Looming shadows fall starkly across rain-slick streets. A door chain jiggles because a very bad man wants to come in and hurt someone. Hookers pull guns from their garter belts. Tough, tough talk comes from bruised lips that dangle cigarettes and spit blood. The villians are unspeakably evil. The heroes are compromised and overmatched. The city is filled with corruption but the country is even worse. In "Sin City," two of today's greatest stylists join …showed first 75 words of 889 total…

…showed last 75 words of 889 total…dark stories and characters and the way that co-directors Miller and Rodriguez use the settings and the camera to create mood and character. Families who enjoy this movie will also enjoy the graphic novel series that inspired it as well as some of the movies that inspired them, like Woman in the Window, Scarlet Street, and Kiss Me Deadly. They will also enjoy films by "guest director" Quentin Tarantino, including Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.