http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewview.html Current movie reviews by Gary Chew en-us http://tulsatvmemories.com/favicon.gif http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewview.html Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesAll Gary Chew's Reviews are featured on TulsaTvMemories.com. Humor Times features a Chew Review monthly. Gary's reviews are included in the "external reviews" section at the Internet Movie Database. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/cove/chewcove.html Rick O'Barry energized TV viewers about the intelligence and gentleness of dolphins by raising the five used in the 60s series, "Flipper." He now realizes these creatures shouldn't be held in captivity, much less hunted as food. Now playing at the Circle Cinema. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:15:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/pirate/chewpirate.html Review by Gary Chew, with sidebar from his 1970s Tulsa colleague and erstwhile British radio pirate, Garry Kemp. Stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh, and Katherine Parkinson and Chris O'Dowd of the BBC's great sitcom "The IT Crowd". Opens Friday in Tulsa at the AMC Southroads 20. New: podcast discussion. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:30:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/goats/chewgoats.html Did the Army once experiment with inculcating counterculture beliefs and practices to alter the psychology of the military? Stars Jeff Bridges, George Clooney and Kevin Spacey. Now playing in Tulsa at the Cinemark and the AMC Southroads 20. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:17:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/amelia/chewamelia.html The new biopic about aviatrix Amelia Earhart, starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor. Opens wide Friday 10/23, in Tulsa at the Cinemark and the AMC Southroads 20. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:49:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/serious/chewserious.html The Coen brothers' new movie presents B'nai Abraham middle school physics teacher Larry Gopnik, who confronts the prospect of divorce and "the new freedoms" of 1970. Coming soon to Tulsa theaters. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:31:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/couples/chewcouples.html A bawdy bagatelle written by and starring Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, with Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis and Kristen Bell. Starts Friday 10/9 at the Cinemark Tulsa and AMC Southroads 20. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/whipit/chewwhip.html Juliette Lewis, Ellen Page and first-time director Drew Barrymore are hell on wheels in this coming-of-age roller derby story(?!) Starts Friday 10/2 at the Cinemark Tulsa. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:48:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/capitalism/chewcapi.html Capt. Sully Sullenburger got a 40% pay cut? "Dead Peasants Insurance" taken out by corporations on employees? Kickbacks lavished on judges for sentencing youths to a for-profit detention center? That's the tip of Michael Moore's latest. Starts Friday 10/2, at the AMC Southroads 20. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:47:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/bright/chewbright.html In the year 1818: the burning, yearning emotions of first love, the incomprehensible crush of separation and loss... the story of poet John Keats. Directed by Jane Campion. Starts Friday 10/2 at the AMC Southroads 20. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:46:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/informant/chewinfo.html Steven Soderbergh tells the complicated true story of corporate chicanery by agribusiness giant, Archer, Daniels, Midland Company (ADM) and one of its employees, Mark Whitacre, the highest-positioned US executive to ever blow a whistle. Starring Matt Damon, Joel McHale and the Smothers Brothers. Opens tomorrow. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:03:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/9/chew9.html Impressive CGI animation informed by historical art, starring small robot-like but caring creatures made of burlap who seek reasons for their existence as they try to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic technofuture. With the voices of Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly, Martin Landau, Crispin Glover and Jennifer Connelly. Now showing. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:22:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/extract/chewextract.html Mike Judge ("Office Space", "Idiocracy") is back with a new comedy starring Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck and Mila Kunis. Starts Friday, 9/4. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:53:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/intheloop/chewloop.html Strangelovian British satire about the exercise of power in high places. Starts Friday, 9/4, at the Circle Cinema. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:53:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/woodstock/chewwoodstock.html Director Ang Lee's funny new movie has nothing to do with legendary musicians; it's about the people, by design or otherwise, who made Woodstock happen. With Eugene Levy as Max Yasgur. Starts Friday, 8/28. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/basterds/chewbast.html Quentin Tarantino does WWII with a bit of the old ultra-vi and humor. Stars Brad Pitt. Starts Friday, 8/21. Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:14:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/bandslam/chewbasl.html Football doesn't rule, the school's annual Band Slam does. May the best rock band win... and it's personal. With Gaelan Connell, Vanessa Hudgens, Alyson Michalka and Lisa Kudrow. Starts Friday, 8/14. Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:55:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/getaway/chewgeta.html With Milla Jovovich: imagine a violent reality show with "tasteful" nudity. Friday, 8/7. Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:25:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/adoration/chewador.html Directed by Atom Egoyan. A student personalizes his translation of a news story about terrorism with unforeseen consequences. Opens Friday, 8/7. Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:24:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/julia/chewjuli.html Gary Chew asks, "Can a guy get a spike in his cholesterol just by looking at rich, great food being consumed by a lucky cast of film actors in a really delightful piece of entertainment?" With Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and the voice of Tulsa's Mary Kay Place. Opens Friday, 8/7. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:38:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/500/chew500.html Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in an uncommonly superlative summertime romance movie that made reviewer Gary Chew feel 25 years old again. Opens 8/7, Friday in Tulsa. Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:56:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/ugly/chewugly.html A racy, romantic sex comedy starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler about a medium market TV station, and the shenanigans that go on in its news department trying to boost the ratings of a lame midday TV news show. Opens today. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:32:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/hurt/chewhurt.html Kathryn Bigelow directs a gritty movie following a member of the US Army IED disposal squad in Iraq. Gary Chew calls it the best he's seen so far in 2009. Now in limited release. Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:37:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewbyte.html#harry "Gidget Goes Hogwarts"? Not quite, but the new Harry Potter adds a full dose of adolescent hormones into the traditional mix of action, effects and magic. Opens wide today. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:27:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/bruno/chewbrun.html Sacha Baron Cohen is back as Brüno, an ambitious, gay, Austrian Zoolander type. Starts Friday at the Cinemark Tulsa. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:01:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/whatever/chewwhat.html Larry David is Alvy Singer on Viagra in the Woodman's latest existential sex comedy. Now playing at the AMC Southroads 20 in Tulsa. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:28:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/awaywego/chewaway.html John Krasinski of "The Office", Maya Rudolph of SNL, Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara in a romantic but realistic and substantial road comedy directed by Sam Mendes. Opens 6/26 in Tulsa. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:16:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/girlfriend/chewgfe.html 21-year-old porn actress Sasha Grey stars in Stephen Soderbergh's R-rated movie about a high-dollar escort who runs her own one-girl agency in a financially-quaking contemporary Manhattan. In limited release, coming soon to Tulsa. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:43:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewbyte.html#hangover How do I offend thee? Let me count the ways. Ed Helms ("The Office") stars as a loony dentist in this robust and ribald film, affirming the ad line, "What happens in Vegas (on a bachelor weekend) stays in Vegas." Opens wide June 5. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:39:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/bloom/chewbrob.html Should the brothers continue their complex grifting in league with a ditzy photographer/banjoist, or start to live the unscripted life? Stars Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz. Opens wide May 29. Wed, 27 May 2009 17:03:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/limoctl/chewloc.html A metaphorical, mysterioso new picture from indie director Jim Jarmusch, starring Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Paz de la Huerta, Gale García Bernal and Bill Murray. Now in limited release. Sat, 23 May 2009 17:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/museum/chewnatm.html Tulsa's Bill Hader plays General George Custer with aplomb and a 15-pound monkey on his back in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian", also with Ben Stiller, Robin Williams and Hank Azaria. Opens tomorrow. Thu, 21 May 2009 02:12:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/startrek/chewtrek.html Gigatons of action with a galaxy of character, heart and fun at the core mark the explosive rebirth of the Trek franchise. Opens today. Thu, 07 May 2009 21:43:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2009/anybody/chewanyb.html Michael Caine stars in this tale of a relationship between a lonely old man near the end of his life and a young boy obsessed with the supernatural and death. Despite the obvious sepulchral tone, expect lots of laughs. Now playing. Mon, 04 May 2009 04:06:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewinfr.html A tale of transgressive decadence from a 1994 book by Bret Easton Ellis. Stars Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke and Winona Ryder. Now playing. Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:27:00 CDT http://tulsaTVmemories.com/chewsolo.html Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. star in this story of a newspaperman who befriends a homeless and mentally ill, but gifted violin player in downtown Los Angeles. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:30:00 CDT http://tulsaTVmemories.com/chewsop.html Deftly spinning off from the eponymous 2003 BBC miniseries, director Kevin Macdonald's feature film is, among other things, a paean to the imminent demise of print journalism and the newspaper biz. Stars Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Helen Mirren. Starts today. Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:06:00 CDT http://tulsaTVmemories.com/chew12.html Sidney Lumet's classic Fifties film, "12 Angry Men", has been remade by Nikita Mikhalkov as "12". It won an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Language Film for 2008. Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:50:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewsunc.html Alan Arkin and Amy Adams star. The movie shows both the funny and the human sides of the crime scene cleanup business. Opens at the AMC Southroads 20 on Friday, 3/27. Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:03:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewdupl.html Julia Roberts and Clive Owen create suspense and laughs in a smart, cynical tale of corporate espionage. Opens 3/20. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:24:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew2lov.html Joaquin Phoenix' final movie? Did he get a bum rap on Letterman? Time will tell. Also with Gwyneth Paltrow, coming soon to the Circle Cinema. Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:50:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewintl.html Along with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "The International" advises that making a deal with the devil will cost you your soul. The devil(s) in this movie are mega-sized financial institutions. Opens wide today. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewbyte.html#2008 Gary Chew picks his favorite movies from 2008. Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:30:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewrdr.html Flashes forward and back from 1958 to 1995 to tell the tale of a proletarian woman of 36 and her passionate affair with a teenage boy from an upper-middle class family. Stars Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, opens Jan. 2 in Tulsa. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:30:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewdout.html Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, set in a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964. Who is telling the truth? Opens Christmas Day. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewily.html "I've Loved You So Long" ("Il y a longtemps que je t'aime") reveals deeply human moments in ordinary ways. Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein give Oscar-worthy performances. Coming to the Circle Cinema 2/6/2009. Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:50:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewnix.html Frank Langella has absorbed the walk and the talk of President Richard Nixon in this docudrama by Ron Howard. Linked: National Archives just released new excerpts of the Nixon White House tapes. Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewmilk.html Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. He served as a San Francisco City Supervisor for a year before he was assassinated by fellow City Supervisor, Dan White in 1978. Stars Sean Penn in what is likely to be an Oscar-nominated performance. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewqos.html "Quantum of Solace" is a one-hour and forty-six-minute swish pan, except for the several realistic, long, intense action scenes that comprise most of the running time of this latest 007 treat, starring the seemingly indestructible Daniel Craig. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewwjh.html Starring De Niro, plus Bruce Willis, Sean Penn as themselves, this movie is a smart cinematic round of what Chew calls, "Doin' the Hollywood Reflexive." Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:45:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/cheww.html "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." ---Presidential candidate George W. Bush. Director Oliver Stone takes aim at the current denizen of the barrel known as the White House. Starring Josh Brolin. Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewrelg.html A film you'll love or hate? Depends on your point of view. Bill Maher may be stirring up more controversy with his new documentary about religious faith. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:55:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewluk1.html A feel-good, down-to-earth film about military people caught up in the whirl of war, going home. Stars Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Michael Pena. Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:45:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewtowl.html From award-winning producer, writer and director Alan Ball: a coming-of-age film about a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl who is abused by her parents, a male pedophile living next door as well as classmates slinging racial slurs at her in a Texas middle school. Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:01:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewburn.html The Coen brothers write and direct a speed-of-light black comedy, "Burn After Reading", starring Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney and John Malkovich. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:35:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewtrub.html Vampires have almost become acceptable citizens among non-blood sucking human beings in present-day rural Louisiana. Starring Anna Paquin. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:20:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewvcb.html Woody Allen takes a look back at what his best movies are about: sex, love and relationships (usually in that order) with his latest and first film to be shot in Spain. Stars Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:45:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewtt.html Satire about the making of an historical Vietnam war film in the jungles of modern-day Vietnam. Ben Stiller wrote, acted and directed. With Robert Downey, Jr., Jack Black and Nick Nolte. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:25:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewswgv.html Starring Kevin Costner, Kelsey Grammer and Dennis Hopper. Could have easily been a turkey, but closer to Capra-esque. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:15:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewxfil.html Scully and Mulder return to do that Special Agent thing they do so well in a weird, cold and creepy tale. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:20:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewdrkt.html Christian Bale, the late Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Gary Oldman star in the latest "Batman" actioner. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:52:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewbyte.html#genkill Enlisted leathernecks are ordered to fight a war with Saddam's 'Iraqi terrorists' while hassling with upper level military bureaucracy. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewkit.html Starring Abigail Breslin (Oscar nominee for "Little Miss Sunshine"), Jane Krakowski, and Joan Cusack. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:00:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewgets.html Opening Fri, 6/20 at the Admiral Twin Drive-In. With Steve Carell. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:20:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewchol.html Starring Oscar winner Javier Bardem. Includes photos of the Tulsa TV Memories webmaster's 2007 tour of Cartagena, Colombia (the primary filming location and real star of the show). Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:35:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewsatc.html With Sarah Jessica Parker. Thu, 29 May 2008 00:01:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewadhd.html A new IFC documentary focusing on a prison chaplain's doubts about a particular man's guilt. Wed, 28 May 2008 00:01:00 CDT http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewrcnt.html The new HBO film about the 2000 election, starring Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary and Laura Dern. Tue, 27 May 2008 00:01:00 CDT