ROLE MODELS: How Not To Be A Good Role Model

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn After trashing their energy drink company's truck, Danny and Wheeler are summoned to spend either 30 days in jail or 150 service hours in a mentorship program. After the salesmen's first day with the kids, being locked up behind bars doesn't seem like a bad idea. Surrounded by annoying mentors, Danny has a hard time guiding Augie, a 16-year-old boy who's obsessed with medieval role playing, through the trials leading into manhood. Instead, he uses his sarcastic ways to put down the ... Read More

REVIEW: TWILIGHT Hits The Big Screen Today!

Categories: Popcorn, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn It's 5:50pm Thursday night. I've just arrived at Empire Theatres Bayer's Lake for the advance screening of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, but tonight's main event is 4 hours and 10 mins away. This event happens to be the first public showing of Twilight, a teen romantic thriller based on the series of novels written by Stephenie Meyer which have created a pop culture phenomenon around the globe. Camping outside the theatre doors of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas ... Read More

Abigail Breslin In ‘Kit Kittredge: An American Girl’

Categories: Family, Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn Set in the time of the 1930's, nine-year-old Kit Kittredge's family is being hit by the Great Depression. When her father loses his business, he moves to New York to find work while Kit and her mother must take in boarders in order to keep the house. As the paying houseguests are coming and going, her mother's lockbox containing all their savings is stolen, but who can it be? The prime suspect is Kit's new hobo friend Will, but when she ... Read More

PRIDE AND GLORY: What Are You Willing To Sacrifice?

Categories: Drama, Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn After four NYPD officers are killed in an ambush, the entire police department is on high alert as the cop killer is out on the loose. Chief of Manhattan Detectives Francis Tierney Sr. asks his son, Detective Ray Tierney to take on the investigation. He takes over knowing the officers murdered worked under his brother, Francis Tierney Jr., and alongside his brother-in-law, Jimmy Egan. What looks like a drug bust gone wrong becomes much more than Ray thought: an inside job ... Read More

Max Payne: The Movie Review

Categories: Action, Popcorn, Thriller
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn Max Payne is a maverick cop - a mythic anti-hero - determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal. Oscar® nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Departed) stars as Max Payne, a man who has little regard for rules - and nothing ... Read More

W.: The Story Of President George W. Bush

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of the 43rd President of the United States of America to the big screen as only he can. W. takes viewers through Bush's eventful life -- his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course ... Read More

SEX AND THE CITY On DVD Tuesday September 23rd

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Popcorn, Romance
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn Four years since the last episode in Paris, Sex and the City brings the four women back to New York City. Charlotte and Harry have adopted a girl from China. Miranda and Steve live in Brooklyn with their son and Steve’s mother. Samantha is currently living her life filled with sex and love with Smith in Hollywood. Carrie is still seeing Mr. Big while looking for a new apartment. The four women continue to meet frequently, with Samantha flying in from ... Read More

Review: Hamlet 2 - Rock Me Sexy Jesus

Categories: Comedy, Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn Dana Marschz is an actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama teacher trying to motivate his students to act but things aren't falling into place. With the drama program on the verge of being canceled, Dana brings his students together to stage a politically incorrect musical sequel to Hamlet that has parents in an uproar. Focus Features and Alliance Films' Hamlet 2 stars British comedian Steve Coogan (Tropic Thunder, Around the World in 80 Days), Academy Award-winning Catherine Keener (Capote, Being John Malkovich), Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler ... Read More

The ‘Tropic Thunder’ Has Arrived

Categories: Comedy, Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn Five selfish and cocky actors are currently shooting a war movie directed by Damien Cockburn, but things just don't seem to work out. Tugg Speedman, who hasn't had a good role in years, is having a hard time performing in his emotional scene with Kirk Lazarus. Not only has the acting gone down the tubes, but a $4 million explosion! They're only in their fifth day of shooting and they're already one month behind schedule. Studio executive Les Grossman is about ... Read More

The Pants Still Fit In ‘The Sisterhood 2′

Categories: Adventure, Drama, Popcorn, Romance
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn It's been two years since last time we saw them and now Tibby, Carmen, Bridget and Lena have just finished their first year of college. Over the past couple of years, they've gone through times of love, lost and change. Tibby is now at NYU taking film studies, Carmen at Yale, Bridget on a soccer scholarship at Brown, and Lena is studying fine arts. What continues to bring them together is the pair of jeans that magically fits them all, but ... Read More