Category: Movie Reviews
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Alone in the Dark
Cast: Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Mark Acheson, William Sanderson Studio: Lion’s Gate Rating: 1/10 CORPORATE LINE: You wake up in the middle of the night with the feeling someone is in the room with you. You get a flash of panic as you fumble for your bedside lamp. But when you turn on…
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Hide And Seek
Cast: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen Studio: Fox Rating: 4/10 CORPORATE LINE: “Come out, come out, wherever you are!” That command is familiar to everyone who has played the children’s game, Hide and Seek. The words and game take us back to an innocent, carefree time in our lives, where the simple goal…
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Elektra
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Terence Stamp, Will Yun Lee, Jason Isaacs, Goran Visnjic Studio: Fox Rating: 4/10 CORPORATE LINE: Jennifer Garner stars in the title role as a strong, mysterious and sexy action heroine – a lethal synthesis of grace and power. Not long after recovering from seemingly mortal wounds, Elektra has severed all ties with…
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The Life Aquatic
Cast: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett Studio: Touchstone Rating: 6/10 Even the most devout, dipped-in-water fans of Wes Anderson’s films may say he’s gone off the deep end in his latest film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Despite the dry delivery of Bill Murray as Captain Steve Zissou, this satire of a Jacques…
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Meet The Fockers
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner Studio: Universal Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: The makers and stars behind the runaway hit of 2000, Meet the Parents, are re-united in the follow-up comedy, Meet the Fockers. Now that Greg Focker (Stiller) is “in” with his soon-to-be in-laws, Jack (De Niro) and…
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The Phantom of the Opera
Cast: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a disfigured musical genius (Gerard Butler) who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with the lovely…
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Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Cast: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Emily Browning, Kara Hoffman, Liam Aiken Studio: Paramount Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: After Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire’s parents perish in a terrible fire, they are placed in the care of Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), an actor, evil genius, and master of disguise. At every turn, Count Olaf hatches another…
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Kinsey
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, John Lithgow, Oliver Platt Studio: Fox Rating: 8/10 CORPORATE LINE: Academy Award®-winning writer-director Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS) turns the microscope on Alfred Kinsey in a drama that is at once a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and a…
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Blade: Trinity
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey Studio: New Line Cinema Rating: 4/10 CORPORATE LINE: Wesley Snipes returns as the day-walking vampire hunter in the explosive third and final film in the Blade franchise, Blade: Trinity. When the Vampire Nation hatches a plan to frame Blade in a series of brutal…
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Ocean’s Twelve
Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: It’s been three years since Danny Ocean (GEORGE CLOONEY) and his crew – fronted by detail man Rusty Ryan (BRAD PITT), up-and-coming pickpocket Linus Caldwell (MATT DAMON), explosives expert Basher Tarr (DON CHEADLE) and safecracker Frank Catton…