Fall film preview

Posted: Friday, August 29, 2008 10:00 pm

Fall film preview By Jason Wallis
News-Sentinel Film Critic Lodinews.com | 0 comments

For the past couple weeks, even television coverage of the Olympics and political party conventions has been more interesting than the dull crop of new releases rolling out to theaters.

In a short time, though, the fall movie season will begin, and with it will come a roster of major awards season releases and studio prestige films.

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