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All ratings are out of a total of five stars 5 out of 5. Here are reviews of movies (now with links to movie "trailers"/previews) currently playing (see Showtimes) in Barrie, Orillia, the Georgian Bay shore, the Bruce Peninsula, and the Muskoka Lakes (updated Thursday November 27, 2008 ):

Our TOP TWO movie picks this week (see reviews below):

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New Releases (week of Thursday November 27, 2008 )

    3.5

    Australia
    In northern Australia ar the outset of World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling 2000-head-of-cattle ranch works with a stock-man to protect her new property while enduring early Japanese air attacks.
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    2.5

    Four Christmases
    A couple (Vince Vaughn & Reese Witherspoon) struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.
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Coming Next Week

    Cadillac Records
    Chronicles the rise of Chess Records (Adrien Brody) and its recording artists (Mos Def, Jeffrey Wright)
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    Frost/Nixon
    A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella and famed British talk-show host David Frost (Michael Sheen).
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    Punisher: War Zone
    After hunting down and killing hundreds of violent criminals, Frank Castle (Ray Stevenson), aka The Punisher, faces his most deadly foe yet: Jigsaw (Dominic West)
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    Down to the Dirt
    A hard-drinking 30year old small-town hooligan (Joel Thomas Hynes) secretly hoards his ragged collection of poetry, until he meets the darkly exotic Natasha (Mylène Savoie).
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    Nobel Son
    The Ph.D. student son (Bryan Greenberg) of a Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry (Alan Rickman) is kidnapped as revenge for his father's indiscretions, on the eve of receiving the prize, but his father refuses to pay the ransom.
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Recent Releases

35

American Teen
A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques. [View Movie Trailer]

4

Appaloosa
Two friends (Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen) hired to police a small town under the domination of a rancher (Jeremy Irons) find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow (CRenée Zellweger).
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua3

Beverly Hills Chihuahua
While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe (voice: Drew Barrymore), a ritzy Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home (other voices: Andy Garcia, George Lopez, Cheech Marin)
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3

Blindness
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those afflicted are quarantined, though a still-seeing wife (Julianne Moore) of an afflicted doctor (Mark Ruffalo) follows her husband, and watches disorder in the facility.
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3

Body of Lies
a CIA operative (Leonardo DiCaprio) who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader (Mark Strong) suspected to be operating out of Jordan (also stars Russel Crow).
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3

Bolt
Animated movie about Bolt, an American White Shepherd (voice: John Travolta), grew up as a TV action hero, and believes he has real superpowers. When he wanders off set and meets a cat (voice:Susie Essman) and a hamster (voice: Mark Walton) he realizes he does not have such powers.
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3.5

Burn After Reading
A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent (John Makovich) ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees (Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt) who attempt to sell it. [View Movie Trailer]

3.5

Changeling
A working class mother (Angelina Jolie) in 1928 prays for her kidnapped son to be returned, but during the photo-op reunion several months later, she realizes this child is not hers, but must face both corrupt police and a skeptical public.
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2.5

Choke
A sex-addicted con-man pays (Sam Rockwell) for his mother's hospital bills by "choking" on food in high-end restaurants and playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him.
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3

City of Ember
The people of the City of Ember have long flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights, but the city's generator is failing and two teenagers (Robeert Kane, Conor MacNeil) search Ember for clues that to unlock the ancient secrets of the generators and help its citizens escape before the lights go out forever.
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2.5

Death Race
An ex-con (Jason Statham) is forced by the warden of a notorious prison (Joan Allen) to compete in a brutal car race, in which inmates kill one another on their road to victory.
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3

Death Note
Japanese naime movie about a battle between the world's two greatest minds, which begins when Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara) finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.[View Movie Trailer]

4

Duchess
The life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana (Keira Knightly), Duchess of Devonshire, who lived an extravagant political and personal life, for which she became unpopular.
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2.5

Eagle Eye
Two strangeers, a young man (Shia LaBeouf) and woman (Michelle Monaghan) are thrown together by a mysterious phone call that threatens their lives and family, and invoves them in a sequence of dangerously escalating situations using everyday technology to track and control their every move, involuntarily making them Most Wanted criminals, leaving them wondering, why?[View Movie Trailer]

3.5

Flash of Genius
The inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper (Greg Kinnear) takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea.
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4

Fly Me to the Moon
Animated: Three young houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the moon. (voices: Tim Curry, Robert Patrick, Kelly Ripa, Buzz Aldrin, Trevor Gagnon). [View Movie Trailer]

4

Ghost Town
A man (Ricky Gervais) who is dead for 7 minutes during a "routine" colonoscopy, and awakens with the ability to see & communicate with ghosts. His ghostly patron (Greg Kinnear) asks him to meddle with the impending marriage of his widow (Tea Leoni) who lives in his building.
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3.5

Happy-Go-Lucky
A look at the life of cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher (Sally Hawkins) whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
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3.5

Hancock
A hard-living superhero (Will Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Charlize Theron) of the public relations professional (Jason Bateman ) who's trying to repair his image. [View Movie Trailer]

3

High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Two high school seniors (Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens) struggle with being apart in college, and with the other Wildcats stage a spring musical to share their experiences, hopes and fears.
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3

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
A British writer (Kelan Pannell, Simon Pegg) struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. [View Movie Trailer]

3

Igor
A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant (voice: John Cusack) who aspires to become a scientist himself, and displeases the rest of the evil science community. Animated.
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4

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The 4th adventure of the famed archaeologist/adventurer (Harrison Ford) as he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind the mysterious Crystal Skulls artifacts. [View Movie Trailer]

Journey to the Center of the Earth3

Journey to the Center of the Earth
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist (Brendan Fraser), his nephew (Josh Hutcherson) and their mountain guide (Anita Briem) discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth [View Movie Trailer]

3.5

Kung Fu Panda
A reluctant panda bear (voice: Jack Black), is recruited by a team of Kung Fu masters (voices: Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross) and trained in the ways of the ancient martial art in order to protect the Valley of Peace from an evil snow leopard. [View Movie Trailer]

2.5

Lakeview Terrace
An LAPD officer (Samuel Jackson)goes to extremes to get an interracial couple (Kerry Washington and Patrick Wilson), who just moved in next door, to move.[View Movie Trailer]

4.5

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
In this sequel, the New York Zoo Animals try to leave the island by plane and land in the wilderness of Africa, and Alex the Lion meets his relatives who lost touch while he was in the zoo (voices: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimme, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer).
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3

Mamma Mia
The story of an 18 year old bride-to-be (Amanda Seyfried) trying to find her real father (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård?) told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.[View Movie Trailer]

3

Max Payne
A DEA agent (Mark Wahlberg) whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy, work together with an assassin (Mila Kunis), avenging her sister's death, to solve a series of murders in New York City and must take on the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
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3.5

Milk
The story of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) California's first openly gay elected official, who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber) by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White (Josh Brolin).
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My Best Friend's Girl
A professional womanizer (Dane Cook) hired by guys who want their girlfriends or wives to reconsider leaving them, but has the opposite effect on his best friend's (Jason Biggs) girlfriend (Kate Hudson).
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist3

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
High school student Nick O'Leary (Michael Cera), member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg (Kat Dennings ) and she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes.
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4

Passchendaele
The epic story of a Sergeant (Paul Gross), in the The "Fighting Tenth" Bartalion in the 1st Canadian Division, who participated in all major Canadian battles of the First World War, and received the most individual bravery awards for a single battle.
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3.5

Pride and Glory
In a family of New York City Police officers, one officer (Edward Norton), investigates a case only to reveal a police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law (Colin Farrell), upsetting the family as well as the whole NYPD.
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4

Pineapple Express
A stoner (Seth Rogen) and his dealer (James Franco) are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) commit a murder. [View Movie Trailer]

4

Quantum of Solace
Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) sets out to stop a businessman (Mathieu Amalric) from taking control of most of SOuth America's water supply.
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1

Quarantine
A television reporter (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station, and help investigate a crime, only to find out that the crime scene has been quarantined by the CDC.
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3.5

Rachel Getting Married
A young woman (Anne Hathaway) who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's (Rosemarie DeWitt) wedding.
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3.5

Religulous
Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
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2.5

Righteous Kill
Two veteran New York City detectives (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino) work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago, leading them to consider they locked up the wrong person. (also starring 50 Cent, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg). [View Movie Trailer]

3

RocknRolla
In London, a real-estate scam organized by a Russian mobster puts millions of pounds up for grabs, naturally attraction the attention of some of the city's scrappiest tough guys (Gerard Butler, Idris Elba) its more established underworld players (Tom Wilkinson), and others -- all of whom are looking to get rich quick
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2.5

Role Models
Two salesmen (Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott) who trash a company truck,stoked on energy drinks are sentenced to spend 150 hours in community service as mentors to teens (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Elizabeth Banks))
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2

Saw V
Forensics expert Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) goes on the hunt in order to protect the secret that he is the newest person to carry on Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) legacy.
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3.5

Sex And The City
New York City writer (Sarah Jessica Parker) is engaged to be married to Mr Big (Chris Noth) and her gal-pals (Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon) help plan for the special occasion. [View Movie Trailer]

2.5

Sex Drive
A high school senior (Josh Zuckerman) drives cross-country with his best friends (Amanda Crew & Clark Duke) to hook up with a babe (Katrina Bowden) he met online. |
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3

Slumdog Millionaire
To prove his love for a girl fan of the Hindi version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?", an impoverished Indian teen Jamal Malik became a contestant, but after manging to make it through the first night, he is arrested for supposedly cheating, and details how he knew each of the seemingly impossible answers.
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3

Soul Men
Two former backup soul singers, who haven't talked spoken in 20 years (Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac) travel cross country to perform at am Apollo Theatre tribute concert for their famous (and recently deceased) band leader.
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3.5

Space Chimps
Animated: Three NASA chimps (voices: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton) are sent to a distant galaxy, one is a fun-loving slacker but grandson of first chimp in space, and must save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from the evil dictator. [View Movie Trailer]

2.5

Splinter
A young couple and an escaped convict are trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts.
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2.5

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Animated: As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace. [View Movie Trailer]

2.5

Step Brothers
Two spoiled guys (Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly) become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents (Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins) get hitched. [View Movie Trailer]

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 3.5 The story of an unlikely WWII-wartime friendship between the 8 year old son (Asa Butterfield) of Nazi concentration camp commandant (David Thewlis), and a Jewish boy (Jack Scanlon) captive in the concentration camp.[View Movie Trailer]

4

The Dark Knight
Batman (Christian Bale) and James Gordon (Gary Oldman) join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney (Aaron Eckhart) to take on an ever-more psychotic bank robber known as The Joker (Heath Ledger). [View Movie Trailer]

3

The Express
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis (Rob Brown), the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy (also starring Dennis Quaid, Clancy Brown). [View Movie Trailer]

2

The Haunting of Molly Hartley
Molly (Haley Bennett) is a seventeen-year-old girl who has fresh start in a new town and a priveate school following her mother's terrifying psychotic break, and she struggles to find a place amongst the cliques.
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The House Bunny3.5

The House Bunny
A Playboy bunny (Ana Faris), tossed from the Playboy Mansion, has nowhere to go until the seven socially clueless sorority girls take her into their sorority house, which can lose their house to a competiting sorority unless the sign a new pledge class.
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4

The Secret Life of Bees
A South Carolina girl (Dakota Fanning) in 1964 is still haunted by the memory of her late mother, and uses beekeeping to escape her lonely life & troubled relationship with her father, and is taken in by intelligent and independent sisters (Alicia Keys & Sophie Okonedo).
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3.5

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Four friends (Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn) are facing their first ever summer apart from each other. Before they leave each other, they discover magical pants that miraculously fit all of them. They decide that the Pants should circulate among them throughout the summer. [View Movie Trailer]

3.5

The Visitor
A college professor (Richard Jenkins) travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young immigrant couple (Haaz Sleiman and Danai Jekesai Gurira) has also been rented the same apartment. [View Movie Trailer]

3.5

The Women
A wealthy New Yorker (Meg Ryan) leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women (Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, and more) at a resort (remake of a 1939 George Cukor classic). [View Movie Trailer]

2

Transporter 3
The third in the Transporter trilogy, with Frank Martin (Jason Statham) hired to transport a cargo, buit restained by a bracelet that keeps him within 100 feet of his car.
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4

Tropic Thunder
A group of B-actors (Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr) shooting a big-budget war movie in Vietnam are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. [View Movie Trailer]

3

Twilight
A teenage girl (Kristen Stewart) risks everything when she falls in love with a teenage boy (Robert Pattinson) who happens to be a vampire who hasn't aged since 1918.
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3.5

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Two girlfriends (Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson) on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter (Javier Bardem), unaware that his ex-wife (Penélope Cruz), with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture. [View Movie Trailer]

3.5

W.
The Oliver Stone chronicle on the life and presidency of George W. Bush (Josh Brolin)
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4.5

WALL-E
Pixar animated movie about a trash-compacting robot cleaning up earth polluted by humans, when he falls for a sleek, female droid, and sets out on an intergalactic journey to be with her. [View Movie Trailer]

3.5

Wanted
A young man (James McAvoy) is lured from a miserable existence by a gun-toting hitwoman (Angelina Jolie) into the Fraternity (run by Morgan Freeman), a secret group of assassins to which his dead father belonged. [View Movie Trailer]

3

Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri ( Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks) try to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together, but once the cameras roll, they realize they have feelings for each other.
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