Tagline: Yesterday was about honor, today is about justice. From Antoine Fuqua, the director of “Training Day,” and starring Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Mark Wahlberg (“The Departed,” “Invincible”) comes an edgy, non-stop action thriller about an honorable and brilliant marksman who finds himself in an unthinkable situation: framed as a Presidential assassin. Plunged…
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Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
Tagline: The devil is in the details. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein A down-and-out writer (Anthony Hopkins) sells his soul to the devil in exchange for fame and fortune. Jabez (“Bez”) Stone (Alec Baldwin) wasn’t a great writer, but he…
Shrek the Third (2007)
“Shrek the Third” finds Shrek and Fiona reluctantly reigning over Far, Far Away. But if they can find the heir to the throne and bring him back, they can return to their swamp. While Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots are in search of the heir, Fiona holds off a coup d’etat by Prince Charming….
Sicko (2007)
Tagline: What seems to be the problem? The words “health care” and “comedy” aren’t usually found in the same sentence, but in Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore’s new movie SiCKO, they go together hand in (rubber) glove. Opening with profiles of several ordinary Americans whose lives have been disrupted, shattered, and—in some cases—ended by…
Silk (2007)
Based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, “Silk” is the story of Herve Joncour (Michael Pitt), a 19th Century French silkworm merchant who travels to Japan and begins a clandestine and forbidden romance with a mysterious and sensual woman. Silkworm eggs. In one’s palm one could hold thousands of them. When the pébrine…
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
After eighteen seasons, four hundred episodes, and innumerable awards and honors (including a Peabody, 23 Emmys and a designation from Time magazine as the “best television show of the twentieth century”), “The Simpsons” has become a featurelength motion picture. And it’s a good thing, too, because it takes a wide screen to fully capture Homer…