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“Unbreakable”

  • February 1, 2010
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"Unbreakable" (PG-13)Starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. 113 min. DM: After a meager two major films,M.Night Shyamalan has proven that he can spin a good-old-fashioned yarn with the best of them. "Unbreakable," his follow-up to last year's smash spook story "The Sixth Sense," has a storyline which is just as intricate and woven through the nearly two-hour time span. I will say, that this...

"Not Another Teen Movie"

  • February 1, 2010
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"Not Another Teen Movie" (R) - violence, gross humor, nudity, sexual content Sometimes you don't really want to see a movie, but because of time constraints, you have to see it. Can you relate to that? "Not Another Teen Movie" was one such movie, where I didn't want to be in there, and apparently neither did the people who wrote it. "NATM" displayed pretty much what is wrong with our nation's...

“Ocean's Eleven”

  • February 1, 2010
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"Ocean's Eleven" (PG-13) - Language This has been out there for several weeks, but chances are you can still catch it at most major theaters. I'd suggest doing so. TV's George Clooney plays a hard-boiled thief just being sprung from prison. Oddly enough, his name is Danny Ocean, same as the title of the movie! He gets together with partner-in-crime Brad Pitt, and the pair set off to assemble 11...

“Orange County”

  • February 1, 2010
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"Orange County" (PG-13) — language Stars Colin Hanks, Jack Black, John Lithgow, Katherine O'Hara. A high school senior, obsessed with getting into Stanford, has his dream sabotaged when the wrong transcript is sent under his name. The trials and tribulations of getting accepted into Stanford comprise the plot of this surprisingly good comedy. DT: The film wouldn't work as well as it does if...

“The Fellowship of the Ring”

  • February 1, 2010
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"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (PG-13) - mild violence 178 Min. Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen,Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Ian Holm among others. The Lord of the Rings was once described by a critic as a fairy tale for grownups and indeed it is. It is a finely detailed, epic sized fairy tale full of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, the strong and the weak, the wise and...

“The Majestic”

  • February 1, 2010
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“The Majestic” (PG-13) Nothing very objectionable. “The Majestic” stars Old Rubberface himself, Jim Carrey as an up-and-coming movie writer-producer in Hollywood back in the 1950s. Carrey is fingered as a possible Communist, and fired from his cushy job. He takes a drive, goes over a bridge and wakes up marooned in a small town where he is believed to be a long-lost World War II son of...

“Road to Perdition”

  • February 1, 2010
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“Road to Perdition” – R Paul Newman, Tom Hanks & Jude Law. DM: For those of you who don’t know, perdition, according to the dictionary, is “utter destruction” and “eternal damnation.” For Hank’s character, Michael Sullivan, the main character in “Road to Perdition,” both descriptions are right on the money. Michael Sullivan is not your “Forrest Gump,” “Captain...

“Shakespeare in Love”

  • February 1, 2010
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"Shakespeare in Love" (R) On the other hand, Mr. Trachsel and I took the opportunity to find out exactly why "Shakespeare in Love" was getting 13 Academy Award nominations. Witty and charming, the movie boasts a number of outstanding performances. The attention to period detail gives it a realism that runs the gamut from gritty to glorious. Amidst all of the great acting, the best of the bunch...

“8MM”

  • February 1, 2010
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"8MM" (R) It's official — Nicholas Cage is at an all-time low. You would think that winning an Academy Award for a movie like "Leaving Las Vegas" would propel your career into orbit and give you an unbelievable amount of scripts to choose from. Instead Cage has gone from mediocre ("Con Air") to bad ("Snake Eyes") to the worst in this dispicable private eye trash film about the seedy underbelly...

“The Thin Red Line”

  • February 1, 2010
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"The Thin Red Line" (R) This is the story of the invasion of Guadalcanal as seen through the eyes of a number of different soldiers in a World War II rifle company. It stars Nick Nolte, Ben Chaplin, Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, John Cusack and Woody Harrelson, among others. DT: This is the other war movie of the year and this makes it hard to review without comparing it to "Saving Private Ryan...