Image Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:DISK), a leading independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America, announced today at the Toronto International Film Festival that it has acquired from Capitol Films, Ltd.

By Chris Tookey Hairspray (PG) Verdict: Big, bouncy brainless musical *** HAIRSPRAY is a high-energy, high-spirited musical that's also high on its own liberalism, which, in this case, struck me as indistinguishable from racism.

By Randy A. Salas The crowd response was immediate at a recent Steve Miller concert in Minneapolis after a band member whipped out a cowbell during "Jungle Love" and started banging out the beat. "More cowbell!" many audience members repeated with a laugh.

Romance & Cigarettes By Ray Bennett VENICE (Hollywood Reporter) - The Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney spirit is alive and well in John Turturro's "Romance & Cigarettes" with some top stars including James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, and Kate Winslet gamely putting on a show, but the sad result is a karaoke nightmare.

film In need of therapy Dysfunctional characters cause much pain and anguish Tarnation (15) The Wedding Date (12A) Around the Bend (15) It says something about the parlous state of mainstream cinema that this week's stand-out release is an experimental art-house offering knocked together for thruppence on an Apple Mac by an unknown film-maker blessed with budding talent and preening narcissism in equal measure.