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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family. More>>

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. More>>

The Box

A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know. More>>

The Men Who Stare at Goats

A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets a guy who claims to be a former member of a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions. More>>

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. More>>

Saw VI

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. More>>

Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans. More>>

Where the Wild Things Are

Writer-director Spike Jonze and writer Dave Eggers pull it off with their long-awaited, much-anticipated adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are. More>>

Zombieland

In the horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. More>>

Surrogates

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates. More>>

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

The most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain. More>>

9

A post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened. More>>

Moon

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. More>>

Inglourious Basterds

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. More>>

District 9

An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology. More>>

Julie and Julia

Julie Powell attempts to recreate all 524 of the recipes from Julia Child's book in one year. More>>

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Funny People

Judd Apatow is not just repeating what he did with "The 40-Year-Old-Virgin" and "Knocked Up." He's genuinely developing and pushing himself as a filmmaker. More>>

Blu Ray Reviews

Read about the Blu Ray releases of "Watchmen Director's Cut" and "Coraline." More>>

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter discovers an old book and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past. More>>

Bruno

Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America. More>>

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky prisoner, after the young hero learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. More>>

Public Enemies

Dillinger deserves a far better film than Michael Mann's "Public Enemies." More>>

Drag Me to Hell

A loan officer ordered to evict an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse, which turns her life into a living hell. More>>

Land of the Lost

On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. More>>

The Hangover

A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures. More>>

Up

By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. More>>

Angels and Demons

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican. More>>

The Wrestler

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle. More>>

Star Trek

A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members. More>>

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins: Wolverine X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program. More>>

Gomorrah

An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families. More>>

Duplicity

A pair of corporate spies who share a steamy past hook up to pull off the ultimate con job on their respective bosses. More>>

Observe and Report

Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. More>>

Adventureland

A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world. More>>

Monsters Vs. Aliens

When a meteorite from outer space hits a young girl and turns her into a giant monster, she is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. More>>

I Love You, Man

Friendless Peter Klaven goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding. More>>

Last House on the Left

If bad people hurt someone you love, how far would you go to hurt them back? More>>

Watchmen

When an ex-superhero is murdered, a vigilante named Rorschach begins an investigation into the murder, which begins to lead to a much more terrifying conclusion. More>>

Milk

The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White. More>>

He's Just Not That Into You

The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior. More>>

Taken

A former spy relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been forced into the slave trade. More>>

Coraline

A young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. More>>

Slumdog Millionaire

A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" More>>

Frost/Nixon

A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. More>>

Gran Torino

Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino. More>>

The Unborn

A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her. More>>

Doubt

Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him abusing a black student. More>>

REVIEWER BIO

David Swindle

David attends Ball State University in Muncie where he double-majors in political science and English with an emphasis on creative writing. More>>

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