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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their list of the final group of 15 films that will contend for the Best Documentary Feature award this week, and with said announcement comes a twinge of bittersweetness.

If you’ve ever held witness to an “air guitar” competition, then you will undoubtedly share in my excitement for this next story.

First we rock, then we go out and get those Oscar votes, then we rock Michel Gondry’s Green Hornet movie so hard that it explodes! That’s the plan for the aging rockers of Anvil…

Here the band Anvil perform after a special showing of Anvil!: The Story of Anvil on Mother’s Day in Columbus, Ohio!

So there was nothing stopping Hannah Montana from getting the best of both worlds at the box office, but when you check out the per screen average, it’s a different story. Check to see if Anvil will be coming to a theater near you.

It’s a story about hope that all goes back to a life philosophy shared by the band members and director Sacha Gervasi: “The only way you can fail is if you give up.”

Kevin Carr reviews this week’s new movies: Observe and Report, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Dragonball: Evolution and Anvil!: The Story of Anvil.

Neil comes out swinging, preparing to defend the good name of Observe and Report from Kevin’s bile. Meanwhile, Kevin defends Hannah Montana as best a fat guy can.

We risk losing our doctored press badges and sneak behind enemy lines to get an early look at a film
playing at SXSW – Anvil! The Story of Anvil.

The documentary’s popularity is feeding the band. The band’s popularity is feeding the doc. The two are building to be the cultural phenomenon of the year, and we got our hands on an exclusive clip.

Between our own scouring of the schedule and the countless emails from publicists, producers and directors, we are confident that we’ve got a handle on which films you should absolutely see at all costs should you be coming here to Austin this weekend. So here’s a list of the must sees, from us to you.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a brilliant documentary look at a band that suffers from extreme arrested development and the grand frustration of making it big without ever making it big. That said, here’s the trailer.

From June 19 to June 29, Film Independent, the group behind the Independent Spirit Awards, will play host to the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival. Universal will be bringing two of its big summer flicks, so you should probably be there, too.