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There’s never been a city like “Sin City.”

Based on Frank Miller’s hard-boiled graphic novels, “Sin City” is a place seething with crime and desperation. Its inhabitants are tough guys and even tougher dames, serial killers, corrupt cops and murderous priests.

There’s snappy dialog. Brutal action. In short, this is modern film noir at its finest.

The movie employs state-of-the-art digital technology to mirror Miller’s stylized comics, depicting everything in glorious black-and-white with shocking splashes of color.

Robert Rodriguez, who shared directing duties with Miller and Quentin Tarantino, also helped write the deliciously dark score.

Catch “Sin City” tonight at 7 or 9:15 p.m. at the Palm Theatre, 817 Palm St. in San Luis Obispo. Tickets are $7.50.

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If crooks and gun-toting hookers aren’t your thing, try the classic romantic movie “Sleepless in Seattle.”

When his eight-year-old son Jonah calls into a late-night radio show, scores of women across the nation hear Sam Baldwin’s story of love and loss.

One of them is Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), an East Coast gal who’s looking for real romance.

Sam (Tom Hanks) thinks Annie is just another lovelorn woman.

His son thinks she’s perfect. Inspired by the doomed lovers in “An Affair to Remember,” he arranges for the would-be couple to meet at the top of the Empire State building on Valentine’s Day.

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan spend just two minutes of screen time together, but they have solid chemistry as the wounded widower and the optimistic single gal both looking for “the one.”

They played another on-screen couple years later in “You’ve Got Mail,” a high-tech remake of “The Shop Around the Corner.”

“Sleepless in Seattle” plays tonight at 8 p.m. at the Dolphin Bay Resort and Spa, 2727 Shell Beach Road in Shell Beach.

Free lawn seating begins at 7:30 p.m.

Moviegoers also have the option of a three-course dinner served on the patio, starting at 7 p.m. That costs $49 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are required.

Call 773-8900 for more information.

Ever heard this line? “Excuse me, but you look so much like …”

I’ve gotten my fair share of comparisons — everything from Liza Minnelli to Alanis Morissette. My co-worker Nick bears a certain resemblance to actor Brendan Fraser.

Heck, I spot could-be celebrities in the supermarket all the time.

But the spookiest doppelganger I’ve encountered has to be Ticket editor Justin Hoeger.

He’s a dead ringer for Guillermo Del Toro, the acclaimed Mexican director of “Hellboy,” “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth,” to name a few.

Don’t believe me? Here’s Hellboy with a gun:

Here’s Guillermo del Toro with a gun:

And here’s Justin. (No, he doesn’t have a gun. He’s at Disneyland, for Pete’s sake!)

What d’ya think?