RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) The Lucky Ones: Drama. Starring Tim Robbins, Michael Peña and Rachel McAdams. Directed by Neil Burger. (R. 115 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. See complete movie listings and show times, and buy tickets for select theaters, at SFGate.com/...
newt
by Cinema Blend Movie Previews September 25th, 2008 | Movie Reviews
What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they cant stand each other? Thats the problem facing Newt and Brooke, heroes of inewti, the Pixar film by seven-time Academy Award winner for sound Gary Rydstrom, and director of Pixars Oscar nominated short, iLiftedi. Newt and Brooke embark on a perilous, unpredictable adventure and discover that finding a mate never goes as planned, even when you only have one choice. Love, it turns out, is not a science.
Nights In Rodanthe
by Cinema Blend Movie Reviews September 25th, 2008 | Movie Reviews
Director George C. Wolfe is making his feature debut here, and can be blamed a little for the stagy, trapped feel of the scenes at the beach house. But most of the blame lies with Nicholas Sparks, who wrote the novel upon which the movie is based. His novels have consistently sucked audiences into believing in a world in which all characters say their feelings right out loud and in platitudes.
The Lucky Ones
by Cinema Blend Movie Reviews September 25th, 2008 | Movie Reviews
Not particularly dark and with no political ax to grind-- none of the characters seem to regret having served-- IThe Lucky OnesI wants to be a road movie that happens to be about Iraq veterans. By largely ignoring the central fact of its characters lives, though, it becomes a road movie with no purpose, and a war drama with no bite...BR
Valkyrie
by Cinema Blend Movie Previews September 25th, 2008 | Movie Reviews
The July 20 Plot on Hitlers life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War Two. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitlers once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role.