WATCH NOW DISNEY’S THE KID How would you do if by some magic you were confronted and evaluated by your eight year old self? So you didn’t become a missionary or an astronaut or win the gold in Olympics gymnastics? You make a six-figure salary doing what? You don’t have a dog? That’s what happens […]
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DOGMA Kevin Smith’s “comic fantasy” about angels and demons in contemporary New Jersey is mostly an excuse for him to vent about the Church and many of its rules. Smith, 29, is a budding talent with a couple of low budget hits (Clerks, Chasing Amy). He can’t be accused of anti Catholicism because he is
WATCH NOW ENTRAPMENT is mainly an excuse to team venerable action hero Sean Connery with lithe beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones (Zorro) in something that shows off their skills, charisma and photogenic surfaces. They play brainy, athletic thieves capable of pulling off capers possible only in the movies like heisting a priceless Chinese ceremonial mask from its
WATCH NOW EVAN ALMIGHTY In this sequel to Bruce Almighty, Evan Baxter (Steve Carell, The Office) is a newly elected congressman from New York who leaves his job as a TV news anchor and heads to Washington, D.C., with his wife (Lauren Graham, Gilmore Girls) and three sons (Johnny Simmons, Graham Phillips and Jimmy Bennett).
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WATCH NOW This film started a number of careers, and it’s definitely a classic and a high moment in the career of director Richard Linklater (also known for Slacker, the disappointing Before Sunrise, and the new Waking Life). It is an entertaining fictionalization of high school graduation weekend of the senior class of 1976 in
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WATCH NOW Steve Martin’s homage to the 1940s and 50s is a one joke movie that wears thin after 45 minutes (in which Martin inserts himself into classic film noirs, often in drag, where he turns the melodrama into comedy). Fortunately, the laughs are plentiful enough throughout to make Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid worthwhile
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WATCH NOW Classic children’s television show hosts like Mister Rogers and Barney make great role models for children, but their trite style makes them easy targets for adult jokes. Danny DeVito’s latest project, Death to Smoochy, is well-intended with its mockery of children’s television and those inane hosts, however it is completely misdirected in its
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WATCH NOW FALLEN ANGEL This Hallmark Hall of Fame holiday special, based on the 2001 novel by Don J. Snyder, begins on nine year old Terry’s birthday when he is given a fingerprinting set. He fingerprints the little neighbor girl, Katherine Wentworth, who is visiting nearby Serenity Cottage, a summer place in Maine, even though
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WATCH NOW A FAMILY THING Robert Duvall is Earl, an aging small-town Arkansan who discovers at the death of his elderly, beloved mother that she only raised him He was born of a brief affair between a black friend who died in childbirth and his irresponsible father. His mother’s last wish is that he find
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WATCH NOW FATHER’S DAY Tacky on the surface, this first teaming of comics Robin Williams and Billy Crystal is a sentimental tribute to the joys and rewards of being a good father. It won’t make any all time comedy lists, but its aspirations are modest, probably something like the old Hope-Crosby series. The story is
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