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Family on December 27th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Young Jamie (Jake Lloyd) wants two things for Christmas. He’d like his dad, Howard (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to spend more time with him, and he’d also like to get a Turbo Man doll.
Howard would like to spend more time with Jamie, but his job keeps him so busy that he just can’t seem to find the time to do it. Luckily, his wife Liz (Rita Wilson) is on the ball. She asked him to get Turbo Man weeks ago. Now they’re sold out everywhere, so there’s no chance he’d be able to find one. Unfortunately, it seems that Howard forgot to actually pick up a Turbo Man doll when his wife asked him to, so it’s going to be a long day.
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Horror on October 23rd, 2006 by Chad Everett
This movie is widely credited as being the film that brought some fun back to the horror, Scream is easily one of the more enjoyable romps you can enjoy if you’re looking for something in the genre.
Starting with the mysterious death of Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) as she is home alone one night and receives a strange phone call, right up through the end, horror master Wes Craven will keep you guessing throughout.
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Romance on May 19th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This isn’t as much fun as George Clooney’s other late-90s romp, Out of Sight, but it’s not bad, all things considered.
For one, it’s a lot lighter, involving two single parents and their kids, and what happens one day when they both end up having to actually care for the kids – a state neither of them is used to experiencing. Typically they are more wrapped up in their careers and just let the kids go to school or they are taken care of by someone else. For another, the situations revolve around more wholesome pursuits and less around criminal activity.
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Family on May 13th, 2006 by Chad Everett
While this is probably classified as a family film, it really has some fairly dark moments. One of them comes in the very early moments as Flipper and another dolphin are swimming merrily through the ocean and the Bad Guy shoots Flipper’s friend not once, but over and over. You don’t see blood in the water or anything, but there’s no question that he’s hurt. Then he shoots again and again and there should be no question that the other dolphin is dead.
There are certainly some lighter moments in the movie, but there’s also plenty more darkness, like dead fish floating around the toxic waste, and a near-dead Flipper who returns after eating some of the infected fish to boot. So it’s not all fun and games, but there are some of those as well. Just probably not really for the younger set.
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Family on April 29th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Like Dennis the Menace, this movie won’t win many awards – but it is a pretty decent family flick. The only problem it has in that regard, in fact, is one scatalogical expletive (a fairly funny one, but still).
Beyond that, the plot is simple. Jason Alexander is the manager of a five-star hotel in New York, and his two kids live there with him. They are naturally hard at work trying to make his life miserable and he is hard at work trying to keep the hotel up-to-snuff for its high-falutin’ guests.
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Action on April 3rd, 2006 by Chad Everett
I don’t know why, but I always seem to like productions from Jerry Bruckheimer. Cat People was probably the first film of his that I saw, but I think that it was Days of Thunder that was the first film that really had his “feel” to it. I’m not sure what it is, exactly, either – I think it is likely the score, usually quite powerful, but not enough to overpower the video. In any case, this one was square in his busy period.
Starring Sean Connery and Ed Harris, the film is set almost entirely on Alcatraz island, currently taken over by Harris’ band of Marines, intent on securing honor for their fallen comrades who have managed to miss out on military recognition because of the circumstances surrounding their deaths. Oh yeah, and they’d like $100 million too.
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Comedy on March 24th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This offering from MTV studios probably won’t win too many awards. But it is fun. The animation of the cockroaches is really pretty good – especially when you consider that this was done ten years ago. And if that wasn’t enough by itself, the musical numbers they put on aren’t bad either.
Jerry O’Connell may not be your favorite actor, and it’s not like the role of Joe is much out of the ordinary for him. But the movie does feature Megan Ward as naive politician’s daughter Lily Dougherty who Joe is hoping to date if his, uh, roommates don’t keep getting in the way.
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