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Movie review: The Smurfs (3D) ***
The Muppets took Manhattan, so why not the Smurfs? The little blue trolls with the mushroom homes and the most aggravating theme song in musical history invade Manhattan in a bright, broad live-action, computer-animated comedy.
Moonlight Movies opens with fun for the whole family
The Moonlight Movies Series makes its return this Saturday at Shelly Bay field and will open with two extra hours of family entertainment.
DVD reviews: Jumping the Broom - Your Highness
Uptown meets downtown in Martha's Vineyard when two African-American families meet for the first time at the wedding of their children in Jumping the Broom.
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Movie review: Horrible Bosses ***
Three pals wish their bosses dead. In this economy, who can afford to quit a job without another lined up? So they set out to hire professional help - a "murder consultant". He suggests switching off assignments - kill each other's bosses. Nobody will know.
DVD Reviews: Rio - Soul Surfer
Rio keeps you smiling throughout the entire movie, although it is definitely based on the much used formula Hollywood employs so often today in their animated features.
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Movie review: The Help ***
Skeeter is a Southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives — and a Mississippi town — upside down when she interviews the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent Southern families.
DVD reviews: Something Borrowed - Priest
As a genre, romantic comedy is meant to entertain and not have a deeper more significant social meaning. Something Borrowed is a good example of the genre.
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Movie review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World **
Rebecca and Cecil are 10-year-old twins coping with a workaholic dad and a harried stepmother, Marissa, who is actually a top-secret super-spy. When time itself begins speeding up, Marissa is called to investigate, and soon the twins are pulled into the fray.
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Movie review: Final Destination 5 ***
Once again we follow a handful of attractive folks who were fated to die in a disaster but escape thanks to a warning premonition. Death, who doesn't like to miss his quota, reclaims them one by one through a succession of freak accidents.
Movie review: Shark Night 3D *
A summer weekend turns into a blood-soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on a Louisiana lake island surrounded by voracious underwater predators.
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Movie review: Glee 3D ***
In Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, cast members of the hit TV series recreate their biggest musical moments. From Tin Pan Alley to Tina Turner, the Beatles to Lady Gaga, these folks do justice to scores of songs and dance their brains out as they do.
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Movie review: Apollo 18 **
Under cloak of super-secrecy, three astronauts embark on a moon mission in 1974 to plant some sort of anti-missile defence system up there before the Russians do. But there's something up there, something besides the remnants of something human.
From schools of fish to primary schools - this weekend's Film Series
A documentary about the devastating impact of overfishing and a film about an 80-year-old Kenyan going to school are the subjects of two films showing on Sunday at BUEI.
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Movie review: Drive ***
A mechanic and part-time movie stunt-driver moonlights as a "wheelman", the fellow who can pick you up, take you to your robbery and get you out of there before the cops catch you.
Movie review: Colombiana **
A young girl escapes from the drug lords who killed her father and grows up to become an assassin - marking her victims with a Cataleya orchid.
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