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Current Films reviewed at Hollywood Jesus with visuals and insights.
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CURRENT FILMS |
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An academic (Hanks) and a
cryptographer (Tautou) unravel a murder that occurred in the
Louvre. Clues hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci lead
them to a religious mystery protected by a secret society for
two thousand years. |
 SEE
NO EVIL
Director: Gregory Dark.
Stars: Glen Jacobs.
Sentenced
to community service, a group of teens are dispatched to fix
up a ramshackle hotel. Little do they know the hotel is home
to a manical killer who looks to murder them one by one. |
 OVER
THE HEDGE
Director: Tim Johnson Karey Kirkpatrick.
Voices: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Gene Wilder.
A
mischievous racoon and his sensitive best-buddy turtle along
with other forest creatures try to resist the evils and temptations
of encroaching suburbia. |
 It
surprised me with its candor
GOAL!
Goal!
surprised me with its candor about the nature of life and success.
Three primary themes of the film explore traditionally “un-American” truths...
— Review
by Melinda Ledman |
 POSEIDON
Director: Shinji Aramaki Wolfgang Petersen. Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell,
Emmy Rossum
After
a tidal wave causes a luxury ocean liner to capsize, a handful
of survivors endeavor to find a way to the water's surface. |
 JUST
MY LUCK
Director: Donald Petrie. Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine.
Sexy
Manhattanite Ashley (Lindsay Lohan) is known to many as the luckiest
woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young
man (Chris Pine), however, she realizes that she's swapped her
fortune for his. |
 GOAL!
Director: Danny Cannon. Stars: Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel.
An
incredible sequence of events finds Santiago (Becker), a Los
Angeleno with a lifelong dream to play professional soccer, granted
a tryout with Newcastle United. |
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Between
the years 1818-1820, the Bell Family of Red River, Tennessee
was visited by an unknown presence that haunted the family and
eventually ended up causing the death of one its members. |
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Abrams
and Cruise turn the spy thriller on its ear as they hark back
to the best aspects of the original TV series that inspired the
films ... |
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Convinced
that art school will put him on the path to fame, Jerome (Minghella)
must come to terms with his barely-there talent, and the fact
that the girl of his dreams has fallen in love with another student.
Then, strangely, he's arrested... |
 Not
Just Feathers!
HOOT
The
message, plain and simple, is that everyone, no matter what size
or age or species, has the right to have a place on this earth.
Everyone and everything in all creation has a purpose and is
important to the good of the whole...
— Review
by KATHY BLEDSOE |
 Hoot is
a Hoot!
HOOTMany
of us are protective of our families and friends, believing that
controlling our immediate environment is all that matters in
this world. But there is a big beautiful world out there that
needs protection...
— Review
by MICHAEL SMITH |
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Keke
Plamer is stunningly captivating as a nearly invisible inner-city
middle-schooler named Akeelah.
— Review
by GREG WRIGHT |
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The
fun begins when Bob tries to fool his family into an RV trip
to Colorado instead of a planned dream trip to Hawaii. He can't
bring himself to tell his family the real reason the Hawaii trip
is cancelled.
— Review
by MICHAEL SMITH |
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A
well-developed story is crucial when you write a screenplay,
as screen time is limited. The scope of the story is correspondingly
limited...
— Feature
Article by MICHAEL SMITH |
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A
real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the
planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania
when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
— Video review by DAVID BRUCE |
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After
a run-in with the law, Haley Graham (Peregrym) is forced to return
to the world from which she fled some years ago. Enrolled in
an elite gymnastics program run by the legendary Burt Vickerman
(Bridges), Haley's rebellious attitude gives way to something
that just might be called team spirit.
— Video review by DAVID BRUCE |
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Bob
McNeive (Williams) and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for
a roadtrip to the Colorado Rockies, where they encounter a bizarre
community of campers.
— Video review by DAVID BRUCE |
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A
real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the
planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania
when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
— Video review by DAVID BRUCE |
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Kristin
Chenoweth openly shared that she is a person of faith. She also
agreed that for this reason it is very, very hard to work in
this industry. She says, “The minute you say, ‘I
am a Christian’ or ‘I have faith’, people are
like ‘Ooh!’ scared.” |
 RV
RV is an illustration of what many have become.We
have become so focused on the possessions that we forget about
the things that are really important. We have forgotten about
the relations between a man and a wife...
--Spiritual Connections
by MIKE FURCHES |
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Sometimes
I go to movies just to have fun, not expecting much other than
hoping that I have a good time. When I am really having a lucky
day, not only will I enjoy the movie I am going to see for fun,
but, I’ll also be surprised by having a good time....
—Review
by MIKE FURCHES |
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ALPHA ORDER
(Older Current Movies below)
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 AKEELAH
AND THE BEE
Director: Doug Atchison. Stars: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Keke Palmer.
An inspirational drama, AKEELAH AND THE BEE is the story of Akeelah Anderson,
a precocious eleven-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. |
 AMERICAN
DREAMZ
Director: Paul Weitz. Stars: Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore. A satire
of national identity, based around the wildly popular television singing contest
called "American Dreamz." |
 AN
AMERICAN HAUNTING
Director: Courtney Solomon. Stars: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood.
For three years, a spirit torments the Bell family, until it claims one of their
lives. |
 ART
SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
Director: Terry Zwigoff. Stars: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich.
Convinced that art school will put him on the path to fame, Jerome (Minghella)
must come to terms with his barely-there talent, and the fact that the girl of
his dreams has fallen in love with another student. Then, strangely, he's arrested
as a suspected murderer, only to discover that crime might actually pay. |
 ATL
Director: Chris Robinson. Stars: T.I., Lauren London. As four friends prepare
for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in
each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating
rink, Jellybeans. |
 BASIC
INSTINCT 2
Director: Michael Caton-Jones. Stars: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis.
Novelist Catherine Tramell (Stone) is once again in trouble with the law, and
Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Glass (Morrissey) to evaluate
her. Though, like others before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured
into a seductive game. |
 THE
BENCHWARMERS
Director: Dennis Dugan. Stars: David Spade, Jon Heder, Rob Schneider
In an attempt to right things from their respective childhoods, Ritchie (Spade),
Clark (Heder), and Gus (Schneider) form a three-player baseball team to compete
against standard little league squads. |
 THE
DA VINCI CODE
Director: Ron Howard. Stars: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno
An academic (Hanks) and a cryptographer (Tautou) unravel a murder that occurred
in the Louvre. Clues hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci lead them to a
religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years. |
 GOAL!
Director: Danny Cannon. Stars: Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel. An
incredible sequence of events finds Santiago (Becker), a Los Angeleno with
a lifelong dream to play professional soccer, granted a tryout with Newcastle
United. |
 HOOT
Director: Wil Shriner. Stars: Logan Lerman, Luke Wilson, Brie Larson. A young
man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled
to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls. |
 ICE
AGE 2: The Meltdown
Director: Carlos Saldanha. Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary. With
the Ice Age at its end, Diego (Leary), Manfred (Romano), and Sid (Leguizamo)
are worried that the melting ice will destroy their valley. Their take it upon
themselves to unite and warn everyone about the situation. |
 AN
INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Director: Davis Guggenheim.
A documentary on Al Gore's crusade to raise awareness on the issue of global
warming. |
 INSIDE
MAN
Director: Spike Lee. Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster. A bank
robber (Owen) playing cat-and-mouse with a cop (Washington) loses control over
his planned heist, resulting in a stand-off involving a hostage. |
 JUST
MY LUCK
Director: Donald Petrie. Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine. Sexy Manhattanite
Ashley (Lindsay Lohan) is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a
chance encounter with a down-and-out young man (Chris Pine), however, she realizes
that she's swapped her fortune for his. |
 LARRY
THE CABLE GUY: Health Inspector
Director: Trent Cooper. Stars: Larry The Cable Guy
A misfit health inspector (Larry the Cable Guy) goes undercover to get to the
bottom of a series of food poisoning incidents at his city's top restaurants. |
 LUCKY
NUMBER SLEVIN
Director: Paul McGuigan. Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman.
A case of mistaken identity lands a man (Hartnett) in the middle of a murder
being plotted by one of New York City's biggest crime bosses (Kingsley). |
 MISSION:
IMPOSSIBLE III
Abrams and Cruise turn the spy thriller on its ear as they hark back to the best
aspects of the original TV series that inspired the films – a well-connected
team of agents centered around a bold and heroic leader, the most exciting action
stunts imaginable, and elaborate twists and turns that keep you on the edge of
your seat. “M:i:III” is the action movie audiences have been waiting
for. |
 MRS.
PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT
This simple yet compelling human drama focuses on an enchanting friendship
between friends with ages differing by half a century. I think what
made me really cry is the thought that this film may be more of a
fantasy than The Lord of the Rings. |
 THE
NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE [limited]
Director: Mary Harron. Stars: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor
Bettie Page (Mol) explodes in the 1950s as the world's sexiest pin-up girl; her
status as a sex icon (and still-legendary bondage photos) eventually makes her
the target of a Senate investigation. |
 PHAT
GIRLZ
Stars: Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson, Kendra C. Johnson. An aspiring plus size fashion
designer (Mo'Nique) struggles to find love and acceptance. |
 POSEIDON
Director: Shinji Aramaki Wolfgang Petersen. Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell,
Emmy Rossum . After a tidal wave causes a luxury ocean liner to capsize,
a handful of survivors endeavor to find a way to the water's surface. |
 OVER
THE HEDGE
Director: Tim Johnson Karey Kirkpatrick. Stars: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling,
Gene Wilder. A mischievous racoon and his sensitive best-buddy turtle along with
other forest creatures try to resist the evils and temptations of encroaching
suburbia. |
 R.V.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld. Stars: Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth.
Bob McNeive (Williams) and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a roadtrip
to the Colorado Rockies, where they encounter a bizarre community of campers. |
 SCARY
MOVIE 4
Director: David W. Zucker David Zucker. Stars: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Andre
Benjamin. The fourth installment of the comedy series spoofing horror movies,
and boy does it have plenty of bad horror movies to spoof!ourth installment of
the comedy series spoofing horror movies, and boy does it have plenty of bad
horror movies to spoof! |
 SEE
NO EVIL
Director: Gregory Dark. Stars: Glen Jacobs. Sentenced to community service, a
group of teens are dispatched to fix up a ramshackle hotel. Little do they know
the hotel is home to a manical killer who looks to murder them one by one. |
 THE
SENTINEL
Director: Clark Johnson. Stars: Kim Basinger, Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland.
A disgraced special agent (Douglas) works to foil a plot to assassinate the U.S. |
 SILENT
HILL
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate
to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis
that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric care,
Rose flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers. |
 SLITHER
Director: James Gunn. Stars: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker.
A small town is taken over by an alien plague that tranforms residents into
zombies and mutants. One townie (Rooker) turns particularly violent, and
it's up to his ex-wife (Banks) and the local sheriff (Fillion) to stop him. |
 STICK
IT
Director: Jessica Bendinger. Stars: Missy Peregrym, Jeff Bridges, Vanessa Lengies.
After a run-in with the law, Haley Graham (Peregrym) is forced to return to the
world from which she fled some years ago. Enrolled in an elite gymnastics program
run by the legendary Burt Vickerman (Bridges), Haley's rebellious attitude gives
way to something that just might be called team spirit. |
 SOMERSAULT [limited]
Director: Cate Shortland. Stars: Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran.
Life-altering challenges continue to present themselves for Heidi (Cornish)
after she's kicked out of the house for sleeping with her mother's boyfriend. |
 STAY
ALIVE
Director: William Brent Bell. Stars: Frankie Muniz, Samaire Armstrong, Jon Foster.
While hooked on an online video game, a group of teens notice that once their
characters die ... they die. |
 TAKE
THE LEAD
Director: Liz Friedlander. Stars: Antonio Banderas. A former professional dancer
(Banderas) volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system. While
his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create
a completely new style of dance. |
 THANK
YOU FOR SMOKING
Nick
Naylor is a tobacco industry lobbyist, he appears on TV shows
to say how nice the people are who manufacture these deadly products.
He testifies before Congress that science is inconclusive about
the health dangers of smoking. He doesn’t lie about much
of anything. He misdirects and confuses. He's good looking, smooth
talking and slicker than silk pajamas on a snake.
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 UNITED
93
Director: Paul Greengrass. Stars: David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas
. A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked
on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the
terrorist plot. |
 V
FOR VENDETTA
Director: James McTeigue. Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves.
A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" (Weaving) uses terrorist
tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing Evey Hammond
(Portman) from the secret police, he finds a frightened woman he can mold into
his ally. |
 THE
WILD
Director: Steve 'Spaz' Williams. Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Eddie Izzard, Joseph
Siravo . A teenage lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa.
Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring
him back. |
 X-MEN
3
The
X-Men, with the help of new recruits The Beast and Angel, must face their former
teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the
resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and
the entire planet. |
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 CURIOUS
GEORGE
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan. Stars: Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, Eugene Levy.
While in Africa, a man (Ferrell) who wears a curious yellow hat accidentally
adopts a mischievous chimpanzee named George. With a new life in America, George's
adventurous nature takes control, and he heads out into is new world. |
 FINAL
DESTINATION 3
Available on DVD July 25, 2006
Director: James Wong. Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman
A high school student (Winstead) has a premonition of a disaster at her local
amusement park. After the accident claims the lives of some of her friends, she
and her schoolmate (Merriman) plot to save the survivors from death. |
 MANDERLAY
Come prepared to be offended in Who
will be offended? White or black, liberal
or conservative, von Trier has you in his sight. —Review by DARREL
MANSON. Complete downloadable Powerpoint
Presentation review with 7 film clips from the film |
 THE
MATADOR
Available on July 4, 2006
A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers
a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither
would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two
men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both forever. |
 THE
SHAGGY DOG
Available on DVD August 1, 2006
Director: Brian Robbins. Stars: Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Craig Kilborn
Dave Douglas (Allen) tries to live a normal life, despite the fact that he sometimes
turns into a sheepdog. |
 SHE'S
THE MAN
Available on DVD July 18, 2006
Director: Andy Fickman. Stars: Amanda Bynes, Laura Ramsey, Channing Tatum. When
Viola (Bynes) learns that her school has cut her soccer team from the sports
program, she heads over to her twin brother's boarding school, disguises herself
as him, and proceeds to fall for one of her teammates. Further romantic complications
arise when the school beauty falls for Viola. |
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NEW ON DVD INDEX
Visual index of all reviews:
Visual Review Index Numbers, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, Current
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AMERICAN HAUNTING
Mission:
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BENCHWARMERS