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AMERICAN REUNION
(R) Comedy Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Eugene Levy, Chris Klein, Seann William Scott, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jennifer Coolidge, Mena Suvari. (page 3)
BEING FLYNN
(R) Comedy/Drama Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, Olivia Thirlby, Julianne Moore, Wes Studi, Dale Dickey, Lili Taylor. (page 5)
JULY 17
THE THREE STOOGES
(PG) Comedy Directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, Jane Lynch, Sofia Vergara, Larry David, Craig Bierko, Jennifer Hudson. (page 3)
LOCKOUT
(PG-13) Sci-Fi/Action Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan, Joseph Gilgun, Lennie James, Peter Stormare. (page 4)
FRIENDS WITH KIDS
(R) Comedy/Drama/Romance Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd, Edward Burns, Megan Fox. (page 5)
CASA DE MI PADRE
(R) Comedy/Western
Will Ferrell, Diego Luna, Genesis Rodriguez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Perdo Armendariz Jr., Efren Ramirez, Nick Offerman. (page 5)
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
(PG-13) Drama/Comedy/Romance Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rachael Stirling, Tom Mison. (page 4)
JULY 24
SILENT HOUSE
(R) Drama/Suspense/Thriller Elizabeth Olsen
Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross. (page 4)
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Top 50
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Contest & Games
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Top Picks
From TV To The Movies
by Susan Varno
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Family & Kids Views
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Look for the AUGUST issue of Video Views featuring: The Hunger Games;
The Lorax; Think Like a Man; Battleship; The Dictator; The Cabin in the Woods;
The Pirates! Band of Misfits; The Five-Year Engagement; Chimpanzee; Safe;
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AMERICAN REUNION (R: a, gd, gl, bgn, s) Comedy
July 10
Five childhood friends who have since gone their separate ways return to their Michigan hometown for their high-school reunion. Each is at a
crossroads. Jim (Jason Biggs) and his wife, Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), have lost the sexual spark in their marriage since the birth of their son
two years earlier. While in town he helps his widowed father (Eugene Levy) start dating again. Oz (Chris Klein) has become a cable sports-news
broadcaster. But he dates a vapid model (Katrina Bowden) and still pines for his high-school sweetheart, Heather (Mena Suvari), who is now
seeing a successful surgeon (Jay Harrington). Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) is also dealing with lingering feelings for his old girlfriend, Vicky (Tara
Reid), even though he has since moved on and gotten married. The profane, constantly horny Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott) is hiding the fact
that he still lives with his mother (Jennifer Coolidge) and is only finding work as a temp. Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) has also failed at securing
his dream job or finding true love. 110 min.
DVD Extras: Commentary; Deleted Scenes; Alternate Takes; Gag Reel; Featurettes include “Reunion: Re-Launching the Series.”
Partial Credits: all in American Pie 1 & 2 and American Wedding. Jason Biggs (My Best Friend’s Girl; Over Her Dead Body; Wedding Daze; Eight Below; Below;
Anything Else; Saving Silverman; Loser). Alyson Hannigan (Date Movie; My Stepmother Is An Alien; bit-Dead Man On Campus). Seann William Scott (Goon; Cop
Out; Role Models; voice-Ice Age 1&2; The Dukes of Hazzard; The Rundown; Bulletproof Monk; Old School; Evolution; Dude, Where’s My Car?; Road Trip; bitsFinal Destination).
THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Comedy
July 17
Larry (Sean Hayes), Curly (Will Sasso) and Moe
(Chris Diamantopoulos) have known each other
since birth due to growing up together in an orphanage run by Mother Superior (Jane Lynch). From kids
to their current adult stage, the three have been and
are still known for their wild antics and goofy behavior, something barely tolerated by nuns Sister Rosemary (Jennifer Hudson) and Sister Bernice (Kate
Upton), and that is the constant source of irritation
for the perpetually ornery Sister Mary-Mengele
(Larry David). When they learn that the orphanage
needs more than $800,000 to stay open, the three
men set out to raise the money despite not possessing any skills to do so. This leads them to a wealthy
woman (Sofía Vergara), her lover (Craig Bierko),
her husband (Kirby Heyborne) who grew up with
the Stooges at the orphanage before being adopted,
and her father-in-law (Stephen Collins) -- encounters that bring Moe to the attention of MTV’s “Jersey
Shore.” Based on the TV series. 92 min.
Partial Credits: Directed by the Farrelly Brothers (Hall Pass; The Heartbreak Kid; Fever Fitch; Stuck on You; Shallow Hal; Osmosis Jones; Me, Myself & Irene;
There’s Something About Mary; Kingpin). Chris Diamantopoulos (bit-Wedding Daze). Sean Hayes (bit-The Bucket List; voice-Dr. Seuss’ The Cat In The Hat; Pieces
of April; voice-Cats & Dogs; voice-Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command: The Adventure Begins). Will Sasso (bits-Life as We Know It; College Road Trip; Southland
Tales; Happy Gilmore; Ernest Goes to School).
Ratings Codes: a-Adult Theme; m-Mature Theme; d-Sexual Dialogue; I-Coarse Language; n-Nudity; s-Sexuality; v-Violence; b-Brief; g-Graphic; p-Partial
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LOCKOUT (PG-13: bl, v) Sci-Fi/Action
July 17
It’s the year 2079 and the United States has constructed a
maximum security prison in Earth’s orbit. Prisoners are kept
in check by the fact that they’re put into suspended animation stasis, but allegations of abuse of that have prompted
Emilie Warnock (Maggie Grace), the adult daughter of the
President of the U.S., to go there to investigate. While interviewing reanimated prisoner Hydell (Joseph Gilgun), he
escapes and manages to free the rest of his fellow prisoners, including his older brother, Alex (Vincent Regan). That
obviously gets the attention of Secret Service official Langral (Peter Stormare) who’s recently been preoccupied with
interrogating a man by the name of Snow (Guy Pearce)
who’s been accused of both murder and espionage. CIA
agent Shaw (Lennie James) thinks they could use Snow to
infiltrate the outer space prison, find and then rescue Emilie.
Since his friend Mace (Tim Plester) is also somewhere on
the prison station and knows the whereabouts of a briefcase that could prove his innocence, Snow agrees. 110 min.
DVD Extras: Featurettes “Breaking Into Lockout” and “A Vision of the Future: Production Design & Special Effects.”
Partial Credits: Guy Pearce (Seeking Justice; Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark; The Road; The Hurt Locker; Traitor; Factory Girl; The Proposition; 2 Brothers; The
Count of Monte Cristo; The Time Machine; Memento; Rules of Engagement; Ravenous; L.A. Confidential; Adventures of Priscilla). Maggie Grace (Faster;
Taken; The Jane Austen Book Club; The Fog; bits-The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1; Knight and Day).
SILENT HOUSE (R: m, bl, v) Drama/Suspense/Thriller
July 24
Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen) is a young woman who’s helping her dad,
John (Adam Trese), and uncle, Peter (Eric Sheffer Stevens), clean
out their abandoned and long-shuttered summer lake house. The
windows have been boarded up and extra locks are on the doors
to keep out vandals and squatters, and the three must work by
flashlight and other such lighting sources as the power has been
turned off as have the phones. It’s been years since Sarah visited
the place and thus she can’t seem to remember Sophia (Julia
Taylor Ross) who stops by for a visit, commenting on their shared
childhood together. They agree to get together later that night,
but when Sarah goes back inside, strange things start occurring.
With Peter away for a while, Sarah has her dad explore the house
for the potential source of odd sounds she’s heard. John ends up
badly injured, and from that point on, things quickly go downhill.
Sarah ends up by herself with one or more strangers seemingly
being in the house, with her locked in and repeatedly having to
hide from them. 88 min.
DVD Extras: Commentary.
Main Credits: Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene). Adam Trese (40 Days & 40 Nights; bits-The Saint of Fort Washington).
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (PG-13: bl, bs, bv) Drama/Comedy/Romance
July 17
Bridget (Kristin Scott Thomas), the prime minister’s press secretary, reads about a fabulously wealthy sheik (Amr Waked)
who longs to bring fly-fishing to the desert. She believes that
cooperation with his country would be good for Britain’s image,
while the sheik has more altruistic goals in mind. This leads her
to mild-mannered fisheries expert Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor), who feels certain the endeavor is pure fantasy until hyperefficient Harriet (Emily Blunt), the sheik’s land agent, brings
him some surprising data about the region. Though Fred’s
marriage has been running on fumes, Harriet has been seeing a soldier stationed in Afghanistan. Initially, the two are all
business as they devise a plan involving a system of dams, but
their feelings for each other gradually rise to the surface. Just as
their project appears to be coming true, a series of unexpected
developments threatens the enterprise. Based on the novel by
Paul Torday. Directed by Lasse Hallström (Chocolat), with the
screenplay by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire). 112 min.
DVD Extras: Featurettes include “Miracles Happen: Making Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.”
Partial Credits: Ewan McGregor (Haywire; Beginners; I Love You Phillip Morris; The Ghost Writer; Men Who Stare at Goats; Amelia; Angels & Demons; Deception; Cassandra’s Dream; Miss Potter; Stay; The Island; Big Fish; Down With Love; Star Wars: Episodes 1, 2 & 3; Black Hawk Down; Moulin Rouge; Eye
of the Beholder; A Life Less Ordinary; Brassed Off; Trainspotting; Emma). Emily Blunt (The Adjustment Bureau; Gullivers Travels; The Wolfman; The Young
Victoria; The Great Buck Howard; Dan In Real Life; Sunshine Cleaning; Charlie Wilson’s War; The Jane Austen Book Club; The Devil Wears Prada).
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FRIENDS WITH KIDS (R: a, gd, gl, s) Comedy/Drama/Romance
July 17
Jason (Adam Scott) is an advertising executive and Julie (Jennifer
Westfeldt, also wrote and directed) is a charitable investment advisor. They are longtime platonic best friends in their 30’s who live in the
same building in Manhattan . They are friends with two childless married
couples, Alex (Chris O’Dowd) and Leslie (Maya Rudolph) and Ben (Jon
Hamm) and Missy (Kristen Wiig). Four years later both couples have
children and their marriages are suffering. Following a chaotic birthday
party for Jason at Alex and Leslie’s place in Brooklyn, Jason and Julie discuss how it would be better to have children first and only then meet the
person that you wanted to marry. They decide to have a child together,
despite never even having a romantic relationship, and then to date
other people. Although their friends predicted disaster, Jason and Julie
adjust to their new relationship with baby Joe. However, their stable
relationship begins to slip when Jason begins dating Mary Jane (Megan
Fox), and Julie begins dating Kurt (Edward Burns). 100 min.
DVD Extras: Deleted Scenes; Gag Reel, “Making-of” Featurette; Commentary.
Partial Credits: Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein). Adam Scott (Our Idiot Brother; Piranha; Leap year; Step Brothers; Monster-In-Law; Torque; High
Crimes; Hellraiser IV; The Matador; Star Trek: First Contact). Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids; Grown Ups; Away We Go; Idiocracy; A Prairie Home Companion;;
bits-MacGruber; 50 First Dates; Duplex; Duets). Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids; Paul; MacGruber; Extract; bits-Date Night; Whip It; Adventureland; Walk Hard:
The Dewey Cox Story; Knocked Up). Jon Hamm (The Town; bits-Sucker Punch; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Kissing Jessica Stein).
CASA DE MI PADRE (R: m, l, s, v) Comedy/Western
July 17
A Spanish-language spoof of 1970’s Mexican westerns. Armando (Will Ferrell) is the
son of wealthy rancher, Miguel Ernesto (Pedro Armendariz, Jr.). He has lived and
worked on the Ernesto family ranch in Mexico his whole life and enjoys carefree
times of riding horses, drinking beers, and singing around campfires with his two
best friends, ranch hands Esteban (Efren Ramirez) and Manuel (Adrian Martinez).
But with the ranch in dire financial straits and targeted by a local drug lord named
Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal), Armando’s younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) returns
to help out. He has brought with him his gorgeous fiancée, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez), who Armando is instantly smitten with. Little does Armando know, though,
that his brother has also become a criminal and Sonia is actually the niece of Onza.
Things come to a head when Raul and Sonia’s wedding is interrupted by armed gunmen. Armando must eventually step up and join with Raul to try to save the ranch,
save Sonia, and possibly save the family name. With Nick Offerman. 84 min.
DVD Extras: Commentary; “Making of “ Featurette; Deleted Scenes; “Fight for Love” Music Video; 4 different Faux Commercials.
Partial Credits: Will Ferrell (Everything Must Go; voice-Megamind; The Other Guys; Land of the Lost; Step Brothers; Semi-Pro; Blades of Glory; Talladega
Nights; voice-Curious George; The Producers; Bewitched; Kicking & Screaming; Melinda & Melinda; Anchorman; Elf; Old School; Zoolander; Superstar;
Dick; A Night at the Roxbury). Genesis Rodriguez (Man on a Ledge). Diego Luna (The Terminal; Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights; Open Range; Frida). Gael García
Bernal (A Little Bit of Heaven; Letters to Juliet; Blindness; Babel; Bad Education; The Motorcycle Diaries; Y Tu Mamá También).
BEING FLYNN (R: m, gl, bn, bs) Comedy/Drama
July 10
Nick Flynn (Paul Dano) is a young writer seeking to identify who he is. He misses his
late mother Jody’s loving nature, (played in flashbacks by Julianne Moore). His father
Jonathan (Robert De Niro) is not even a memory as he has not seen him in 18 years.
After abandoning his wife and child, Jonathan scrapes through life and ends up serving
time in prison for cashing forged checks. After prison, he drives a cab for a number of
years, but with his drinking and eccentricities now accelerating, he loses his job. Suddenly facing eviction from his apartment, Jonathan impulsively reaches out to Nick and
the two come face-to-face. Nick prepares to integrate his father into his own life. But,
as quickly as he materialized, Jonathan flits away again. Nick takes a job at a homeless
shelter and one night he discovers his father Jonathan there. Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad. Adapted from playwright and poet Nick Flynn’s
2004 memoir. With Olivia Thirlby, Wes Studi, and Lili Taylor. 86 min.
DVD Extras: “The Heart of Being Flynn” Featurette contains interviews with De Niro and Dano, and Director/Screenwriter Paul Weitz.
Partial Credits: Paul Dano (Meek’s Cutoff; Knight and Day; There Will Be Blood; Little Miss Sunshine; Taking Lives; The Girl Next Door; The Emperor’s Club).
Robert De Niro (bit-New Years Eve; Killer Elite; Limitless; Machete; Stone; Everybody’s Fine; Righteous Kill; Hide & Seek; Meet the Fockers series; Analyze
That; Analyze This; Ronin; Jackie Brown; Wag the Dog; Sleepers; The Fan; Heat; Casino; A Bronx Tale; This Boy’s Life; Cape Fear; Awakenings; Goodfellas;
Midnight Run; The Untouchables; The King of Comedy; Raging Bull; The Deer Hunter; Taxi Driver; The Godfather II; Mean Streets).
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Eli; Bicentennial Man; A.I. Artificial Intelligence; Resident Evil series; Aeon Flux; Planet of the Apes series; Terminator series; The Matrix series;
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series; The Simpson Movie; Get Smart; Bewitched; Dragnet; Charlie’s Angels; Wayne’s World; Twilight Zone; The Fugitive; The Untouchables
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1. *21 JUMP STREET (R: m, d, gl, bs, bv) Comedy/Action Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, Ellie Kemper,
Chris Parnel, Nick Offerman. Schmidt was a pudgy loser in high school. One of the
people who made fun of him was the popular Jenko. Years later, the two find themselves at the same police academy. Schmidt has a hard time dealing with the physical
demands of cop training. Jenko, meanwhile, is no good at memorizing the laws or taking tests. Together, they form a bond and help each other graduate. When they foul up
a major drug bust, they are reassigned to a long-dormant program the department is
looking to revive called 21 Jump Street, in which youthful cops are placed undercover in
high schools to stamp out criminal activity involving teenagers. 109 min.
2. *SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13: v) Action/Adven-
ture Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Kelly
Reilly. Directed by Guy Ritchie. It’s 1891 and a series of bombings are escalating tension between Germany and France, something not only welcomed but also plotted by the Professor
James Moriarty who would financially profit from any related war expenses. Sherlock Holmes is
pretty sure he’s the culprit. Unfortunately, his former sidekick, Dr. John Watson, is busy preparing
to settle down and wed. Holmes is also after gypsy fortune teller Simza who he believes knows
something about what’s occurring. He, Watson and Simza set off not only to prove that Moriarty is
behind the bombings and recent assassinations, but also stop him from starting a war. 129 min.
3. *WRATH OF THE TITANS (PG-13: v) Fantasy/Action/Adventure Sam
Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Edgar Ramirez, Rosamund Pike, Bill
Nighy, Danny Huston. A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus
the demigod son of Zeus is living a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his
10-year old son. Meanwhile, humanity has lost faith in the gods. As a result, Zeus, Hades, and
Poseidon find their power beginning to slip, and could spell disaster should their imprisoned
father, Kronos, manage to break free from his underworld prison. Perseus learns that Zeus’
son Ares has teamed with Hades and Kronos to capture Zeus, steal his power, and create hell
on Earth. With Andromeda, Argenor, and Hephaestus by his side, Perseus tries to prevent the
powers of darkness. 120 min.
4. *THE ARTIST (PG-13: m) Comedy/Drama/Romance Jean Dujardin, Berenice
Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller. It’s 1927 and George
Valentin is a beloved star of silent films, many of which feature his cute dog as his co-star. That,
and the fact that the pooch also upstages her in real life doesn’t sit well with George’s wife and
actress, Doris. He is the big attraction at Kinograph Studios run by Al Zimmer. But Al sees that
times are changing and wants to move over to the new format of “talkies,” something that
George thinks is a silly fad. George casts an extra, Peppy Miller, into one of his films. Over the
following years, and as Peppy’s star rises at the studio, George must contend with his career,
marriage and lifestyle he had grown accustomed to diminishing. 100 min.
5. *SAFE HOUSE (R: m, bl, v) Action/Thriller Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Brendan Gleeson, Vera Farmiga, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick, Joel
Kinnaman, Rubén Blades. Matt Weston is a young CIA agent stationed in Cape Town,
South Africa where he runs one of the agency’s “safe houses.” Renegade CIA agent Tobin
Frost has just turned himself into the U.S. Consulate. Tobin went rogue years ago, allegedly
selling important government information to the highest bidder. They take Tobin to Matt’s
safe house and proceed to torture him to make him talk. But armed goons breach the house
and kill everyone except for Matt who manages to get Tobin out of the house. The renegade
agent tries to open Matt’s eyes about how the agency really works, as both try to avoid the
armed gunmen who are after them. 114 min.
6. *PROJECT X (R: a, gd, gl, n, s) Comedy Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan
Daniel Brown, Kirby Bliss Blanton. High school senior Thomas is about to celebrate his birthday and his two best friends -- foul-mouthed, inappropriate Costa and pudgy, awkward JB -- have
designs to throw the biggest party they and their classmates have ever seen. The party will be
at Thomas’ house while his Dad and Mom are out of town, and the three promote it in every
way they can think of: flyers, radio ads, Facebook, Craigslist, and so forth. They secure plenty of
alcohol, marijuana, and food. It’s not long before the party spins completely out of control. Amid
the chaos, Thomas finds himself falling in love with Kirby, the nice girl he’s known all his life. Shot
in a multicamera found-footage style. 107 min.
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7. *MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Comedy/Fantasy (see page 15)
8. *JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Action/Adventure/Fantasy (see page 15)
9. *GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (PG-13: bl, v) Action/Fantasy
Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, Violante Placido, Ciaran Hinds. Johnny Blaze has gone into
seclusion in Eastern Europe to try and keep his demonic alter ego, the Ghost Rider, in check. He
made a deal with Roarke, the Devil incarnate, years earlier to save his dying father’s life and
has become a hunter of wicked souls ever since. A gypsy named Nadya also made a deal with
Roarke to spare her life in return for carrying his son. That boy, is now about to reach 13 and
Roarke wants out of his aging, failing body and into the body of the boy. She goes on the run
and eventually hooks up with holy man Moreau who knows that their only chance is to enlist
the aid of Ghost Rider. Moreau promises to lift the Rider’s curse if he will help. 95 min.
10. *JOHN CARTER (PG-13: v) Action/Sci-Fi/Fantasy Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins,
Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, Thomas Haden Church, Daryl Sabara. It’s 1861 and John Carter is a former Confederate cavalryman magically transported to Mars, where he possesses great strength and the ability to leap
amazing distances. That comes in handy when he encounters the Barsoomans, a tribe of 12-foot
tall, four-armed beings who try to avoid the more technologically advanced and humanlike warring parties that are destroying each other and the planet. That includes Helium Princess Dejah
Thoris. Carter, tries to find his way back to Earth, but eventually realizes he must help Dejah defeat
the evil Zodangans. Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 118 min.
11. *ACT OF VALOR (R: m, l, gv) Action/Adventure Roselyn Sanchez, Alex Veadov, Jason Cottle. An elite team of eight Navy SEALs (played by real active-duty SEALs)
are deployed to the Philippines when one CIA agent is murdered and a second named Lisa
is kidnapped. The two were working to uncover a terrorist connection involving a notorious
international smuggler named Christo and a Muslim extremist named Shabal. In the process of
their rescue mission, they discover that Shabal is plotting to attack the United States on its own
soil.. Shabal’s plan is to sneak 16 suicide bombers across the Mexican-U.S. border and detonate
special vests filled with gel explosives in crowded public venues across the country. It’s up to the
SEALs to track and eliminate them and the threat to the U.S. 101 min.
12. *A THOUSAND WORDS (PG-13: m, bd, bl, bs) Comedy Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Clark Duke, Cliff Curtis, Allison Janney. Jack McCall is a high-strung, motor-mouthed
literary agent who becomes obsessed with signing the world’s hottest self-help guru Dr. Sinja to a book
deal. At his meditation facility, though, he scratches himself on the bark of a tree that then magically
sprouts up in the backyard of his house. Leaves start falling off with each word Jack says, and Sinja
deduces that Jack and the tree are psychically linked. When the tree loses all of its leaves, it and Jack
die...unless Jack can find inner calm. But his career and his marriage are put at risk as his behavior gets
increasingly bizarre with so few words and so little time left to lift the curse. 91 min
13. *WANDERLUST (R: a, gd, gl, bgn, s) Comedy Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Justin
Theroux, Malin Akerman, Lauren Ambrose, Alan Alda, Kathryn Hahn. George and
Linda are a married couple who have just bought a micro-loft in Manhattan. But when they find
themselves unemployed they hit the road for Atlanta. There, they plan to live with, and George will
work for, his demeaning and highly competitive brother, Rick. Along the way, however, George and
Linda end up spending the night at a remote bed and breakfast that turns out to be a hippie-style
commune. After spending a pleasant if eye-opening night there, they head to Rick’s place, only to
realize they can’t stand it and thus return to the commune, with the plan that they’ll give it a twoweek trial, as they try to adapt to the unusual lifestyle. 98 min.
14. *GOOD DEEDS (PG-13: m, bd, bs) Drama/Romance Tyler Perry (also wrote and
directed), Thandie Newton, Gabrielle Union, Brian White, Rebecca Romijn, Eddie Cibrian, Jamie Kennedy. Wesley Deeds seems to have it all. The San Francisco businessman is
engaged and he runs the highly successful software company his late father built into an empire.
Keeping a promise to his father and to appease his mother, Wesley lets his hot-tempered brother.
work at the company. Lindsey is a single mother to a 6-year-old girl, and is at her wit’s end trying
to make ends meet. She works as a cleaning person in Deed’s building. Despite an employeremployee relationship, the two become friends. As they do so, he helps her out financially, while
she helps him realize he needs to live his own life. 111 min.
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15. *BIG MIRACLE (PG) Drama/Adventure (see page 15)
16. MAN ON A LEDGE (PG-13: bd, bl, bv) Suspense/Thriller Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Genesis Rodriguez, Edward Burns, Ed Harris,
Anthony Mackie, Kyra Sedgwick, Titus Welliver. Nick Cassidy is a convict who manages to escape custody and later ends up on the 21st floor of the Roosevelt Hotel in New
York City. He wants to prove his innocence and threatens to jump. Nick is a former NYPD
cop who was convicted and imprisoned for stealing a $40 million diamond from a real
estate mogul whose building is right across the street. But Nick’s brother Joey and Joey’s
girlfriend, are working to prove Nick’s innocence. With the S.W.A.T. team preparing to take
action against Nick, he does what he can -- up on that high ledge -- to give Joey and Angie
enough time to accomplish their task. 102 min.
17. THE VOW (PG-13: m, bl, bpn, bs) Drama/Romance Channing Tatum, Rachel Mc-
Adams, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange, Scott Speedman. Leo and Paige are a young husband
and wife living in Chicago. They are head over heels in love with each other. He owns a recording
studio and she is an up-and-coming sculptor and artist. On the way home from the movies one
wintry night, a snow plow barrels into their stopped car from behind, sending Paige through the
windshield. She is in a coma for days and awakes to severe memory loss. She can’t remember her
life with Leo. She does, however, remember her years before giving up law school and moving from
the suburbs to the city. Growing further apart, Leo decides to woo his wife all over again in an effort
to win her heart and save their marriage. Inspired by a true story. 104 min.
18. *JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME (R: m, bd, l) ComedyDrama Jason Segel, Ed
Helms, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Rae Dawn Chong. Jeff Thompkins is a 30-year-old
slacker who still lives at home with his mom, Sharon. A firm believer everything in the world is
connected in some fashion. Today’s is a wrong number call from a person looking for someone
named Kevin, which later leads Jeff to follow a stranger with that name on a jersey. In a roundabout way, that reunites Jeff with his competitive brother Pat, and to the discovery that his sibling’s
wife, Linda, is having an affair. As Jeff helps Pat follow Linda to catch her in the affair, the slacker
follows the various signs that keep sprouting up, all while hoping they’ll eventually help him
figure out his place in the world. 83 min.
19. GONE (PG-13: m, bd, bl, bv) Suspense/Thriller Amanda Seyfried, Emily Wickersham, Daniel Sunjata, Michael Pare, Wes Bentley. Jill Parrish claims to have been abducted
from her bed and taken out to the forest outside of Portland where her abductor placed her into a
deep hole and threatened to kill her. She escaped and was eventually picked up by police, but could
not lead them to where the hole was and she could not identify her attacker because she never really
got a good look at him. Further investigation was halted despite Jill insisting that there had been
other victims. Jill is now on medication to control her anxieties and lives with her sister, Molly. When
Molly is abducted from her bed in the middle of the night, Jill decides to take the law into her own
hands and find her sister. 94 min.
20. CONTRABAND (R: m, bd, gl, v) Drama/Action/Thriller Mark Wahlberg, Kate
Beckinsale, Caleb Landry Jones, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, J.K. Simmons, Lukas
Haas, Diego Luna. Set in New Orleans. Chris Farraday was once a great smuggler, but he abandoned his life of crime to live the quiet life with his wife. and their two young sons. He now has a
successful business. However, he is enticed into pulling one last job when his brother-in-law, Andy,
botches a drug deal for a vicious New Orleans crime boss. To settle Andy’s debt, Chris assembles a
boat crew who will sail to Panama and return to Louisiana with millions in counterfeit money. In
Panama, an even more ruthless crime lord has to be dealt with carefully. There is also a traitor in the
mix, and he threatens to derail Chris’ entire plan. 109 min.
21. THE WOMAN IN BLACK (PG-13: m, bv) Supernatural/Suspense Daniel Rad-
cliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Liz White. In the early 20th century London, Arthur
Kipps is a widowed lawyer raising his 4-year-old son. His grief has put his career in jeopardy, and
he is sent to a remote village to sort out the affairs of a recently deceased reclusive widow who
lived in a mansion along the coast. But upon his arrival, it soon becomes clear that everyone in
the town is keeping a deadly secret. Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning
their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the
ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost... and no one, not
even the children, are safe from her vengeance. 95 min.
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22. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13: v) Action/
Thriller Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Michael
Nyqvist, Josh Holloway. The IMF attempt to infiltrate the Kremlin goes wrong when
they realize they’ve been set up and much of the Kremlin is destroyed by a massive
explosion set by Kurt Hendricks, a.k.a. Cobalt. After escaping from a Russian intelligence
agent, Ethan Hunt learns from the IMF secretary and his chief analyst that the Russians
are blaming the U.S. for the attack. As a result, the U.S. President has enacted “ghost
protocol” that disavows the existence of the IMF and any further government support.
Learning that Hendricks has nuclear launch codes and is desirous of starting a nuclear
war, they have to stop him before it’s too late. 133 min.
23. THE GREY (R: m, gl, gv) Suspense/Thriller/Adventure Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo,
Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts. John Ottway works as a sharpshooter for an oil company
in the arctic, keeping the workers there safe from the predatory wildlife, such as dangerous grey
wolves that prowl areas along the pipeline. He boards an airliner with other men, only to have that
trip end in a horrific crash. That leaves them stranded in the snowy middle of nowhere, with no way
of communicating with the outside world for help. Realizing they can’t stay in what’s left of the
fuselage lest they starve to death, Ottway takes charge and states they should head for the tree line
to give them some semblance of protection from a pack of wolves that have discovered them and
begun picking off one man after another. 117 min.
24. CHRONICLE (PG-13: m, bs, v) Sci-Fi/Action/Drama Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell,
Michael B. Jordan. Andrew Detmer is a senior at a Seattle area high school with no real friends
and a bad situation at home. With his mom terminally ill, his dad has become a bitter and abusive
alcoholic. As a result, the teen has taken to recording his entire life on a video camera. Andrew’s
camera becomes useful when his cousin Matt and fellow student Steve discover a large hole in
the ground outside a party. Going down into it, they encounter a strange glowing structure that
ends up giving them telekinetic powers. At first they have fun playing around with their newfound
abilities. But as the days pass and their powers increase, Andrew starts wielding his powers towards
those who bother or abuse him. 83 min.
25. RED TAILS (PG-13: v) Action/Adventure David Oyelowo, Nate
Parker, Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Daniela Ruah, Bryan Cranston, Andre Royo, Tristan Wilds. It’s 1944 and members of the 332nd Fighter
Group, a.k.a. the Tuskegee Airmen, are stationed in Italy under the command of Major
Emmanuel Stance. Due to the racial inequalities of the time, they’re operating with
antiquated planes and are stuck behind enemy lines, despite the efforts of Colonel A.J.
Bullard back at the Pentagon to convince the military brass otherwise. That doesn’t
sit well with maverick pilot Joe “Lightning” Little who wants to prove his worth and
ends up taking unnecessary risks, much to the dismay of his friend and the squadron’s
captain, Marty “Easy” Julian. Inspired by true events. 125 min.
26. THIS MEANS WAR (PG-13: m, bd, bl, bs, bv) Comedy/Romance/Action Reese
Witherspoon, Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, Chelsea Handler, Til Schweiger, Angela Bassett.
FDR and Tuck are two covert CIA agents who work in a field office in Los Angeles and have been
after a dangerous criminal. FDR is a ladies’ man, while Tuck is the divorced father of a young boy
and is just starting to think about returning to the dating world. Tuck tries his hand at online dating
and ends up matched with Lauren. Then she accidentally bumps into FDR They leave it up to her to
decide who she wants. She can’t, and goes on a number of dates with both men, unaware of their
real jobs or even that they know each other. They separately use their agency resources to learn
about and thus try to impress Lauren. 100 min.
27. THE DEVIL INSIDE (R: m, bgd, l, gv) Supernatural/Horror/Thriller Fernanda
Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Suzan Crowley. Isabella Rossi has
traveled to Rome with a documentary filmmaker to determine if her locked-away mother, Maria,
is mentally ill or demonically possessed. Ten years ago, she murdered two priests and a nun who
were trying to perform an exorcism on her. The Vatican has her heavily sedated in a nearby
mental hospital. Isabella manages to get an exorcist and an ordained priest to look into her case.
With the discovery that Maria might be possessed by multiple demons -- a hazardous condition
as sometimes they’ll jump into other people -- theyset out to free the woman from her demonic
entrapment, as everything is captured on multiple video cameras. 87 min.
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28. ONE FOR THE MONEY (PG-13: m, bd, bl, bpn, bv) Comedy/Romance/
Action Katherine Heigl, Jason O’Mara, Debbie Reynolds,John Leguizamo, Sherri
Shepherd. Stephanie Plum is newly divorced and has lost her job as manager of the lingerie
department at her local Macy’s. Strapped from cash with her bills coming due, she decides to go to
her cousin who operates a bail-bond business. Intrigued at the amount of money bounty hunters/
skip tracers can make, she decides to try and collect a bounty on Joe Morelli, a former flame. Joe is
an ex-cop accused of shooting an unarmed drug dealer. But he is innocent and is working on bringing down a local heroin ring. His investigation is complicated by Stephanie’s bumbling efforts to
insinuate herself into the case. Based on the first of a series novels by Janet Evanovich. 104 min.
29. UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (R: m, bl, gv) Horror/Action/Fantasy Kate
Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Kris Holden-Ried, Michael Ealy, Charles Dance. Humans
have become aware of an age-old war between vampires and werewolves, also known as
“Lycans.” As a result, the world mobilizes in an effort to eradicate both species. Caught in the
crossfire is vampire Selene who ends up being captured by a team of evil scientists and placed
into frozen suspended animation. Twelve years pass, and Selene is released from her chamber by
a mysterious young girl named Eve. She turns out to be her daughter with former lover and werewolf hybrid Michael, who is presumably dead. They go on the run and are aided by a vampire
underground. But the scientists are looking for Eve to resume their secret experiments. 88 min.
30. *WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Comedy/Drama (see page 15)
31. HAYWIRE (R: m, bl, v) Action/Thriller Gina Carano, Michael Angarano, Ewan
McGregor, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Michael Fassbender, Bill Paxton. In an upstate New York diner, Mallory Kane isn’t happy to see the arrival
of Aaron, her former business partner and lover. He’s there to take her back to their handler,
Kenneth. She uses her physical skills to escape. A former Marine turned highly trained operative
for hire, she worked for private contract or Kenneth who had a business arrangement with a U.S.
government official. After rescuing a hostage with Aaron and others, she was assigned to work
with a mysterious man, and quickly learned that her decision to leave Kenneth had it repercussions. Now back in the States, she wants revenge on those who wronged her. 93 min.
32. NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG-13: bd, bl) Comedy/Drama/Romance Hilary Swank, Katherine Heigl, Jon Bon Jovi, Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele,
Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Halle Berry, Sofia Vergara, Seth Meyers, Jessica
Biel, Robert De Niro, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Josh Duhamel, Hector Elizondo. Directed by
Garry Marshall. It’s New Year’s Eve in New York City. Revelers include a city executive who must
make sure the ball actually drops; an assistant to a record company exec who gets assistance from a
intrepid bike messenger; a dying man evaluates his life with the help of a nurse; a back-up singer gets
struck in an elevator with her jaded neighbor; a rock star and the one who got away are working the
same event; and a single mom is battling with her 15-year-old daughter. 117 min.
33. JOYFUL NOISE (PG-13: bd, bl) Comedy/Drama Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton,
Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Kris Kristofferson, Courtney B. Vance, Jesse L. Martin.
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times. The people are counting on the
Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. But the
discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed
director, Vi Rose Hill, stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the
fiery G.G. Sparrow thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old. Shaking things up even more
is the arrival of G.G.’s rebellious grandson, who has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi
Rose’s beautiful and talented daughter. 118 min.
34. WAR HORSE (PG-13: v) Drama/Action/Adventure Directed by Steven
Spielberg. Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson, David Thewlis. It’s
1914 and Albert is a young man who lives on a remote farm with his alcoholic father,
Ted, and his mother. Ted outbids everyone else for a horse better suited for racing than
plowing the fields. But Albert trains the horse (Joey) for such work and succeeds. Bad
luck, however, ruins their crop, thus forcing Ted to sell the horse to a captain with the
British military. The horse ends up in various battles as well as various hands. As the
years pass, Joey continues to move on from one person and perilous experience to
the next, all as Albert finally ends up in the war and wonders if he’ll ever see his horse
again. 146 min.
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35. THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G) Animated Fantasy (see pager 15)
36. THE DARKEST HOUR (PG-13: m, bd, bl, v) Sci-Fi/Action Max Minghella,
Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman. A group of Americans
in Moscow encounter strange electrical orbs of light descending from the sky. They quickly
realize it’s some sort of invasion as the invisible aliens soon vaporize most everyone in sight.
They end up hiding in a storage room in the bar for several days before venturing out into the
otherwise empty city, but must avoid the aliens whose presence can only be detected by the
brief activation of any electrical devices they pass by such as street lights or car headlights.
Learning there’s a nuclear submarine nearby that’s preparing to leave the city, the various
survivors try to make their way to that, all while avoiding the aliens. 89 min.
37. THE IRON LADY (PG-13: bn, bv) Drama Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia
Colman, Alexandra Roach, Harry Lloyd, Richard E. Grant. It’s the present day and Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s former Prime Minister, spends her days keeping to herself and imagining
still spending time and conversing with her late husband, Denis. Their adult daughter worries
about her mother’s mental state. We then see the progression of young Margaret going from
working at her father’s grocery store through meeting young Denis and becoming involved in
politics. After an unsuccessful bid, she’s elected to Parliament where she opposes the policies of
the Labour Government to the point that she later becomes leader of her party and finally Prime
Minister. During that time, we see her having to deal with various events. 105 min.
38. *SEEKING JUSTICE (R: m, l, bs, v) Drama/Action Nicolas Cage, January
Jones, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Carpenter, Harold Perrineau Jr. New Orleans high school
teacher Will Gerard is happily married to concert musician Laura, until their lives are turned
upside down the night Laura is raped. In the hospital, a mysterious man approaches Will with
an offer. He offers to dispense immediate justice to the attacker and save the couple from an
emotionally traumatic trial -- in exchange for a favor from Will in the near future. Distraught and
grief-stricken, Will consents to the deal. Six months later, Will gets a call. A simple task quickly
escalates into an order to kill a man. Will can’t do it, but his decision makes him an enemy of a
very powerful and secret organization. 104 min.
39. THE SITTER (R: a, gd, gl, bs, bv) Comedy Jonah Hill, Max Records, Landry Bender,
Kevin Hernandez, Ari Graynor, JB Smoove, Sam Rockwell. Noah Griffith is a college
dropout who agrees to babysit another family’s three kids so that his divorced mom can go
out on a date. The kids are 13-year-old Slater, an overly sensitive and timid homebody teen; his
young sister Blithe who wears too much makeup, has a sassy attitude and listens to hard core
rap music; and Rodrigo, their adopted sibling from El Salvador who has a penchant for blowing
up toilets with cherry bombs. Once Noah meets them, he realizes babysitting won’t be as easy as
he thought, and things get more complicated when his girlfriend calls and promises to have sex
with him if he’ll pick up some cocaine for her from drug dealer. 81 min.
40. THE DESCENDANTS (R: m, bd, l) Drama/Comedy George Clooney, Shailene
Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Beau Bridges, Matthew Lillard, Judy Greer, Robert Forster. Matt King is a successful real estate lawyer whose lineage goes back many generations in Hawaii. He’s the trustee of thousands of acres of unspoiled land and due to settings in that
trust, the land must be sold. Matt’s many cousins want him to sell to a developer, but Matt has
other things on his mind. His wife is in a coma following a boating accident and will soon have to
be taken off life support. Matt is now the sole caretaker of his 10-year-old daughter, Scottie, and
her 17-year-old sister Alexandra. Matt prepares for his wife’s death and the news of her having an
affair, all while also dealing with the land sale issue. 115 min.
41. *A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN (PG-13: m, bl, bs) Drama/Romance/Comedy Kate
Hudson, Gael García Bernal, Kathy Bates, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lucy Punch, Peter
Dinklage, Whoopi Goldberg. Set in New Orleans. Marley Corbett is a free spirited ad exec
who falls in love with Julian Goldstein, the Jewish/Mexican doctor who administers her colonoscopy. After she finds out she has colon cancer she dreams that God offers her three wishes.
Marley’s relationships with her family is also seen. There is a conflict between her pregnant sister,
who is distancing herself from Marley, and her combative relationship with her mother who can’t
seem to say anything right. Marley learns to deal with the platitudes of life: live life to the fullest;
appreciate your friends and family; make the most of your time on earth. 106 min.
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42. *MACHINE GUN PREACHER (R: m, l, bs, gv) Drama/Action Gerard Butler,
Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Kathy Baker. Sam Childers
has been released from prison, only to go back to his bad boy ways, much to the chagrin of his
mother, wife, and their young daughter. Following a close call where he beats up a man who attacks
him, he is baptized. Sam decides to open his own church, and then goes on an altruistic mission to
war-ravaged Sudan. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is run by Joseph Kony, whose soldiers pillage
villages, kill the adults and abduct the children who they force into becoming young soldiers or sex
slaves. Sam decides he’ll start an orphanage. But as the atrocities continue, he decides to take action
into his own hands to take on the LRA. Based on a true story. 123 min.
43. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R: a, l, bn, bgs, gv) Suspense/Thriller/
Mystery Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven
Berkoff, Robin Wright, Joely Richardson. Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist and magazine publisher in Stockholm who’s just lost a libel case. Wiped out financially, he agrees to a unique proposition
offered to him by Henrik Vanger, a wealthy businessman. He promises to deliver dirt on his accuser. if
Mikael can solve an old missing persons case -- Vanger’s 16-year-old niece who disappeared back in
the 1960s from their island town. Blomkvist hires Lisbeth Salander --who has multiple piercings, tattoos
and anti-social demeanor .Yet, she has a surprising knack to infiltrate places to set up surveillance and
her computer skills are second to none. 160 min
44. IMMORTALS (R: m, bs, gv) Action/Fantasy Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Freida
Pinto, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans, John Hurt. In 1228 B.C. King Hyperion is a brutal tyrant
on a bloody mission to seek out the mythical Bow of Epirus. Should he succeed, even the gods of
Olympus will be forced to bow before him. In his efforts to locate the invincible and elusive weapon,
Hyperion leads his Heraklion army on a brutal rampage across Greece, and killing with impunity. When
the Hyperions lay waste to his village and cut down his mother in cold blood, vengeful stonemason
Theseus emerges from the rubble determined to make the king pay for his crimes. Later, the Sybelline
Oracle, Phaedra, experiences a vision of Theseus’ future that convinces her he will play a pivotal role in
defeating King Hyperion. 110 min.
45. ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Comedy/Animation (see page 15)
46. GOON (R: m, d, gl, bn, s, v) Comedy Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Jay Baruchel, Ali-
son Pill, Eugene Levy, Kim Coates. Not content with his job as a bouncer at a local Beantown bar and
a bit of an embarrassment to his accomplished family, Doug Glatt dreams of the kind of success enjoyed by
minor league hockey goon Ross “The Boss” Rhea. When a chance encounter with an on-ice thug leads to
a bloody fist fight that Doug easily wins, the coach of the Halifax Highlanders sees potential in this mammoth sized man who is only hampered by his lack of any hockey playing ability and his brother’s old figure
skates. Standing up to the taunts of the other players, Doug manages to join the team. Soon he’ll have the
opportunity to face off against Rhea. Now all he needs is to learn how to skate. 90 min.
47. RAMPART (R: m, d, gl, bn, s, bv) Drama/Action Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Ice
Cube, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Steve Buscemi, Jon
Bernthal, Brie Larson. Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct
cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the
lines between right and wrong. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral. He is forced to confront his disgruntled daughters; his two ex-wives; a
tenacious Deputy DA; an investigator on his trail; a homeless witness to his crimes, his aging mentor dispensing bad advice; and a mysterious new lover, as he fights for his own sanity and survival. 107 min.
48. ALBERT NOBBS (R: m, bd, bn, bs) Drama Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Janet McTeer, Aaron
Johnson, Brendan Gleeson, Pauline Collins. Albert Nobbs is a quiet little waiter in a fancy hotel in 19th-century Ireland. He’s learned to stay in the background, and for good reason: He’s really a woman living as a man in order
to find work in the harsh environment of 19th-century Ireland. Hubert, a house painter at the hotel, discovers Albert’s
secret. Hubert confesses he is also a woman, telling Albert that she has a wife. Albert becomes intrigued and starts
formulating a plan to use her life savings to open a tobacco shop. Her plans also include marrying the pretty young
maid. But unfortunately, she has a secret boyfriend who’s intent on milking Albert for all she’s worth. 113 min
49. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (R: m, bl, bpn, bs, bv) Drama
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Other People’s Children
By Susan Varno
Your own children may irritate you or make you proud, but
you love them. But how do you feel about other people’s children? These children could be your relatives. As a Liverpool
teen, future Beatle John Lennon (Aaron Johnson) felt like
a NOWHERE BOY (2009). His Aunt Mimi (Kristen Scott Thomas) disciplined him and protected him, but she kept the
truth about his parents from him. His world came apart when
he discovers that his mother (Anne-Marie Duff) lives nearby.
JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (2011) is several
adventure filled months in the life of an energetic eight year
old girl (Jordana Beatty) left
in the care of her free-spirited
Aunt Opal (Heather Graham).
And Uncle Skeeter (Adam
Sandler) makes up BEDTIME
STORIES (2008) for his niece
and nephew, which magically
come true. Once in a while a
grown up becomes a child’s
guardian. A young couple
dies in a car crash, leaving
legal care of their one year old
daughter to their best friends
(Josh Duhamel and Katherine
Heigl). This changes their
LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (2010).
Though they don’t get along, they agree to live together and
raise the baby. DESPICABLE ME (2010) is an animated super
villain (voice of Steve Carell). He adopts three little girls to
help him gain access to a secret weapon. Instead, the little
darlings melt his merciless heart by making him read stories, take them places and tuck them in at night. A lawyer
(Paul Giamatti) thinks he has a WIN WIN (2011) situation as
guardian for an elderly man (Burt Young). Then the man’s
runaway grandson (Alex Shaffer) shows up. The lawyer invites the young man to share his home, enrolls him in high
school and coaches him on the wrestling team. Part time caregivers populate some movies. Two immature friends (Paul
Rudd and Seann William Scott) are sentenced to 150 hours
of community service for vandalism. They are assigned to be
ROLE MODELS (2008) in a program similar to Big Brother. The
guys keep getting their charges into trouble, but they finally
grow up themselves. TERRI (2011) is an unhappy teen (Jacob
Wysocki) who goes to school in his pajamas where the other
kids pick on him. The assistant principal (John C. Reilly) befriends him, trying to build up the boy’s self-confidence. Two
kids (Philip Bolden and Aleisha Allen) keep asking ARE WE
THERE YET? (2005). Their mother (Nia Long) working in Vancouver convinces her boyfriend (Ice Cube) to drive the kids
up from L.A. The brats sabotage the trip from start to finish.
Sometimes a child chooses an adult to help him. When two
high school freshmen (Nate
Hartley and Troy Gentile) get
beaten up daily by the school
bully, they hire a homeless slacker DRILLBIT TAYLOR
(2008-Owen Wilson) as their
bodyguard. He teaches them
to stand up for themselves
and enough martial arts to
be intimidating. A geeky Wilderness Scout (voice of Jordan Nagai) can earn a merit
badge if he helps a crotchety
old man (voice of Ed Asner).
The man ties hundreds of
helium filled balloons to the
roof, lifting the house UP (2009) into the air. Man and boy
sail away to the South America jungle where they have the
adventure the senior always dreamed of. Two alien children
(AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig) hire a Las Vegas
cabbie (Dwayne Johnson) for their RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
(2009). They fail to mention the mother ship will be picking
them up or that the U.S. military is intent on capturing them.
In 1964, three sisters invite a young runaway (Dakota Fanning) to live with them while they teach her THE SECRET LIFE OF
BEES (2008). The girl also learns about the Civil Rights movement and what happened to her runaway mother. For movies about babysitters see THE SITTER (2011- Jonah Hill), THE
NANNY DIARIES (2007-Scarlett Johansson). In NANNY MCPHEE
(2005) and NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (2010) Emma Thompson stars and wrote the screenplays.
Another Look – Emily Blunt
When she was eight years old, Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born February 23, 1983 in London, England) suddenly began to stutter.
Her affluent parents, her father is a successful U.K. lawyer, sent their daughter to speech therapists and doctors for treatment. A
few years later her teacher at the prestigious Ibstock Place School assigned twelve year old Emily a part in the school play. Almost
as suddenly, Emily overcame her stutter. This is when she decided to become an actress. As a teenager, she attended Hurtwood
House boarding school, which offered an outstanding theater studies course. After her first year, Blunt was chosen to perform at
the Edinburgh Festival. An agent saw her in a play and signed her to a contract. He found her work in several theater companies
and festivals. On British TV, the 5’ 8” actress debuted in “Warrior Queen” (2003), an historic drama about an ancient Celtic leader.
Her silver screen debut was in the Australian movie IRRESISTIBLE (2006) as one third of a weird love triangle. Later that year, she
nearly stole the show as the terrified but awestruck personal assistant of a fashion magazine editor (Meryl Streep) in THE DEVIL
WEARS PRADA (2006). This performance led to larger roles. The next year, she appeared in CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR about the Texas Congressman (Tom
Hanks) who convinced President Reagan to fund Afghanistan’s war to expel the puppet Soviet government, was the member of THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK
CLUB who is intrigued by her secret sexual fantasies, and she played a woman with a long time crush on recent widower DAN IN REAL LIFE (Steve Carell).
In 2008, she played a publicist who co-ordinates events for THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD (John Malkovich), an egotistical washed up magician; and then she
co-starred with Amy Adams as sisters who start SUNSHINE CLEANING, a company that cleans up fire damage, crime scenes and other major messes. Blunt’s
first starring role was as THE YOUNG VICTORIA (2009) who became Queen of England in 1837 at age 18. The movie covers her marriage to German Prince
Albert (Rupert Friend) and demonstrates how she forced Parliament to take her seriously. She was the love interest of THE WOLFMAN (2010-Benicio del
Toro), a poor soul who grows hairy when the moon grows big. In an updated version of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (2010), Blunt played the Lilliputian Princess in
love with a rebel (Jason Segal). Gulliver (Jack Black) brings the romantic couple together. In the animated feature starring garden gnomes as Shakespeare’s
star-crossed lovers, GNOMEO AND JULIET (2011), Blunt was the voice of the Juliet. Her forbidden romance leads to a lawnmower war between feuding
yard ornaments. Next, her character runs afoul of THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (2011) when she inspires a politician (Matt Damon) to make a great speech.
When she disappears, he spends the rest of the movie looking for her, hampered by unseen forces. Blunt had a cameo in THE MUPPETS (2011) as Miss
Piggy’s receptionist in Paris, France. This month she appears on DVD in SALMON FISHING IN YEMEN (2011). See page 4 for the review. In 2010 Blount
married John Krasinski of TVs “The Office.”
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1. “You look really old. Were you held back?”
A. The Artist
“No.You look super young, were you held forward?”
B. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2. “You ever feel like you were waiting forever to figure
C. Good Deeds
out what your destiny is?”
D. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
3. It’s 1891.
E. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
4. Peppy Miller.
F. Wanderlust
5. He’s a former Confederate cavalryman.
G. Safe House
6. She’s gypsy named Nadya.
H. 21 Jump Street
7. A married couple find themselves unemployed.
I. John Carter
8. A San Francisco businessman.
J. A Thousand Words
9. Leaves on a tree.
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TOP 10 (11- 25 on www.morevideoviews.com)
1. MAX PAYNE 3 (Xbox 360, PS3)
2. TOM CLANCY’S GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER (Xbox 360, PS3)
3. DRAGON’S DOGMA (Xbox 360, PS3)
4. PROTOTYPE 2 (Xbox 360, PS3)
5. SNIPER ELITE V2 (Xbox 360, PS3)
6. LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW (Xbox 360, PS3)
7. THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii)
8. ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM (Xbox 360, PS3)
9. LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii)
10. SPEC OPS: THE LINE (Xbox 360, PS3)
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT - ARCTIC GAMES (Xbox 360, Wii)
July10
The island is set adrift in the middle of continental upheaval, as Manny, Sid, Diego and their furry friends run into a menagerie of
pirates with a secret treasure. As they can’t agree how to split the treasure evenly, Manny and co. decide to hold a series of sporting
events, including ski jumping, ice smashing, and glacial hopping, with the winner of the most events getting the loot. You can choose
to either play on the side of the pirates, or join up with Manny and company. Battle for Prehistoric Plunder and win gold, silver and
bronze acorns. Climb to the top of the leaderboard as you challenge your friends in fast-paced multi-player action. `Test your skills in
multiple modes including Story Mode and Free Play.
NCAA FOOTBALL 13 (Xbox 360, PS3)
July 10
A number of gameplay improvements will be implemented. Among those are enhancements
to the Quarterback position including: 20 new Quarterback dropbacks, 25 pass trajectory zones
(compared to 1 the year before), a number of Quarterback sack avoidance moves, new pass
animations and more. Also on offense, wide receivers now have better awareness, where icons
will now show the level of readiness a receiver has as they look for the ball. 430 new pass
animations have also been created. On defense, players will now have to see the ball to make a
move and will no longer be able to make “blind swats.” Now the ball will be moved up 5 yards
on kickoffs, in conjunction with NFL standards. Also when a player gets a touchback the ball will
start on the 25 yard line instead of the 20.
RISEN 2: DARK WATERS (Xbox 360, PS3)
July 30
Set several years after the end of Risen, the game drops players into a cataclysmic world where raging titans have devastated the
planet and pushed humanity to the brink of existence. Subsequently, monstrous creatures have risen from the watery depths of the
sea and their attacks have brought all seafaring to a grinding halt. The hero, now a member of the Inquisition, is sent out to find out
how to stop the chaos caused by these creatures from the deep. His quest begins with rumors that the pirates who frequent the
southern islands are the only ones who know a way to get rid of the creatures once and for all and end their reign of terror. The player
can use a wide range of weapons, including, for the first time, guns.
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Snow White was a little girl her widowed King father went missing shortly after
marrying the Evil Queen. Now the Queen, envious of Snow White’s beauty, keeps the
18-year-old girl confined in her bedroom away from the starving, suffering masses she
rules. But The Queen has spent too freely. When the dashing Prince Alcott comes for
a visit and tells her stories of the great wealth, she immediately schemes to marry him. But he has already
gotten a look at Snow White and has fallen in love with her. When The Queen orders Snow White killed, she
escapes, and falls in with seven thieving dwarfs and together they hatch a plan to take back her kingdom and
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now receives a message from his grandfather, who believes he has found author Jules Verne’s fabled Mysterious Island. Sean and his stepfather leave for the island. A storm quickly develops and causes their copter to
crash. They wash ashore on the island. They find everything that is big in the real world is small (elephants
are the size of puppy dogs) and everything that is small is big (lizards are the size of dinosaurs). But the
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became trapped beneath rapidly forming ice in Alaska. The story was first reported by a local newsman,
who dreams of landing a job stateside and senses the whales’ plight could be his ticket to bigger and better
things. His story goes national and attracts the attention of a Greenpeace activist who is his former girlfriend.
Looking for positive PR an oil industry executive manages to convince the military to use its helicopters and
a special ice-cutting barge to free the whales. Plummeting temperatures and the fact that the baby whale
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the edges. His 14-year-old son, Dylan, has been expelled from school. His 7-year-old daughter, Rosie, acts as
if she has no time for play dates. Mee is anxious for all of them to heal, but he doesn’t know how to help the
process along. But does that really mean buying a house on the outskirts of Los Angeles that comes with a
zoo that he has to manage? Considering that Mee has no experience, he must rely on zookeeper Kelly Foster
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stand only a few inches tall and live under the floorboards of a closet in the house. Known as borrowers, they
only come out when the full-sized humans aren’t around or likely to discover them, and borrow small items
the homeowners will never miss. A new human has arrived. He’s Shawn, a young and sickly teen who’s been
sent by his parents to stay with his aunt and her housekeeper. He discovers his mysterious housemate, Arrietty, one evening, and a secret friendship blossoms. But their relationship could be dangerous. 94 min.
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