Blonde ( NR ) - Poppy Montgomery, Patricia Richardson

Corpse Bride ( PG ) - Johnny Depp

Love, Ludlow ( R ) - David Eigenberg, Alicia Goranson

Murder in the Hamptons ( NR ) - Poppy Montgomery, David Sutcliffe

Phil the Alien ( R ) - Rob Stefaniuk, Nicole de Boer

The War Within ( NR ) - Ayad Akhtar, Firdous Bamji

The Aristocrats ( NR ) - Gilbert Gottfried, Robin Williams

The Fog ( R ) - Tom Welling, Selma Blair

My Big Fat Independent Movie ( R ) - Paget Brewster, Darren Reiher

Oliver Twist ( PG-13 ) - Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark

Thumbsucker ( R ) - Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton

Vital ( R ) - Tadanobu Asano, Go Riju

Hit - Starring Josh Lucas, Tatyana Ali, Jon Voight

In 1966, Texas Western (now University of Texas at El Paso) coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship game against powerhouse Kentucky.

If you don’t like this movie, then you simply do not have a soul. This is the best movie of 2006. I only wish it was submitted early to be in contention for the 2005 movie awards. But, I feel that this movie was brought out specifically at this particular time to remember the effects of civil rights.

Being a child of the post-civil rights era, I have never seen basketball with only white players. Watching this movie made me realize that life wasn’t always this diverse. I guess I never really thought about it before, which is sad.

The acting, the basketball choreography, and the script were all well executed. I also really enjoyed the interviews that were played during the credits (make sure to stick around).

This is a feel good movie for all ages. It is currently the best movie in movie theatres. I have been waiting a few months to see a film that I felt was worthy of spending my money on, and this is certainly the film.

Bottom Line: See it this weekend.

Drama

Rated PG for racial issues including violence and epithets, and momentary language.

Running Time: 1 hour 46 minutes.

Asylum ( R ) - Natasha Richardson, Hugh Bonneville

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room ( NR ) - Alex Gibney (dir.)

Junebug ( R ) - Embeth Davidtz, Amy Adams

Lord of War ( R ) - Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke

The Man ( PG-13 ) - Eugene Levy, Samuel L. Jackson

Two for the Money ( R ) - Matthew McConaughey, Al Pacino, Ralph Garman

The Chumscrubber ( R ) - Camilla Belle, Glenn Close

The Constant Gardner ( R ) - Rachel Weisz

Dirty Deeds ( PG-13 ) - Milo Ventimiglia, Lacey Chabert

Hustle & Flow ( R ) - Terrence DaShon Howard, D.J. Qualls

Red Eye ( R ) - Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy
Hit or Miss: Miss

Transporter 2 ( R ) - Jason Stratham, Amber Valletta

To see what movies are coming to a theatre near you this January, click here.

Main Stream Movies coming to video

Broken Flowers ( R ) - Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright

The Cave ( R ) - Cole Hauser
Hit or Miss: Miss- Worst of the Summer

Wedding Crashers ( R ) - Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson
Hit or Miss: Hit - Best of the Summer

Miss - Starring Naomi Watts, Adrian Brody, Jack Black, Colin Hanks

King Kong is set in 1930’s New York where a young film director and his crew have decided to go to an uncharted island to shoot their latest picture. Once at their location, they discover aggitated natives, and a large beast. Push comes to shove when the natives capture the film’s leading lady to use her as a sacrifice to the animal. Now, the crew must enter the jungle to find her, and capture the beast the took her.

I think I would have liked this film better if they eliminated a few aspects. One: The natives. They really didn’t provide anything to the film aside from offering Ann Darrow (Watts) to King Kong. Two: The dinosaurs. While this island has some crazy creatures, the whole dinosaur aspect took up too much time and was a minimal part of the actual story. They could have easily played off of something a little less unrealistic. And yes, I know that a giant gorilla is unrealistic, but I find dinosaurs living in the 1930’s to be even less realistic. Three: The need to use long shots… I am talking about focusing on Naomi Watts’ face for what seems to be forever while she is looking at King Kong- we get it already, she is amazed and horrified at the same time- now cut away.

I think there is a reason this movie hasn’t been remade until know and that reason is because the movie plot sucks. Bottom Line: A spectacle but not worth your time and money.

Fantasy

Rated PG-13 for frightening adventure violence and some disturbing images.

Running time: 3 hours 7 minutes ; Philipines: 1 hour 18 minutes (why couldn’t we all see this version???)