Movie Reviews
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 Sudbury & North Bay
(updated Thursday July 3, 2008
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Our TOP TWO movie picks this week (see reviews below):
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Finding Amanda
A heavy-into-drinking & gambling television producer (Matthew Broderick) is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece (Brittany Snow) to enter rehab. [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]
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.
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August
Two brothers (Josh Hartnett and Robin Tunney) struggle to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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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.
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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
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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).
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10,000 B.C.
A prehistoric epic that follows the jurney of a young mammoth hunter (Steven Strait) through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe (including Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel). [View Movie Trailer]
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]
Alvin and the Chipmunks
A trio of singing chipmunks (animated), led by mischievous Alvin, as well as quiet Simon and impressionable Theodore (voices: Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney) are found by aspiring songwriter (Jason Lee) who has them sing for a living. [View Movie Trailer]
Baby Mama
A career-driven single woman (Tina Fey) hires a troublesome surrogate mother (Amy Poehler) to carry her child to term, and they try to resolve their differences through counselling (Sigourney Weaver). [View Movie Trailer]
Bella
An international soccer star (Eduardo Verástegui), who's career suddenly ended, works as a cook in a Mexican restaurant in New York City, where he meets a beautiful waitress (Tammy Blanchard). [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]
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]
Definitely, Maybe
A charming political consultant (Ryan Reynolds) going through a divorce tries to explain his past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter (Abigail Breslin). [View Movie Trailer]
Drillbit Taylor
Three kids (Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile and David Dorfman) hire a low-budget bodyguard (Owen Wilson) to protect them from the playground bully (Alex Frost). [View Movie Trailer]
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom...inthis documentary Ben Stein argues for Intelligent Design as an alternative to Darwin's evolution. [View Movie Trailer]
Fool's Gold
Discovering a clue to the location of a Lost Treasure rekindles a married couple's (Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson) sense of adventure and rekindles their romance. [View Movie Trailer]
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
After a messy break-up with a TV-Sstar 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]
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]
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]
I Am Legend
A top scientist (Will Smith) cannnot stop a lethal virus, to which he happns to be immune, and ends up being the last human survivor in a sombre looking New York City, and maybe the world, as he fights to outlast virus-affected mutants. [View Movie Trailer]
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In Bruges
Two hitmen (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) are holed up in small town Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, and learn about their differing views of life and death. [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]
Jumper
A young man (Hayden Christensen) with a gentic mutation that allows him to teleport himself anywhere and any time, but finds himself in a long-running war between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them. [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]
Leatherheads
In 1915, both an aging football legend (George Clooney) and a recently drafted college star (John Krasinski) on his pro team compete for the heart of an intrepid up-and-coming journalist (Rene Zellweger). [View Movie Trailer]
Love in the Time of Cholera
Florentino (Javier Bardem), rejected in his youth by the beautiful Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart. [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]
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
A treasure hunter (Nicolas Cage) and his colleagues (Diane Kruger, Jon Voight...) search for the missing pages of John Wilkes Booth's diary, uncovers the first step unmasking a worldwide conspiracy. [View Movie Trailer]
Never Back Down
Attending a new high school, a rebellious teen (Sean Faris) joins an underground fight club, where he is mentored by a mixed martial arts veteran (Djimon Hounsou). [View Movie Trailer]
Nim's Island
A popular author (Jodie Foster) and adventure-lover Alex Rover (Gerard Butler) team up to help her number-one fan (Abigail Breslin) who lives on a secret island where her father has gone missing, though Alex is merely the main character in her best-selling novels. [View Movie Trailer]
Postal
A recently laid-off loser (Zack Ward) teams up with his cult-leader uncle (Dave Foley) to rob a local amusement park, only to run into the Taliban planning the same heist. [View Movie Trailer]
Prom Night
A group of high school students are stalked on their prom night, by a vengeful killer who years ago witnessed the same kids cause a young girl's accidental death. [View Movie Trailer]
Rambo
From Thailand, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone)leads a group of mercenaries up the Salween River to a Burmese village to track down and rescue some missing Christian aid workers, he had worked with. [View Movie Trailer]
Redbelt
Saving a celebrity leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and he resists entering prize bouts but is pressured into entering such a competition. [View Movie Trailer]
Run Fatboy Run
A clueless and slightly overweight guy (Simon Pegg) left his pregnant fiancée (Thandie Newton) five years earlier, and has tried ever since to woo her back, tries to impress her by training for (Hank Azaria) and running a marathon. Directed by David Schwimmer. [View Movie Trailer]
Semi-Pro
Sports comedy, wherethe owner-coach-player (Will Ferrell) of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates (including Woodie Harrelson) to live their far-fetched NBA dreams. [View Movie Trailer]
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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]
Shutter
A newly married couple (Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor) discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident, which they begin to investigate... [View Movie Trailer]
Smart People
A doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker) looking after her injured former professor (Dennis Quaid) who falls for her, complicated by his Young Republican daughter (Ellen Page), and his good-for-nothing adopted brother (Thomas Haden Church). [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]
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]
Step Up 2 The Streets
Romantic sparks fly between two dance students (Briana Evigan, Adam G. Sevani) from different backgrounds at the Maryland School of the Arts. [View Movie Trailer]
Stop Loss
Back in Texas after a combat tour in Iraq, a soldier (Ryan Phillippe) refuses to return to battle despite the "stop loss" government mandate requiring him to do so. [View Movie Trailer]
Street Kings
A veteran LAPD cop (Keanu Reeves) is dealing with the death of his wife he is implicated in the execution of a fellow officer, turning him against the cop culture and questioning the loyalties of everyone around him. [View Movie Trailer]
Superhero Movie
A freak accident turns a bumbling young guy (Drake Bell) into the still-clumsy superhero known as Dragonfly (by writer-director Craig Mazin, of Scary Movie spoof fame). [View Movie Trailer]
The Bank Job
A group of petty criminals (Jason Statham) are lured ( by Saffron Burrows) into a heist of safety deposit boxes of some of London's wealthiest citizens, which is really a top-secret mission to steal some compromising photos of a Royal princess. [View Movie Trailer]
The Bucket List
Two terminally ill men (Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman) escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die. [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 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 Other Boleyn Girl
Two sisters (Natalie Portman & Scarlett Johansson) vie for the affections of King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). [View Movie Trailer]
The Ruins
A Mexican vacation goes bad for a group of Americans (Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker) who head into the jungle to look for the missing brother of a fellow traveler, and gets worse after a warning received from a couple of locals. [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]
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]
Vantage Point
Unravel an attempt on the life of the President of the United States, as seen from 8 different points-of-view by 8 strangers (Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, and others). [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]
War, Inc
A political satire set in Turaqistan, a fiefdom an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Dan Aykroyd), where a hired assassin (Hohn Cusack) poses as a trade show producer who also organizes a Middle Eastern pop star's (Hillary Duff) wedding, while evading a left-wing journalist (Marissa Tomei). [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]
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Morgan Spurlock tours the Middle East to discuss the war on terror with Arabic people, while searching on his own for Osama Bin Laden. [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
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