[bookshare-discuss] Movies Coming to you on screen in theaters
- From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:44:22 -0700
Movies
Movie openings and capsule reviews.
BAY AREA NEWS GROUP. ADAM": A brainy, beautiful writer (Rose Byrne)
with relationship baggage meets a handsome, uptight engineer (Hugh
Dancy) who lives
in her apartment building and has Asperger's syndrome. Subtle,
sensitive, charming. - K. Thomas. (PG-13) 1 hr., 39 min. A- "All
About Steve": A woman
who builds crossword puzzles (Sandra Bullock) becomes obsessed with a
CNN cameraman (Bradley Cooper). Unfunny, annoying, badly written,
badly acted comedy.
- R. Moore. (PG-13) F "Amreeka": A Palestinian single mom,
struggling to remain optimistic in the daily grind, relocates to the
U.S. with her teenage
son and they try to adapt to the new culture. Flesh-and-blood look at
the immigrant experience. In English and in Arabic with subtitles. -
T. Long. (PG-13)
1 hr., 37 min. B "The Baader Meinhof Complex": Terrorists wreak
havoc in Germany in the 1970s in Uli Edels' Oscar-nominated film. From
a true story.
In German. - K. Turan. (R) 2 hrs., 24 min. B- "Bright Star": Jane
Campion ("The Piano") directed and wrote this sumptuous drama about
the three-year
romance between 19th-century poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and
high-fashion student Fanny Brawne (Abby Cornish). Impeccable acting. -
R. Myers. (PG) 1
hr., 59 min. B+ "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs": Animated
comedy is set in a world where giant pancakes and pasta drop from the
sky as a scientist
tries to solve world hunger. A delight. May be the year's funniest
animated film. Voice talent includes Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Andy
Samberg. - R. Moore.
(PG) 1 hr., 21 min. B+ "DISTRICT 9": Brisk, innovative sci-fi
thriller about South Africa trying to relocate millions of stranded
insect/crustacean-like
space aliens to a concentration camp. Violence and gory. - B. Caine
(R) 1 hr., 50 min. B+ "Extract": Jason Bateman does his droll magic
as owner of
a flavor-extract plant facing workplace woes, a manipulative employee
(Mila Kunis), a cold wife (Kristen Wiig) and idiots. - R. Moore. (R) 1
hr., 31 min.
C+ "(500) DAYS OF SUMMER": Joseph Gordon-Levitt establishes himself
as a star in this quirky romantic comedy about a boy with a broken
heart and the
girl (Zooey Deschanel) who broke it. Warm and bright. - R. Myers.
(PG-13) 1 hr., 35 min. B+ "THE HURT LOCKER": Suspense
film/character study tracks
a bomb-disposal unit at work in Iraq. Jeremy Renner stars. Excellent
war movie. - C. Lemire. (R) 2 hrs., 10 min. A- "The Informant! :
Director Steven
Soderbergh never finds the right tone for this corporate farce about
the Archer Daniels Midland price-fixing scandal of the 1990s. Matt
Damon plays ADM
veep Mark Whitacre who turns whistle-blower - and robs ADM while he
gathers evidence for the FBI. - R. Moore. (R) 1 hr., 45 min. C+
"INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS":
Quentin Tarantino directs Brad Pitt as an officer leading a group of
Jewish soldiers in Nazi-occupied France. A "brawny, rollicking
mash-up. Rich and engaging.
- R. Myers. (R) 2 hrs., 33 min. A- "IT MIGHT GET LOUD": A fine
documentary built around a rock 'n' roll summit involving guitarist
gods Jimmy Page,
the Edge from U2 and Jack White of the White Stripes. Insightful. - B.
Sharkey. (PG) 1 hr., 37 min. B+ "Jennifer's Body": Megan Fox plays
a demonic
cannibalistic cheerleader who seduces teenage boys, then treats them
as chow. Scripted by Oscar-winning "Juno" screenwriter Diablo Cody.
Not scary. Sporadically
funny. Awkward mashup of teen comedy and horror. - B. Caine. (R) 1
hr., 40 min. C- "JULIE & JULIA": Tasty film. Amy Adams plays a
frustrated temp who
decides to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of
French Cooking" in one year. Meryl Streep cooks as Child. - C.
McCollum. (PG-13)
2 hrs., 2 min. B "Love Happens": Grieving widowed self-help guru
(Aaron Eckhart) meets a florist (Jennifer Aniston) who helps him heal.
A comedy in
mourning; so sad even Aniston at her best can't save it. - R. Moore.
(PG-13) 1 hr., 47 min. D+ "My One and Only": Fed up with her
husband's (Kevin Bacon)
philandering, a socialite (Renee Zellweger) takes to the road with her
two teenage sons to find a new mate in the 1950s. A good fit for
Zellweger. - B.
Sharkey. (PG-13) 1 hr., 49 min. B "No Impact Man": Documentary
follows Colin Beavan, author and self-proclaimed environmentalist,
whose vow to make
zero environmental impact for a year gets complicated by his
espresso-chugging, Prada-loving wife and their young child. (NR) Not
reviewed. PONYO": Beautiful
but boring animated take on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little
Mermaid. Kids' film is overly simplistic and nonsensical. - C. Lemire.
(G) 1 hr., 40
min. C "The September Issue" (PG): R.J. Cutler's insightful,
fashion-filled, behind-the-scenes documentary delves into the world of
legendary Vogue
editor Anna Wintour and her assistant Grace Coddington. - C. Lemire.
(PG) 1 hr., 28 min. B "Sorority Row": When five sorority girls
inadvertently cause
the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree
to keep the matter to themselves. (R) Not reviewed. Tyler Perry's I
Can Do Bad All
By Myself": When Madea, Tyler Perry's pistol-packing grandma, catches
three grandkids looting her home, she delivers the delinquents to
their aunt April
(Taraji P. Henson). Lacks polish but more life and pleasure than any
Perry film since his first. - R. Moore. (PG-13) C- "A woman in
berlin": Anonymous
German diarist (Nina Hoss) records her struggles to survive as
thousands are raped during the Russian occupancy of Berlin after World
War II. In German
and Russian. Indelible portrait of survival. - K. Turan. (NR) 2 hrs.,
11 min. A The following films are scheduled to open today in the Bay
Area. The Burning
Plain" (R): Writer Guillermo Arriaga ("Babel") makes his directorial
debut with this complex tale of a woman on the edge (Charlize Theron)
who takes an
emotional journey back to the defining moment of her life. Crude"
(NR): Joe Berlinger directs this documentary about a young Ecuadorean
lawyer taking on
Chevron Oil over damage to the Amazon rain forest. Fame" (PG): A
"reinvention" -- as opposed to a remake -- of the 1980 box-office hit
that spawned a series
of top-selling singles and a long-running television show. As in the
original, the film follows a group of young dancers, singers, actors
and artists through
four years at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. I
Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" (R): The film version of the Tucker Max
book that
celebrated his own debauchery-driven lifestyle. Pandorum" (R): Where
have we heard this before? Two crew members stranded on a spacecraft
suddenly realize
they are not alone. Mayhem ensues. Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid star.
Paris" (NR): A cinematic love letter to the City of Lights, with three
stories of
love, romance and the wonder of life. In French with English
subtitles. Surrogates" (PG-13): FBI agents (Bruce Willis, Radha
Mitchell) investigate the
mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped
create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase
flawless robotic
versions of themselves
Chela Robles.
--
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream.
Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World
losers and world
forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the
shakers of the world forever it seems.”
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
Chela Robles
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