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Brüno

Like Borat before it, Bruno can be offensive, funny, and absurd.  What the former had that the latter doesn’t, however, is a kind of social commentary effect.  Cohen has...

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

So many movies now come in threes. Too many movies now come in threes.  The Ice Age saga should have stayed put at two.  Nonetheless, they did not, and here...

Land of the Lost

Not having been a fan of anything Land of the Lost before, this movie didn’t do much for me.  The Will Ferrell era of comedy ended a few years...

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

This movie doesn’t have any idea what it wants to be.  It tries to pull a Spiderman and ends up pulling all punches.  There isn’t much here to see, except...

The Golden Compass

Click here for trailer  God can only descend from the flies so many times in a polar bear outfit before one begins to question the quality of the story....

Zack and Miri

click here for trailer  It’s conventional in pretty much every way, except that this Kevin Smith film also has porn in it, so it’ll probably bring in a few...

Twilight

click here for trailer  For fans of the book, Twilight will be just what you wanted.  For vampire fans, this probably isn’t your film.  For the general movie-going public, it’s...

The Duchess

I’ll keep this short and sweet (well, sweet-ish), because it doesn’t deserve much more than that.  It’s not a bad film, it just could have been so much better....

Horton Hears a Hoo!

It’s pretty juvenile, but it also has a few fun moments.  Horton Hears a Hoo! (Jim Carrey, Steve Carell) is a movie for children, plain and simple.  In fact, nearly...