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Published
April 6, 2011

Movie Review: ‘Hop’ a bunny tale in need of a swift kick

The best one can say for 'Hop' is that it adheres to that Hippocratic oath of children's entertainment – 'First, do no harm.'
Published
April 6, 2011

Indie Film: Documentary brings home perilous world of exotic pets

'The Elephant in the Living Room' is gripping, thought-provoking and often intense.
Published
March 30, 2011

DVD Releases

Fact-based takes on crime, labor strife worth close look
Published
March 30, 2011

Movies opening this week

Opening Friday
Published
March 30, 2011

Movie Review: ‘Source Code’

Sci-fi with a heart

Published
March 24, 2011

At the Movies

OPENING FRIDAY “SUCKER PUNCH” (PG-13) Stars Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens and Abbie Cornish. Directed by Zack Snyder. A young girl is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility. Thematic material involving sexuality, violence and combat sequences, and […]
Published
March 24, 2011

This ‘Wimpy Kid’ posts low score on the giggle meter

“Diary of a Wimpy Kind: Rodrick Rules” takes our intrepid wimpy hero through seventh grade — more struggles to be “popular,” more efforts to make his unaffected, unpretentious and childish pal Rowley less of an embarrassment. It makes more of an effort to connect the big screen “Kid” with the Jeff Kinney “Diary” books — […]
Published
March 24, 2011

Girl power: Action heroines pack a ‘Punch’

NEW YORK – Black undies? Or white? It was a choice that confronted writer-director Zack Snyder while making “Sucker Punch,” a mostly female action-fantasy starring Emily Browning as a gun-toting, sword-swinging killer deceptively named Babydoll. She dispatches zombies and robots with the kind of brutality that made Snyder’s mostly male “300” a hit in 2007, […]
Published
March 17, 2011

DVD Releases

Scale the heights of Everest, lows of '70s-era news shows
Published
March 17, 2011

At the Movies

OPENING FRIDAY “LIMITLESS” (1:45) (PG-13) Stars Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel and Abbie Cornish. Directed by Neil Burger. A copywriter (Cooper) discovers a top-secret drug, MDT-48, that enhances intellect and other abilities. As his usage begins to change his life, he begins to consider the drug’s shadowy origins; meanwhile, a group of killers trail his every move. […]

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