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Flashy "Speed Racer" quickly wipes out 1 May 08, 22:13 ET Reuters - Amid the push by filmmakers to deny photo reality in favor of animated impressionism comes the Wachowski brothers' "Speed Racer," a movie that gives the sensation of being trapped inside a 3-D video game. more Review: Online play makes `Mario Kart Wii' a must-have 1 May 08, 16:15 ET AP - It's not often that a series installment can stray so little from its past and still make a mark, but "Mario Kart Wii" waves the checkered flag with a 12-player online racing mode that makes the best use of the Wii's Wi-Fi capabilities to date. more Beckett's characters await their final days in `Endgame' 1 May 08, 16:11 ET AP - People who are leading desolate and appallingly circumscribed lives, while awaiting the inevitable but slow-in-coming end, really need to have a sense of humor, or irony, or both. more Music Review: Dianne Reeves' new CD `When You Know' 1 May 08, 13:14 ET AP - Dianne Reeves, "When You Know" (Blue Note Records) more For CIA tech chief details espionage successes, failures 1 May 08, 12:36 ET AP - "Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs From Communism to Al-Qaeda" (Dutton, 549 pages, $29.95), by Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger: International spying could be called a cat and mouse game - a frightened mouse scurrying to outwit a powerful feline. The folks at the Central Intelligence Agency have worked hard with actual dead rats and a live cat, using them in highly specialized CIA ways. more Story of fictional presidential run provides real laughs 1 May 08, 10:58 ET AP - "The Scandal Plan or: How to Win the Presidency by Cheating on Your Wife" (William Morrow, 438 pages. $24.95), by Bill Folman: No, it's not a how-to manual. It's a novel about a campaign that hatches an unconventional strategy for capturing the White House. more Fishburne wins case in rather dry "Thurgood" 1 May 08, 03:43 ET Reuters - More effective as history lesson than theater, "Thurgood" is the sort of biographical one-person show that once populated Broadway stages with regularity. more "Trucker" a breakthrough for Monaghan 1 May 08, 03:39 ET Reuters - Film buffs may have recognized Michelle Monaghan's appeal in such movies as "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," "North Country" and "Gone Baby Gone." more Mariah Carey surprisingly effective in "Tennessee" 1 May 08, 03:35 ET Reuters - It's slightly unfair to describe "Tennessee," which had its world premiere at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, as the new Mariah Carey movie, but that's the way most people will talk about it. more Tropical drama "Rains" not steamy enough 1 May 08, 03:24 ET Reuters - The sort of steamy tropical melodrama that Hollywood used to produce with regularity in its golden age, "Before the Rains" depicts the tragic repercussions of an adulterous affair between an upscale British colonialist and his beautiful housemaid in 1930s India. more

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