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The Visitor is written and directed by Thomas McCarthy who ironically also has a bit part in Baby Mama. With wry wit he shuffles the largely unknown cast through this heart warming story. Richard Jenkins of Six Feet Under snags a plum role here for a mature actor as Walter Vale, a detached Connecticut professor reluctantly sent to New York to deliver a paper he’s co-authored at a globalization seminar. As he drives his Volvo station wagon that suggests a former extended family into the city, little does he realize his ivy league sensibilities are about to run smack dab into some of the painful effects of globalization. He finds his pied a Terre rented

Then She Found Me stars academy award winner Helen as April a devoutly Jewish 39 year old NYC teacher with a hyperactive biological clock. She shuns the idea of adoption having been adopted herself but times are getting desperate for her and her nebbish husband Ben (Matthew Broderick). April’s stress level is compounded by her mother’s death and Ben’s decision to divorce. Just as things are at their lowest April’s real mother tracks her down. Mom is Bernice Graves, a role tailor made for Bette Midler who stars as a small “o” Oprah TV personality with honesty issues. As the two warily get used to one another April is beguiled

Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay takes up almost immediately where Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle left off. John Cho and Kal Penn are reunited as our Korean/Indian stoner duo off to Amsterdam the land of de facto legal marijuana in search of no-hassle highs but most importantly Harold’s true love. On the plane Kumar’s smokeless bong is mistaken for a different type of incendiary so our tokin’ tokens without due process get fast tracked to Gt’mo. Their stay is only a short one and they literally escape on the back of a breakout terrorist. They float to Miami with some Cuban illegals and spend the rest of the movie crossing

Baby Mama ironically refers to the immaturity of Angie Ostrowiski who is hired to be a surrogate mother while barely able to take care of herself. Angie is played by Amy Poehler and her fellow Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchor Tina Fey stars in the movie as Kate Holbrook. At the expense of her uterus, Kate has clawed her way up the touchy feely ladder of a Philadelphia organic food company run by Barry (an over the top whole earth Steve Martin). After achieving it all her biological clock goes off but conceiving proves inconceivable so she turns to Sigourney Weaver as the matronly but super fertile Chaffee Bicknell who provides high cost and allegedly

Ben X is the online moniker of a Belgian teen who is a master at playing “Archlord” over the internet where he most often teams up with the also anonymous Scarlite. In the game he is strong, powerful – everything that he is not in real life. Ben is autistic yet does very well in school where he is bullied unmercifully and is helpless to stop the persecution. Greg Timmermans is the impressive newcomer playing Ben whose pathetic solution to the problem is to contemplate suicide. When Scarlite suggests that they meet in person their rendezvous inspires the creation of that satisfactory end game. The mixture of intriguing gaming with live action

Emotional Arithmetic is a terrific venue for its cast of veteran actors. Set in rural Quebec Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne and Max von Sydow are Nazi death camp survivors finally reunited after 38 years. Sarandon is Melanie who lives on a hobby farm with David her retired professor husband played by Christopher Plummer displaying his trademark sophistication. They share the farmhouse with their grandson and a subdued Roy Dupuis their mature son who for some reason is estranged from the mother of his child. Von Sydow is Jacob who is expected to arrive solo to reconnect with Melanie but when he shows up with Christopher (Byrne) there’s an awkwardness. This

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was written by and stars Jason Segel who we know from How I Met Your Mother and Knocked Up. This is another retelling of an unkempt geek who ends up with a smokin’ lady – in this case two of TV’s hottest females Kristin Bell and Mila Kunis. Segal is Peter, a reclusive slob with a dream job – doing the sound track for a CSI-like TV show. He’s also dating the star of the show Sarah Marshal played by Bell. She dumps him and when rebounding from one bed to another fails to erase her memory he takes the advice of his step brother and goes on a Hawaiian vacation. He should have known better than to head to a

The Forbidden Kingdom is an Americanized take on the high flying action tradition of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon which they amazingly managed to avoid screwing up.Michael Angarano is Jason a Boston teen with a jones for Hong Kong marshal arts movies which he purchases at a discount from a local Chinese pawnbroker. When some punks force him into robbing the pawn shop he takes possession of a fighting staff which magically transports him to ancient China on a mission to return the weapon to its rightful owner the imprisoned Monkey King. Jackie Chan is the drunken immortal Lu Yan who helps him in his quest and they are both eventually aided by Jet Li as the Silent

88 Minutes actually runs for 108 minutes and the believability goes downhill from there. Al Pacino stars as Dr Jack Gramm a forensic psychiatrist with the FBI who also teaches at the University of Washington (played by UBC). He lives a lavish lifestyle that appears beyond that of any cop or college professor for that matter and even though acting only as an advisor for the Bureau seems to have carte blanche powers for search and seizure. His star testimony has put away Jon Foster a heinous but charming serial killer played by perpetual cutie pie bad guy Neal McDonough who seems to have unrestricted media access although on death row. Hours before his execution

Street Kings refers to a band of can-do LA cops who get grizzly jobs done by operating outside of accepted and legal rules of engagement. They are given license by Forest Whitaker who puts all of his Oscar winning chops behind Jack Wander their politically ambitious Captain who knows how to pull strings. Most of the cops are played by TV recognizable actors like Jay Mohr and Amaury Nolasco but none are more daring than Detective Tom Ludlow played by Keanu Reeves acting with some heretofore unseen skill and maturity. While in control on the job his personal life is a shambles and it gets worse when his estranged former partner (Terry Crews from Everybody Hates