We open on a gathering of the Scrappers Club, four women around a kitchen table pasting things into scrapbooks. The moment we hear one of them talking, we're not too surprised to find her name is Blanche Gunderson. Her sister Marge, the trooper, must have been the ambitious one. Not that Blanche isn't, just that she's relentlessly nice.
Strange, how a man once so reviled has gained stature in the memory. How we cheered when Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency!
Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" hits the ground running. This is a breathless, exciting story, somehow heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time, about a Mumbai orphan who rises from literal rags to literal riches, all on the strength of his lively intelligence.
I'm angry. Yes, I think I've finally reached my limit on bad and unnecessary movie remakes. This is not a new phenomenon, but it seems recently more and more are being ripped off from superior films. And I think I've been very tolerant, sitting through pale imitations of better originals such as "The Manchurian Candidate," "The Invasion," "Poseidon," "Psycho," "Planet of the Apes," "The Heartbreak Kid," "The Shaggy Dog," "All the King's Men," "King Kong," ...
"The Awful Truth" from 1937 is the film that introduced us to the Cary Grant everyone remembers.
Punisher: War Zone * * Terrible film. Please come back Thomas Jayne, all is forgiven (Greg Eichelberger, Escape) Day the Earth Stood Still - Bark! (See review this issue) Another classless remake of another classic film. This time, Keanu Reeves stars as Klaatu joining forces with Al Gore to save Mother Earth. (Greg Eichelberger, Escape)
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10,000 B.C. - Director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day after Tomorrow) zips way back through time to focus on a young hunter (Steven Strait) in a remote mountain tribe who likes a girl named Evolet (Camilla Belle). (PG-13, 109 minutes) College Road Trip - Martin Lawrence stars as an overprotective father to Raven-Symone, who wants to head out on a "girls only" road trip to check out possible universities, but he decides that he'll ...
At 69 minutes of actual movie, not counting five minutes of end credits, there's not enough room for a story to encompass all the characters in Walt Disney Pictures' 1988 animated film "Oliver & Company."
10,000 B.C. - Director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day after Tomorrow) zips way back through time to focus on a young hunter (Steven Strait) in a remote mountain tribe who likes a girl named Evolet (Camilla Belle).
10,000 B.C. - Director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day after Tomorrow) zips way back through time to focus on a young hunter (Steven Strait) in a remote mountain tribe who likes a girl named Evolet (Camilla Belle).