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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 Winnipeg (updated Thursday September 4, 2008 ): Our TOP TWO movie picks this week (see reviews below):

New Releases (week of Thursday September 4, 2008 )
Amal The life of an autorickshaw driver (Rupinder Nagra), content with his role driving customers around New Delhi [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] 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]
Coming Next Week
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] 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]
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] American Teen A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques. [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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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 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 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