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  • The Spirit

    The Spirit (PG-13, 2008)

    Adapted from the legendary comic strip, "The Spirit" is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister Frank Miller. It is the story of a fo...[ read more ]rmer rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as the Spirit to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, the Octopus has a different mission: he's going to wipe out Spirit's beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront--all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women, who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every turn are Ellen Dolan, the whip-smart girl-next-door; Silken Floss, a punk secretary and frigid vixen; Plaster of Paris, a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelei, a phantom siren; and Morgenstern, a sexy young cop. Then of course, there's Sand Sarerf, the jewel thief with dangerous curves. She's the love of his life turned bad. Will he save her or will she kill him?
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  • Defiance

    Defiance (R, 2008)

    It's a slow week in movieland, but one big-budget defiant flick is willing to premier (technically still Oscar-eligible). Set in 1941, Defiance featur...[ read more ]es Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber as brothers who begin a grassroots resistance as the Nazis overrun their childhood home.
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  • Good

    Good (Unrated, 2008)

    And the WWII flicks keep coming. Viggo Mortensen, in a stark change of pace, stars in this film about the many "good" people caught up in the Nazi reg...[ read more ]ime. He plays a naive literature professor co-opted to assist with Nazi propaganda. Sure enough, things get complicated.
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  • The Wrestler

    The Wrestler (R, 2008)

    The wrestler is the story of retired professional wrestler, Randy "The Ram" Robinson, making his way through the independent circuit, trying to get ba...[ read more ]ck in the game for one final showdown with his former rival.
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  • Last Chance Harvey

    Last Chance Harvey (PG-13, 2008)

    New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver,...[ read more ] Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting--or else. Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate, a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another's lives.
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  • Outlander

    Outlander (Unrated, 2008)

    During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan (Caviezel), a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the...[ read more ] Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by fusing his advanced technology with the Viking's Iron Age weaponry.
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  • Ghajini

    Ghajini (Unrated, 2008)

    An Indian businessman sets out to hunt down a group of thugs who killed his girlfriend.
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  • Aanrijding in Moscou (Moscow, Belgium)

    Aanrijding in Moscou (Moscow, Belgium) (Unrated, 2008)

    Matty is a no-nonsense, working class, 41-year-old mother of three, with a thousand yard stare whose life seems to come apart after a minor collision ...[ read more ]with a Belgian truck transporting Italian lollipops. The 29-year-old redhead driver Johnny has not only bruised her car but also her sense of self. Not only is Johnny uneducated, balding and a dozen years younger, it also turns out that he has an alcohol problem, a criminal record and a fondness for cheesy lyrics. Meanwhile, her art teacher husband Werner is trying to work out whether he prefers Matty to one of his 22-year-old students, while their three children are trying to figure out where they stand in relation to the opportunities and pratfalls of puberty. As Johnny worms his way into the heart of Matty and the lives of the other members of this dysfunctional, but lovable, family, it becomes clear that everyone has a right to happiness but that this right can be reached only by making choices, which are not always easy.
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  • Valkyrie (PG-13, 2008)

    3.5 Stars - by QueenCityFilms
    Better than I anticipated, this movie was pretty fuggin solid all around. Cinematography was top no...[ read more ]tch, story wasn't too shabby, and I even forgot Tom Cruise was pretending to be German for a while. Cool.

  • Bedtime Stories (PG, 2008)

    4.5 Stars - by SexiVixxEN
    The year finally finished out nicely in a big way.Bedtime Stories is Awesome!Silly and fun a great c...[ read more ]ast and ridiculously funny at times.I would venture to say this is the best family film of 2008.See with with your children soon!!! =)

  • Slumdog Millionaire (R, 2008)

    5.0 Stars - by lyndsiekivell
    I have not seen a better film all year. I went to the preview screening for the movie and convinced...[ read more ] every one of my friends to see it. The storyline, the visuals, the characters - everything seems shocking yet remarkably relatable. It seems almost impossible how many dangers the impoverished have to face. Far beyond hunger and make-shift housing, the constant threat of use, abuse, unfair treatment, even bigotry are key factors in shaping the lives of the three main characters as each one forges past their circumstance to finding a life more abundant. I can not recommend this movie highly enough.

  • Valkyrie (PG-13, 2008)

    3.5 Stars - by jagfire
    Give this movie a chance. The fact that we all know how things played out yet the film is still able...[ read more ] to make it suspenseful is pretty impressive.

  • The Tale of Despereaux (G, 2008)

    Not Interested - by SimplyZ
    Nay

  • Doubt (PG-13, 2008)

    4.0 Stars - by ceWEBrity
    The Oscar bait has been extremely solid this year, but nothing has really wowed me right out of the ...[ read more ]gate like There Will Be Blood last No Country for Old Men did. Milk, I think, is the strongest contender thus far; though it's not really a threat for Best Picture, Doubt is my second favorite. Picture aside, it has its fair share of categories on lockdown. Meryl Streep cannot miss for a Best Actress nomination. Viola Davis is set for Supporting Actress too. Philip Seymour Hoffman is apparently campaigning in Supporting Actor, which is total category fraud, but he'll get a nod anyway. Amy Adams might catch their coat tails, and she's good here, but not exactly a sure bet. Casting obviously went all-out in selecting a strong palette of actors.

    Why are powerful performers so vital to the success of the movie in particular? You'd probably have to take it on a character-by-character basis, but the four main figures of Doubt all stand in for a variety of complex themes and ideas. I mean, think of everything Sister Aloysius represents: conservativism as a social value, the reconciliation of injustice and faith, personal conviction in the face of overwhelming odds, and how we can atone for our sins but never truly escape them...to name a few. With so much moral weight to heft around, it's no wonder an actress as expressive as Meryl Streep was cast. With that said, the actors do not let their characters down, each of them giving performances appropriate to the thematic depth that the character contributes. Viola Davis is perhaps the biggest shocker - in a ten minute role, she manages to deepen the moral questions and ambiguities of the movie considerably, turning Sister Aloysius's obvious course of action into something far more sticky and depressing. PSH is typically great, though we've seen this role from him before; Amy Adams does fine but her character is the least rich of the four.

    The ending leaves the door open for a great deal of discussion, not so much on whether or not Father Flynn molested the boy - the answer to that, as I see it, is obvious. It allows for meditation and debate on the nature of sin, injustice and of course doubt, and how all of these figure into religion as a whole. It is a mature and literate pondering, quite in keeping with the rest of the film.

  • The Tale of Despereaux (G, 2008)

    Not Interested - by SexiVixxEN
    NOT INTERESTED

  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (PG-13, 2008)

    3.0 Stars - by gilbertgumphrey
    Maybe it helps if you haven't seen the original. Critics and audiences alike have ripped this new D...[ read more ]ay the Earth Stood Still to shreds, but to be honest, I found it enjoyable and even entertaining. It's not a great screenplay, and it's not a great movie, but as a diversion from the big Oscar contender dramas, I found it highly effective in it's opening passages and relatively interesting in it's latter half. It has it's problems, as all movies do, but not so much that I can give it a negative grade like everyone else seemingly can. Go in with no expectations, and you'll probably have a damn good time.

    The original film, made in the 50's by Robert Wise, is much beloved yet strangely unseen by me. I've known of it for quite some time - I went through a huge science-fiction nerd phase in elementary school and read quite a bit about the film and it's two aliens, Klatuu and Gort. This remake, thankfully, does not simply rehash the exact same story and plot of it's predecessor. And for some reason, this seems to be angering a lot of fans. I've heard a lot of "they must be rolling in their graves", none of which I can understand. This is a decent film, setting out to entertain and hold our interest, and on those levels it succeeds (for me, at least). There's even a pretty good message here of humans destroying the Earth we live in - true, hearing this message from a 100 million dollar film that probably destroyed quite a bit of the environment in order to be made is sort of like the pot calling the kettle black. But it's still a good message, and not told in a hugely ham-fisted manner.

    There is, of course, a lot of problems with the flick. The screenplay itself isn't really well written - the first fourty minutes or so, like I said earlier, are fantastic, but it slowly and steadily starts declining in quality after Keanu Reeves escapes the military base. The dialogue ranges from average to sometimes cringe-inducing (especially the last exchange of dialogue, in which I actually heard an audible groan from the audience). The plot starts spinning it's wheels after an hour or so, where characters keep crying over a long-dead husband when what they should be crying about is, I dunno, the extinction and extermination of the entire human race, including themselves. And the action scenes seem almost shoe-horned in, like the constant attacks of or to Gort, the large, menacing robot. It looks and sounds cool (and the robot himself is pretty awesome), but these scenes didn't really need to be in the movie at all.

    Admittedly, the invasion/extermination plot of the aliens themselves doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If they were gonna destroy us all anyway, why bother sending Klatuu in the first place? And his powers are often quite arbitrary and random - at one point he needs to be driven around all over New York, but at another moment he can simply touch a car and control where it moves in order to kill a cop. But hey, any movie where Keanu Reeves can open up his palms and take down two helicopters can't be all bad, right? And again, the opening scenes are wonderful. Aside from Jennifer Connelly's character being "needed" when she wasn't really needed at all, I believed almost everything I saw in the first act as how the human race really would respond to an unknown outer space invasion. These scenes were both haunting and intellectually stimulating, and that's not something you often find in a science fiction blockbuster.

    The acting has gotten some lambasting, too, but I found it, for the most part, quite decent. Keanu Reeves was born for this role - he's robotic and static at the best of times, so why not write a part for him where that is required? Jennifer Connelly has the most sympathetic face of any actress in Hollywood, which is desperately needed during the beginning to get us into the story. It also doesn't hurt that she's both a great actress and incredibly hot, too (although I must admit, I miss the days when she got naked for literally every film she appeared in). Jaden Smith is a huge source of irritation, though. His character is annoying and continually fucks things up just so the screenwriters can get from point A to point B, and Smith himself doesn't act him well at all. Sorry, kid - your performance sucked. Hopefully we can move on from this.

    Anyhoo, I quite liked this flick. It's actually not even a weak 3 stars I'm giving out - seen drunk or stoned, it would probably merit a 3.5. Yes, it has it's problems, I won't deny that. And I can see where fans of the original are frustrated (especially with their "special line", which was barely heard at all over the roar of the sound effects). But overall, even with a muddled ending, story problems, bad child acting, and poor dialogue, I had a good time watching The Day the Earth Stood Still, and I think you might too.

  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (PG-13, 2008)

    4.5 Stars - by barrys
    The day the Earth Stood Still a remake of the 50's movie of the same name is a very interesting movi...[ read more ]e, it has very good action and adventure, the suspense will keep you on the edge of your seat. A sci-fi movie with a very actual theme. The story is very interesting and the plot about an creature from outer space arrived to the Earth to give a message to all the world leaders, change your way of living and your feelings or prepare to be destroyed, is very good developed and convincing. The special FX are excellent. The cast was good, Keanu Reeves in the role of Klaatu was good although it sometimes remind me of Neo in The Matrix, Jennifer Connelly was convincing, Kathy Bates excellent and Jaden Smith was also good although his role turns to be a little annoying at the end with all his whining at the end. In conclusion, the movie is a very good effort to get entertained, a very good choice for those sci-fi fans.

  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (PG-13, 2008)

    2.5 Stars - by sheens431
    I thought this movie started out pretty strong. It was mysterious and the aliens were kind of creep...[ read more ]y in how powerful they are. But then it got bogged down and was really just the same old stuff over and over again.

    Very predictable in the humans begging and showing the aliens that we can change. Boring. And who didn't see Keanu Reeves sacrificing himself to save us?

    The thing I wanted to see a little more of was the earth actually getting destroyed. I mean John Cleese even said that people change when we're at the very brink of destruction, but the only thing that got destroyed was NYC and some of the eastern U.S. The rest of the world wasn't even touched. How is that going to change things?

    I thought it should be much more violent, with a lot more people dying. Maybe leave a few thousand people alive across the world. Then you would see some serious change in humans.

    Jaden Smith's character annoyed the hell out of me. I hate selfish, ungrateful little brats like that.

    Wait for this one on DVD. Or go to it just to see the awesome Wolverine trailer. There's really not much else to see here.

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