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Miracle at ST. Anna
Spike Lee’s look at an actual all-black unit during WWII and what happens trapped behind enemy lines in Italy, and how that affects the present
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Nights in Rodanth
Richard Gere, Diane Lane, a weekend romance … what more do you need?
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Eagle Eye
Shia LaBoef and Rosario Dawson are fugitives on the run!
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1 .SEX AND THE CITY:
If you’re a fan of the series, you’ll get full value from the movie in which Carrie Bradshaw and her pals Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda pick up a few years after we last saw them on the small screen. Chris Noth is back as Big, and there is a wedding in the works … or is there? Best thing I can say for the movie is that I was not a fan of the TV series – didn’t hate it, just ignored it – but I picked up the thread of the movie story and enjoyed it despite myself. Rated 18A.
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2. DECEPTION:
Ewan McGregor stars as an accountant who gets caught up in what at first seems to be a sex club, and later becomes a murder. This movie isn’t certain what it’s supposed to be – a whodunit or a character study. It doesn’t do well at either one. Hugh Jackman also stars, but none of the characters is really believable. Didn’t work for me. Rated 14A.
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3. LEATHERHEADS:
George Clooney stars in a story about the beginning of pro football in the United States. Clooney is Dodge Connolly, and his plan is to recruit a top college ballplayer into his slap-together league to try to attract public interest. Rene Zelwegger is a fast-talking reporter, the dialogue is great and so is the period … but for all that, this one didn’t do much business. Rated 14A.
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RICK’S PICK: SEX AND THE CITY:
Yes, there’s some sex, and yes, it happens in the city, but overall, this is a good yarn with a good outcome – and you don’t have to be well-versed in the genre to like it – and you don’t have to be female either.
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Young Frankenstein (1974):
Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman (as Igor), Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle as the monster, and Terri Garr offer up what is still the best-ever spoof of the genre. Directed by Mel Brooks, and rated one of the 50 best comedies of all time. |
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Ghost Town
Ricky Gervais is fabulously funny as a man who dies, is revived, and now sees ghosts
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Lakeview Terrace
Samuel L. Jackson is scary as the bad neighbour terrorizing a newly moved in couple
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My Best Friend's Girl
Standard romantic comedy, hardly worth the effort
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Igor
Very funny send-up of horror films, but not good for very young children.
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