Johnny Depp is, somewhat predictably, one of the highlights of Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland.'

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The Oscars may be over, but the big winners – The Hurt Locker, Crazy Heart and Avatar, as well as acclaimed foreign nominees like The White Ribbon and A Prophet – are still playing at an indie theater near you.

Greg Kinner (left) and Matt Damon butt heads in 'Green Zone.'

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The creative pairing of Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass has yielded two gripping sequels to The Bourne Identity (2002) and now Green Zone, another skillful exercise in breakneck storytelling that finds Greengrass questioning the sincerity of America’s search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Plummer, Hoffman (center) and Mirren bring Leo Tolstoy's tumultuous final days to the big screen in 'The Last Station.'

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Neither Christopher Plummer, 80, nor Helen Mirren, 64, the stars of Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, took home Oscars from last Sunday’s awards ceremony. But as far as Hoffman is concerned, their work remains indispensable, the key to breathing the intensity of life into his screenplay, adapted from Jay Parini’s 1990 novel, about the last days of Leo Tolstoy.

'The Housemaid.'

The special tonight, March 11? It has to be the opening of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival -- now in its 28th incarnation and taking off with Today’s Special, David Kaplan’s rom-com with a Bollywood/foodie twist (Indian cooking icon Madhur Jaffrey plays the mother of a sous chef in search of the secret spice missing from his life).

Corey Haim (right), pictured here with frequent co-star Corey Feldman, has died at 38, reportedly due to an accidental prescription-drug overdose.

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Corey Haim, who starred in popular teen comedies including Lucas (1986), License to Drive (1988) and Dream a Little Dream (1989), as well as Joel Schumacher’s 1987 cult hit The Lost Boys, has died at 38 of what is believed to be an accidental drug overdose.

Been looking for a reason to check out the New People arts center in Japantown? Stop by the complex’s underground Viz Cinema Mar. 6-9 for the Artist Series Festival Vol. 1, a collection of six films documenting contemporary artists living and working in Japan. Notables include painter Hisashi Tenmyouya, whose blending of traditional Japanese painting techniques (think gold leafing and cherry blossoms) with modern graphics (ala armored soccer players and robotic ninjas) have earned him the nickname Hip-Hop-Samurai. In addition to three U.S.

Anna Kendrick, nominated for Best Support Actress at this Sunday's Oscars, says the statuette belongs to another.

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Anna Kendrick doesn’t expect to win an Oscar for her ferociously perky supporting turn as a corporate terminator in Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. That, she says, is an honor earmarked for another actress, though she coyly declines to reveal the mystery winner’s identity.

Tahar Rahim (left) and Niels Arestrup are kings of the prison yard in 'A Prophet.'

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Winner of the Grand Prix at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Jacques Audiard’s harrowing story of a 19-year-old whose life is redefined by six years in a French prison has been compared in some quarters to The Godfather, and the comparison makes sense on a superficial level.

The Disposable Film Festival kicks off tonight at the Roxie with its popular Competitive Shorts Program.

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The third annual Disposable Film Festival begins tonight at the Roxie Theater with two screenings of the festival's Competitive Shorts Program, featuring a uniquely unconventional collection of experimental, animated and photo-motion shorts chosen from more than 1,000 international submissions.

Jeremy Renner's gutsy performance in 'The Hurt Locker' has landed him in the thick of this year's Oscar race for Best Actor.

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He’s touted as a dark horse in Oscar’s Best Actor race, a relative unknown in a field of nominees highlighted by presumed frontrunner Jeff Bridges and George Clooney. Yet Modesto native Jeremy Renner, the fair-haired star of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, is no stranger to the screen, or to awards consideration.