Archive for the ‘Movie Reviews’ Category

“Premonition” Movie Review

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she gets the devastating news that her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the...

“X-Men 3: The Last Stand” Movie Review

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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Experience the awesome power of The X-Men's epic, final battle. Join well-known mutant heroes and villains, and meet a cadre of all-new warriors -- including Angel, Beast, Juggernaut and Colossus -- in this thrilling, explosive adventure!

After a con...

“Wild Hogs” Movie Review

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy star in Wild Hogs, the hysterically funny comedy about four weekend-warrior friends who decide to rev up their ho-hum suburban lives with a cross-country motorcycle adventure.

They don thei...

“Bridge to Terabithia” Movie Review

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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Based on Katherine Paterson's young-adult novel and filmed in picturesque New Zealand, Bridge to Terabithia has lessons to impart about empathy and self-expression, but the tone is never heavy-handed.

Jesse (sleepy-eyed Josh Hutcherson, Zathura), a f...

“Disturbia” Movie Review

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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After his father is killed in a car accident, things unravel for Kale Brecht (Shia LeBoef) and he is placed under house-arrest for punching his Spanish teacher. Having nothing better to do, Kale occupies himself by spying on his neighbors.

But one ni...

“Eragon” Movie Review

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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The Kingdom of Alagaesia is ruled by the evil King Galbatorix, a former dragon rider that betrayed his mates and his people in his quest for power. When the orphan farm boy Eragon finds a blue stone sent by Princess Arya, he soon realizes that it is...

“Hot Fuzz” Movie Review

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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Police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is transferred to a rural village. On arrival, Angel teams up with the oaf-like PC Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) and together they investigate a series of mysterious murders, all of which are classed as 'acci...

“Pan’s Labyrinth” Movie Review

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who...

“Alpha Dog” Movie Review

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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They grew up together in the suburbs of LA, living their own version of the American dream, with every day a blur of partying and looking for the next thrill. Johnny (Emile Hirsch, Lords of Dogtown) is the leader in their sordid world of drugs, greed...

Movie Review: The Great Debaters

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

This film is, in many ways, the ?sports movie? I have been waiting to see.
It’s not often that a movie is such a crowd-pleaser that the audience responds with tumultuous applause not once but numerous times. That’s the reaction Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters inspired when I saw it in a crowded theater. Yes, the movie follows some tried and true underdog movie conventions, but rarely is it done so skillfully as…