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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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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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