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Updated March 28, 2003
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Adaptation
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman writes a script about himself… writing a script. Based on his own real-life experience, Kaufman (played by Nicholas Cage) is struggling to adapt Susan Orlean’s novel “The Orchid Thief” – and failing miserably. Overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, Kaufman seeks out the source: Orlean (Meryl Streep) and the orchid thief himself (Chris Cooper). (1:54. R for language, sexuality, some drug use and violent images.)

Agent Cody Banks
Frankie Muniz ('Big Fat Liar,' TV’s "Malcolm in the Middle") stars in this teen spy thriller as a normal kid recruited by a top-secret teenage CIA team. He must put all his training to the test when he’s assigned to foil the plans of an evil organization bent on destroying America. (1:42. PG for action violence, mild language and some sensual content.)

Basic New This Week

A rogue DEA agent (John Travolta) investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army drill sergeant (Samuel L. Jackson) and a squad of his cadets after a training exercise in Panama goes mysteriously awry. (1:38. R for violence and language.)

Boat Trip
Cuba Gooding Jr. and "Saturday Night Live"'s Horatio Sanz star as two down-on-their-luck buddies who hop a cruise ship hoping to find better days and a little romance. But little do they know that their travel agent has booked them on a cruise for all gay men. (1:35. R for strong sexual content, language and some drug material.)

Bringing Down The House<--click here for in depth review
A lonely New York man (Steve Martin) strikes up an online relationship with a mysterious woman (Queen Latifah) who breaks out of jail and shows up at his front door, wreaking havoc on his sheltered upper-middle-class life. (1:45. PG-13 for language, sexual humor and drug material.)

Catch Me If You Can
Steven Spielberg's film is based on the true story of Frank Abagnale, the youngest man ever to be placed on the FBI's "most wanted list." At the age of 17, Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) had already posed as a doctor, lawyer, and pilot, and had become the most successful bank robber in U.S. history. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) sets out to bring Frank to justice, but the precocious master of deception is always one step ahead of him. (2:20. PG-13 for some sexual content and brief language.)

Chicago
In this long-awaited film version of the Broadway hit, Chicago chorus girl Roxie Hart (Zellweger) lands in jail after shooting her lover. There she meets Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones), another chorus girl and murderess. Soon, they're competing for the legal services of slick lawyer, Billy Flynn (Gere), and for attention from the media. (1:47. PG-13 for sexual content and dialogue, violence and thematic elements.)

The Core New This Week
When Earth’s core stops rotating inexplicably, geophysicist Josh Keyes (Eckhart) must find a solution before the planet is destroyed. He and a team of scientists assemble a ship to journey through Earth's layers and reactive the core by detonating nuclear devices. (2:16. PG-13 for sci-fi life/death situations and brief strong language.)

Daredevil<--click here for in depth review
Marvel's legendary comic hero -- known as the Man without Fear -- is at last adapted for the big screen. Attorney Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) is blind, but his other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. By day, Murdock represents the downtrodden; by night, he is Daredevil, a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets of the city, a relentless avenger of justice. (1:38. PG-13 for action/violence and some sensuality.)

Dark Blue<--click here for in depth review
Based on a story by James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential), a maverick L.A. detective (Kurt Russell) whose brutal and racist style puts him at odds with his boss (Ving Rhames) investigates a multiple homicide with a new rookie partner during the tense days leading up to the Rodney King verdict. (1:53. R for violence, language and brief sexuality.)

Darkness Falls<--click here for in depth review
A young man (Chaney Kley) fears that an evil spirit lurks in his small town taking on the form of the Tooth Fairy, but no one believes him except his childhood girlfriend (Emma Caulfield) and her younger brother, who may turn out to be the spirit’s next victim. (1:16. PG-13 for terror and horror images, and brief language.)

Dreamcatcher
Based on the Stephen King bestseller, four young friends perform a heroic act and are transformed forever when they are endowed with special powers. Years later, they reunite for a hunting trip and encounter a sinister alien force that only they can prevent from destroying the world. (2:14. R for violence, gore and language.)

Final Destination 2<--click here for in depth review
In this sequel to the 2000 sleeper hit, a young woman (A.J. Cook) foresees a horrific highway pileup en route to a getaway with her friends. After narrowly escaping death, she and the other motorists delayed by her vision realize death is out to get them and enlist the help of Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), the lone survivor of Flight 180. (1:40. R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language, drug content and some nudity.)

Gangs of New York<--click here for in depth review
This highly-anticipated epic from director Martin Scorsese recreates 1840s New York, when Irish gang members clashed with other immigrants. A young man (DiCaprio) joins the fight against a gang leader (Day-Lewis) who killed his father. (2:48. R for intense strong violence, sexuality/nudity and language.)

Gods & Generals<--click here for in depth review
This Civil War epic -- a prequel to the 1993 saga 'Gettysburg' -- chronicles the life and battles of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson (Stephen Lang). Filmed on location on historic battlefields of the South, from Antietam to Chancellorsville, with Robert Duvall as General Robert E. Lee. (3:49. PG-13 for sustained battle sequences.)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
More adventures await young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) when he returns to Hogwarts for his second year. Along with friends Ron and Hermione, Harry sets out to find out who is turning his classmates into statues. Is the mystery tied to the talking diary that he found? On top of that, he’s still got to deal with a new professor, Quidditch matches and nemesis Draco Malfoy. (2:41 PG for scary moments, some creature violence and mild language.)

Head of State New This Week
When the Democratic presidential candidate dies in the middle of his campaign, the Party picks small-time Washington D.C. politician Mays Gilliam (Chris Rock) to be his replacement. Rock makes his debut as a director, with Bernie Mac co-starring. (1:35. PG-13 for language, some sexuality and drug references.)

The Hours<--click here for in depth review
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film interweaves the stories of three women in different eras. In 1923, the author Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman), depressed and suicidal, is writing the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway.' In 1949, pregnant Los Angeles housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) is planning a birthday bash for her husband, but can't stop reading that novel. And in present day, New York City book editor Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) is throwing a party for friend and former lover Richard (Ed Harris), who is dying of AIDS and gave her the nickname, Mrs. Dalloway. Directed by Stephen Daldry and also starring Toni Collette, Claire Danes and Allison Janne. (1:54. PG-13 for mature thematic elements, some disturbing images and brief language.)

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days<--click here for in depth review
A ladies’ man (Matthew McConaughey) bets his friends that he can stay in a relationship for more than 10 days, but he may have met his match in his latest date (Kate Hudson) who is trying to get rid of him just as fast. Loosely based on the book of the same name. (1:56. PG-13 for some sex-related material.)

The Hunted
An FBI agent (Tommy Lee Jones) leads a manhunt to track down one of his former trainees, an ex-military survivalist (Benicio Del Toro) who now makes a sport of killing humans. But what begins as a search for a demented killer turns into a deadly game where the hunter becomes the hunted. (1:34. R for strong bloody violence and some language.)

Just Married
A young couple in love (Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy) ties the knot despite the objections of the bride’s blue-blood parents, who, desperate to break them up, send her ex-boyfriend (Christian Kane) to follow them on their ill-fated honeymoon in Europe. (1:35. PG-13 for sexual content, some crude humor and a brief drug reference.)

Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers<--click here for in depth review
The action continues where 'Fellowship' left off, with Frodo and Sam journeying to Mordor to destroy The One Ring. Meanwhile, Aragorn and companions search for their kidnapped hobbit friends and find that the wizard Gandalf may yet help them. And as the Dark Lord's armies press closer, mankind must unite for battle. (2:59. PG-13 for epic battle sequences and scary images.)

Maid in Manhattan<--click here for in depth review
Jennifer Lopez stars in this Cinderella tale as Marisa Ventura, an independent single mother who lives in the Bronx with her son and works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. There, she meets and falls for a handsome politician (Ralph Fiennes), who mistakes her for a wealthy guest. Will the truth about Marisa's background derail the romance? (1:45. PG-13 for some language/sexual references.)

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My Bread, My Sweet
Pastry, Gypsy dancing, and Scott Baio all feature prominently in this independent {\romantic comedy from Pittsburgh, which focuses on the relationship between three brothers and an elderly Italian couple. Dominic (Baio), Eddie (Billy Mott), and Pino (Shuler Hensley) are brothers who have little in common aside from the bakery they own together. Dominic works for a management firm and specializes in firing people; Pino is mentally handicapped; and Eddie is a womanizer. The brothers are close friends with Massimo and Bella, the Italian couple who live upstairs, and when Dominic learns that Bella is sick, he decides to do whatever he can to make her feel better. This includes a full-fledged attempt to get Massimo and Bella's errant daughter Lucca to come home for Christmas. This being a {\romantic comedy, it doesn't take long for Dominic to realize that he has other motives for wanting Lucca to come home, motives that don't have a great deal to do with Bella's health. The Bread, My Sweet was screened at the 2002 Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide (1:45. NR .)

Old School<--click here for in depth review
Three thirty-something guys desperate to relive their glory days move into a house near their old college and form an "unofficial fraternity" where students can party without abiding by the university's rules. Soon, however, the realities of their past lives catch up with them. (1:31. R for some strong sexual content, nudity and language.)

Piglet's Big Movie
When tiny Piglet gets lost in the woods and Winnie the Pooh and the others come searching for him, he learns a lesson about how even the littlest creatures can be big heroes. Singer/songwriter Carly Simon contributes original music for the soundtrack. (1:15. G.)

The Quiet American
A cynical British journalist (Michael Caine) and an idealistic American operative (Brendan Fraser) become friends and romantic rivals in pre-Vietnam War Saigon in this tense spy thriller based on Graham Greene’s classic novel that lays bare the dirty truths of American involvement in global conflict. (1:58. R for images of violence and some language.)

The Recruit<--click here for in depth review
A brilliant young CIA rookie (Colin Farrell) is chosen by his boss (Al Pacino) to root out a double agent who may be spying for the Chinese. But as he learns the tricks of the spy trade, he starts to wonder whom he can truly trust. (1:45. PG-13 for violence, sexuality and language.)

Shanghai Knights<--click here for in depth review
After taming the wild west in 2000's 'Shanghai Noon,' Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) and Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) travel to London to pursue the man who murdered Chon's father. While Chon seeks vengeance, Roy falls for his partner's sister. (n/a. PG-13 for action violence and sexual content.)

Star Trek: Nemesis<--click here for in depth review
This tenth film in the franchise sees the return of the "Next Generation" characters. The crew of the Enterprise is diverted to the planet Romulus when its longtime Federation foes indicate that they are willing to begin peace negotiations. Once Picard (Patrick Stewart) and crew arrive, they uncover an unprecedented threat to Earth. (1:56. PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and peril and a scene of sexual content.)

Tears of the Sun<--click here for in depth review
Bruce Willis stars as a Navy commando sent to the Nigerian jungle to rescue a doctor (Monica Bellucci) in danger of being taken hostage by rebels. But she forces him to change his mission by refusing to leave unless they take a group of refugees with them. (1:58. R for strong war violence, some brutality and language.)

Time Changer
It is 1890, and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has just completed a new manuscript, “The Changing Times,” of which he is very proud. But another professor, Dr. Anderson, says something Carlisle has written could drastically change the future, and sends him 100 years in to the future via a secret time machine to see what happens. (1:35. PG .)

Two Weeks Notice
In the ultimate romantic comedy matchup, Sandra Bullock plays a stressed-out lawyer to Hugh Grant’s charming but self-absorbed millionaire. Lucy is sick of practically baby-sitting George through life and calls it quits. After she finds him a replacement and gets ready to go on a vacation, George realizes he isn’t ready to let her go. (1:40. PG-13 for some sex-related humor.)

View from the Top
Gwyneth Paltrow stars in this sexy comedy as a small-town Nevadan girl who yearns to live the high life by working as an international stewardess. She enlists the help of an industry veteran (Candice Bergen) to show her the ropes while competing against a fellow student (Christina Applegate) in flight-attendant school. (1:27. PG-13 for language/sexual references.)

Willard
A shy young social misfit (Crispin Glover), mercilessly teased by his coworkers, takes bloody revenge on them by unleashing his army of pet rats for a series of gruesome murders. A remake of the classic 1971 horror film. (1:40. PG-13 for terror/violence, some sexual content and language.)

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