Prairie Miller

With a title spouting unearned bragging rights and a soapy script less suited to movie theaters than a small screen afterschool special, Legendary is anything but.

While political movies projecting a serious tone around themes like war tend to drive audiences away from US theaters faster than rumors of a bedbug invasion, when heavy subject matter is laced with light laughs it's an entirely different story.

Best described as an artsy sedentary crime thriller mostly on mute, The American sheds just about everything essential to making that genre work, including action, tension and dialogue.

A tale of two global economies, Lixin Fan's Last Train Home probes the questionable fusion of China's mix of communism and capitalism on those likely to suffer most under its impact - the rural poor migrating to toil in the foreign owned factories

Passionate geriatric romance is not something most people think of, or actually believe exists, at least not without a little help from determined unrealistic senile impulses or hormone enhancing medication.