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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:24 am
Coming in January, narrated by Nicole Kidman:
 John, Daniel, and Panther were lost. They had no home, no family, no hope. Then they came to America, where they were given three months. Three months to learn how to use electricity, how to live in Western culture, how to support themselves. Three months to start paying back the U.S. State Department for their plane tickets. They are the Lost Boys of Sudan, and this is their inspiring story of their triumph in their own words - "God Grew Tired of Us."
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:36 am
Starts Dec. 7:
"Grace Is Gone." There was a time when Stanley Phillips (John Cusack) could see his entire life clearly. He dreamed of patriotic service and was destined for a military career. He came close to that dream until it was cut short simply because of his poor eyesight. Now he's serving customers at a home supply store while his Sergeant wife is fighting in Iraq. Equally as awkward at home as he is at work, he's raising Heidi, their twelve-year-old daughter and her 8-year-old sister Dawn. Although a loving father, Stanley is unable to conform to a more affectionate role and the girls miss their mother deeply. While tolerating his job and stumbling through parenting he is abruptly awakened when tragedy strikes. Ill prepared to deal with it himself, he is at a complete loss contemplating how to tell his children. Desperate to delay telling the children they embark on a spontaneous road trip. Grasping to give them their last moments of innocence, Stanley reveals a softer side as they travel to Dawn's chosen destination - Enchanted Gardens Theme Park. The farther they drive the closer they become yet Stanley knows he must face the inevitable task of changing their lives forever - "Grace Is Gone."
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:40 am
Also opening Dec 7:
"Strength And Honor" tells the story of an Irish-American boxer, Sean Kelleher (Michael Madsen), who accidentally kills his friend in the ring and promises his wife that he will never box again. However, years later, when he discovers that his only son is dying of the same hereditary heart disorder which has taken his wife, he is forced to break his promise in order to raise the substantial funds needed for the surgery that could save his son’s life. "Strength And Honor" is a human drama of love and friendship, sacrifice and devotion, set against the violent underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. Awards for "Strength And Honor" Best Picture - 2007 Boston Film Festival
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:46 am
Opening Dec. 12:
 "Nanking" - Directed by the Academy-Award-winning team of Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman ("Twin Towers") and marking the producing debut of AOL Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis, "Nanking" is a powerful reminder of the heartbreaking toll that war takes on the innocent, and a testament to the courage and conviction of a few individuals determined to act in the face of evil. The film tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. The events of the film are told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners' letters and diaries as performed by Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, Jurgen Prochnow, and Stephen Dorff, among others. STARRING: Documentary RATING: R (For disturbing images and descriptions of wartime atrocities, including rape)
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 12:10 pm
Opening Dec 14:
Based one on of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, 'The Kite Runner' is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after 20 years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right. Newsworthy Note: Four Afghan boys aged 11 to 14 have been spirited out of Afghanistan to a haven in the Middle East to protect them from potential reprisals ahead of the world release this month of a Hollywood movie in which they star. The boys and their guardians have been taken to an unidentified town in the United Arab Emirates where they have been placed in a school with many other Afghan children. Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the film, The Kite Runner, has promised to care for the children during the release period and possibly up to the end of their schooling. The $18m film is based on the novel of the same name by the Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini and is one of the highlights of the autumn season, with high hopes for the Oscars. But in recent weeks its producers have been grappling with the controversy over the casting of unknown Afghan boys to lead roles, which has brought unexpected dangers. The film includes a rape scene involving individuals from two rival tribes. Although the scene is sensitively portrayed, with the unstrapping of a belt rather than graphic action, it has prompted fears of possible ethnic unrest. Paramount Pictures delayed the release of the film by six weeks to December 14 to give time to guarantee the boys' safety. The four boys include Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, now 13, who plays Hassan, a low-caste member of the Hazara tribe; and Zekeria Ebrahimi, 11, who is cast in the role of Hassan's best friend, a relatively rich Pashtun called Amir. In a key scene Amir fails to intervene when Hassan is raped by a Pashtun man - a betrayal that develops through the film and lies at its emotional core. Ahmad's characterisation of Hassan has been highly praised. The New York Times has said it "ranks among the great child performances on film". Rich Klein, a Middle East expert with a Washington-based consultancy firm employed by Paramount to organise the relocation of the boys, said it was a huge relief that they were now out of harm's way. "We were working with eight people, three different languages, and four time zones. But we have found the right place for the boys where they won't feel any sense of anxiety or dislocation in their lives." Mr Klein said Paramount had recognised it had made an error in casting local Afghan actors. "A mistake was made. It was unintentional - the situation was not fully understood in terms of Afghan culture and history and the relationship between the Hazara and Pashtun people." Most cinemas in Afghanistan were destroyed by the Taliban, but pirated copies of major films are easily available in the country. Security has deteriorated since the relatively stable period during which the roles were first cast. The boys' families have complained they were misled over the controversial rape scene before filming began in a region of China bordering Afghanistan. They say they thought the film was literally about kite-flying. Ahmad Mahmidzada's father has told reporters that they were not told about the scene until shooting was about to begin, and that promises had been made to remove it from the final cut. The director, Marc Foster, has denied those allegations, telling the Los Angeles Times last month that there had been no dissension and that the rape sequence had been rehearsed twice before shooting. "Everybody got along and we had a very positive experience," he said. The novel of The Kite Runner was a word-of-mouth bestseller in 2003. It tells the story of Afghanistan over three decades, from before the Soviet invasion to the rise of the Taliban and beyond. Hosseini, who left his native Kabul in 1980 and now lives in California, recently supported Paramount's decision to relocate the boys. "Afghanistan has become a pretty violent place within the last year," he said. "If the boys and their families think there is a reasonable risk of threat to them, then you have to take all of the steps that you can to make sure they are OK."

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Roxip
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01-29-2004
| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 2:09 pm
A friend of mine saw a sneak preview of "Into the Wild" (which indeed is about the young man who died on the bus in Alaska) and thought it was wonderful.
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 5:01 pm
Anyone catch the Speed Racer trailer tonight on ET? friggin' sweet 
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 6:02 pm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFyiL1jI5gs
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 9:44 pm
Charlie Wilson's War Among the Golden Glove nominations for best picture
Charlie Wilson (Hanks) was a bachelor congressman from Texas who had a habit of showing up in hot tubs with strippers and cocaine. His “Good Time Charlie” exterior, however, masked an extraordinary mind, a deep sense of patriotism and a passion for the underdog, and in the early 1980s the underdog was Afghanistan—which had just been brutally invaded by the Russians. Charlie's longtime friend and patron and sometime lover was Joanne Herring (Roberts), one of the wealthiest women in Texas and a virulent anti-communist. Believing the American response to the Russian invasion was anemic at best, she prods Charlie into doing more for the Mujahideen (Afghan freedom fighters). Charlie's partner in this uphill endeavor is CIA Agent Gust Avrakotos (Hoffman), a blue-collar operative in a company of Ivy League blue bloods. Together, the three of them—Charlie, Joanne and Gust—travel the world to form unlikely alliances among the Pakistanis, Israelis, Egyptians, arms dealers, law makers and a belly dancer.
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 9:53 pm
The Great Debaters
Among the Golden Globe nominations for best picture Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college into a formidable team that gave Harvard's squad a run for their money in the 1930s, Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters features the director himself as the ambitious educator, and Forest Whitaker as the resentful father of a student whose loyalties now lie almost exclusively with his coach.
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 10:19 pm
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep Opens on Christmas Day
A lonely young boy vows to protect the rapidly growing hatchling that emerges from a mysterious egg found on the shores of a Scottish loch in My Dog Skip and Tuck Everlasting director Jay Russell's screen adaptation of writer Dick King-Smith's popular children's novel. Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) has made a most unusual discovery, and he's about to find out just how one innocent boy's greatest fantasy can also be a frightened adult population's greatest threat. Unable to identify the egg that he found while walking the sandy shores, Angus is even more perplexed about the discovery and the creature that emerges resembles what comes to be known as a Water Horse. As the bizarre new life form begins to grow at an alarming rate, it soon becomes obvious that Angus will not be able to keep it a secret for very long. It seems that the government has formed a particularly acute interest in Angus' recent find, and now, as Captain Hamilton (David Morrissey) of the Royal British Navy transforms the small-town diner run by Angus' mother Anne (Emily Watson) into his base of operations, the young boy will have to do some seriously quick thinking if he is to keep his newfound friend out of the hands of research scientists and get it back into the aquatic environment in which it thrives.
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Mamie316
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07-08-2003
| Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 10:37 pm
My daycare kids really want to see The Waterhorse. It looks really sweet. That Speed Racer preview looks so cool.We grew up with that cartoon and I can't wait to see the movie.
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Escapee
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06-15-2004
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 8:50 am
My daughter is fascinated with the Lochness Monster, and I plan to take her to see this on Christmas day.
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 4:33 pm
Heck, I want to see it!! 
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 11:16 am
Here's a new tv spot for Cloverfield www.movieweb.com/news/39/25239.php
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Friday, December 28, 2007 - 10:41 am
www.free-tv-video-online.info/
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Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000
| Saturday, December 29, 2007 - 10:28 am
Ketchuplover... Is that for real? can we really watch those movies/ tv shows online for free? Is there a catch??
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Sunday, December 30, 2007 - 10:26 am
Takes forever to load on dial-up and no guarantee the links work(but apparently that's not a problem)Otherwise there's no problem...yet. So far I've seen 3 of 6 parts of The Mist.
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Sunday, December 30, 2007 - 10:46 am
Fanboys Release Date: 1/18/08 In this riotous new road movie from producer Kevin Spacey, a group of friends who are avid Star Wars fans travel west to see the Holly Grail of all sci-fi movies, 'Star Wars: Episode I.' The year is 1999 and for these death star dorks, the Star Wars films are more than just movies; they are a way of life. So, after one of the group takes sick it is nothing short of a moral imperative that the friends break into George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch to watch the seminal sci-fi picture together before its release. Enlisting the help of an estranged friend, who has traded in his Darth Vader mask for a proper day job, the adventure lays way to some extremely funny situations, including an outrageous brawl with some hard-core Trekkies. Actors: Sam Huntington; Kristen Bell; William Shatner
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Sunday, December 30, 2007 - 11:01 am
27 Dresses Release Date: 1/11/08 A single woman who has served as a bridesmaid a stunning twenty-seven times prepares to support her sister at the alter on number twenty-eight despite having fallen helplessly in love with her smitten sibling's handsome husband-to-be. Katherine Heigl stars in a romantic comedy scripted by The Devil Wears Prada screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna and directed by Anna Fletcher (Step Up). Actors:  Katherine Hiegl; James Marsden; Malin Akerman; Ed Burns
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Monday, December 31, 2007 - 10:56 am
The Mist has been removed except for a trailer.
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 7:51 am
The movies take too long to load for me on dial-up. I'm outta there!
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Monday, January 28, 2008 - 10:06 am
Johnny Depp and Christian Bale(almost certain) are going to be starring in Public Enemies. Filming begins in March. Some scenes may be shot in Wisconsin! Film is due out in 2009 but why wait.
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Sunday, February 03, 2008 - 5:49 pm
Pretty sweet Ironman spot in the SuperBowl eh?
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Speed Racer early review www.aintitcool.com/node/35695
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