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World Trade Center

2006-07-15T05:24:00.000-07:00

World Trade Center

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Jay
Hernandez, Maria Bello, Armando Riesco, Donna Murphy, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Brad William Henke, Patti D'Arbanville, Wass M. Stevens,
Lucia Brawley, Michael Shannon, William Mapother, Stephen Dorff

Director: Oliver Stone

Release Date: August 9th, 2006

Studio: Paramount Pictures

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Synopsis: Follows Sgt. John McLoughlin
and Officer William J. Jimeno, who were among the many rescuers who
risked their lives Sept. 11, 2001, by rushing into the smoking WTC
buildings. The duo was among the few who survived the fall of the
towers, thanks to the frantic efforts of other rescuers who pulled them
from the rubble before their oxygen ran out.

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Ant Bully

2006-07-15T05:16:00.000-07:00

Ant Bully

Starring: Jake T. Austin, S. Scott Bullock,
Nicolas Cage, Alan Cumming, Larry Cedar, Myles Jeffrey, Paul Giamatti,
Regina King, David Kaye, Ricardo Montalban, Ken Mitchroney, Julia
Roberts, Cheri Oteri, Meryl Streep, Clive Robertson, Zach Tyler, Lily
Tomlin

Director: John A. Davis

Release Date: August 4th, 2006

Studio: Warner Bros.

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Synopsis: A boy is shrunk to ant-size
after soaking an ant colony with his squirt gun. Tried and sentenced to
hard labor in the colony, the boy learns the value of teamwork, fights
off a wasp attack and tries to return to normal size.

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THE NUN

2006-06-10T11:53:00.000-07:00

THE NUN

My mother kicked a nun in the face once. She insists it was an accident
and is
rather embarassed by the whole ordeal. Some part of me however
wishes there was something more at work. Some little bit of rebellion,
some nudge against the status quo, against perceived moral superiority.
Maybe that kick was against the shackles of hierarchy, against
organized religion's ability to pervert the teachings of love into
prejudice and unchecked intimidation. Still, she says no and since she
is a very religious person, I am inclined to believe her. Oh well, a
son can dream.

I have a few friends from past and present who went to Catholic
schools. None of them had a very positive story to tell and none of
them felt like they were bettered by the conditions. The gals in THE
NUN didn't have a great time during their learning years either, thanks
mostly to the title character. The main nun at their school ruled with
an iron fist. She seemed to believe that it was her job to purify the
world of its sins, starting with her pupils. The only way to do that,
she believed, was through physical and emotional punishment and
torture. Wow, what a peach.

Years later, all the girls from the school have grown up and many have
started families of their own. Still, they never talk about what
happened during those formative years and each is still haunted by
nightmares of their treatment there. Eva (Anita Briem) is the virginal
(hence, heroine) daughter of one of the girls. When she arrives home
after her graduation party, she sees her mother having her throat cut
by a figure clouded by plumes of water. What she can make out is that
the figure was wearing a nun's habit.

Eva is informed that her mother was not the first victim. She was
supposed to meet up with the surviving students to return to the scene
of the crime and find out what's going on. What went on is that the
kids did something that the nun obviously didn't appreciate and she has
returned in supernatural form to punish their wickedness. As the body
count rises, Eva feels a need to solve the mystery herself and that
means returning to the now-abandoned boarding school.

THE NUN is one of the final productions from Brian Yuzna's Fantastic
Factory. It is based in part on a story idea by Jaume Balagueró, the
man behind DARKNESS and THE NAMELESS as well as the new film FRAGILE
(which - surprise, surprise - we're still waiting for in the States).
The actual screenplay chores were handled by Manu Diez while the
direction is from Luis De La Madrid. Both of these people are newcomers
to their respective jobs, but they have a keen eye for what works and
deserve some props.

One of the main things THE NUN does so well is combine Asian horror
aesthetics - in this case, a demon born of water - and combine it with
Spanish religious tradition. It is important to note that despite by
comments earlier, THE NUN does not thumb its nose at religion, merely
those who distort it. However, it does touch on some very topical
issues that have tainted the image of the church as of late. People
have reported abuse that bordered on torture in Catholic schools,
especially boarding schools overseas. The Church has continued to
disavow the abuses documented at orphanages and halfway houses like the
Magdalene Laundries (graphically and heart-wrenchingly detailed in THE
MAGDALENE SISTERS), despite volumes of sworn testimony and mountains of
daming evidence. In the United States, the Church has come under fire
as scores of priests have been accused of sexual abuse as church elders
have been caught red handed covering up the evidence and placing the
offenders in arenas where they would have direct contact with even more
children.

Buired, but not too deep, in this story of an evil water wraith, is a
damnation of these abuses and the powers that allowed them to continue
for so long. At the same time, most notably in the character of Gabriel
(Manu Fullola), a monk in training, is also preaches understanding,
balance and that the time has now come for a change in the way things
are run.

It is also yet another film to use horror's favorite villain of the
moment - bad plumbing. We have an angry bathtub in BOOGEYMAN, the
ridiculous killer toilets in THE RING TWO, demons in the pipes of THE
AMITYVILLE HORROR and the dark water of... well, DARK WATER. What
separates THE NUN is that the water makes up an important component of
the antagonist. I'm thankful that THE NUN has the good graces to do
some interesting things with it's liquified evil, rather than focus on
dripping faucets for 100 minutes.

There are some parts of the film that lean towards the predictable. We
figure out what happened to the nun to make her so p.o.'ed long before
Eva, even if we don't know the reasons why. Oddly enough however, while
the main points of the film are a bit predictable, other revelations
late in the film are unexpected.. There were a great many sidetracks
the film takes that may come as no surprise to the truly jaded horror
fan. However, the choices were so out of left field in the context of
the piece, it was a surprise. It's a testament to the film's fine
pacing that even these double-take moments work in the finished film.

Like all Fantastic Factory films, the cast is international and not
always up to snuff. Briem is very good in the lead. However, some of
the grown women being stalked by the nun are not convincing. They seem
to be wrestling with the material to a degree that prevents them from
truly inhabiting their characters.

Still, THE NUN is mostly a success. It has a solid story combined with
the nice polish the Factory gave to its productions. It is going to
look a lot better than you expect it to and could in fact hold its own
against any of the effects-laden theatrical horror films.

Religious-themed pictured have gained sway recently. People who have
taken THE DA VINCI CODE way too seriously are causing all sane people
to chuckle while those who got way too much inspiration from the two
hour torture show, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST make us squirm. For horror
fans, THE NUN is a decent film with some religious themes that slips
under the radar enough to certainly avoid creating any hysteria. And
really, thank God for that. As it stands, THE NUN may not be reason
enough to believe in a higher power. But for the day to day grind of
finding a good horror film, it will do and it will do nicely.

2006-06-09T14:53:00.000-07:00

'Cars' Is a Drive Down a Lonely Highway

By MANOHLA DARGIS

Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures

Lighting McQueen leads the King at a motor speedway in "Cars."

Both in its ingratiating vibe and bland execution,
"Cars" just putt, putt, putts along, a shining model of technological
progress and consumer safety.

2006-06-06T13:58:00.000-07:00

Die Hard 4

Starring: Bruce Willis

Director: Len Wiseman
Release Date: 2007
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Synopsis: John McClane coming out of retirement to battle an Internet terrorist organization.

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2006-06-06T13:57:00.000-07:00

Firewall
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Starring: Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Robert Patrick, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Alan Arkin, Robert Forster, Jimmy Bennett, Carly Schroeder, Matthew Currie Holmes, Gail Ann Lewis, David Lewis, Candus Churchill, Pat Jenkinson

Director: Richard Loncraine
Release Date: February 10th, 2006
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
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Synopsis: Revolves around the kidnapping of the wife and daughter of a security expert (Ford), who is forced to steal a vast sum of money from a bank he's protecting in order to ransom his family. As his efforts come to the attention of law enforcement, he races to complete the illegal transfer of funds in time.

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2006-06-06T13:55:00.000-07:00

Mission: Impossible 3
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Starring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Keri Russell, Bahar Soomekh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Monaghan, Simon Pegg, Maggie Q, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Greg Grunberg, Sasha Alexander, Carla Gallo

Director: J.J. Abrams
Release Date: May 2nd, 2006
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Box Office Gross: $6,584,000
Box Office Total: $113,854,000

Synopsis: Super-spy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has retired from active duty to trains new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he's ever faced - Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell (Ving Rhames), transportation expert Declan (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), background operative Zhen (Maggie Q), and fresh recruit Lindsey (Keri Russell) - to travel the globe pursuing Davian and rescue Hunt's love, Julia (Michelle Monaghan).

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2006-06-06T13:54:00.000-07:00

Superman Returns
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Starring: Brandon Routh, Stephan Bender, Kate Bosworth, Sam Huntington, Marlon Brando, Frank Langella, James Karen, Mike Massa, James Marsden, Kal Penn, Noel Neill, Eva Marie Saint, Parker Posey, Peta Wilson

Director: Bryan Singer
Release Date: June 30th, 2006
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Synopsis: Jor-El sends his son, Kal-El, to the planet Earth, where he is taken in by Pa and Ma Kent, eventually growing up to become a hero called Superman, who soon finds himself fighting, kung-fu-in-the-sky style, other Kryptonians who share the superpowers he gets from being under our yellow sun, one of whom is his cousin. Kal-El dies in action, but then comes back. Kal-El's quest for the truth about what the other Kryptonians are doing on Earth eventually leads him to confront a CIA agent named... Lex Luthor.

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2006-06-06T13:52:00.000-07:00

Fast and the Furious 3
Starring: Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Brian Tee, Nikki Griffin, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Nathalie Kelly

Director: Justin Lin
Release Date: June 16th, 2006
Studio: Universal Pictures
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Synopsis: The story revolves around outsider (Black) who, to avoid jailtime, is sent out of the country to live with his military father in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo. When he loses a race to a driver with ties to the yakuza, he has to pay off his debt by going deep into the Tokyo underworld.

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