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Parents guide: 'Men in Black 3,' 'The Dictator'

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:17:00 GMT

'Men in Black 3'

'Men in Black 3': Third time has charm, but moves pretty slow ✭✭ 1/2

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 24 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Josh Brolin impersonating the young Tommy Lee Jones is worth the price of admission to "Men in Black 3." Dry, drawling, deadpan, he nails the flinty Texan in this sentimental sequel to the sci-fi comedies about secret agents in black suits who save the world from aliens.

'Dark Knight Rises' poster features fiery buildings, mournful Batman

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:46:00 GMT

Things May 22 (TheWrap.com) - are looking pretty bleak for Batman in the latest poster for "The Dark Knight Rises."

Shut up! An 'Alien' prequel?

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:46:00 GMT

The summer movie I most want to see:"Prometheus"

Parents guide: 'Battleship,' ''What to Expect When You're Expecting'

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:01:00 GMT

'Battleship'

'First Position' puts ballet dreams on the line for 7 youngsters ✭✭✭ 1/2

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

"Gotta dance!" is what Gene Kelly insists in "Singin' in the Rain," and the driven young people featured in the irresistible "First Position" would enthusiastically agree.

'What to Expect When You're Expecting' is unexpectedly sweet ✭✭ 1/2

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Pregnancy book-turned-film provides some tender moments

"What to Expect When You're Expecting"is a"Valentine's Day"take on impending parenthood. Assorted couples cope with pregnancies planned and unplanned, adoption, and the epic change that is coming to their lives.

Movie review: 'Battleship' is a silly, noisy extravaganza but humor keeps it afloat

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:22:00 GMT

"Battleship" is big, dumb fun that knows it's big, dumb fun and enthusiastically embraces its big, dumb, fun nature.

'This Means War'

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:59:31 GMT

Reese Witherspoon is the woman between two suitors, whose rivalry escalates as they use their CIA backgrounds, in this amusing action-comedy from director McG ("Charlie's Angels").

'The Dictator' quality falls between 'Borat' and 'Bruno' ✭✭ 1/2

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:08:00 GMT

For most of its quick and extremely dirty running time, the new Sacha Baron Cohen offender "The Dictator" wages war with itself, crude nonsense up against crude nonsense that's really funny. Then comes the golden ticket, the speech of speeches, the scene in which the fictional North African dictator General Admiral Haffaz Aladeen addresses a gathering in New York City, recanting his barbarous ways with a heartfelt confessional.

'Dark Shadows' a not so after-school special ✭✭

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:53:00 GMT

TV show that boomer kids loved returns as a pricey but low-energy film

Some of director Tim Burton's costume parties are livelier than others, and the new "Dark Shadows" — from the man who gave us "Edward Scissorhands," "Sweeney Todd," "Alice in Wonderland" and other chalkface-makeup spectaculars starring Johnny Depp — feels like a place-holder, a meandering first draft of an adaptation of the supernatural soap opera that ran on ABC-TV from 1966 to 1971.

Goldthwait satire 'God Bless America' takes a shotgun to pop culture ✭ 1/2

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

With rudeness, cruelty and self-absorption now universally heralded American attributes, with cynical political opportunists, unworthy "talents" and lowlifes dominating reality TV, the time is certainly right for a "Falling Down" remake.

Movie review: Trying for 'The Perfect Family' and falling short

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

The drama about the imperfect union between real life and Catholicism is earnest and filled with self-doubt. Kathleen Turner is its single saving grace.

Earnest and filled with self-doubt, "The Perfect Family,"starring Kathleen Turner, is a darkly comic family drama about the imperfect union between real life and the rigors of Catholic doctrine.

Parents guide

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:30:11 GMT

'The Avengers'

Cast makes 'Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' shine ✭✭✭

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

A comedy-drama saved by the casting bell,"The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" arranges for a tiptop collection of British character women and men to bring out the best in a pleasantly predictable story. Wait. Shouldn't that be "unhappily predictable"? Not always, folks: Some projects are better off going easy on the surprises, and concentrating on a reassuring level of actorly craft.

The gang's all here in 'The Avengers' ✭✭✭

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:17:00 GMT

The culmination of everything ever written, produced or imagined in the known universe, or something like that,"The Avengers"bunches together Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, the leather-clad assassin Black Widow, the lethal archer Hawkeye and the superheroes’ one-eyed wrangler, Nick Fury, for 143 minutes of stylish mayhem in the service of defeating Thor’s malevolent brother, the god Loki, who hails from the interstellar world known as Asgard (access through wormhole only), and who yearns to conquer Earth with an all-powerful blue energy cube called the Tesseract.

Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline can't save messy 'Darling Companion' ✭ 1/2

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:20:00 GMT

Like Freeway, the lovable stray dog at the center of this very teary comedy, "Darling Companion"has lost its way. Even the marquee ensemble anchored by Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Kevin Kline and Richard Jenkins is not enough to rescue this motley mutt of a movie.

'The Raven': Once upon a drama, dreary ✭✭

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:50:00 GMT

Quoth the raven: "Eh."

'Monsieur Lazhar': Trauma, tenderness in a Canadian school ✭✭✭

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:27:00 GMT

We want our stories about schoolteachers to inspire us, just as we crave inspiring teachers.

With 'The Pirates! Band of Misfits,' the treasure's in the details ✭✭✭

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:10:00 GMT

Maniacally inventive and tightly packed, if not overpacked, "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" comes from the Aardman animation folks behind Wallace & Gromit, "Chicken Run" and, more recently, "Arthur Christmas." Their latest may be easier to admire than to love; it's more tone-funny and incidental-muttered-aside funny than, for example, your average DreamWorks smash, where every other comic beat ends with a cartoon animal getting bashed in the nethers and then quoting some inappropriate gangster movie.

When it comes to action, Statham's a 'Safe' bet ✭✭ 1/2

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:56:00 GMT

His Awesomeness, Jason Statham, has let it be known that he chooses his films based on the fight choreographer the producers hire. Often as not, that blows up in his face. Why else would the Human Bullet from Britain end up in dogs such as "War," "Transporter 3" and "Death Race"?

Raves for my new favorite festival: Florida Film Festival

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:30:00 GMT

Thanks to Enzian Theater and its sponsors, the Florida Film Festival entertained me and hundreds of others for 10 days

'Five-Year Engagement': Engaging rom-com worth an 'I do' ✭✭✭ 1/2

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:35:00 GMT

A lot of terrible romantic comedies come along in a given year, and after five or six you begin to question your belief in anything — romance, comedy, movies, even terribleness itself. Before you know it you're trying to break the fever and hit bottom, deliberately, with repeated viewings of films co-starring either Katherine Heigl or Gerard Butler or, worse, their near-lethal joint effort, the Yugo of rom-coms: "The Ugly Truth."

Review: Gender wars entertain in 'Think Like a Man'

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Romany Malco, Michael Ealy, Taraji P. Henson star in director Tim Story's charming film.

Relaxed yet lively, the byplay in "Think Like a Man"has some of the spark of director Tim Story's "Barbershop" a decade ago. The movie may be the very definition of contrivance, coming as it does from the blithely sexist relationship guide "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man" co-written by radio host and comedian Steve Harvey. Considering its source, though, one of the more unpromising comedies of the year has turned out to be pretty funny.

Rick Springfield's a charmer at Florida Film Festival

online@orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Proving even rock stars have to mellow out at some point, Rick Springfield was subdued in a Thursday night appearance at Enzian Theater in Maitland during the Florida Film Festival. He was there for a question-and-answer session following a screening of "An Affair of the Heart," a documentary about his relationship with his fans.