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I think I could forgive the endless remaking J-horror flicks if any of them were made decently. Genre fans keep telling me how this movie is so good and the remake has a lot of potential. Few of them live up to that potential. Even with decent acting and an interesting, if not overdone, concept, IShutteri is another remake that fails to live up to what Ive heard about the original.

It feels pretty futile to be reviewing a Tyler Perry movie. Bad reviews have never stopped his movies from being giant box office hits, and given that the African-American community has made Perry such a success, its fair for anyone to assume that, if I critique it, its just because white people dont get it.

Starring: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander, Ursula Abbott, Jean... Review: Don't hammer this film for trying to get inside the head of Mark David Chapman before he shot John Lennon outside the rock legend's New York apartment on December 8th, 1980. Hammer it instead for failing to do so with any depth or insight. It's not that Jared Leto, who gained nearly seventy pounds to play Chapman, doesn't attack the role with all he's got. It's that J.P. Schaefer's film, with Lindsay Lohan as another Lennon fan, has nothing to say. Schaefer obsesses that Run, Fat Boy, Run by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews March 19th, 2008 | Movie Reviews Starring: Simon Pegg, Hank Azaria, Ameet Chana, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton Review: Why in hell is queens-born David Schwimmer making his directing debut with a British farce? Damned if I know. But the Friends star has a welcome eye for laughs that sneak in around familiar corners. It's also a big comic boost that Simon Pegg, the offbeat star of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, plays Dennis, a security guard in a lingerie shop. Five years earlier, dumbass Dennis ditched his pregnant fiancée, Libby (gorgeous Thandie Newton), at the altar. Now she's 21 by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews March 19th, 2008 | Movie Reviews Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey Review: Odds are you're going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas bank in the 1990s. Loosely adapted from Ben Mezrich's best-selling Bringing Down the House, the movie stretches facts like taffy but never shirks its responsibility to entertain. And, jeez, it's a kick to see Kevin Spacey up to his old tricks as the sultan of snark. Spacey plays Mickey Rosa, a math prof who cherry-picks the brainiest students to join his secret club