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| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Liz Braun
September 2009
Movie Entertainment
PANDORUM
Sci-fi thriller in which two astronauts wake up on a claustrophobic spacecraft with no idea where they are or what their mission might be. And it looks as if they’re not alone ... Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster.
ARMORED
Explosive action pic about an inside job at an armoured truck company, a plan gone awry, and many millions of dollars. Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno.
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
Update of the 1956 film noir stars Michael Douglas as a powerful DA, Jesse Metcalfe as the investigative journalist breathing down his neck and Amber Tamblyn as the woman caught between them.
COCO AVANT CHANEL
Biopic of the famed designer stars Audrey Tautou as Chanel and traces her climb from humble seamstress to wealthy fashion icon. Just a hunch: great costumes.
EXTRACT
Jason Bateman is the owner of a flower-extract plant whose life is complicated by marital woes, labour problems, a gorgeous new temp and the usual strife of the working world. Mila Kunis, J.K. Simmons, Ben Affleck. Mike Judge directs.
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Animated sci-fi entry has thoughtful small beings in a postapocalyptic world do battle against big, scary machines over the future of civilization. Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer.
FAME
All the teenage passion, competition and heartbreak of attending a high school for the performing arts in New York. This is an updated version of the 1980 hit musical. Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Charles S. Dutton.
LOVE HAPPENS
A widower and self-help guru is attracted to a woman he sees at one of his seminars. But is he ready to love again? Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart.
GAMER
In a futuristic world where online games are played with real people and humans control other humans, Kable is the hero of one ultraviolent game. Can he escape and save humanity from technology? Let’s hope so. Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall.
WHITEOUT
There’s a killer on the loose. Kate Beckinsale plays a U.S. Marshall trying to stop a murderer in Antarctica before six months of dark and winter set in. Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt.
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEAT BALLS
In a magical town, food falls from the sky like rain. Animated family film is based on the popular children’s book. Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T. Sounds yummy.
THE INVENTION OF LYING
Ricky Gervais co-wrote and co-directed this comedy (with Matthew Robinson) about a world where nobody has ever told a lie ... until a writer in the film industry pretends to find lost stories and then watches his career explode. Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Tina Fey, Louis C.K., Christopher Guest.
PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI
Morgan Freeman grew up in Charleston, Miss., and was horrified to learn, years later, that the only high school in town still holds two proms: one for the black kids and one for the white. He offered to pay for an integrated prom; the school took him up on it in 2008, and this wonderful documentary, from Canadian Paul Saltzman, is the result.
JENNIFER ’S BODY
This comedy/horror hybrid by Diablo Cody tells the story of a cheerleader whose inner demon causes her to snack on the boys in her small Minnesota town. It’s up to her meek friend to go after the evil rock band that brought all this demon stuff on in the first place. Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried.
TRAILER PARK BOYS: COUNT DOWN TO LIQUOR DAY
Oh, hell, yeah. Ricky, Julian and Bubbles return for something called Countdown to Liquor Day, with plans afoot for revenge on Lahey. Can’t wait. Mike Smith, Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay. Mike Clattenburg directs.
SURROGATES
In the future, you don’t go out: all social interaction is handled by surrogates, robots who are smoother, better-looking versions of the human they represent. When the killing starts, an FBI agent realizes he’ll have to leave home and appear in person to find the bad guy. Bruce Willis.
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