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Easy Virtue RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Comedy. Starring Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth. Directed by Stephan Elliott (PG-13. 93 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Jessica Biel gets the 1920s glamour treatment in "Easy Virtue," a comedy of...

Drag Me to Hell RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Horror. Directed by Sam Raimi. Starring Alison Lohman (PG-13. 99 minutes. At Bay Area theaters) Sam Raimi is probably best known as the director of the "Spider-Man" trilogy. But for cult-horror junkies, he'll always...

How great is Pixar? Their movies say more in five minutes without words than most other movies say in ten pages of dialogue. Pixar doesnt need words to tell a story, they get that film is a visual medium and theyre strong believers in the old adage that a picture says a thousand words; though Im pretty sure their pictures say at least a million.

IDrag Me To HellI tells the story of Christine Brown Alison Lohman, an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, Professor Clay Dalton Justin Long. Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush Lorna Raver enters their lives and everything begins to unravel. When her loan is denied and she loses her house, the shamed Mrs. Ganush places the powerful curse of the Lamia on Christine, transforming her life into a living hell.

Starring: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo, J... Review: A grumpy old coot, a chubby kid and a house hoisted by helium balloons — if you're thinking that Up sounds like a shortcut to sugar shock, snap out of it. Pandering to ninnies is not on the agenda for this latest landmark in Pixar animation. With Pete Docter and Bob Peterson sharing the directing and writing, Up is a breathtaking ride into the realm of pure imagination. Up shames the pap that now passes for family entertainment (yes, Night at the Museum 2,