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OLD DOGS
Robin Williams and John Travolta in a Disney film about a couple of middle-aged pals who wind up sort of in the parent business.
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NINJA ASSASSIN
The title says it all as a kid raised in the streets is trained up in the martial arts. Starring Rain. Yes, Rain.
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1. ANGELS AND DEMONS:
Tom Hanks is back as symbologist Robert Langdon in a story that leads us through Rome in his conflict with The Illuminati, bent on destroying the Catholic church. As usual, cryptic dialogue abounds, the mullet from the previous movie is gone, and the story is slightly less complicated. I liked the book better than The Da Vinci Code, and found the movie a little easier to enjoy as well. Ewan McGregor co-stars. Rated 14A.
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2. FOUR CHRISTMASES:
Not half bad for a Holiday movie that has Christmas Day visits to his family and her family – all divorced, so that makes four visits – for a couple played by Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon who really just wanted to get away for the season, but got caught on tape on a newscast from the airport, showcasing the lie they had told their families. Produced by Peter Billingsley. Rated PG.
3. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES:
A fully restored version of the 1937 Walt Disney classic treats a whole new generation to the story of Snow White who lives in the forest with seven very odd little men as she tries to stay out of the clutches of the wicked Queen who would see her dead. This is family entertainment? Well, cartoons of this era were actually made for adults, not children. It wasn’t until the 1950s that Disney started marketing this to kids. Rated G.
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THE SEVENTH SIGN (1988):
21 years old, and still a super plot in which Demi Moore stars as a woman caught up in end-days Biblical prophesy … a film from the days when the Church stayed out of showbusiness reviewing. Ellen De Generes’s first film role, but her small part was left on the cutting room floor. |
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THE BLIND SIDE
A superb based-on-fact film about a young homeless African American youth whose life is turned around by Leigh Anne Twohy and her family – Sandra Bullock is superb!
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON
I found this Twilight sequel plodding and wordy … but then, I’m not a 14 year-old-girl!
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PLANET 51
Man is the alien visitor on a domestic planet … just not our kind of domesticity – strictly for kids.
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