Movie review: <i>Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel</i>
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel is a kids comedy that screams "Direct to DVD." It doesn't help that it screams that in high, squeaky, three-part harmony. Whatever slim charms...
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Parents guide to ‘This Is It,’ ‘Saw VI’
'Michael Jackson's This Is It'Rating: PG for some suggestive choreography and scary images. What it's about: Michael Jackson, his band, choreographer and dancers rehearse for the "farewell" tour he never...
Movie review: Saw VI — 2 out of 5 stars
"You have seen the errors in your policy," Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) hisses in the latest Saw movie. And, kids, he's hissing a pun at Big Insurance when he does, the...
Movie review: Paranormal Activity — 3 out of 5 stars
Some movies are a more shared experience than others, and that's certainly the case with Paranormal Activity, a micro-budget horror flick about things that go bump in the you-know-what in...
Movie review: Sorority Row — 2 out of 5 stars
The ending of Sorority Row is bad -- cheesy, worn-out, seen it in 78 horror movies before. It's almost awful enough to make you forget that the movie that came...
Movie review: Halloween 2 — 1 out of 5 stars
Rob Zombie's transition from scary heavy-metal maven to slash-and-splatter movie maker is completed with Halloween II. The director of House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects is so mainstream...
SeaWorld rejects condemnation by ‘The Cove’
Might that season pass you purchased to a marine-life theme park near you be partly responsible for an annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan? That's an assertion made in...
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'G-Force' Rating: PG for some mild action and rude humor. What it's about: Chatty trained rodents make up a new Special Forces branch of the government (if they can prove...
For families
'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' Rating: PG for scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality. What it's about: The Hogwarts students cope with their junior year in school...
The dirty little secret of Oscar winner ‘Departures’
t was the great surprise in this past year's Oscars, a movie that the smart money never saw coming. Best foreign language film? Had to be Waltz with Bashir, right?...