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The Wackness: Not bad, but a bit weedy for my liking... (Daily Mail) 30 August 2008The Wackness is a druggy rites-of-passage movie in which the youthful anti-hero is a pusher of pot who falls in love with the flirtatious stepdaughter of his psychiatrist.
The guardian first book award longlist: A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Guardian Unlimited) 29 August 2008Prison life isn't easy for the anti-hero of Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole, despite his ambition - to be a criminal mastermind
Death Race | Armored cars race through plot holes in a junky prisoner actioner (Pittsburgh City Paper) 28 August 2008Webteaser: This prisoners-race-cars-to-their-deaths actioner from Paul W.S. Anderson is a loose update of the 1975 drive-in classic Death Race 2000 (which added anarchic dark humor and hapless pedestrians to the mix). Now it's the year 2012, and in the hard gray light of cinematic dystopia, we follow our anti-hero, Jensen Ames (Jason Statham), as he's framed, sent to prison and then bribed to ...
Man in a MacIntosh (Guardian Unlimited) 30 August 2008Culture: Iain Sinclair goes on the trail of London's forgotten laureate, Roland Camberton
Review: I Served the King of England (Time Magazine) 28 August 2008In this Czech film, a little man gets swept up in Nazi and Communist history
New on DVD (The Tennessean) 29 August 2008What Happens In Vegas — Cameron Diaz is a jilted Wall Streeter, Ashton Kutcher's an out-of-work carpenter, the two get hitched on a drunken whim in Las Vegas then go to extremes to scheme each other out of the $3 million jackpot they won. The movie comes in a single-disc DVD with the theatrical version or a two-disc DVD and Blu-ray high-definition sets with an extended cut. The two-disc DVD and ...
NEW DVDS (Asbury Park Press) 29 August 2008Cameron Diaz plays a jilted Wall Streeter in "What Happens In Vegas," arriving on DVD this week. She and Ashton Kutcher, an out-of-work carpenter, wind up getting hitched on a drunken whim in Las Vegas, then going to extremes to scheme each other out of the $3 million jackpot they won. The movie comes in a single-disc DVD with the theatrical version or a two-disc DVD and Blu-ray high-definition ...
Herald movie reviewers rate movies from zero to four stars (Miami Herald) 29 August 2008Herald movie reviewers rate movies from zero to four stars. Excellent | ½ Very Good | Good | ½ Worth Seeing Mediocre | Poor | No Worthless
"Babylon A.D." premieres on September 3 (PEP) 29 August 2008Vin Diesel stars in the futuristic action extravaganza Babylon A.D. as Toorop, a mercenary-for-hire in a world made for hardened warriors.
'Nightmare Before Christmas' returns to DVD (South Bend Tribune) 28 August 2008Selected film and television releases