Fireproof
Catholic Media Review
10/2/2008
Warning: potential spoilers in the review. (Catholic Media Review) I was very anxious to see 'Fireproof', and it didn't disappoint.
From the previews, it is obvious that it it is about a marriage that is in trouble. However, I was unprepared for the level of anger and hatred that Caleb (Kirk ...
‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Rene Rodriguez
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Only the meanest of grouches can resist a talking-animal movie. But no one, absolutely no one, is immune to the charms of a talking-"dog" picture. Even a film as shabby and humdrum as "Beverly Hills Chihuahua," which never musters up the wit and beauty of a single frame ...
Deft documentary shows two sides of Lee Atwater
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Roddie Burris
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - In the final days of his 1980 campaign for Congress, Columbia attorney Tom Turnipseed had a firm lead in the polls in his race against Lexington County's Floyd Spence. On election night, Turnipseed's campaign workers were exuberant. Poll numbers showed their man was ...
Ed Harris gets back in the directorial saddle with ‘Appaloosa'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Steven Rea
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - It took him eight years, but Ed Harris finally got to direct another movie. "Appaloosa," a loping, likable Old West yarn about friendship, power, corruption and a woman with fierce instincts for self-preservation, is something the four-time Oscar-nominated actor ...
The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Flooded cities. A plague of blindness. Humanity huddled in bunkers. It's just another night at the movies.
The Katrina documentary "Trouble the Water," the viral-outbreak drama "Blindness" (opening Friday) and the subterranean fantasy "City of Ember" (Oct. 10) are ...
Parents guide to new movie releases
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA Rating: PG for some mild thematic elements.
What it's about: An obscenely pampered pooch is dognapped in Mexico and must make her way back to Beverly Hills.
The kid attractor factor: Talking dogs of every stripe.
Good lessons/bad lessons: Size ...
‘Flash of Genius'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Windshield wipers can create an almost hypnotic effect as they slide monotonously back and forth, back and forth. "Flash of Genius" creates the same effect. A wishy-washy main character who tells a sing-song story makes this effort little more than ho-hum. "Flash of ...
‘Appaloosa'
McClatchy Newspapers
9/29/2008, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - "Appaloosa" is the sort of solid, simple Western that Hollywood used to crank out 20 times a year. Ed Harris, working from a Robert Parker novel, has crafted a meticulously detailed, newfangled old-fashioned morality tale of hard men who go soft when a woman comes ...
New movie ‘The Express' sparks fond memories of football star Ernie Davis
McClatchy Newspapers
9/29/2008, by Robert W. Butler
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The new film "The Express" _ about legendary Syracuse running back Ernie Davis _ holds special importance for Helen T. Gray, The Kansas City Star's religion editor. She and Davis _ the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy _ were dating and had talked about ...
‘Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' gives breakout roles to young stars
McClatchy Newspapers
9/29/2008, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - She loved "Mamma Mia!" "It made me all mushy and weepy," she giggles.
He joined the cult of "Mister Lonely," the movie about the Michael Jackson impersonator who meets Marilyn Monroe and joins her commune in Scotland.
"I love movies that are, you know, fresh and kind ...
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