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“Never Been Kissed”

  • February 1, 2010
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"Never Been Kissed" (PG-13) Drew Barrymore plays a newspaper copy editor who wants to be an investigative reporter and gets her chance by being sent back to high school to dig up a story. The problem is that Barrymore was an unpopular kid back in her real school days and history begins to repeat itself. Enter her brother, played by David Arquette of "Scream" fame, who promptly becomes a legend...

“Entrapment”

  • February 1, 2010
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"Entrapment" (PG-13) DT: "Entrapment" is the story of high-tech thieves, undercover insurance agents and other characters whose alliances may or may not be what they seem. Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones play Mac and Jen (pronounced Jin if your a Scot. Sean confused us a few times with his thick Scottish accent.) Connery plays a thief who is being watched by Zeta-Jones as part of her job at...

“The Other Sister”

  • February 1, 2010
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"The Other Sister" (PG-13) DT: This is the story of a young learning disabled woman and her struggle to break free from her parents and live on her own. Juliette Lewis plays the girl and Diane Keaton and Tom Skerrit play her parents. The film is directed by Garry "Pretty Woman" Marshall. The film is basically a comedy and while it has some drama thrown in to make it "real," it still felt fake to...

“Mystery Men”

  • February 1, 2010
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"Mystery Men" (PG-13) Starring Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Geoffrey Rush, Janeane Garofalo, Hank Azaria, Paul Ruebens, Wes Studi & Greg Kinnear. In Champion City there are three types of people: Super heroes & villains, regular folks & those in between, the super hero wannabe's, the Mystery Men of the film's title. Fighting crime isn't easy for this bunch. When you have really lame...

“The Blair Witch Project”

  • February 1, 2010
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"The Blair Witch Project" (R) DT: Just as "The Exorcist" was arguably the scariest film of the seventies, The Blair Witch Project is likely to be considered the creepiest of the nineties. Starring nobody you've ever heard of and costing a whopping $50,000 to produce, this film should prove to be the most successful independent film ever. It has grossed over 80 million after just a few weeks...

“Chill Factor”

  • February 1, 2010
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"Chill Factor" (R) An ice cream truck saves the world? Raise your hand if you find thattotally idiotic. Okay, maybe it was Cuba Gooding (why Cuba, why?) andSkeet (Scream I) Ulrich saving the world in an ice cream truck, but isthere really any difference. Touted as an action/thriller, the only worthwhile action this movie gotanywhere near was the mass of ticket holders flocking toward the doorhalf...

“The World Is Not Enough”

  • February 1, 2010
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"The World Is Not Enough" (PG-13) Stars Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench, Sophie Marceau and Denise Richards among others. DT: Bond, James Bond is back and this film keeps alive the recent string of better than average Bond films that started with "The Living Daylights" in 1987. Mr. Brosnan turns in a fine performance. This Bond, while still making the occasional double-entendre, isn't one to trifle...

“The Straight Story”

  • February 1, 2010
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"The Straight Story" — (G) DM: No that is not a typographical error, this made-for-adults movie was honestly rated "G". How strange is that in today's world? Not even the Christian movie "The Omega Code" could claim a "G". What's even more out-of-this-world, is that this "G" rated movie was directed by Master of Weirdness, David Lynch of "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks" fame. Do you want a third...

“Bats”

  • February 1, 2010
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"Bats" — (PG-13) DM: File this one under the "don't bother renting" category. Did you ever wonder what it might look like if you cut out cardboard figures, dubbed in voices and made your own movie with your video camera? If you can imagine that, you can imagine what "Bats" is like. Lou Diamond Phillips gives one of the stiffest performances on record and the humor misfires in all directions...

“For Love of the Game”

  • February 1, 2010
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"For Love of the Game" (PG-13) Kevin Costner plays Billy Chapel, a great Major League Baseball player who is bound for the Hall of Fame. However Chapel is struggling through the end of a brilliant 19-year career and his Detroit Tigers team — much like the real-life Tigers — is terrible. The team is sold and the new owners want to trade Chapel — a life-long Tiger — to the San Francisco...