August 27th, 2008
A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad Eisenberg who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find its the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
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August 27th, 2008
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Traitor: Espionage thriller. Directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce. (PG-13. 113 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to...

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August 26th, 2008
IDragonball ZI has a lot to answer for. Especially if youre a fan of what my friends tell me is the good anime out there. Personally I refuse to believe such a thing exists, because Ive been scarred beyond recognition by Goku and his gang of halfwit thugs. Its anime like IDragonball ZI and IPokemonI which represents the art form in mainstream pop culture, and its also anime like IDragonball ZI and IPokemonI which has kept the rest of it from making inroads into the mainstream at all.
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August 26th, 2008
Based on the short story by Richard Matheson, The Box stars Cameron Diaz as Norma Lewis and James Marsden as Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child who receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger, played by Frank Langella, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner 1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world...someone they dont know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the crosshairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
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August 26th, 2008
In The International, a gripping thriller, Interpol Agent Louis Salinger Clive Owen and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman Naomi Watts are determined to bring to justice one of the worlds most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to continue financing terror and war. Directed by Tom Tykwer Run Lola Run from an original screenplay written by Eric Singer, The International is being shot on location in Germany and throughout Europe.
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August 26th, 2008
Rebecca Bloomwood is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly
turning into a big problem: shes hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While
Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she cant quite get her foot in the doorthat is,
until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company.
Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity. But when her
compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles
to keep it all from spiraling out of controland is ultimately forced to reevaluate whats really important in life.
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August 26th, 2008
Raizo is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them...and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge. In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East.
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August 26th, 2008
Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns Greg Kinnear long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win.
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August 26th, 2008
After a second viewing of The Dark Knight, something occurred to me. I noticed it years ago and has become more of a trend: the title of the movie is at the end. I can’t remember the first movie I realized this, all I know, this seems to be the norm for filmmakers to do nowadays.
I find it interesting how classic movies showed all the credits and played the opening score to the film at the beginning. Maybe they knew people didn’t care about all the grips, so the only way to get them to watch it was to place it in the start. Movies, back when my grandmother was my age, didn’t have the elaborate cast and crew that movies do now. No wonder that phase has seemed to have faded.
I have no clue where the idea that showing the title of a movie comes in last. I know I paid my money to see a certain film in the theaters, but I want to see the name in big flashy lights at the beginning so I can compare my ticket. What would happen if I paid to see The Dark Knight and ended up sitting through House Bunny instead? I’d demand a full refund, and then I would curse the moviemakers for playing such a horrible trick on me. All of that could have been avoided if I had seen the title in the beginning.
House Bunny was a bit drastic, but you see my point. Millions of us could be out there sitting through that very predicament. I say bring back the title in the beginning, where it belongs, because how many movie theaters are going to believe that you couldn’t tell Christian Bale from Anna Faris? Well, theaters are pretty dark….
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August 26th, 2008
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Traitor: Espionage thriller. Directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce. (PG-13. 113 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to...

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