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Death Race

Jason Statham stars in this futuristic thriller as Jensen Ames, an ex-con turned speedway champion who’s framed for a grisly murder and forced to compete in a grueling three-day televised car race against his fellow inmates. Sitting behind the wheel of a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, Ames is in the race of his life — and the whole world is watching.
Mighty Machines: Winter Blast

When a major snowstorm hits, it’s up to professional snow removers Buzz, Stretch and Ranger to clear the roads and other areas using monster snowplows, zippy bobcats, mammoth snowblowers and colossal dump trucks. In this “cool” three-episode collection from the children’s TV series, the removal crew gets the job done with their mighty machines in the forest, at a ski hill and, of course, during a blizzard.
Skunk Fu: The Art of Monkey Launching

Kung fu student Skunk has much to learn from his wise master, Panda, in this set of installments from the animated series that follows the adventures of the young martial artist and his pals as they safeguard their valley from Dragon and his minions. These episodes find Dragon’s Ninja Monkeys wreaking havoc as they crush Skunk’s green teacake, hold Fox and Skunk captive and make off with Dr. Turtle’s notebook.
Skunk Fu: The Art of Rivalry

Martial arts student Skunk Fu learns valuable lessons about competition and strategy in this collection of episodes from the animated series about the adventures of the young kung fu fighter, his friends and his wise master, Panda. In these six installments, Rabbit creates a kung fu school to rival Panda’s, Skunk and the Ninja Monkeys battle it out on an ice hockey rink, and war looms over the valley when the monkeys build the ultimate weapon.
Word World: The Race to Mystery Island

Preschoolers will learn about the wonderful world of words with this “PBS Kids” animated series starring the WordFriends: fun-loving critters whose bodies comprise the letters that spell the word they represent. Among the episodes in this compilation are “Pig’s Present,” in which Pig discovers the benefits of patience, and “The Race to Mystery Island,” which finds Frog and Pig carrying competition too far.
The Frozen Limits

When the boys learn that the West is teeming with gold, they pack up and head for Alaska to get a piece of the treasure. Unfortunately, the hapless sextet fail to realize that they’re 40 years too late. Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold — collectively known as the popular British comedy troupe the Crazy Gang — star in this 1939 slapstick cult hit.
Baghead

Two screenwriting couples head to a remote cabin in the woods, hoping that the change of scenery will get the creative juices flowing. Amid the solitude, the dynamics of their relationships are revealed as they strive to write their masterworks. Complicating matters though, is the lurking presence of a strange man who wears a bag over his head. Brothers Jay and Mark Duplass wrote and directed this offbeat follow-up to 2005′s The Puffy Chair.
Beethoven’s Big Break

It’s a dog’s life for stray pooch Beethoven and his puppy family, but when a movie-star canine gets dognapped, Beethoven is chosen to take his place. And it’s up to animal wrangler Eddie (Jonathan Silverman) and his son Billy (Moises Arias) to keep the unruly new star under control. Slowly but steadily, the rambunctious St. Bernard digs his way into Eddie’s heart in this family adventure that also stars Eddie Griffin and Rhea Perlman.
Burn After Reading

In this dark comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, ousted CIA official Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) loses his recently penned memoir into the hands of a pair of moronic gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand, in a Golden Globe-nominated role) who use it to try to turn a profit. George Clooney and Tilda Swinton round out the cast of this irreverent farce, which was nominated for a Best Picture (Comedy) Golden Globe.
Ghost Town

British funnyman Ricky Gervais (“The Office,” “Extras”) stars in his first feature film lead as Bertram Pincus, a hapless gent who’s pronounced dead, only to be brought back to life with an unexpected gift: a newfound ability to see ghosts. When Bertram crosses paths with the recently departed Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), he gets pulled into Frank’s desperate bid to break up his widowed wife’s (Téa Leoni) pending marriage to another man.

Movie Trailers
Seven Pounds
Nothing But the Truth
The Tale of Despereaux
Gran Torino
Yes Man
The Wrestler
The Reader
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Twilight
Dark Streets
Reclaiming the Blade
Defiance
Delgo
Cadillac Records
Punisher War Zone
Frost/Nixon
Dark Streets
Nobel Son
Timecrimes
Local Color
Transporter 3
Milk
Australia
Four Christmases
The Secrets
Bolt
Twilight
Nothing Like the Holidays
I Cant Think Straight
Special
The Soloist
Fuel
A Christmas Tale
Slumdog Millionaire
Quantum of Solace

Movie Reviews
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Starring: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes Review: Delicate business is being transacted here concerning the nature of guilt, legal and moral. OK, that should scare off the action-junkie crowd. Now we can talk. Director Stephen Daldry and playwright David Hare, collaborators on The Hours, have done something profoundly right in bringing Bernhard Schlink’s controversial German novel to the screen: They’ve made it personal. What if the person you love turns out to be a monster? That question arises when 15-year-old virgin Michael Berg (David Kross) starts a summer affair in postwar Berlin with tram conductor Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet). After sex, Michael reads to her from the works of literary giants, and then this older woman who calls him Kid disappears. Eight years later, Michael, now a law student, finds Hanna again, revealed as a… Rating: 3 Stars
Gran Torino
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Bee Vang, Brian Hal… Review: Clint Eastwood has hinted that his role as bigoted Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski — a gun-toting widower living in Detroit near the struggling Ford auto plant and even nearer to the Asian immigrants crowding him out of his run-down, racially mixed hood — may be his last role as an actor. Eastwood, 78, has two Oscars for directing Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, and two nominations for starring in them. But an Oscar for acting? Not yet. Get busy, Academy. I don’t think Eastwood will ever turn down a juicy role. But Gran Torino, named after the 1972 car that Walt garages and polishes like a symbol of his idealized past, is a humdinger of a valedictory. Directed by Eastwood from a script by newcomer Nick Schenk, Gran Torino is Eastwood’s hell-raising salute to every… Rating: 3.5 Stars
Wendy and Lucy
Starring: Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham, John Robinson, Wally… Review: Simple story, beautifully told. A distressed dropout named Wendy (the sublime Michelle Williams) and her dog Lucy hop in her beat-up Honda and leave Indiana for Alaska, Wendy’s cautious hope for a new frontier. But when the car dies in Oregon and Lucy goes missing, Wendy faces hard choices and a hard-pressed America that keeps closing doors. I won’t say more, except that director and co-writer Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy) is a true cinema poet who works miracles in miniature. And she finds the perfect collaborator in Williams, an actress of grit and amazing grace. Rating: 3.5 Stars
Cadillac Records
Starring: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, Beyonce Knowle… Review: Beyoncé Knowles could have nabbed an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress. That’s how good she is playing it all sexy, sassy and druggy as Etta James, the R&B singer who found the soul in songs like “At Last.” Too bad for Knowles that she’s only part of Darnell Martin’s rushed mess of a movie that jams the story of Chicago-based Chess Records into one incoherent package. Adrien Brody plays Leonard Chess, who started the company in the 1950s with his brother Phil (we hardly see him) to record great blues artists and pay them with Caddys. There’s Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters, Eamonn Walker’s as Howlin’ Wolf, and a lively Mos Def as Chuck Berry. It’s all a blur, except for the music. That’s workin’. Rating: 2 Stars
Yes Man
Starring: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, John Mic… Review: Jim Carrey took his lumps for going serious in The Number 23, so he’s back to the comedy well of Liar Liar, in which he played a lawyer forced to tell the truth. Now he’s a loan officer forced to say yes to applicants and to life. If you’re thinking “yuck,” you’re right. I added the extra star for Zooey Deschanel, who is so delicious as his honey that you want not to say no to Yes Man. Rating: 2 Stars

Entertainment News
Hanging tough with the old master Clint Eastwood
As Gran Torino opens, Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski (played by Clint Eastwood) has just buried his wife — and with her, his remaining interest in the world around him. more

The year in review: Movies
At the movies, 2008 was a period of transition — a year when popcorn movies proved they could attain the level of art and when new and established filmmakers took daring, if not always successful, chances. more

In ‘Seven Pounds,’ Will Smith departs from his superstar persona
The mission of Overbrook Entertainment, the production and management company co-owned by Will Smith, is simple: ”the creation of extraordinary entertainment art delivered to all people of the world.” So whenever Smith, the most popular movie star in the world, is considering a new project, one of the conditions is that the picture meet the standards set by that guiding principle. more

‘Slumdog’ is Florida critics’ fave
The Florida Film Critics Circle, which comprises critics and writers from throughout the state (including The Miami Herald’s Rene Rodriguez and Connie Ogle), has named Slumdog Millionaire as the best picture of 2008. The movie also won Best Director for Danny Boyle and Best Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy. more

Go deep for a fish fry
EAT: Who doesn’t like fried food? You could submerge a batter-coated grasshopper in hot oil and it would come out edible. And don’t even get me started on Twinkies. more

Seven Pounds (PG-13) ** | Comic gets serious, and it’s a taxing slog
The makers of Seven Pounds have struggled mightily to keep the particulars of their movie from leaking in order to preserve the story’s surprises. One thing is evident, though, from the opening scene: This is not a comedy. more

Hanging tough with the old master Clint Eastwood
As Gran Torino opens, Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski (played by Clint Eastwood) has just buried his wife — and with her, his remaining interest in the world around him.

Joke of the Day
Diagnosis….

The man told his doctor that he wasn’t able to do all the things around the house that he used to do. When the examination was complete, he said, “Now, Doc, I can take it. Tell me in plain English what is wrong with me.”

“Well, in plain English,” the doctor replied, “you’re just lazy.”

“Okay,” said the man. “Now give me the medical term so I can tell my wife.”
50-50 partners…

A very successful businessman had a meeting with his new son-in-law. “I love my daughter, and now I welcome you into the family,” said the man. “To show you how much we care for you, I’m making you a 50-50 partner in my business. All you have to do is go to the factory every day and learn the operations.”

The son-in-law interrupted. “I hate factories. I can’t stand the noise.”

“I see,” replied the father-in-law. “Well then you’ll work in the office and take charge of some of the operations.”

“I hate office work,” said the son-on-law. “I can’t stand being stuck behind a desk all day.”

“Wait a minute,” said the father-in-law. “I just make you half- owner of a moneymaking organization, but you don’t like factories and won’t work in a office. What am I going to do with you?”

“Easy,” said the young man. “Buy me out.”
Nice pigs sir…

A Secret Service agent is standing at the bottom of the stairs as President Clinton is leaving Air Force One, and can’t help but notice that the President has a pig under each arm.

The Agent salutes and says, “Welcome back, Mr. President. Nice pigs, sir.”

Clinton smiles and says, “These aren’t pigs. These are genuine Arkansas Razorbacks. I got this one for Hillary, and I got this one for Chelsea.”

The Agent says, “Good trade, sir.”
Three Bears

It’s a sunny morning in the Big Forest and the Bear family are just waking up. Baby Bear goes downstairs and sits in his small chair at the table. He looks into his small bowl. It is empty!

“Who’s been eating my porridge?!” he squeaks.

Daddy Bear arrives at the table and sits in his big chair. He looks into his big bowl. It is also empty!

“Who’s been eating my porridge?!” he roars.

Mummy Bear puts her head through the serving hatch from the kitchen and screams, “For God’s sake, how many times do we have to go through this? I haven’t made the porridge yet!!”
The Christmas gift…

A guy bought his wife a beautiful diamond ring for Christmas.
A friend of his said, “I thought she wanted one of those sporty 4-Wheel drive vehicles.”
“She did,” he replied. “But where in the world was I gonna find a fake Jeep?”

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