans so often that he has forgotten how to talk like a Brit. In his latest, “Remember Me,” the “Twilight” heartthrob stars as a soulful young New Yorker attending NYU, but he insists he didn’t need any help sounding like a native. “I’ve never had a dialect coach or anything,” Pattinson says. “Ironically, I’ve only had a dialect coach for this film I’m doing now, which I’m doing in an English accent. I guess I’ve forgotten how to do an English accent.”
Movies
Movie can’t make it past minor ‘League’
REVIEW. Lame Hollywood romantic comedies love women; they just don’t like to identify them by name. We’ve seen  “She’s All That,” “She’s Out of Control,” “She’s the Man” and “She’s the One” in our local cineplexes. If you remember the plot of one of them, gold star for you.
 

Photo: SCOTT GARFIELD
Movies
Just say ‘I don’t’
REVIEW. After years of playing an Ugly Betty, it’s under­standable that the lovely America Ferrera suc­cumbed to the all-consuming power of a princess bridal gown. For that, we will forgive her for “Our Family Wedding.”
 
New York Movies
Damon’s latest not quite in the ‘Zone’
New Pattinson flick not very memorable
An ‘Ugly’ farewell and a role in a ‘Wedding’
Tim Burton in ‘Wonderland’
Going from spy to prime minister
And the Oscar goes to ...
Revisiting Wonderland
A tumble down the rabbit hole
10 is the magic number
And the Oscar goes to ... we’re still not sure
New York Movies
Burton’s ‘Alice’ is not so wonderful
Really the ‘Finest’ Brooklyn can offer?
Can’t get your movie made? Just wing it
French film able to turn ‘A Prophet’
Kevin Smith makes a big-studio comedy
Because sanity is so overrated
Surprised? ‘Cop Out’ takes the easy route
She’s got range, and she uses it
Extra, read all about it!
Meet the new sidekick from ‘Shutter Island’
 
 
 
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Music
MMMpod
The March MMMpod features conversation and music from Surfer Blood and The Allman Brothers Band (There's a double-bill you're not too likely to see. However, Gregg Allman does mention Hannah Montana!). We also speak with Vampire Weekend and the Dropkick Murphys.
 
 
 
Metro Life Panel
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