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Posted on Thursday June 21, 2012
I took four young teenagers to this movie and they loved it. But I was not as impressed.
The idea is a cute one -- but it was cuter when they did the same thing in two editions of "Spy Kid...
Frankie Muniz returns as junior secret agent Cody Banks in a moderately cute action comedy that will satisfy its target audience of 8-14-year-olds.
Cody is the superstar of the secret CIA t...
There is only one reason to see "The Alamo," and it is Billy Bob Thornton. His portrayal of Davy Crockett is magnificently vibrant, fully imagined, and so breathtakingly evocative of the essence o...
What's it all about, Charlie?
Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers used to be married and they used to make movies together (Baby Boom, the remakes of Father of th...
There's a reason so many movies give us a character who has just one last job to do before he (it's almost always a he) can get free. It is because we can sympathize with someone despite even the ...
The Roman rulers used to distract the populace from the problems of corruption and decadence with "bread and circuses." Today's equivalent might be junk food and television, especially "reality" t...
This is a movie about teenagers who promise each other that they will have sex before the night of the prom, and then do whatever they can to make it happen. It is one of the raunchiest and most ex...
Okay, I admit it -- I laughed. A lot. Even more surprising, I smiled.
I was even a little sorry that this is the last of the American Pie trilogy.
For any...
A bear is wandering through farms looking for something to eat. An angry and abusive man is following the woman who left him because he wants her to come back, or because he wants to hit her again,...
Remember the old "Spanky and Our Gang" episodes where the boys wouldn't let Darla into the treehouse? Imagine that plot set in the all-white-guys world of 1970's television news, when there were o...
The people behind "March of the Penguins" have put together another endearing story of life in the coldest place on earth. This time, it is the story of two newborns, a polar bear called Nanu and a...
A sleigh pulled by reindeer? That's so five decades ago. With the population topping seven billion and the Duggars getting ready to welcome baby number 20, Santa (Jim Broadbent) needs all the s...
This movie may be about one of the most famous outlaws in the days of the Wild West, but it is not a bang-bang shoot-em-up Western. It is a broody psychological Western, a lot of peering out into ...
Parents should know that this is a very sad movie with themes that may be disturbing to some audience members. Characters use brief strong language.
Families who see this movie shoul...