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SECRETARIAT
Diane Lane and James Cromwell star in this tale of the Triple Crown winner
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NOWHERE BOY
John Lennon’s early years (he would be 70 this week)
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LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel in a rom-com
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1. THE KARATE KID:
Big at the box office, this remake of the ‘80s original stars Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s son Jaden (the co-produced the movie) as Dre, an early teen who movies to China with his single-mother who is transferred by her company. Bullied mercilessly by Chinese tough kids, he gets lessons in the martial arts from a handyman (Jackie Chan) who is a little more than he appears to be. I found it too long with too many long close-ups of Jaden … but then, I’m not the proud parent. Rated PG.
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2. JONAH HEX:
A box-office disaster that I quite liked, Josh Brolin is the title character, a terribly disfigured bounty hunter and gunslinger in the old west, looking to get even with those who done him wrong. Based on a comic book, I felt the character worked, the story was classic good guy VS bad guys, and even Megan Fox in a supporting role couldn’t spoil it for me. Rated 14A.
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3. 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: DARK DAYS:
“Frozen” is to skiing and snowboarding what the movie “Open Water” was to scuba diving. Three friends, boarders to the end, are stranded on a ski lift as darkness falls, the staff leaves for the weekend, and no one knows they are up there. The weather closes in, and they begin to freeze. Can’t get worse? Yes it can. A pack of hungry wolves is lurking below the lift, just waiting for a morsel or two to drop from the sky. A no-name cast (because not all make it to the end, I suspect). Rated 14-A.
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4. THE KARATE KID:
Even though this wasn’t my favourite, the box office says otherwise, and one cannot dispute the charismatic star power of young Jaden … and of Jackie Chan playing his scenes as if he was re-making Drunken Master.
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THE KARATE KID (1984):
Why settle for a remake when the original with Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita does the job better? Still holds up as an excellent object lesson!
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CASE 39
Renee Zellweger stars as a social worker in a horror-thriller
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LET ME IN
Vampires again, this time, a very young one
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK
The story behind Face Book and the world’s youngest billionaire.
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