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All ratings are out of a total of five stars . Here are reviews of movies (now with links to movie "trailers"/previews) currently playing (see Showtimes) in Fredericton (updated Thursday October 9, 2008 ): Our TOP TWO movie picks this week (see reviews below):

New Releases (week of Thursday October 9, 2008 )
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). [View Movie Trailer] 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. [View Movie Trailer] Happy-Go-Lucky A look at the life of cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher (Sally Hawkins) whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her. [View Movie Trailer] Long Way Down Two guys (Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman) take a trip of several months on motorcycles. They travel from the North of Scotland, down through Europe, into Africa, finally winding up in Cape Town, South Africa. [View Movie Trailer] 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. [View Movie Trailer] 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 [View Movie Trailer]
Coming Next Week
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. [View Movie Trailer] Morning Light Film about 15 sailors on "Morning Light", a high-performance 52-foot sloop in the 2300 mile TRANSPAC open-ocean sailing competitions. [View Movie Trailer [View Movie Trailer] 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. [View Movie Trailer] 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. | [View Movie Trailer] 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). [View Movie Trailer] W. The Oliver Stone chronicle on the life and presidency of George W. Bush (Josh Brolin) [View Movie Trailer]
Recent Releases
88 Minutes A thriller about a college professor (Al Pacino) who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist who's testimony put a serial killer on death row, receives a death threat telling him that he has only 88 minutes to live. [View Movie Trailer] Amal The life of an autorickshaw driver (Rupinder Nagra), content with his role driving customers around New Delhi [View Movie Trailer] American Teen A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques. [View Movie Trailer] 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). [View Movie Trailer] 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) [View Movie Trailer] 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. [View Movie Trailer] Babylon A.D. A war veteran-turned-mercenary (Vin Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman (Michelle Yeoh) from Russia to China, not knowing that a cult has chosen her to host to an organism to produce a genetically-modified Messiah. [View Movie Trailer] Bangkok Dangerous A hitman (Nicolas Cage) who's in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs falls for a local woman (Shahkrit Yamnarm) and bonds with his errand boy (Charlie Yeung). [View Movie Trailer] Bottle Shock The story of the early days of California wine making leading to a now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting in 1976. (Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman) [View Movie Trailer] Brideshead Revisited The memoirs of a Captain (Matthew Goode) stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII remembering his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate (Patrick Malahide, Richard Teverson [View Movie Trailer] 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] 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. [View Movie Trailer] College Three high school seniors (Drake Bell,Andrew Caldwell, Ryan Pinkston) who visit a local college campus as prospective freshmen experience a wild weekend. [View Movie Trailer] College Road Trip An overachieving high school student (Raven Symone)with an over-protective cop father decides to check out our of town colleges, her father (Martin Lawrence) decides to accompany her as chaperone. [View Movie Trailer] 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. [View Movie Trailer] 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] Deception An accountant (Hugh Jackman) is introduced to a mysterious sex club by his lawyer friend (Ewan McGregor) where he becomes the prime suspect in both a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist. [View Movie Trailer] Disaster Movie Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings (Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo) are bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events. [View Movie Trailer] 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] Everybody Wants to Be Italian It's a case of mistaken ethnicity, where two non-Italians pretend to be Italian to win each others hearts in Boston's North End. [View Movie Trailer] Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom...in this documentary Ben Stein argues for Intelligent Design as an alternative to Darwin's evolution. [View Movie Trailer] Flash of Genius The inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper (Greg Kinnear) takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea. [View Movie Trailer] 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] Forgetting Sarah Marshall After a messy break-up with a TV-star grilfriend (Kristen Bell), the ex-boyfriend (Jason Segel) takes a Hawaii vacation to recover, only to discover she friend, Sarah. Little does he know she is vacationing at the same resort, with her new boyfriend (Bill Hader). [View Movie Trailer] Fugitive Pieces A child (Stephen Dillane) escapes from German-occupied Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada. [View Movie Trailer] Get Smart Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell), Agent 86 for CONTROL, battles the forces of KAOS with the more-competent Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) at his side. [View Movie Trailer] 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. [View Movie Trailer] Hamlet 2 A failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama teacher (Steve Coogan) rallies his Tucson, Arizona students to stage a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet tht he wrote. [View Movie Trailer] 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] Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Two potheads Harold & Kumar (John Cho, Kal Penn) boarding a misadventurous flight to Amsterdam with a bong, are caught and mistaken for terrorists and sent to Guantanamo Bay. [View Movie Trailer] Hellboy II: The Golden Army A ruthless leader (Doug Jones) of the mythical world breaks a truce with humanity, so Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and his team (including Selma Blair, Doug Jones, James Dodd) must save the world from the rebellious creatures. [View Movie Trailer] Hell Ride A group of bad-ass bikers, Pistolero (Larry Bishop), the Gent (Michael Madsen) and Comanche (Eric Balfour) have some deadly, unfinished business among them.[View Movie Trailer] Horton Hears a Who! Horton the Elephant (voice: Jim Carey) struggles to protect a microscopic community (voice: Steve Carell) from his neighbors (voice: Carol Burnett) who refuse to believe it exists. [View Movie Trailer] How She Move Following her sister's drug addiction death, a high school student (Tre Armstrong) leaves her private school to return to her old, crime-filled 'hood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing. [View Movie Trailer] 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]	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. [View Movie Trailer] 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] Iron Man When a wealthy industrialist (Robert Downey Jr.) is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil. [View Movie Trailer] Kit Kittredge: An American Girl A Great Depression-era young girl ( Abigail Breslin) has a story she's written about the era published in Cincinnati's major newspaper. [View Movie Trailer] 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] 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] 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] Made of Honor A guy (Patrick Dempsey) in love with an engaged woman (Michelle Monaghan) tries to win her over after she asks him to be her maid of honor. [View Movie Trailer] 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] Meet Dave While trying to save their planet, a crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form (Eddie Murphy), but encounter problems, when their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman (Elizabeth Banks). [View Movie Trailer] Miracle at St. Anna The story of four WWII black American soldiers (Derek Luke, Aubrey Stamps, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller) who get trapped behind enemy lines in a Tuscan village. [View Movie Trailer] Mirrors An ex-cop (Kiefer Sutherland) and his family (Matt Neufeld, Paula Patton, Cameron Boyce, Erica Cluck, Amy Smart) are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.[View Movie Trailer] 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). [View Movie Trailer] 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. [View Movie Trailer] Nothing Is Private A 13 year old Arab-American girl (Summer Bishil) struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist (Aaron Eckhart) and her strict father (Peter Macdissi) during the Gulf War. [View Movie Trailer] 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] 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. [View Movie Trailer] Religulous Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion. [View Movie Trailer] 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] 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] Shine a Light Matine Scorsese's intimate look at the legendary Rolling Stones, playing a rock concert on their 2006 "Big Bang Tour". [View Movie Trailer] Son of Rambow A British comedy about friendship, faith and the weird business of growing up in the 1980s (Neil Dudgeon, Bill Milner, Jessica Hynes). [View Movie Trailer] 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] Speed Racer a young man with natural racing talents (Emile Hirsch) wants to win a cross-country car racing rally, The Crucible, that took the life of his older brother, only to learn the races are fixed by corporate interests. [View Movie Trailer] 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] 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] Swing Vote An apathetic loser (Kevin Costner) living in a New Mexico hicktown, as a result of an unusual chain of events, makes his the one vote that determines the final outcome a tied US presidential election, which he casts with the advice of his very smart 12 year old daughter (Madeline Carroll). [View Movie Trailer]	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian The Pevensie siblings (William Moseley, Anna Popplewell) return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes). [View Movie Trailer] 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] The 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. [View Movie Trailer] 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] The Family That Preys The matriarchs (Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard) of two very different socialite families being torn apart by greed and scandal (also starring Sanaa Lathan, Rockmond Dunbar, Cole Hauser, KaDee Strickland, Taraji Henson,Tyler Perry). [View Movie Trailer] 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. [View Movie Trailer] The Longshots An eleven year old girl (Keke Palmer), becomes the first female quarerback to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history, on a team coached by her uncle, a down & out former high school coach (Ice Cube). [View Movie Trailer] The Love Guru An American (Mike Myers) raised outside of his country by gurus (Omid Djalili, Ben Kingsley), starts out in the self-help business, with first client (Justin Timberlake) a star hockey player with romantic & professional problems. [View Movie Trailer] The Lucky Ones Three soldiers (Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, and Michael Peña) meet one another as they have all returned from Iraq and join for a road trip across the country for varying personal reasons. [View Movie Trailer] The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo (Brendan Fraser & Luke Ford) unearth the mummy of the first Han Emperor of Qin (Jet Li), he and his thousands of terra cotta warriors are brought back to life. [View Movie Trailer] The Rocker A failed drummer (Rainn Wilson) from an 80s "hair band" who is given a second chance at fame 20 years later when his nephew's (Josh Gad) high school rock band needs a drummer. [View Movie Trailer] 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] The Spiderwick Chronicles Twin brothers (Freddie Highmore) and their sister (Sarah Bolger), move into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother (Mary-Louise Parker) find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other fantasy creatures. [View Movie Trailer] The Stone Angel An aging and proud (to a fault) woman (Ellen Burstyn), at odds with family and friends, comes to terms with her mortality and past disappointing relationships. [View Movie Trailer] The Strangers A young couple (Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler) staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants. [View Movie Trailer] 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] 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] The X-Files: I Want to Believe Based on the 1990s TV series, Mulder (David Duchovny) continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully (Gillian Anderson), the intelligent and passionate physician follows on Mulder's pursuits. [View Movie Trailer] Then She Found Me A 39 year old New York schoolteacher (Helen Hunt) hits a mid-life crisis when, her husband (Matthew Broderick) leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother / talk show host (Bette Midler) comes into her life and makes things messy by starting to date the father (Colin Firth) of one of her students. [View Movie Trailer] 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] 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] 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] 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] What Happens in Vegas... Two people (Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher) discover they've gotten married in Las Vegas following a night of debauchery. [View Movie Trailer] You Don't Mess with the Zohan A Mossad agent (Adam Sandler) fakes his death to move to New York City and re-invent himself as a hairstylist. [View Movie Trailer] Youg People F***ing A comedy with the stories of 5 couples over the course of one sexual encounter