Archive for March, 2009

Astro Boy

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews March 27th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
Set in futuristic Metro City, iAstro Boyi is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist. Powered by positive blue energy, Astro Boy is endowed with super strength, x-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly. Embarking on a journey in search of acceptance, Astro Boy learns the joys and emotions of being human, and gains the strength to embrace his destiny.
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State of Play

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews March 27th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
Oscar winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in an case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Crowe plays D.C. reporter Cal McAffrey, whose street smarts lead him to untangle a mystery of murder and collusion among some of the nations most promising political and corporate figures in iState of Playi, from acclaimed director Kevin Macdonald The Last King of Scotland.
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Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins Ben Affleck is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing
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The Proposal

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews March 27th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
When high-powered book editor Margaret SANDRA BULLOCK faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that shes actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew RYAN REYNOLDS, who shes tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family MARY STEENBURGEN, CRAIG T. NELSON, BETTY WHITE and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another.
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12 Rounds

by Cinema Blend Movie Reviews March 27th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
A lot of the action involves car chases and crashes, as Fisher attempts to quickly get from one location to another or stop a reckless car, trolly car, and helicopter. As a result, at one point in the movie I realized I was finally watching the perfect video game movie. With the short term missions Fisher is given, and the amount of vehicular carnage the movie unleashes, this might as well have been called IGrand Theft Auto: the Moviei
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The Haunting In Connecticut

by Cinema Blend Movie Reviews March 27th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
A slight twist on the old horror flick is it schizophrenic hallucinations or tortured ghosts terrorizing a sick child staple, IThe Haunting In ConnecticutI is an irritating mass grave of surprisingly poignant moments, better than expected acting turns and puzzling unnecessary clichs. Its the type of movie you really want to like for a modicum of reasons but ultimately cannot because it so overtly settles on the easy way out.
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