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Remember how awkward life was in junior high? It's that uncomfortable time when bodies go through changes, and kids don't know exactly how to feel.

Over the course of a brilliantly sunny Saturday - the kind of day when the sky appears even more cerulean than usual thanks to vivid yellow and scarlet leaves that stubbornly cling to branches - it becomes very clear that Eric Mabius has a tendency to overextend himself.

In 1996, Heather Matarazzo delivered one of the year's most striking film performances as the plain, bespectacled junior high student Dawn Weiner in "Welcome to the Dollhouse". Only eleven years old when the film was.... In 1996, Heather Matarazzo delivered one of the year's most striking film performances as the plain, bespectacled junior high ...

Last update: October 22, 2009 - 5:33 PM LIFE DURING WARTIME Todd Solondz, the provocateur behind such comedy-of-discomfort classics as "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "Storytelling," returns with a sequel of sorts to his balefully funny "Happiness." In "Life During Wartime" we reconnect with the earlier story's maladjusted, self-absorbed characters, ...

CREATING KARMA, a film about an uptight corporate climber who becomes a poet after losing her job and moving in with her wacky new-age therapist sister, is a narrative comedy feature by first time... CREATING KARMA, a film about an uptight corporate climber who becomes a poet after losing her job and moving in with her wacky new-age therapist ...

The strange film career of writer-director Todd Solondz, responsible for "Welcome to the Dollhouse" , a heartbreaking yet hilarious chronicle of junior high school life, has provided some quirky twists to the.... The strange film career of writer-director Todd Solondz, responsible for "Welcome to the Dollhouse" , a heartbreaking yet hilarious ...

Is Welcome to the Dollhouse auteur Todd Solondz a misanthrope, or a humanist whose characters just happen to engage in ugly, perverse, cruel behavior? For me, the answer has been made clear with Life During Wartime , Solondz's quasi-sequel to 1998's Happiness , in which all of the characters are now played by different actors: Todd Solondz starts ...

A couple are seated at an aspirational New York restaurant where the food is as fussy as the decor.

Just three movies on Tuesday, thanks to the combination of awkward times and the happy need to go out to dinner with my cousin Jonathon and his girlfriend.

On paper unsettling auteur Todd Solondz's latest flick Life During Wartime is a bizarre proposition.

Update: Buzz continues to build as the film just won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival .

Michael Moore, Todd Solondz and zombie veteran George Romero among 23 directors competing for Golden Lion It's fair to say that Abel Ferrara was not best pleased by the news that Werner Herzog was remaking his 1992 film Bad Lieutenant.

Award-winning filmmaker-provocateur Todd Solondz has sworn the cast of his "Life During Wartime" film to secrecy -- to the point that the only thing Ally Sheedy will say about it is that she'll be on hand for the feature's debut next month at the Toronto Film Festival.

Michael Moore, Todd Solondz and zombie veteran George Romero among 23 directors competing for Golden Lion It's fair to say that Abel Ferrara was not best pleased by the news that Werner Herzog was remaking his 1992 film Bad Lieutenant.

Filmmaker Michael Moore, centre, tries to speak to traders outside the New York Stock Exchange for his documentary Capitalism: A Love Story.

Todd Solondz's cruelly evenhanded comedy, tougher and subtler than his Welcome to the Dollhouse , with sophistication now outbalancing sophomoricism.