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Here is a listing of movies present and past, and what the critics had
to say about them, this site will be updated every two weeks....
this is a new feature, hope you enjoy it
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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
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Brendan Fraser, Anita Briem and Josh
Hutcherson.
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1 Hour and 32
Minutes. Rated
PG
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MEET DAVE
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Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Banks, Scott Caan and Ed Helms.
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1 Hour and 29 Minutes. Rated
PG ( please
let this be Eddy's last
movie for real...... )
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HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY -
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Ron
Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John
Alexander, Luke Goss, Jeffrey Tambor and John Hurt.
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| 1 Hour and 50 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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WHAT
HAPPENS IN VEGAS
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Cameron
Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Jason
Sudeikis, Treat Williams, Deirdre O'Connell, Queen
Latifah and Dennis Miller.
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1
Hour and 39 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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SPEED
RACER
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Emile
Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan
Sarandon, Matthew Fox, Roger Allam and Paulie Litt
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| 2
Hours and 15 Minutes. Rated PG.
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REDBELT-
(Limited)
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Chiwetel
Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Alice Braga, Tim Allen, Joe
Mantegna and David Paymer.
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1
Hour and 38 Minutes. Rated R.
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BABY
MAMA -
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Tina
Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany
Malco, Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin.
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| 1
Hour and 39 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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HAROLD
& KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY-
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John
Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Jack Conley, Roger Bart
and Neil Patrick Harris.
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| 1
Hour and 42 Minutes. Rating R.
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DECEPTION
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E.
wan McGregor, Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams
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1
Hour and 48 Minutes. Rated R.
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DEAL
- (Limited)
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Burt
Reynolds, Bret Harrison, Shannon Elizabeth, Maria
Mason, Charles Durning and Jennifer Tilly.
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1
Hour and 26 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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THEN
SHE FOUND ME -
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(Limited)
Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew
Broderick and Ben Shenkman.
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1 Hour and 40 Minutes. Rated R.
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HORTON HEARS A WHO! -
(Animated)
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Jim
Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Seth
Rogen, Isla Fisher, Amy Poehler, Jaime Pressly and Charles Osgood.
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| 1 Hour and 28 Minutes. Rated G.
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DOOMSDAY -
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Rhona
Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Langley Kirkwood and Malcolm McDowell.
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| 1 Hour and 35 Minutes. Rated R.
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NEVER BACK DOWN -
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Sean
Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet and Djimon Hounsou.
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1 Hour and 50 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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FUNNY GAMES - (Limited)
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Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt and Brady
Corbet.
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1 Hour and 35 Minutes. Rated R.
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SLEEPWALKING - (Limited)
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Charlize
Theron, Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Hopper and Woody Harrelson.
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1 Hour and 41 Minutes.
Rated r
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OVER HER DEAD BODY -
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Eva Longoria, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs and Lindsay
Sloane.
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| 1 Hour and 45 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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THE EYE
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Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola and Parker Posey.
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| 1 Hour and 35 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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STRANGE WILDERNESS
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Steve
Zahn, Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Ashley Scott, Kevin Heffernan and Peter Dante.
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1 Hour and 35 Minutes. Rated R.
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HANNAH MONTANA -
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MILEY CYRUS: Best of Both Worlds
Concert
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Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers. Rated G.
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THE
PIRATES WHO DON'T DO
ANYTHING
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Animated
Veggie Tales.
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1 Hour and 18 Minutes. Rated G. |
OVER HER DEAD BODY -
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Eva Longoria, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs and Lindsay
Sloane.
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| 1 Hour and 45 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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THE EYE
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Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola and Parker Posey.
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| 1 Hour and 35 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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STRANGE WILDERNESS
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Steve
Zahn, Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Ashley Scott, Kevin Heffernan and Peter Dante.
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1 Hour and 35 Minutes. Rated R.
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HANNAH MONTANA -
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MILEY CYRUS: Best of Both Worlds
Concert
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Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers. Rated G.
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THE
PIRATES WHO DON'T DO
ANYTHING
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Animated
Veggie Tales.
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1 Hour and 18 Minutes. Rated G. |
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THE
BUCKET LIST - (Expands Wide)
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Jack
Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean
Hayes, Beverly Todd, Rowena King
and Rob Morrow
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1 Hour and 37 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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FIRST
SUNDAY
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Ice
Cube, Tracy Morgan, Katt Williams, Loretta Devine, Regina Hall and Chi McBride.
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| 1
Hour and 38 Minutes. PG-13.
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THE
ORPHANAGE - (Expands)
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Belen
Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger
Princep, Montserrat Carulla,
Andres Gertrudix and
Geraldine Chaplin.
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1
Hour and 40 Minutes. Rated R.
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IN
THE NAME OF THE KING:
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A
Dungeon Siege Tale - Jason
Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John
Rhys-Davies, Claire Forlani,
Kristanna Loken, Matthew Lillard,
Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds.
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2
Hours and 30 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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THE
PIRATES WHO DON'T DO
ANYTHING
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Animated
Veggie Tales.
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1 Hour and 18 Minutes. Rated G. |
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ALVIN
AND THE CHIPMUNKS-
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Voices
by Justin Long, Matthew Gray
Gubler and Jesse McCartney. Also
starring Jason Lee, David
Cross and Cameron Richardson
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| 1 Hour and 25 Minutes. Rated PG.
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ATONEMENT-
(Expanding)
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Keira
Knightley, James McAvoy and
Vanessa Redgrave.
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| 2
Hours and 2 Minutes. Rated R.
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THE
KITE RUNNER--
(Limited)
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Khalid
Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi,
Zekiria Ebrahimi, Ahmad Khan
Mahmoodzada and Shaun Toub.
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2 Hours and 2 Minutes. Rated
PG-13.
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THE
PERFECT
HOLIDAY--
(Opens Tomorrow)
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Morris
Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Queen
Latifah, Terrence Howard,
Charlie Murphy and Faizon Love.
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1 Hour and 36 Minutes. Rated PG.
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I
AM LEGEND-
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Will
Smith.
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1 Hour and 40 Minutes. Rated
PG-13. |
| AWAKE -
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Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Lena Olin, Poorna Jagannathan and Terrence Howard.
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| 1 Hour and 45 Minutes. Rated R.
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| THE SAVAGES - (Limited
Opening
)
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Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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| 1 Hour and 53 Minutes. Rated R.
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| THE COMEBACKS -
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David
Koechner, DJ Qualls, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin and Nick Searcy.
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1 Hour and 35 Minutes. PG-13.
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| RENDITION -
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Jake
Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin and Meryl Streep.
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| 2 Hours and 6 Minutes. Rated R.
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GONE BABY GONE -
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Casey
Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris.
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1 Hour and 55 Minutes. Rated
R
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THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE -
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Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny and Alison
Lohman.
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1 Hour and 58 Minutes. Rated R.
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THE DARJEELING LIMITED - (Limited)
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Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason
Schwartzman.
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1 Hour and 31 Minutes. Rated R.
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30 DAYS OF NIGHT -
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Josh
Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston and Ben Foster.
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1 Hour and 55 Minutes. Rated R.
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SARAH LANDON AND THE PARANORMAL HOUR -
Rated PG.
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Rissa Walters, Brian Comrie and Dan
Comrie.
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1
Hour and 21 Minutes.
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| another movie coming that you will
love............ details in a few !
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GOOD LUCK CHUCK - Dane Cook and Jessica Alba.
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RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION -
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Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Iain Glen, Spencer Locke and Ashanti.
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SYDNEY WHITE -
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Amanda
Bynes, Matt Long, Sara Paxton and John Schneider.
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1 Hour and 25 Minutes. Rated PG.
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EASTERN PROMISES - (Limited)
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Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent
Cassel, Sinead Cusack, Jerzy Skolimowski and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
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ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES -
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Brad Pitt, Casey
Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell.
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RUSH HOUR 3
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"
." Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh and Max Von
Sydow
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1 Hour and 31 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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STARDUST
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Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais & Rupert
Everett
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2 Hours and 5 Minutes. PG-13.
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SKINWALKERS
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Jason
Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Kim Coates, Natassia
Malthe, Matthew Knight & Sarah Carter
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1 Hour and 50 Minutes. PG-13.
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DADDY DAY CAMP
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Cuba Gooding Junior, Richard Gant, Tamala Jones, Lochlyn Munro, Paul Rae and Josh
McLerran.
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1 Hour and 29 Minutes. Rated PG.
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BECOMING JANE
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Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Joe Anderson and Maggie
Smith
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2 Hours. Rated PG.
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THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott
Glenn |
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1 Hour and 55 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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EL CANTANTE - (Limited)
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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.
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1 Hour and 46 Minutes. Rated
R
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BECOMING JANE
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Anne Hathaway, James
McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Joe Anderson and Maggie Smith. |
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2 Hours. Rated PG.
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BRATZ
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Nathalia Ramos, Janel Parrish, Logan Browning and Skyler
Shaye.
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1 Hour and 50 Minutes. Rated PG.
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HOT ROD
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Andy
Samberg, Isla Fisher, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, Jorma
Taccone, Will Arnett, Ian McShane and Sissy Spacek.
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1 Hour and 28 Minutes. Rated PG-13.
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UNDERDOG
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Voiced by Jason Lee and starring Peter
Dinklage, James Belushi and Patrick Warburton.
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1 Hour and 24 Minutes. Rated PG.
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THE
SIMPSONS MOVIE - (Animated) Voices from Dan Castellaneta,
Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria,
Harry Shearer and Kelsey Grammer. 1 Hour and 27 Minutes.
Rated PG-13.
I KNOW WHO KILLED ME - Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal
McDonough, Brian Geraghty and Garcelle Beauvais. 1 Hour and
45 Minutes. Rated R.
NO RESERVATIONS - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart
and Abigail Breslin. 1 Hour and 45 Minutes. Rated PG.
WHO'S YOUR CADDY? - Big Boi, Tamala Jones, Faizon Love,
Jeffrey Jones, Susan Ward, Sherri Shepherd and Andy
Milonakis. 1 Hour and 25 Minutes. PG-13.
SUNSHINE - (Expanding) Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans,
Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cliff Curtis and
Troy Garity. 1 Hour and 47 Minutes. Rated R.
RESCUE DAWN - (Expands) Christian Bale, Steve Zahn. 2 Hours
& 11 Minutes. Rated R.
TALK TO ME - (Expands) Don Cheadle, Cedric the
Entertainer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mike Epps and Martin Sheen. 1
Hour and 58 Minutes. Rated R.
TRANSFORMERS
-
This movie 27 million during it's 1st week out
!
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(Opens
Tomorrow) " THE C-G-I SPECIAL EFFECTS SET A NEW
HIGH-QUALITY STANDARD." Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese
Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Megan Fox
and Jon Voight. thisis a long ass movie too... like
2 hous and 20 minutes........ wow !
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DRIVING LESSONS -
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Rupert
Grint, Julie Walters and Laura
Linney.
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LICENSE TO WED -
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Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John
Krasinski, Josh Flitter.
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FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER
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Jessica Alba, Michael
Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Ioan
Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Andre Braugher and Laurence
Fishburne.
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DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE -
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Jaime
Pressly, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Devon Aoki and Natassia
Malthe. |
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NANCY DREW -
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Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Max
Thieriot, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tate Donovan and Barry
Bostwick. |
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SPIDER-MAN 3 -
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Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James
Franco, Thomas Haden Church Topher Grace and Bryce Dallas
Howard.
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LUCKY
YOU - Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana, Debra Messing,
Robert Duvall, Horatio Sanz and Jean
Smart.
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CIVIC
DUTY-- (Limited)
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Peter Krause, Kari Matchett, Richard Schiff and Khaled Abol Naga.
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NEXT
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Nicolas Cage, Julianne
Moore, Jessica Biel,
Thomas Kretschmann, Tory
Kittles and Peter Falk
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THE
CONDEMNED
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Georgia Mackenzie, Pascal
Langdale, Adam Rayner,
Annabelle Wallis, Mark
Wilson and Frank Maier
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THE
INVISIBLE
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Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Chris Marquette
and Marcia Gay Harden.
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KICKIN'
IT OLD SKOOL
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Jamie Kennedy, Maria
Menounos, Miguel Nunez
Junior, Vivica A Fox and
David Hasselhoff.
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HOT
FUZZ
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(Limited) not sure what this
is about... sorry lambs David Morse.
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IN
THE
LAND
OF
WOMEN
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Adam
Brody, Kristen Stewart, Meg
Ryan, Makenzie Vega and
Olympia
Dukakis.
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VACANCY
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Luke
Wilson, Kate Beckinsale,
Frank Whaley and Ethan
Embry.
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PERFECT
STRANGER
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Halle
Berry
,
Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi.
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FRACTURE
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Anthony
Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David
Strathairn, Rosamund Pike,
Embeth Davidtz
and Billy Burke.
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HOT
FUZZ
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(Limited) not sure what this
is about... sorry lambs David Morse.
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REDLINE
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Eddie Griffin, Tim Matheson, Nadia Bjorlin, Angus MacFadyen and Nathan Phillips
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AQUA
TEEN HUNGER FORCE:
Colon
Movie Film for Theaters
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Animated)
Voices by Dana Snyder, Dave Willis, Carey
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PATHFINDER
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Karl Urban, Russell Means, Moon Bloodgood, Jay Tavare, Ralf Moeller and Kevin
Loring.
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PERFECT
STRANGER
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Halle
Berry
,
Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi.
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SLOW
BURN.......
THERE'S A REASON THIS MOVIE HAS SAT ON THE SHELF FOR NEARLY 4 YEARS....
suppposedly it sucks #*#&
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Should
have gone....... DIRECT-TO-VIDEO. Ray
Liotta, LL Cool J,
Mekhi Phifer, Jolene Blalock, Guy Torry and Taye Diggs.
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DISTURBIA
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Shia
LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer,
Carrie-Anne Moss, Aaron Yoo and David Morse.
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REDLINE
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Eddie Griffin, Tim Matheson, Nadia Bjorlin, Angus MacFadyen and Nathan Phillips
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I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE
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| Get
ready for
- Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres and Steve
Buscemi.
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PREMONITION
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| Get
ready for- Sandra, Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Kate
Nelligan, Amber Valletta and Peter Stormare.
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DEAD SILENCE
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| Get
ready for
Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta and Donnie
Wahlberg.
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I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE
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| Get
ready for
- Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres and Steve
Buscemi.
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PREMONITION
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| Get
ready for- Sandra, Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Kate
Nelligan, Amber Valletta and Peter Stormare.
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DEAD SILENCE
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| Get
ready for
Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta and Donnie
Wahlberg.
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Breach |
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Music
and Lyrics |
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Daddy's Little Girls |
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Bridge
to Terabithia |
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| critics corner ....
Here's what
the critics are saying about the recent releases at
the theatres
Newsweek
calls Breach "a wonderfully taut
cat-and-mouse thriller."
The Hollywood Reporter
says in Breach "everything comes down
to the acting. Chris Cooper, one of our
finest screen actors, gets inside the mysterious
traitor. Ryan Phillippe has just the right
gung-ho determination tempered with a touch of
naivete."
New York Magazine
says, "Cooper's performance is outlandishly
great, but Phillippe's knocks Breach down a
peg."
The Village Voice
says of Breach, "This is a spy movie
bereft of the genre's usual, casual kicks. It's
not interested in cheap thrills or playing gotcha
with the audience -- which isn't to say parts of
it aren't exhilarating."
USA Today
says of Music and Lyrics, "This
appealing romantic comedy undertakes the
conventions of the formula without an inordinate
amount of cliches."
The Hollywood Reporter
calls Music and Lyrics "an agreeably
loopy romantic comedy that bounces along
effortlessly on the genuine chemistry of leads Hugh
Grant and Drew Barrymore."
Premiere
magazine says of Music and Lyrics,
"The music is catchy. The actors are
likeable. It's all pleasant enough to watch, but
ultimately it's about as substantial as a pop
song. Though it's unlikely to stay with you quite
so long."
The Hollywood Reporter
says, "Daddy's Little Girls may be
heavy-handed and drearily predictable, but it also
should connect with its core audience as solidly
as [director Tyler] Perry's previous
efforts did, even if the drama is frequently just
as over the top as its predecessors."
The LA Weekly
says director "Perry has great casting
instincts, and in Idris Elba and Gabrielle
Union he's matched two gifted, equally
gorgeous actors, both of whom seem ready to make
sparks fly. If only their director would let
them."
The Chicago Tribune
says of Bridge to Terabithia,
"Elaborately mounted, expensively produced
and filmed with style and empathy, it's an
adaptation of Katherine Paterson's
Newbery Medal-winning book that manages to expand
the original vision, yet preserve much of its
intense emotion."
The Hollywood Reporter
says Bridge to Terabithia "incorporates
the novel's magical and emotional elements without
overplaying either a balance that hasn't
always proven easy to maintain in the world of
kid-lit adaptation."
Variety
says of Bridge to Terabithia, "Some
literal-minded attempts at magical realism are
redeemed by the film's emotional texture, winning
chemistry between the tyke leads, and scrupulous
adherence to a childlike point of view."
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NORBIT
with Eddie
Murphy, Thandie Newton, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell |
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| Norbit
brings fat fun to theaters on Friday starring Eddie
Murphy as a mannered guy in a bad relationship with a
monstrous woman, played by Eddie Murphy. Murphy also plays his
adoptive Asian father "Mister Wong." He plays mr. wong
sooooo well the cast membersdidn't even know it was him when he
showed up on set.... The 1st one fooles was Cuba Gooding Jr. |
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HANNIBAL
RISING-- Rhys
Ifans, Gong Li, Gaspard Ulliel, Helena Lia |
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Hannibal
Rising
opens Friday. This is the long-awaited prequel
to The Silence of the Lambs chronicles the formative
years of serial killer "Hannibal Lecter,"
from childhood horrors during World War Two to his
turning the tables on brutal war criminals. French
actor Gaspard Ulliel stars in the title role
( which Anthony Hopkins made famous ) with Gong
Li, Kevin McKidd ("Vorenus"
on HBO's Rome) and Dominic
West ("McNulty" on HBO's The Wire).
It's based on the novel by Lambs author Thomas
Harris |
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BREAKING
AND ENTERING--
Jude Law |
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| no information to tell
you |
FYI !
Norbit
co-stars Eddie Murphy and Thandie Newton
have both been up for Razzies. Murphy has
four past nominations, including one Worst Actor
nod for the three 2002 films The Adventures of
Pluto Nash, I Spy and Showtime.
Newton was nominated in the Worst Supporting
Actress category for 2000's Mission
Impossible Two. Conversely, Newton won a British
Academy Award for Crash, and Murphy is up for
an Oscar for Dreamgirls.
Norbit
is the sixth film in which Eddie Murphy has played
multiple roles, following Coming to America, Vampire
in Brooklyn, The Nutty Professor, Nutty
Professor Two: The Klumps and Bowfinger.
Norbit was
co-written by Eddie Murphy and his brother Charlie.
Hannibal Rising
went through the working titles Behind the Mask,
Young Hannibal and Young Hannibal: Behind
the Mask.
Hannibal Rising
was filmed in Lithuania, France and the Czech
Republic.
| critics corner ....
Here's what
the critics are saying about the recent releases at
the theatres
Entertainment Weekly
says, "In Norbit, Eddie Murphy
is like a xylophone player who keeps banging away
on the same two discordant notes
unfortunately, those monotonous, off-key tones are
the characters he's playing."
The Austin Chronicle
says the Norbit "script doesn't serve
Murphy's multi-character talents in the way he
deserves."
The Gannett News Service
says, "Norbit is an embarrassment for
Oscar nominee Murphy (Dreamgirls). Here's a
new Oscar category The Worst Movie Ever
Released by Someone Currently Under Consideration
for an Academy Award."
Gannett says Hannibal
Rising "is an intriguing addition to the
'Lecter' canon. A gloomy, gruesome, but intriguing
look at the formation of young Hannibal Lecter's
psychotic character."
The Austin Chronicle
says of Hannibal Rising, "Though gory
and violent enough, it is almost entirely devoid
of shock or suspense."
Time Out
magazine says Hannibal Rising "is all
relish, which is fine for a side dish but
unsatisfying in a main."
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| Alpha Dog |
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| Justin Timberlake's first big screen
acting gig... he supposedly steals the movie...........ons."
--Bill McCleary |
| Stomp The Yard |
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| Chris Brown and Ne-Yoof
Chanu-Christmas-kah." |
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Arthur and the Invisibles
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| Not sure... animated, enjoy kiddies, the
citics hate it |
| Code Name: The Cleaner |
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| Cedric The Entertainer......... critics are
ripping this film up! |
| Miss Potter |
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| Renee Zellweger new movie ! |
| Home Of The Brave |
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| 50 Cent is up in it .... 3 soldiers back
from war... the stories and more |
| Perfume : Story Of A Killer |
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| Strictly for the art lover in you ..... |
| The
Painted Veil |
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| Naomi Watts and Edward Norton make for a
stellar acting kinda movie |
| critics corner ....
Here's what the
critics are saying about the recent releases at the theatres
The Village Voice says, "Alpha
Dog's worth a look for the performance of Justin
Timberlake, the moral center of a movie sorely in need of
some conscience. Already a gifted comic actor his Saturday
Night Live appearances are now anticipated events he
proves himself able to go to a pitch-black place."
Rolling Stone says in Alpha
Dog, "Timberlake walks off with the movie. Too bad
it's not worth stealing."
Entertainment Weekly says Alpha
Dog director Nick Cassavetes "throws in
everything he can recycle to grab a core-demo viewer
slutty teens making out, blaring rock music, guns, split
screens."
The Austin Chronicle says of Alpha
Dog, "It's a soggy drama said to be inspired by
actual events too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be
serious."
The Austin Chronicle says Stomp
the Yard "won't ever be accused of breaking new
ground it's too busy entertaining to worry about being
original."
Entertainment Weekly says,
"The shallow frat-on-frat rivalry and the
poor-boy-loves-rich-girl subplot in Stomp the Yard
don't mean a thing. But the stepping does got that
swing."
Variety says, "The
dancing is more dynamic than the plotting in Stomp the Yard,
an energetic if formulaic underdog tale."
The Hollywood Reporter calls Arthur
and the Invisibles "a fair-to-middling children's
film that is half CG-animation and half live-action."
Variety says Arthur and the
Invisibles "haplessly blends live-action and visually
repellent computer-animated work."
The LA Weekly says of Arthur
and the Invisibles, "Predictable and overly busy,
this sci-fi adventure should nonetheless appeal to
computer-game-savvy tots -while boring their parents
silly."
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Freedom Writers based on the
book " Freedom Writers Diaries 2/7/2006) |
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| Hilary Swank portrays the teacher that
really made a difference through writing......ons." --Bill
McCleary |
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Happily
N'ever After |
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Animated for the
kiddies........Sarah Michelle Gellar
of Chanu-Christmas-kah." |
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Children
Of Men |
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| Clive Owen |
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Code Name:
The Cleaner |
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| Cedric The
Entertainer......... critics are ripping this film
up! |
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Miss Potter |
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| Renee Zellweger |
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Home Of The
Brave |
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| 50 Cent is up in it .... 3
soldiers back from war... the stories and
more |
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Perfume :
Story Of A Killer |
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| Strictly for the art lover
in you ..... |
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The
Painted Veil |
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| Naomi Watts and Edward
Norton make for a stellar acting kinda movie |
|
The
Painted Veil |
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| Naomi Watts and Edward
Norton make for a stellar acting kinda movie |
| critics corner ....
The Philadelphia
Inquirer says of Code
Name: The Cleaner, "there are
better action scenes in marionette shows."
The Minneapolis Star
Tribune says of Code
Name: The Cleaner, "Cedric the
Entertainer, whose standup comedy act is
utterly endearing, is hung out to dry in this
feeble spy comedy. It is not only pitched at
12-year-olds, it was apparently made by
them."
Variety says
Freedom Writers "takes the bold
approach of being earnest, honest and unafraid to
be called naive. As a result, it's extremely
affecting."
The Hollywood Reporter
says Freedom Writers "is both too
short and too long at two hours-plus. Not enough
time is spent with the teens and far too much with
their teacher Hilary Swank."
The Austin Chronicle
says Freedom Writers "offers few real
answers to the problems teachers face."
The Village Voice
says Happily N'ever After has "a
barely sketched out story line and quantities of
unimaginative CGI."
Entertainment Weekly
says Happily N'ever After is "stuffed
with stock characters -- the vain prince, the
critter sidekicks who adamantly stay
stock."
Variety
calls Happily N'ever After a
"colorful, crowd-pleasing toon."
The Los Angeles Times
says of Children of Men, "made with
palpable energy, intensity and excitement, it
compellingly creates a world gone mad that is
uncomfortably close to the one we live in. It is a
Blade Runner for the 21st century, a worthy
successor to that epic of dystopian decay."
The New York Times
says Children of Men "may be something
of a bummer, but it's the kind of glorious bummer
that lifts you to the rafters, transporting you
with the greatness of its filmmaking."
Entertainment Weekly
says Children of Men is "a work of art
that deserves a space cleared for its angry,
nervous beauty."
The LA Weekly
calls Children of Men "one of the
year's most imaginative and uniquely exciting
pieces of cinema."
The Los Angeles Times
says Miss Potter "is at once a
flagrant piece of kitsch and an unexpectedly
affecting story about an individual overcoming
personal tragedy and brutally restrictive
circumstances by talent and force of will."
TV Guide
says Miss Potter is "endearing without
being especially engaging."
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Blood DiamondsM,
12/7/2006) |
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| Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this
movie........as a South African mercenary who joins fisherman Djimon
Hounsou in recovering a rare stone amid the bloody business of
diamond mining. ons." --Bill
McCleary |
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The
Holida |
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Kate Winslet and Cameron
Diaz are the two women on opposite sides of the
Atlantic Ocean who swap towns and fall for local
guys. Jack Black, Jude Law and Edward
Burns is in it as well....... ays
of Chanu-Christmas-kah." |
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Apocalypto |
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| Mel Gibson is still
recovering from his trials and tribulations as an
anti semitic, or maybe just a drunk with a big
mouth.... you can click here and read up on
it........ Well his movie, Apocalypto hits
theaters tonight ( Friday ) . Set during the
decline of the ancient Mayan civilization, and
told in native tongue with English subtitles to
help you follow along, the movie follows a
man who has been selected for human sacrifice on a
journey to save himself and his family. |
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Unaccompanied
Minors |
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| You can call it "Home
Alone again" The re hash........ It's all
about a pack of kids left alone at an airport on
Christmas Eve. Starring ain the movie........ Dyllan
Christopher, Gina Mantegna, Quinn
Shephard, Wilmer Valderrama (That
'70s Show), Tyler James Williams (Everybody
Hates Chris) and Lewis Black (The
Daily Show). |
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Turistas: |
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Turistas opens
Friday with Josh Duhamel
who you saw on (NBC's Las Vegas),
Melissa George who was in (The
Amityville Horror) and Olivia Wilde (The
OC) who are all on a Brazilian vacation
that turns bad when a bus accident leaves the group
stranded...... Kinda like a strange version of
Hostel..... |
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The
Nativity Story: |
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| The Biblical drama The
Nativity Story is
the story of Virgin Mary on a journey from
Nazareth
and to
Bethlehem
for the
birth of Jesus. Shohreh Aghdashloo is also in this
(Oscar nominee for House
of Sand and Fog) |
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Fast Food
Nation: |
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Fast Food
Nation opens in 300 theaters tomorrow. The
loose adaptation of the best-selling book
interweaves tales connected to America's fast
food business with , Bobby Cannavale,
Kris Kristofferson,
Avril Lavigne, Ethan
Hawke, Patricia Arquette,
Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis and Wilmer
Valderrama of That '70s
Show.
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critics corner ....
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Entertainment Weekly says it
best.... Turistas, "with the
exception of that lone squirmy
surgery scene, is Hostel
without sadism, thrills, or funky
severed-limb FX. It quickly turns
into a very dull escape thriller."
ehhh this means some critics think
it really sux a**!
New York
magazine reports Turistas
"falls well below the mark set by
the last Americans abroad
torture-porn picture Hostel."
ok, so 2 in a row is not a good
sign.......
The
Village Voice says, "Turistas
eventually bogs down in an under-lit
mess." ok were batting 0 for 3
here..........
Newsday
reports of Van Wilder: The
Rise of Taj, "to make a movie
this charm-less and uninspired takes
a certain negligence that is rare
among even the most cynical
Hollywood moneymaking exercises."
The
Hollywood Reporter says The
Nativity Story "unfolds in a
scrupulously accurate historical
adventure story that depicts the
world of Jesus's birth with an
exciting you-are-there
verisimilitude."
The
Village Voice says in The
Nativity Story "the actors
register as little more than set
dressing and, despite director
Catherine Hardwicke's
resolve to give us the real Nativity
as we've never seen it before, much
of the movie smacks of convention."
Variety
opines, "Memories of dreary Sunday
school classes come flooding back
courtesy of The Nativity Story."
Entertainment Weekly says, "The
Nativity Story is a film of tame
picture-book sincerity, but that's
not the same thing as devotion. The
movie is too tepid to feel, or see,
the light." |
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| Casino
Royale |
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| Daniel Craig is the new "James
Bond" in Casino Royale, opening Friday the 17th!.This
adaptation of the very first Double-00-7 novel, previously adapted
as a Peter Sellers-Woody Allen spy spoof in 1967,
sends "Bond" on his first mission ....... a trip to
Madagascar to spy on a terrorist. This movie also features Judi
Dench, Eva Green and Jeffrey Wright as co-stars.
The film was co-written by Paul Haggis (Million Dollar
Baby, Crash), so you never know !
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| Happy Feet |
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| This animated flick features Elijah Wood voicing
a penguin missing the voice to attract a soul mate with songs......
One who discovers his talent in tap dancing. hmmmmmmm sounded
fruity, but ehhhhhh fun for kids.....This movie also featuring the
voices of Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy and Hugh
Jackman. |
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Let's Go To Prison
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This comedy stars Dax Shepard as a
career criminal who intentionally goes back to jail to get revenge
on an imprisoned judge's son, played by Will Arnett of TV's Arrested
Development!
Filming took place at Joliet Prison, the
now-abandoned big house seen in the movie Dax says....... 'They
didn't build this place to make movies. This isn't a joke. Dudes
really lived the better part of their lives in here, died in here,
made sweet, sweet love to one another in here.'"
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| Fast Food Nation ! |
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| Fast Food Nation opens in
300 theaters tomorrow. The loose adaptation of the
best-selling book interweaves tales connected to America's
fast food business with , Bobby Cannavale, Kris
Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, Ethan Hawke,
Patricia Arquette, Greg
Kinnear,
Bruce Willis and Wilmer Valderrama of That
'70s Show. |
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|
After Dark's Horror Fest: Eight Films to
Die For,
8 short horror flicks, opens in 450 theaters on Friday.
Unrest finds a medical student running afoul of a cadaver's vengeful
spirit.
Penny Dreadful, a young girl with an automobile phobia finds her worst
fears realized.
The Grave dancers raises hostile ghosts to take on a group of friends
holding a drunken wake for a dearly departed friend.
The Hamiltons........A picture-perfect family are actually a murderous
Reincarnation...... The director of The Grudge takes on the afterlife in
this thriller
A murderous mental institution escapee returns to his theme park hunting
ground in Dark Ride.
In The Abandoned, an adopted American film producer returns to her
biological Russian family farm to find strange goings-on.
And in Wicked Little Things a recent widow and her two daughters find
terror when they move to a remote mountain home.
| critics corner ... no critis
comments for above mentioned movies... mor eto come soon
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Borat |
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On Friday,
Borat: Cultural Learnings of
America for Make Benefit Glorious
Nation of Kazakhstan will be in
800 theaters across the nation. The
mockumentary follows fake
Kazakhstani
TV personality "Borat," played by
Ali G star Sacha Baron Cohen,
on a bumbling racist, sexist and
all-around politically incorrect
tour of America. |
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Flushed
Away |
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| Flushed Away
opens on Friday. The animated flick finds a pampered
British rat, voiced by Hugh Jackman, leaving
his penthouse for London's slums. The flick also
features the voices of Ian McKellen, Andy
Serkis and Kate Winslet. |
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Santa Clause 3
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The Santa Clause
Three: The Escape Clause opens Friday, with
Tim Allen back as Santa Clause..... The
fat man ! now juggling married life, a Baby
Clause and a slick plan by Jack Frost to control
the North Pole. Martin Short,
Elizabeth Mitchell, Judge Reinhold,
Spencer Breslin, Ann-Margret and
Alan Arkin co star
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critics corner
| Rolling
Stone says "you won't know what
outrageous fun is until you see
Borat. High-five!"
The
Chicago Tribune says "Borat
is a rarity a comedy whose
middle name is danger."
The
Village Voice says that "indeed,
the man who invented 'Borat' is a
masterful improviser, brilliant
comedian, courageous political
satirist, and genuinely experimental
film artist. 'Borat' makes
you laugh but [star Sacha]
Baron Cohen forces you to
think."
Variety
calls Borat an "uproariously
funny mockumentary."
The
Hollywood Reporter says
"delicious slapstick, droll wit and
terrific characters make [Flushed
Away] a great success."
Entertainment Weekly says that "Flushed
Away lacks the
action-contraption dottiness of a
Wallace and Gromit adventure,
but it hits its own sweet spot of
demented delight."
Variety
says Flushed Away is "long on
invention but short on likability."
The
Associated Press says that "down the
chimney Saint Nick comes with a thud
in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape
Clause, the needless third --
and hopefully last -- time Tim
Allen will suit up as the jolly
old elf. Allen looks silly, tired
and bored this time in the fat suit
and beard, while the movie presents
the irritating Martin Short
as 'Jack Frost,' nipping at your
nerves."
Newsday
says that "as a full-service holiday
movie, The Santa Clause 3: The
Escape Clause gets you into the
mood to shop early and often by
making the North Pole look like a
shopping mall with a never-ending
school pageant." |
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Saw 3 |
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| This time around....it's
all about the twisted torturer "Jigsaw" bedridden
and kidnapping a doctor to keep him alive long
enough to play and try to get at a final victim.
Starring are Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith,
Angus Macfadyen and Dina Meyer making
this the scary one to see .....
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Catch a
Fire |
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| Catch a Fire opens
Friday, starring Tim Robbins as a cop in
apartheid-era South Africa, and Derek Luke as
a famed freedom fighter using terrorist tactics.
Based on a true story...... |
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Running With Scissors |
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A crazy comedy-drama
Running With Scissors opens Friday in
limited release. The adaptation of the popular
memoir stars Joseph Cross as a young boy
who leaves alcoholic dad Alec Baldwin and
unstable mom Annette Bening to live with
his mother's oddball therapist. Co-starring are
Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan
Rachel Wood and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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| critics corner
| The
Hollywood Reporter says of the
South African apartheid drama
Catch a Fire, "Comparisons to
Hotel Rwanda make sense up to a
point both feature heroes who
have the scales removed from their
eyes but Fire is no
tearjerker, and here the story of
the main character's conversion
serves mainly as prologue to the
main plot, a history-tinted
cat-and-mouse policier."
Variety
says of Catch a Fire,
"Stories of resistance to oppression
will never become obsolete, but this
feels like a picture that should
have been made a long time ago."
The
Village Voice says, "Catch a
Fire plays like some weird
hybrid on the crazy-quilt
filmography of director Phillip
Noyce, which includes small
productions made in his native
Australia and the Sharon Stone
sexcapade Sliver. What it's
definitely not is the standard-issue
movie about apartheid there's
no white protagonist, no pale-faced
hero riding in on his high horse to
save the oppressed black man."
Premiere
magazine says Running With
Scissors is "somewhere between
American Beauty and The
Royal Tenenbaums indeed,
the characters [Annette]
Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow
play in Scissors are, in a
sense, inversions of their roles in
Beauty and Tenenbaums,
respectively."
USA
Today says, "Running With
Scissors lacks the edge of
Augusten Burroughs' best-selling
memoir on which it's based. The
result is an inconsistent
tragicomedy that attempts to be cut
from the same darkly humorous cloth
as American Beauty, but
fails."
Variety
says Running With Scissors
"strives mightily to capture the
bracing hilarity, pathos and surreal
incident of Burroughs' bestselling
memoir, but this rudderless
adaptation never gets a firm grip on
the author's deadpan tone or
episodic narrative style."
Variety
says the documentary Dixie
Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
"should win over fans of the
Chicks on the fence and of music
documentaries and perhaps create a
little cultural stir as well."
The
Village Voice says Dixie
Chicks: Shut Up and Sing is "not
quite the Bush bash-fest its
publicity might lead you to believe
it's closer to the Metallica
doc Some Kind of Monster than
to Fahrenheit 9-11." |
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The Prestige ............ Hugh
Jackman and Scarlette Johanson...... magicians..... gets a 3 star, but takes
too long to get to the point.
| The New
York Times calls Marie
Antoinette "a thoroughly modern
confection, blending insouciance and
sophistication, heartfelt longing
and self-conscious posing with the
guileless self-assurance of a great
pop song. What to do for pleasure?
Go see this movie, for starters."
Premiere
magazine says Marie Antoinette
"churns a symphony out of a single
note, too light and hermetically
sealed in the minds of director
Sofia]Coppola and her
queen to transcend its artfully
cared-for fluffiness."
The
Village Voice calls Marie
Antoinette "a graceful,
charming, and sometimes witty
confection -- at least for its first
hour."
The
Village Voice calls The
Prestige "a lopsided yet
absorbing movie in which the
director is less drawn to his main
characters than to those on the
periphery."
The
Hollywood Reporter says of
The Prestige, "Audiences might
enjoy this cinematic sleight of
hand, but the key characters are
such single-minded, calculating
individuals that the real magic
would be to find any heart in this
tale."
Variety
says The Prestige is full of
"gimmickry and aspirations toward
Les Miserables-style epic
passion."
The
Hollywood Reporter says, "Clint
Eastwood's Flags of Our
Fathers does a most difficult
and brave thing and does it
brilliantly. It is a movie about a
concept. Not just any concept but
the shop-worn and often wrong-headed
idea of 'heroism.'"
Time
magazine says, "Clint Eastwood has
crafted a bold and meticulous epic."
The
Village Voice says, "Flags of
Our Fathers is to the World War
Two movie what Eastwood's
Unforgiven was to the western --
a stripping-away of mythology until
only a harsher, uncomfortable
reality remains."
The
Associated Press calls Flicka
a "paint-by-numbers update with dull
dialogue and predictable action."
Premiere
magazine gives Flicka
two-and-a-half (out of four) stars. |
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THE GRUDE
2 |
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The Grudge 2 opens
TONIGHT ! ! ! ! ! boooooo. The follow-up to the
2004's The Grudge finds the same crazy
supernatural force taking over the cast and crew of
a TV show filming in a haunted house in Japan....
haunts, houses, and a grudge! Starring are
returning star Sarah Michelle Gellar bringing
a new crew of actors in on a scary flick ......Amber
Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel and Jennifer
Beals |
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INFAMOUS:
Opens Friday in Limited Release |
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Infamous is a drama
that tells the same tale of writer Truman Capote's
time researching murders for his book In
Cold Blood. Toby Jones plays the late
iconic author. Also appearing are Sandra Bullock,
Gwyneth Paltrow, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff
Daniels, Peter Bogdanovich, Isabella
Rossellini and new "James Bond" Daniel
Craig ! That is a stellar cast ..... |
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MAN OF THE
YEAR |
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| The comedy stars Robin
Williams as a straight-shooting TV personality
who runs for president amidst an electronic voting
machine scandal, kinda like the whole Bush
administration..... hahahahahahahah ! |
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THE MARINE |
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| The action flick The
Marine opens Friday, starring John Cena
as a US Marine who returns home after a tour of
duty to find his wife entangled in a wicked
kidnapping plot. Co-starring .... Kelly Carlson
(Nip and Tuck) and Robert Patrick. |
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ONE
NIGHT WITH THE KING:
Opens Friday in Limited Release |
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|
This is a Biblical
drama called One Night With the King,
starring Tiffany Dupont (from The
Bedford Diaries) as a young Jewish girl who
rises to become the queen of Persia and save the
Jewish nation from annihilation. |
| critics corner
Variety
calls Man of the Year "a curious
hybrid ... a political-action-comedy-thriller in
which Robin Williams becomes president of
the United States. A movie as uneven as it sounds,
Man is less laugh-out-loud funny than
topical and suspenseful."
The Hollywood Reporter
says Man of the Year has elements of
"a political thriller with its own conspiracy
theory, an improbable romance and a curious
subplot that feels like an anti-smoking ad. Little
wonder its bewildered star, Robin Williams, looks
confused much of the time."
Entertainment Weekly
says in Man, Robin Williams
"turns out to be exactly the wrong candidate
for the job, a comedian singularly
uninterested."
The Village Voice
says Man contains "a tangle of
conspiracy theories and crackpot notions that sink
the movie just when it begins to transcend
expectations. In short, it would have been great
if it had stopped, oh, 12 minutes in."
This week's other new
releases, the horror flick The
Grudge 2 and the kidnapping actioner The
Marine, were not made widely available for
critics to review ..... generally a sure
sign of the titanic.....
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THE DEPARTED |
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...... This movie is my pick
all the way for the weekend.....
One of the big movies opening
this weekend is The Departed.... my pick for the weekend if your looking for
mob style adventure..... The crime thriller
from director Martin Scorsese stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a cop who goes
undercover in the Boston mob and Matt Damon as a crook undercover in the
Boston Police Department. Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg,
Anthony Anderson and Alec Baldwin are also in the movie, making for a
thriller, suspenseful, and crazy..... FYI ! " The Departed " is
based on the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs
Wahlberg returned to his
juvenile delinquent roots lifestyle while shooting
The Departed in his hometown of Boston. He says,
"My growing up there has an effect on
everything I do, whether it's obvious or not. I
didn't have to do much homework. The only difference
was that I was playing one of the cops that used to
arrest me all of the time. I know a lot of those
guys. You either become a crook or a cop or a
construction worker in Boston -- there's not too
much in between." Guess we'll have to check it
! |
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EMPLOYEE OF
THE MONTH |
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Well... in the moivie everyone is trying to
sleep with Jessica Simpson... what's new ???
The comedy Employee of the
Month stars Dane Cook and Dax Shepard
as employees in a bulk-discount store fighting for
the affections Jessica Simpson ( cashier ) although
I am not so sure she can count to ten, so the part
is hard to believe is realistic...... . Co-starring
in the film..... Harland Williams, Andy
Dick and Efren Ramirez, aka
"Pedro" from Napoleon Dynamite. |
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THE TEXAS
CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING |
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| The horror flick The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning opens
this Friday. The prequel to the original Texas
Chainsaw Massacre taking you back to them
scary origins of the brutal killer "Leatherface"
with Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley
and R. Lee Ermey... not sure who they are,
they might be the ones that get killed off
early..... |
critics corner
Rolling Stone
calls The Departed "a new American
crime classic from the legendary Martin
Scorsese, whose talent shines here on its
highest beams."
The Hollywood Reporter
calls The Departed "a ferociously
entertaining film."
Newsweek
says, "The Departed is Scorsese's most
purely enjoyable movie in years. But it's not for
the faint of heart. It's rude, bleak, violent and
defiantly un-PC."
Variety
says Employee of the Month is "short
of being truly memorable but sharper than the
general slagheap of comedies."
The Hollywood Reporter
says Employee of the Month "manages to
retain a certain goofy appeal thanks to the
stand-up efforts of its comically adept cast
members."
The Hollywood Reporter
says of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning,
"The whole fear-of-obese-hillbillies
device is starting to smell as stale as 'Leatherface''s
playroom. Does this horror trend simply reflect a
national fear, as giant radioactive ants
personified the Bomb in the 1950s? If so, maybe
it's time for us all to go on a diet America
needs fresh fodder for its boogeymen."
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FLYBOYS
The drama Flyboys opens
on Friday. It stars James
Franco (Spider-Man), Jean Reno,
David Ellison and Martin
Henderson in the true tale of American fighter pilots who
volunteered for the French military before the U-S entered World War One.
ALL THE KING'S MEN
All the King's Men
opens on Friday. The classic novel, previously adapted into a 1949
Oscar-winning film, stars Sean Penn as Southern politician
"Willie Stark," a character supposedly based loosely on Huey
Long, the legendary Louisiana governor. Co-starring are Jude Law,
Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Hopkins.... a
stellar cast
JACKASS NUMBER 2
Johnny Knoxville's
The follow-up to 2002's Jackass: The Movie finds Knoxville riding a
rocket and getting rammed by a yak, as well as and Don Vito having a
tooth pulled out by Bam's Lamborghini. Returning .....Ryan
Dunn, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Dave England, Ehren
McGhehey, Brandon DiCamillo, Rake Yohn, Preston Lacy
and Jason "Wee-Man" Acuna
JET LI'S FEARLESS
Jet Li's
film which is being touted as the final action film from him, it tells
about the rise a 19th-century Chinese fighter who famously took on four
opponents representing foreign powers. This consists of a British boxer, a
Spanish swordsman, a Belgian soldier and a Japanese martial artist..........
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the last few months of releases and critics analysis
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HOLLYWOODLAND |
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Hollywoodland
stars Ben Affleck as actor George Reeves,
the 1950s TV "Superman" who died under mysterious
circumstances, and Adrien Brody as the
private detective on the case
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THE COVENANT |
| The supernatural
thriller The Covenant stars Steven
Strait, Sebastian Stan and
Taylor Kitsch as prep school students
who learn they have supernatural powers that
come from family lines stretching back to
the 17th century... hmmmmmmm

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THE PROTECTOR |
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The Protector
opens on Friday, finding a martial arts master
taking on Australian mobsters to recover two
elephants meant for the King of Thailand. Starring
are Tony Jaa,
Petchthai Wongkamlao and Bongkot Kongmalai.
Here's what the critics are
saying this week |
The Village Voice
says, "Although the action set pieces are impressive,
the exposition is sluggish. For all the posh dollies,
high angles, and Venetian-blind crisscross patterns,
The Black Dahlia rarely achieves the rhapsodic (let
alone the delirious)."
The Hollywood Reporter
says of The Black Dahlia, "The second half feels
heavy and unfulfilled, potential greatness reduced to a
good movie plagued with problems."
Variety
says of The Black Dahlia, "Chinatown
it ain't, not in any department. On its own level,
however, [it] generates a reasonable degree of
intrigue."
The L-A Weekly
says of Everyone's Hero, "The movie's antique
Rockwellian look is its greatest pleasure."
Entertainment Weekly
says "Everyone's Hero re-creates Depression-era
America with surprisingly agreeable anachronistic
panache, but a sassy ball and bat don't cut it as
compelling cartoon characters, and the not-so-human
humans never quite do either."
Entertainment Weekly
calls The Last Kiss "a crowd-pleaser in the
deepest sense it mixes heartbreak and happiness together
until you don't even want to see them apart."
Variety
says
The Last Kiss "craftily combines elements that
speak directly to three different generations, this
accomplished ensemble piece is shaping up to be the
surprise homegrown hit of the season."
The Chicago Tribune
says, "While Last Kiss may strike some as a
calculated crowd-pleaser, it's cleverly calculated,
perceptive and often quite funny -- and a bit darker
than it may first appear."
The Village Voice
says of Gridiron Gang, "Never mind the obvious
parallels to The Longest Yard and Remember the
Titans, what we get here is one huge, indigestible
sports movie platitude."
Entertainment Weekly
says Gridiron Gang "parades itself as an 'honest'
message movie, a call for troubled kids to choose life
over street nihilism, but the picture is so earnest that
it leaves out the easy, old-school pleasure conjured by
the last few years of Disney sports flicks."
Entertainment Weekly
says of Hollywoodland, "The chief frustration of
this otherwise well-made, well-acted, well-heeled
picture...is that it is so very self-absorbedly graceful
about something so very insular and unremarkable."
The Hollywood Reporter
says Hollywoodland "ultimately falls short of
reaching the pleasingly pulpy heights of an LA
Confidential or a Chinatown despite those obvious
aspirations."
The LA Weekly
says Hollywoodland "is brave enough to admit that not
all failed movie careers are the result of evil corporate
suits, and Ben Affleck makes us care that this
likable but weak-minded man threw away what was solid and
good in his life for the chimera of fame."
Variety
says of The Protector, "Boasting the same refreshing
avoidance of CGI and wire work as Warrior, this
slickly made production is more consciously aimed at the
international market, with its Australian setting and
multi-lingual dialogue."
The LA Weekly
says the star of The Protector "has the skills for
the job, and shows them off in numerous fight scenes
it's just a shame that the movie he's in is barely
acceptable in any other respect."
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CRANK |
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| Crank
starring Jason Statham as a hit man
who has been poisoned and goes on a
desperate hunt for the antidote. Amy Smart
not only had to shoot a steamy sex scene
while filming the action flick, she had to
get down and dirty for producers and
potential directors during her
audition........ it was hot steamy, sexy,
they all left a little relieved... so you
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CROSSOVER |
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A basketball player must
choose between medical school and the NBA in the
drama
Crossover starring
Jonathan Wesley, Anthony Mackie,
Shelli Boone and Wayne Brady. |
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WICKER MAN: |
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The Wicker Man ......
The re-make of the 1973 horror classic stars
Nicolas Cage as a sheriff investigating a
child's strange disappearance on an isolated island
where inhabitants are not what they seem... poor
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THE
ILLUSIONIST |
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The
Illusionist opens on Friday in 800 theaters
across the country. It's all about Edward Norton
as a 20th century Austrian stage magician who uses
his magic to win over the love of his life....
played by the lovely Jessica Biel |
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IDLEWILD--
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Andre Benjamin [Andre 3000], Big Boi, Paula Patton,
Terrence Howard, Malinda Williams, Macy Gray, Ben
Vereen, Ving Rhames and Faizon Love.
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LITTLE
MISS SUNSHINE--
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(Goes Wide). Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Steve
Carell, Toni Collette
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BEERFEST--
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Erik Stolhanske and Paul Soter.
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INVINCIBLE- |
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-Mark Wahlberg, Elizabeth Banks and Greg Kinnear.
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| Entertainment
Weekly says, "Idlewild is a romp,
a ticket to rowdy good times."
Variety says
Idlewild "achieves magic .....
something sorely missing from so many movies
these days ....and does so via a philosophy
of respect, but not reverence, for what's
come before it. It never recycles, it just
re-imagines."
Rolling Stone
says of Idlewild, "This oddball mix
of The Cotton Club and Six Feet
Under is a big, beautiful mess."
The Hollywood
Reporter calls Idlewild "an
entertaining mess. It blends together
musical styles and dances, historical
periods with howling anachronisms, coy,
almost childish gimmicks with R-rated sex
and violence."
The Village
Voice says, "Invincible joins
Rocky or Hoosiers or Breaking
Away as one of the few satisfying sports
movies in which the foundation built upon a
heap of cliches holds strong."
The Hollywood
Reporter calls Invincible "a
neatly packaged Walt Disney Company picture
with bone-crunching football action and a
nice sense of the blue-collar,
male-dominated milieu that nourishes
football fanaticism with]a few too many
tugs at the heartstrings."
The Austin
Chronicle says, "Invincible is
like a thick, sweaty slab of NFL comfort
food."
The LA Weekly
says How to Eat Fried Worms "is one
of those rare kiddie flicks that
successfully adopt a child's-eye view of the
world, where nothing is more important than
saving face on the playground and where
parents are as distant and clueless as
storybook giants."
The Hollywood
Reporter says of Worms, "Boys
will be happy at the mild grossness, parents
will tolerate anything that entertains."
Variety
calls Worms "a decidedly
old-fashioned family film that may prove too
quaint for modern audiences."
The LA Weekly
says, "Beerfest bubbles with the
cheeky irreverence of early John Landis
and David Zucker. Yet, like just
about every other American screen comedy of
the moment, it's far too long in the tooth,
with a scattershot final half-hour that
seems the work of an editor battling a bad
hangover."
The Associated
Press says, "Beerfest is like tapping
a keg that's had a bumpy ride to the party
... the first pints keep coming up pure
foam, with so much undrinkable froth you
begin to wonder why you bothered showing
up." |
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| The World Trade Center
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| Depictions of what really
happened on 911 directed by Oliver Stone and
starring Nicholas Cage........... |
Here is what the critics are
sayin !
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Variety says, "World
Trade Center yields
lovely and touching moments
but proves a slow-going,
arduous movie experience."
Entertainment Weekly
calls World Trade Center
"a scrupulous and honorable
film. Yet it never comes
close to being a revelatory
one it sentimentalizes
more than it haunts."
The Hollywood Reporter
says World Trade Center
"is a film of terrific
selectivity. By focusing on
two of the few who did
survive the collapse, the
film achieves emotional
power and an uplifting
ending."
Time says, "Very simply
World Trade Center is
a powerful movie experience,
a hymn in plainsong that
glorifies that which is best
in the American spirit."
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TALLADEGA NIGHTS |
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| The comedy Talladega
Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby opens Friday,
starring Will Ferrell as a reckless NASCAR
driver who takes on a famed French driver, played by
Sacha Baron Cohen ( HBO star ) |
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BARNYARD |
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| The Original Party
Animals with a pack of partying farm friends
suddenly put in a position of responsibility.
Featuring the voices of Courteney Cox,
Danny Glover, Sam Elliott, Wanda Sykes
and Kevin James of TV's King of Queensaving
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NIGHT LISTENER |
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| Robin Williams as a
radio host who's drawn in by a young fan's claims of
a tragic upbringing |
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DESCENT |
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| New to
theaters Friday is the British action thriller
The Descent, which finds a group of girls sealed
in a cave system with a race of monstrous humanoid
creatures. Starring are Shauna MacDonald,
Natalie Mendoza and Alex Reid. |
Here is what the critics are
sayin !
| The Hollywood
Reporter says of Talladega Nights:
The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, "From its
pitch-perfect title through just about every
detail, this send-up of sports-triumph
movies maintains the right parodic pitch, if
not always the highest MPH on the laugh
speedometer."
The LA Weekly
calls Talladega Nights "not just the
funniest but the smartest comedy around by a
mile."
The Village
Voice says in Talladega Nights
Will "Ferrell reminds the
audience of why he matters -- because he's
the loudest, driest and most fearless comic
actor working."
Variety
says, "The chills and spills keep comin' to
agreeable effect in Brit-made scare-fest
The Descent."
The LA Weekly
calls The Descent "compulsively
watchable, with its fair share of effective
sledgehammer shocks it just isn't very
good."
Entertainment
Weekly says, "The director of The
Descent is savvy enough to suggest even
more than he shows. And he's old-school
enough to load up on glimpses of good,
clean, gruesome gore."
Entertainment
Weekly asks, "Is The Night Listener
a wintry drama with a few schlocky jolts, or
an underdone psychological thriller
straining for some dramatic heft on the
side? Hard to tell, but either way, the
movie doesn't cohere."
Variety says
of The Night Listener, "Aiming for
unsettling atmosphere over character
definition, the dawdling mystery thriller
manages to flatten two protagonists."
The Hollywood
Reporter says The Night Listener
"plays like an Alfred Hitchcock
thriller but is nevertheless a movie of
ideas. It bristles with intriguing thoughts
about the realm of fiction, how one loves,
issues of identity and questions concerning
how one transfers a real-life incident into
big-screen fiction. This is a film that can
crawl inside your skin."
The Associated
Press says Barnyard is "better
than average" and "actually has a clever
concept (the animals walk upright and hang
out like humans when the farmer isn't
looking) and it handles such sensitive
topics as birth and death with unexpected
grace."
The Orlando
Sentinel calls Barnyard "another
quick-and-dirty 'all-star cast' mess churned
out by the digital start-ups hired to steal
some of Pixar's cash." |
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Miami
Vice
Jamie Foxx and company.... It's not like the original, but it is the new
in for the cast runing around Miami, boats, helicopters.... etc.....
The Ant
Bully
John Tucker
Must Die
Ashanti and the girls team up against the boy !
Scoop
A Scanner
Darkly
and here is what to
critics are saying about some of the movies out
Entertainment Weekly
says Miami Vice "is so cool that it's almost too cool. It
takes the sin, and much of the juice, out of vice."
Variety calls
Miami Vice "a slightly overblown TV episode, brimming with
style and characteristically short on substance."
The New Yorker
says Miami Vice is "about guns and sex and fast boats, and
baffling as it is at times, it's still the kind of brutal fantasy that
many of us relish a great deal more than yet another aerated digital
dream."
The Hollywood Reporter
calls Miami Vice "a frustratingly inert affair ...... a long
and talky excursion that fails to engage the viewer from the outset."
The Chicago Tribune
calls John Tucker Must Die "reasonably entertaining."
The Village Voice
says of John Tucker Must Die, "Whatever the target demographic
was in the pre-production phase, now it's limited to sexually active
14-year-olds still retaking the sixth grade."
Entertainment Weekly
calls The Ant Bully "an effortlessly clever animated
confection."
The Hollywood Reporter
says The Ant Bully "feels anonymously generic and charmlessly
mechanical."
The Chicago Tribune
says The Ant Bully "lacks a sharp look and satisfyingly
fleshed-out story and compensates with one numbing round of insect or
human-based peril after another."
New York Magazine
calls Scoop the first Woody "Allen picture since
Sweet and Lowdown that doesn't leave a bad odor in its
wake."
The Village Voice
says Scoop is "so flat, dull, and off form that it seems to
have been conceived in a fog. It not only lacks the verve and energy of
Allen's best New York-based work, it feels culturally adrift."
Premiere says
of Scoop, "What once was a gifted comic's fluid improvisation
is now a doddering old man so embarrassing that Woody Allen is
uncomfortable to watch, and the surrogate father-daughter needling he has
with Scarlett Johansson is creepy when you realize Woody the
director is shooting her seductively in that skintight bathing suit."
previously ....
My Super
Ex-Girlfriend
The comedy My Super
Ex-Girlfriend opens Friday, starring Uma Thurman
as a superhero who uses her powers to torment her
ex-boyfriend, Luke Wilson.
Clerks 2
director Kevin Smith's follow-up to his 1994 no-budget
convenience-store comedy. The sequel finds now-30-something slackers
"Dante" (Brian O'Halloran) and "Randal" (Jeff Anderson)
getting fast-food jobs as they face the prospect of growing up.
Monster House
The animated flick with
the voices of Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Jon Heder, Nick Cannon and Jason Lee
finds three kids discovering that a neighbor's house is a
monster that must be stopped.
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And here is what the critics have to say
| The Hollywood Reporter
says Lady in the Water "does project genuine
menace and suspense into this mundane location,
especially in nighttime scenes. But the magic that
would transport you from reality into fantasy is
missing." Variety
calls Lady in the Water "a ponderous,
self-indulgent bedtime tale. Awkwardly positioned,
this gloomy gothic fantasy falls well short of
horror."
LA Weekly says
Lady in the Water "feels very much like
something its author made up as he went along ....
and if it weren't so damn weird, it would most
certainly put you right to sleep."
LA Weekly calls
My Super Ex-Girlfriend "a one-joke movie if ever
there was, but the joke happens to be a good one
a Tracy-and-Hepburn-style battle of
the sexes in which Kate can fly and blast through."
The Associated Press
opines, "One of the freshest movie premises of the
summer -- and one of the best casting choices,
Uma Thurman as a superhero using her powers to
exact payback on the man who jilted her ..... are
utterly wasted in My Super Ex-Girlfriend."
Newsday says My
Super Ex-Girlfriend "is one of those movies that
make you ask why. Why was it made? Why did Uma
Thurman waste her time? And most important, why is
there 10 bucks missing from my pocket?"
Variety calls
Clerks Two, "a softer, flabbier and considerably
higher-budgeted follow-up to Kevin Smith's
1994 indie sensation that nevertheless packs enough
riotous exchanges and pungent sexual obscenities to
make its 97 minutes pass by with ease."
The Village Voice
says Clerks Two "can't bear the strain of its
amateur-hour theatrics, no matter how big its heart
or how many crocodile tears it manages to squirt.
The dramatic moments become melodramatic, the bawdy
moments turn icky. The fans will eat it up."
Variety says of the
animated Monster House, "Constant shock cuts
and souped-up music and sound effects will keep
small fry in a state of moderate petrification,
while the trio of tweeny leads plus
attitude-redolent cohorts will make teens feel
welcome."
New York Magazine
says Monster House "might be scary for small
kids ...... but good scary, with goose-bump-inducing
frames, witty repartee and three resourceful kid
protagonists."
The Village Voice
says "the coolest thing about Monster House
is that Kathleen Turner's face was actually
motion-captured to create the house's movements, but
actual human beings on-screen might have ratcheted
up the tension, of which there is none."
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Little Man It stars
Marlon Wayans as a tiny criminal on the run who goes undercover as an
infant in the care of Shawn Wayans. Co-starring are Kerry
Washington, John Witherspoon and Tracy Morgan. Directed by
that crazy guy Keenan Ivory Wayans.
You, Me and Dupree . The comedy
stars Owen Wilson as the slacker house guest from hell staying with
newlyweds Kate Hudson and Matt Dillon. Michael Douglas
co-stars.
Wilson admits he's been as bad a guest as his
character, saying, "There've probably been some times that I've been like
'Dupree.' I know that my older brother Andrew says that my brother
Luke and I wrecked his first marriage because we were always staying at
his house. We had a ladder set up so we could go into the second story
window, and one time Andrew had locked me out and I needed to get in to get
some of my clothes and I fell through their ceiling."
Hudson, who is married to Black Crowes
frontman Chris Robinson, is no stranger to having oddballs flop at
their pad in real life. She says, "I actually kind of enjoy it. I enjoy a
lively house. I enjoy weird characters .....there are two musician friends,
English friends of ours, I have seen their penises one too many times. I
mean, why? Why is it necessary for you to be walking around my house naked
or to think that it's funny to flash me your penis?"
And Matt Dillon has also had crazy houseguest
situations, he recalls, "I had a friend of mine who wasn't exactly Jack
LaLanne. He was kind of a heavy set guy and when he was a houseguest, he
liked to walk around in the buff, which is fine if he lives alone, but he's
staying as a guest at my house. It didn't go over too well with my live-in
girlfriend. He just felt free. He was into The Grateful Dead and he
liked to walk around naked." hahahahah
A Scanner Darkly opens in limited release Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Junior,
Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder in the not-so-distant future
in the not-so-normal world, where crazy-drug-fueled citizens regularly
spy on one another for the US government.
And here is what the critics have to say
| Entertainment
Weekly says You, Me and Dupree
"isn't a very funny movie (it preaches
nonconformity in the rote style of an
over-lit sitcom), but Owen
Wilson, at least, keeps it afloat."
Variety
calls Dupree "a middling third-wheel
comedy elevated a couple of notches by the
ineffably weird charms of Owen Wilson."
The Hollywood
Reporter says the Dupree comedy
"is obvious and flat while the drama is
stale. They did do one thing right, however,
they attracted a stellar cast."
The Village
Voice says Dupree "goes from
being another mildly depressing lump of
unrealized comic potential to being an
actively unpleasant experience."
The Associated
Press says Little Man "is big on
gross-out humor and slap-sticky sight gags
that appeal to the lowest common
denominator, but small on genuinely clever
laughs."
The Orlando
Sentinel gives Little Man
two-out-of-five stars, saying "it delivers
some of the biggest low laughs of the
summer, just not enough of them."
The Chicago
Tribune reviewer says of Little Man,
"I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh at
some of this -- though it's not as funny as
Laurel and Hardy." |
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| Pirates of the
Caribbean
Dead Man's Chest
opens Friday. The follow-up to Curse of
the Black Pearl finds Johnny Depp's
pirate "Captain Jack" owing a blood debt to
"Davey Jones," captain of the ghostly Flying
Dutchman. Co-starring are Orlando Bloom
and Keira Knightley, and they all
kiss in the movie... HOTTTTTT !
This film marks the
first time Depp has played the same
character in more than one film .... a
pirate he patterned after Rolling Stone
Keith Richards. Depp says of the
role, "It's still shocking to me. I was
handed this opportunity to make something of
this character and had pretty solid ideas
about who he was and what he should be like
and everything and there were a number
of people who thought that I was nuts. But I
was committed to the guy."
Some may think
being a movie star on location in the
Bahamas sounds fun, but Orlando Bloom isn't
one of them. He tells us, "It's a paradise
in one form or another, some people will go
on vacation there, they'll spend two weeks,
they'll scuba dive and at the end of the two
weeks they're like, 'Yeah, I'm ready to go
home.' You wouldn't be there for six months,
eight months and you can't go home. You make
it what it is."
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Variety says of
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man's Chest, "There
is a sense of bloat and
where-do-we-go-from-here
aimlessness to this
unconscionably protracted
undertaking."
Rolling Stone says,
"Lively is an odd word for
something called Dead
Man's Chest, but lively
it is. You won't find hotter
action, wilder thrills or
loopier laughs this summer."
The Hollywood Reporter
says Johnny Depp "is
the comic gel that holds [Dead
Man's Chest] together.
The performance is a total
delight that somehow
combines 'Bugs Bunny,'
'Peter Pan' and Charlie
Chaplin."
The Los Angeles Times
offers, "Intermittently fun
and high-spirited, Dead
Man's Chest sags under
the weight of its own
running time." |
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Superman Returns ....... Well,
Superman Returns after being away for 6 years..........
Brandon Routh plays Superman and Kevin Spacey plays the
evil Lex Luther..... Lois Lane has a child, and the saga
continues..... in water, on land, and in space.
| Time
magazine says, "The best Hollywood movies
always knew how to sneak a beguiling subtext
into a crowd pleasing story. Superman
Returns is in that grand tradition.
That's why it's beyond Super. It's superb."
Variety calls
Superman Returns "grandly conceived
and sensitively drawn."
Newsweek
says, "This Superman, which infuses
its action with poetry, soars as a love
story filled with epic yearnings, thwarted
desires and breathtaking imagery."
Entertainment
Weekly says, "The surprise of
Superman Returns is that it isn't a
funky, ambitious conceptual re-imagining,
like last summer's Batman Begins.
This really IS your father's Superman."
Rolling Stone
says, "Superman returns with a bang.
Director Bryan Singer
tarnishes his hero's halo with just enough
sexual longing and self-doubt to make him
riveting and relatable. That 'S' on his suit
has a whole new meaning ...... he's a Soul
Man." |
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THE DEVIL
WEARS PRADA ................ This is the other movie opening
this weekend ...... you may have seen the previews, here is
the breakdown..... The
Devil Wears Prada stars Anne Hathaway as a
wide-eyed - bright eyes bushy tailed..... college graduate (
you know the type ... ready to set the world on fire ) who
gets a job assisting a difficult magazine mogul, played
by Meryl Streep.
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Click
A film that will make you laugh your a** off....
Adam Sandler gets a remote control that allows him
to pause life whenever he feels a need to pause it,
and change things up a little.... and Adam Sandler
is known for employing all his homies..... Kate
Beckinsale, David Hasselhoff, Henry Winkler, and
more..... expect 1 hour and 45 minutes of
laughs.........
Waist Deep
A urban style setting...... Tyrease, The Game, and
Larenz Tate are back in action............
And here is what the critics
are saying about the movies opening :
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Premiere magazine says, "Click
is yet another uninspired
Adam Sandler goof-fest with a
long-suffering leading lady, mildly
bawdy gags see Joe Schomo
oogle female jogger and a
predictable ending."
The LA
Weekly says, "After an hour of
predictably sophomoric antics
involving foulmouthed kids,
compulsively self-pleasuring canines
and the rampant objectification of
women, Click turns into a
surrealist death dream in which
Sandler's masochistic impulses
flower onscreen as never before."
The
Dallas Observer says, "Not
everything jells, but Click
is funnier and more elaborately
clever than anything Sandler's done
in years."
The
Austin Chronicle says of
Click, "Sandler is a
post-Catskills goldmine of
potential, he always has been, and
when he's willing to break with
tradition a la Punch Drunk
Love he's downright
revelatory. Not this time, though.
This time he's just dying."
The
Hollywood Reporter calls
Waist Deep a "virtually nonstop
crime actioner, set against the mean
streets of Los Angeles, with
pleasing noirish touches along with
larger-than-life-size characters."
Variety
says, "Waist Deep packs
considerable energy and style into
its tale of an ex-con forced back
into a life of crime to rescue his
kidnapped son. Yet the kinetic
direction and occasional sly humor
can't disguise the tale's banal
brutality or pump much excitement
into its routinized pileup of
shoot-outs and car chases."
The LA
Weekly says in Waist Deep
Tyrese "Gibson and
Meagan Good deliver such
emotionally honest performances that
we wish them a happy ending, no
matter how many movie cliches have
to be trotted out to get there." |
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THE LAKE
HOUSE A
supernatural romance starring Sandra Bullock
as a doctor who begins exchanging letters with a
frustrated architect Keanu Reeves, only to
learn that they're living two years apart....
interestingly enough, they connect.........
Wow, Match .com eat your
heart out on this one..... You'll be happy to hear
that Bullock likes love affairs where lovers never
meet, saying, "I think there's the luxury of not
having 100% proof that you're ever going to meet
this person. You're not fearful of sharing all of
yourself, because you don't have anything to be
fearful of.... I don't have to hide the parts of
myself that I find ugly." Hmmmm This movie looks
really good !
NACHO
LIBRE
Nacho Libre
opens Friday. The comedy stars Jack Black as
a Mexican priest who moonlights as a wrestler to
save an orphanage..
I just got back from the premiere and despite the
few funny lines in the movie, over all, I would
rather watch grass grow...... Sorry people, but this
one is worth waiting till it hits regular TV in 6
months......
THE FAST &
THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT
The Fast and the
Furious: Tokyo Drift, the third film in the high
octane franchise starring Lucas Black as a
troubled American gear-head who falls in with the
Tokyo underworld. Bow Wow is also in this one,
racing and being Bow Wow..........
GARFIELD:
A TALE OF TWO KITTIES
Opening Friday is
the family friendly, part animated flick
Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, featuring
Garfield with the voice of Bill Murray on a
trip to England, where he's mistaken for
royalty..... which means he gets fed a grip of
Lasagna! Jennifer Love Hewitt and Breckin
Meyer co star in the film......
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
A serious
documentary called An Inconvenient Truth
opens in 420 theaters in Friday. The film captures
Al Gore's worldwide campaign to call
attention to global warming........
And here is what the critics
are saying about the movies opening :
| Variety
says The Lake House "is
never quite sure what it wants to be
a magical mysterious love story, a
psychodrama, a sprawling family saga
or an uneasy combination of these."
The
Hollywood Reporter calls The
Lake House "a slow moving, never
igniting tale of calendar crossed
lovers that grows less convincing as
it proceeds."
The
Village Voice says the
"ostensibly spooky romance yarn
The Lake House flounders less on
its thudding familiarity than on its
mood-killing dourness."
The
Village Voice says "Nacho
Libre plays like a Jack Black
best-of, down to the song he wrote
and performs...that sounds like some
Tejano version of a Tenacious D
throwaway."
The
Associated Press says Nacho Libre
"can be giddily hilarious and has
many solid, silly laughs, but it
runs out of flips and tricks
and steam about halfway
through."
Variety
says of The Fast and the Furious:
Tokyo Drift, "Pumping
high-performance gas back into the
series after a second lap sputter,
the third entry stays in high gear
most of the way with several
exhilarating racing sequences, and
benefits greatly from the evocative
Japanese setting."
The
Associated Press says, "The Fast
and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is
a very expensive cinematic
equivalent of foolhardy boys playing
rough with their Hot Wheels cars ...
while gorgeous, underdressed girls
look on."
The
Associated Press says of
Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties,
"Despite his droll delivery and a
couple of amusing lines here and
there, Bill Murray as
the voice of 'Garfield' can't wring
many laughs out of the mostly lame
script." |
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top models at eztreetrecords.com/models.htm - The Firm In Los
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Jay z, eminem, Notorious Big, 2 pac mp3, martyrsandpoets.net Julie
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David Munns,Wisconsin singles, live interviews by ez street
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laz, blink 182, metalica live, power 96, power 96 miami, tony the tiger,
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interview - The book " Making It " by D. Hamilton - at
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laughed at, nirvana bootlegs are depressing, a david grohl interview is
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