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Starring Nireen Faour, Melkar, Muallem, Hiam Abbass, and Alla Shawkat Directed by Cherien Dabis Rated PG-13 for brief drug use involving teens and some language 1 hour 35 minutes Entertainment Weekly and Cannes both thought this was a good film, so I ended up renting it.   That was a bit of a mistake.  Sure, this [...]

Starring Kevin James and Jayma Mays Directed by Steve Carr Rated PG for some violence, mild crude and suggestive humor, and language 1 hour 31 minutes You’re probably surprised that I even watched this film.  I was too… but every once in a while a movie comes along that looks stupid but turns out to have [...]

Animated Featuring the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Dennis Leary, and Queen Latifah Directed by Carlos Saldanha Production/Distribution: Blue Sky/20th Century Fox Rated PG for mild humor and peril 1 hour 27 minutes The bar for this movie going in was set at Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which is to say that it wasn’t [...]

Starring George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, and John Krasinski Directed by George Clooney Music by Randy Newman Rated PG-13 for brief strong language 1 hour 54 minutes I knew that this wasn’t a critically acclaimed movie, but I figured that it featured two Oscar-winning actors and was about football, so it couldn’t be that bad, right?  [...]

Starring Matthew Broderick and Patricia Arquette Directed by Matthew Broderick Rated PG for adult themes 2 hours Richard Feynman was a Nobel Award-winning physicist who helped develop the first atomic bomb and who later explained the cause of the space shuttle Challenger disaster on national television.  Unfortunately, this movie has very little to do with [...]

Starring Matthew MacFayden, Keely Hawes, and Andy Nyman Directed by Frank Oz (Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, What About Bob?) Rated R for language and drug content 1 hour 30 minutes Aaah, British comedy.  Do you think the following are funny: tipping over a casket, strange effects from taking the wrong drug, naked [...]

Starring the voices of Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki Directed by Mike Nawrocki Rated G Time: 1 hour 24 minutes As fans of the VeggieTales series and, to a lesser extent, 2002′s “Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie”, my family had this on the must-see list.  I now wish we had saved the $26 we paid to see [...]

Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Kiera Knightley Directed by Gore Verbinski Rated PG-13 for violence and frightening images This movie made just a ton of money, so I felt obligated to see it.  I thought the first movie was okay, but this one was… terrible.  It was like a slapstick adventure movie.  I couldn’t decide [...]