OSCAR NOMINEE, BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Spielberg (along with co-producer Peter Jackson) performance-captures Herges intrepid boy reporter to life and piles on the adventure, danger and cliffhangers at a pace that would exhaust even Indiana Jones. The result? An action-packed, tongue-in-cheek blockbuster that will blister your barnacles.
As you may have guessed from the title, this third installment of the franchise finds the Chipmunks marooned on a desert island. They get rescued in the end, and your feelings about that, whatever they are, are valid.
SAY IT LOUD Self-appointed Godfather of Rap Rudy Ray Moore stars as the titular pimpin street hustler (hes so bad he makes medicine sick) in this rowdy, uninhibited extravaganza that bursts with music, comedy, action, sex, violence, and anything else that didn’t cost much. (A.V. Club) If you havent seen
OTTAWA PREMIERE Over the course of a career that has spanned 60 years and some 300 sleazy, funny and groundbreaking films, Roger Corman has launched a galaxy of Hollywood stars, including Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron. Welcome to his world.
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION SILVERDOCS 2011 This intimate, posthumous portrait of post-punk firebrand Jay Reatard (who died in 2010, at 29) started life as a promotional short, but evolved into a truly great rock doc, a sad, exhilarating, and ultimately inspiring documentary about a complicated young man. (IFC)
007/12′ Bond finds himself in the sights of the worlds most expensive assassin, the supernumerarily-nippled Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) in this, Roger Moores second outing as 007. Joining him are Bond girls Britt Ekland and Maude Adams (see also: Octopussy), and Herve Villchaize as Lees hench-midget, Nick Nack.
007/12′ The mission: investigate a mid-air theft of a space shuttle. The gadget: wrist dart gun. The villain: Hugo Drax. The Bond girl: Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles). The cable-car cable Jaws bites through: licorice.
007/12′ Connery returns as Bond in this non-canonical entry in the 007 series a curious quasi-remake of Thunderball made possible by a complicated copyright dispute. Director Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) assembles a strong supporting cast, including Kim Basinger as Bond girl Domino Petachi and Max von Sydow as
Is the 13th Bond film lucky? If you like action it is! Roger Moore refuses to act his age as he dodges buzz-saw yo-yos, brawls atop a speeding train and has a knife fight on the wing of a flying airplane!