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, who has washed up (or awakened) on a beach and is brought into the home of a wealthy man he has known in other circumstances, somewhere in time. "Delirious" describes the movie as well, which assuredly offers audiences sights heretofore unseen....
sells its 3-D in ways you wouldn't call sophisticated or witty. But you certainly notice it. Front car in a roller coaster, up, up, up, then down, down, down ? aaaaahhhhAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!! And like that....
style, it recaptures the old comic spark with a splendid ode to "The Great Escape" as cowboy Woody, spaceman Buzz Lightyear, cowgirl Jessie, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and the rest of the principals bust out of the plastic-and-plush-toy gulag in which they find themselves....
? which relies on the heart and cheery bloodthirstiness of the original ? marks the first time the city of Detroit has been played on screen by parts of Beijing. The film was shot on location in China....
's Hannibal Smith takes time for a philosophical heart-to-heart with one of his men, B.A. Baracus, played by mixed martial arts star Quinton "Rampage" Jackson....
Equal parts "Species" and "The Savage is Loose," the eccentric and crafty new thriller "Splice" isn't for audiences who require strong, noble rooting interests in their questing protagonists of science....
is unexpectedly sincere about the thing that matters most in a relationship: trust. It is also creatively diverse in exploring the ways boy-men ? a misbehaving rock star on drugs, and his star-struck, increasingly addled handler ? will be boy-men. Yes, that old song again....
feature made $415 million worldwide. Its pre-sold fan base, already nostalgic for Cosmopolitans, heaved a collective, economically envious sigh: Nice to see you four again. By the way, nice shoes. Now, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are back for "Sex and the City 2" and it's more like: Oh....
is about more interesting matters than plausibility or realism. How does the old song from "Damn Yankees" go? Miles and miles and miles of heart ? that's the stuff....
After enduring some of the grimmest romantic comedies since Leopold met Loeb, audiences have every right to be wary of the latest two to come to market, "Just Wright" and the subject at hand, "Letters to Juliet." Miraculously, they're both enjoyable. You heard me. I'm as stunned as you are....
"You gotta stop that kinda dreamin,'" said the naive mother in the original 1984 "Nightmare on Elm Street," and of course the advice was not heeded, and Freddy Krueger (billed as "Fred Krueger") and his metallic claw-fingers wiped out teenager after teenager, and a franchise was born....
A B-minus edition of "The A-Team," the comic book adaptation "The Losers" drags you down to its level at gunpoint with its drooling fetishization of weaponry, its focus on Zoe Saldana in wee shorts, various and sundry assassinations designed with gamers in mind and more rabid mistrust of the U.S....
"The Back-up Plan." It's a sound strategy. If the theatrical arm of CBS ever green-lights a script worth a damn, it just might work. Already, you may have made up your mind whether to see "The Back-up Plan" based on the cuteness of the leads....
" A tasty image, especially if you imagine the floor of your local multiplex. Deftly illustrated by John Romita Jr., Millar's "Kick-Ass" revels in geek revenge, with the novelty of teen and preteen vigilantes....
telling him: "I just want to go and do a movie and hang off the end of a car." This, of course, is the problem with being associated with successful, classy, verbally driven television series such as "30 Rock" or "The Office": You so rarely get to hang off the end of a car....
, in the new thriller "After.Life." He sounds like the stage manager in a particularly grim production of "Our Town." Anna, on the other hand, resembles the poor soul in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," the one who's not dead yet but is being treated as such. The film's guessing game is simple....
Sand dunes at sunset, summer lovin' (had me a blast!), a third-act medical crisis and a clutch of letters designed to be read aloud in voice-over: Another month, another adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks romance....
A chlorinated, R-rated "Back to the Future," "Hot Tub Time Machine" accomplishes what "Snakes on a Plane" did not: It offers a merrily idiotic movie to go with its willfully idiotic title....
So here we are with "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," "Hotel for Dogs" director Thor Freudenthal's live-action feature film version of the Jeff Kinney books. Kids may love the movie, and even kids who love the books may like it....
? Try pulling concrete details of those rom-coms from the windmills of your mind; it's like a party game played by amnesiacs. I mean, do the people who made those movies remember them? And yet they're better than director Andy Tennant's "The Bounty Hunter....
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