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Bernie Mac’s Big Weekend

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Comedian Bernie Mac died on August 9th, but he has two major films coming out this weekend: a leading role in the adult comedy “Soul Man” and a supporting role in “Madagascar: Escape2Africa.” He voices a new character – the father of Alex the Lion. Bernie Mac had roles in such films as “Mr. 3000”, […]
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Winter Preview

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The Holiday Movie Season is just about here. Chances are you’ve already seen the trailers and know what’s coming. But here’s a look at the Family Films that will be hitting theaters this Winter, after Santa has come and gone: “Hotel For Dogs” – Paramount/Nickelodeon. Emma Roberts, Don Cheadle. A group of kids start up […]
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What a “Nightmare”!

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The re-release of “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” in 3D opened last Friday in theaters nationwide. This is the 3rd year in a row that Disney is showing the film around Halloween. But it did not do well at all at the Box Office, making only $372,000. Two years ago it opened at $2.5 […]
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“IMAX – imum” Makeover

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One of the Regal Cinemas near where I live is adding an IMAX screen. In fact they’re converting one of the regular theaters into an IMAX. Back in March, Regal and IMAX struck a deal to bring 20 new IMAX screens to Regal theaters around the country, and one of them is coming to my […]
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Box Office Bombs

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Two movies that I saw this past week, “The Express” and “City of Ember”, both performed poorly at the box office. “The Express” grabbed $4.7M and “Ember” took in only $3.2M. I think “The Express” is one of the best films of the year, while I didn’t love “City of Ember” (see reviews below). Down […]
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Too Much “Bolt”

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Disney is making a big mistake in their promotion of the upcoming animated movie, “Bolt.” Before family films and during trailers, the studio is showing actual clips of the film. Long clips. Five minute clips. I’ve seen three of them so far before “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” and “The Express.” Disney thinks this is a way […]
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Paul Newman 1925-2008

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It was certainly sad news last weekend when word came out that Paul Newman had died at the age of 83. His most famous roles, from the dozens of movies he made, were in the films “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “Cool Hand Luke.” But most kids know him best as the voice […]
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Disney Cranks It Up

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Disney has a very busy end of the year coming-up with the releases of “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”, “High School Musical 3”, “Bolt” and the re-release of “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.” But the studio also made some big news this week by announcing plans for major projects in the future. First, there will be […]
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Running Late…Turns Out Great

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My dad and I got a late start heading to see “Igor” the other night. When we got to the theater the “Regal First Look” was already underway (I usually try to catch the entire “First Look”). And the place was packed. In fact most of the upper level of the theater was filled. So […]
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Room For Improvement “At The Movies”

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Week One of the newest edition of the TV movie review show, “At The Movies”, now starring Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz, was not very good. The two Ben’s did not seem comfortable with each other or the set, which looked very cheap. Plus the lighting was bad and there was too much editing in […]
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