LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Seeking to fill the need for access to Spanish language books as well as quality cultural events and activities for all ages, the second edition

In this pretentious, preposterous allegory, an unnamed disease afflicts the unnamed residents of an unnamed city, all of which is too precious. The victims are left sightless, but they see white instead of black.

Eventually, "Blindness" becomes less oppressively boring, but by then the audience has already fled the theater, banging its head against the wall. And then the movie becomes relentlessly boring again.

By DUANE DUDEK People often are disappointed in, and rarely recognize, the books they love when they are made into movies. Reading is a private experience and films are a shared experience.

By MAL VINCENT "There are none so blind as those who cannot see." That's a quote from the Broadway play and movie "Butterflies Are Free." It was a comedy. The bit of truism holds in the case of "Blindness," but "Blindness" is most definitely not a comedy.