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This ain’t your grandma’s Oz

By Gina Scialabba The Guardsman Dorothy, we are certainly not in Kansas anymore. And, it’s OK! Director Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spiderman trilogy) takes audiences back to the famed land of OZ, complete with an Emerald City, singing munchkins and a philandering, relationship-phoebe wizard (James Franco) searching for “greatness.

The hunt for Bin Laden through Hollywood's eyes

Gina Scialabba The Guardsman Go see “Zero Dark Thirty.” You know you want to. All your friends are already doing it. Everyone is talking about it. Calif. Sen. Diane Feinstein is talking about it. She wants an investigation into the CIA’s contributions to the film. Anti-torture protesters are talking