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George Lopez to voice Speedy Gonzales in film
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Speedy Gonzales is taking his folk-hero status, incredible speed and signature red kerchief to the big screen, with help from George Lopez. The comedian is attached to provide the voice of the fastest mouse in all Mexico for a politically correct live-action/CG hybrid feature set up at New Line Cinema. The... »
`Avatar’ blasts off with $232.2 million worldwide
By David Germain, Ap Movie Writer LOS ANGELES – James Cameron launched his science-fiction epic “Avatar” into a safe orbit as the costly film soared to No. 1 with $73 million domestically and $159.2 million overseas, for a $232.2 million worldwide total. With that big a start, distributor 20th Century Fox was quick to proclaim it... »
Movie review: ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’
By Kenneth Turan “This is the last time you’ll ever see me,” Edward Cullen says to Bella Swan. As if. Spoken early on in “New Moon,” that promise is one of the least likely to be kept in movie history. With most of that film still to unfold, and two more adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight”... »
Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself No. 1
by Rachel Lee Harris What do you get when you take one pop star (Mary J. Blige), one Motown legend (Gladys Knight) and one Oscar nominee (Taraji P. Henson), then top them off with a cross-dressing writer, producer and director? A No. 1 spot at the box office. “Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All... »
‘Inglourious Basterds’ No. 1 at Box Office
(Entertainment Weekly) — Score a personal best at the box office for Quentin Tarantino this weekend. “Inglourious Basterds,” his revisionist take on WWII starring Brad Pitt, grossed an estimated $37.6 million, besting the reigning box office champ “District 9,” and giving beleaguered studio The Weinstein Co. a little financial relief. “Basterds’” opening far surpasses Tarantino’s... »
The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard.
by Roger Ebert ‘The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard” is a cheerfully energetically and very vulgar comedy. If you’re okay with that, you may be okay with this film, which contains a lot of laughs and has studied Political Correctness only enough to make a list of groups to offend. It takes place after... »
Movie Review: District 9
by Roger Ebert I suppose there’s no reason the first alien race to reach the Earth shouldn’t look like what the cat threw up. After all, they love to eat cat food. The alien beings in “District 9,” nicknamed “prawns” because they look like a cross between lobsters and grasshoppers, arrive in a space ship... »
‘Do the Right Thing’ still has something to say
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — In 1989, the warnings were dire. The Spike Lee film “Do the Right Thing,” critics and columnists said, would provoke violence and disrupt race relations. Spike Lee: “I wanted to do a film that would try to show what was happening at the time.” “This movie is dynamite under every seat,” wrote... »
Review: The Hangover
By Roger Ebert Now this is what I’m talkin’ about. “The Hangover” is a funny movie, flat out, all the way through. Its setup is funny. Every situation is funny. Most of the dialogue is funny almost line by line. At some point we actually find ourselves caring a little about what happened to the... »
Review: American Violet
Jonathan Curiel, Chronicle Staff Writer Drama. Starring Nicole Beharie, Will Patton, Tim Blake Nelson, Alfre Woodard, Michael O’Keefe, Charles S. Dutton, Xzibit and Malcolm Barrett. Directed by Tim Disney. Written and produced by Bill Haney. (PG-13. 102 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) These are the facts: An African American woman in a small Texas town was... »
