It is a South Florida tradition: With late August come tropical storms, Dolphins pre-season games and the Rewind/Fast Forward Film and Video Festival.
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Write your own reviewTraitor is Syriana for dummies, a globe-hopping, multi-character look at the war between America and Islamic terrorists that keeps things as relatively simple as an episode of 24. Not that there's anything wrong with that: 24 is a really good show. But it doesn't pretend to be something it's not, either.
Write your own reviewRoger Corman's Death Race 2000 shocked viewers in 1975 with a cross-country Grand Guignol Prix in which drivers scored points by plowing through innocent bystanders.
Write your own reviewIn Elegy, Ben Kingsley plays David Kepesh, an erudite, 60-something literature professor who reviews plays for The New Yorker, writes books on the origins of American hedonism and likes his women young. When he sets out to seduce one of his former students, a Cuban woman named Consuela (Penelope Cruz), we're made to understand she will simply be another conquest, a way for him to amuse and pleasure himself for a spell, appease his still-raging virility and, at his ripe old age, remain engaged ``in...
Write your own reviewIce Cube's inevitable, uplifting sports bioflick The Longshots is here. It's not as dopey as the gangsta rapper's family comedies, though it is formulaic, which is kind of a shame since Jasmine Plummer's story is a pretty unique one.
Write your own reviewDocumentarian Patrick Creadon, whose last film Wordplay made the topic of crossword puzzles as scintillating as it could possibly get, tackles another potentially mind-numbing subject in I.O.U.S.A. And he does a nice job of making the daunting math and economic theories associated with our national debt accessible.
Write your own reviewMuch like the play within it, Hamlet 2 is lousy. The main difference is that the play is supposed to be awful. The movie about the play is supposed to be funny.
Write your own reviewRainn Wilson joins the growing list of actors spawned from the Jerry Lewis school of acting. Like Jack Black, Adam Sandler and so many other young movie stars, Wilson will more often turn to a goofy face, a pratfall or a never ending string of ad libs in an effort to pull a laugh out of unfunny material.
Write your own reviewIf, like the title character in this odd little film, you cringe at the mention of the word ''miracle,'' Henry Poole Is Here is not for you. This is a movie with a pointed message about the importance of having faith, in other people as well as in a higher power, and audiences open to that concept will enjoy the film a lot more than those who are as cynical as its hero.
Write your own reviewEvery time you're ready to count Woody Allen out for good, he comes back and surprises you. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the fourth picture Allen has made in what will become known as his European exile (Match Point, Scoop, Cassandra's Dream), has the lightness of touch and astute insight of Manhattan and Husbands and Wives. It's not on the same level as those movies -- it's not nearly as lasting or haunting -- but it has the same inviting quality and emotional accessibility, and there are long stretches...
Write your own reviewWith Star Wars: The Clone Wars, George Lucas succeeds in fulfilling a long-time goal -- removing pesky actors from the filmmaking equation -- and continues along the infantile, idiot-friendly path he trod so ingloriously with the Star Wars prequels.
Just in time for school, Universal Studios is dusting off John Hughes' trio of 1980s high school classics -- again -- but they're finally doing them right this time. Due in stores Sept. 16 are new editions of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, each accompanied for the first time by commentary tracks, retrospective documentaries and other goodies.
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There isn't a moment in What Happens in Vegas (20th Century Fox, $35 DVD, $40 Blu-ray) when you forget you're watching Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz -- instead of characters, they're playing concepts, which is why the movie just sits there. Any successful romantic comedy must make the viewer want the would-be lovers to get together. But in Vegas, you don't care because all you see is a pair of actors trying their hardest to be wacky.
