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2009 marked the anniversaries of two of the greatest milestones in human understanding. 400 years ago last year, Galileo Galilei turned his improved telescopes to the sky and found new evidence that the earth was not the center of the universe. 150 years ago last year, Charles Darwin published “On the [...]

The moment a sweet old lady with razor-sharp teeth started spewing obscenities and crawling on the ceiling, I knew I was in for a good time with Legion, an angels-at-war horror flick starring Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid that one could sum up as The Prophecy meets Assault On Precinct [...]

While I haven’t read the book by German author Cornelia Funke that inspired this $60 million fantasy starring Brendan Fraser, I can say with some certainty that it’s probably much, much better than the lackluster lump of a movie director Iain Softley makes out of it.
The gimmick here is that Fraser can bring characters in [...]

This Southern-fried coming-of-age drama, based on a book by Sue Monk Kidd, is pretty much tailor-made for girls of any age, but especially those who liked Fried Green Tomatoes or perhaps Driving Miss Daisy. It’s postcard-pretty and, uncomfortable moments aside, goes down like honey.
Dakota Fanning, the busiest little actress in Hollywood, plays a young girl [...]