Archive for October, 2006

Turistas

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews October 30th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
When 20th Century Fox launched their new Fox Atomic division earlier this year, they did so under the auspices of making it their teen friendly appendage. But lets call it like it really is. Fox Atomic is their trend cash-in division.
For proof look no further than the newly foaled studios first release, iTuristasi. Even a teenager can see its nothing more than a rip-off of iHosteli. The sick twisted minds of Americans and their youth lust for blood more than ever before, and movies like iTuristasi are only too eager to deliver.
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His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews October 30th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
The first book in Pullmans fan loved emHis Dark Materialsem is more The Hobbit than Lord of the Rings. What Im saying here is that theres nothing adult about it. Some books crossover. Lord of the Rings works even better for adults than it does for younger readers. Some of the Harry Potter books Im told, are great for older readers. But The Golden Compass should have kids adventure novel stamped right on the front of it. If the movie wants to cross over and appeal to broader audiences the way the other modern
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Lets Go To Prison

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews October 30th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
Felon John Lyshitski Shepard has figured out the best way to get revenge on the now-dead judge who sent him to jail: watch the officials obnoxious son, Nelson Biederman IV Arnett, survive the clink.
John strikes gold when Nelson is wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to the pen he used to call home. He gleefully gets sent back to become Nelsons cellmate and to ensure that his new buddy gets the full treatment. Let the games begin.
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Tyler Perrys Daddys Little Girls

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews October 29th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
A single father, Monty Elba is a garage mechanic who lives in a poor neighborhood and struggles to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters on his own. But when the courts award custody of his daughters to his corrupt, drug-dealing ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back, enlisting the help of Julia Union, a beautiful and hard-nosed attorney he meets during his short stint as a chauffeur. While Monty and the Ivy-League-educated Julia couldnt be less alike, an unexpected romance blossomsand it soon begins to feel like true love. But in order
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Stomp the Yard

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews October 29th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
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