Rated PG-13 for sexual references and brief nudity.Directed by Richard LaGravenes (Freedom Writers)Starring Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, Kathy Bates, Harry Connick Jr., Gerald Butler…P.S. I Love You was a tearjerker, but it was probably one of my favorite “date flicks” of the year. The story is about a young widow (Swank) who discovers that her late husband has left...

Rated PG for some mild rude humor.Directed by Tim Hill (Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Muppets from Space…)Starring Jason Lee, (and the voices of: Justin Long, Jesse McCartney…)I enjoy it when I see my kids enjoy a movie. And that’s about all the enjoyment you’ll get out of Alvin and the Chipmunks.The Alvin film was juvenile, predictable and...

PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence.Directed by Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, The Patriot, Godzilla and Independence Day)Starring Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Omar Sharif, Reece Ritchie, Suri van SornsenI liked 10,000 B.C. better the first time I saw it… when it was called Apocolypto. 10,000 B.C. centers on a remote mountain tribe and...

Rated R for sexual content, nudity, violence and language.Directed by Roger Donaldson (No Way Out, The Recruit and Dante's Peak)Starring Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David, Michael Jibson, Richard Lintern, Don Gallagher, and David Suchet“The true story of a heist gone wrong...in all the right ways”… and shown all...

Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual references and language.Directed by Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Daddy’s Little Girls…)Starring Tyler Perry, Malik Yoba, Janet Jackson...Powerful. One of Tyler Perry’s better films.Tyler definitely has a following. He was known in many circles from his plays and his popular TV series House of Payne. But the “word of...

Rated PG for scary creature action and violence, peril and some thematic elements.Directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday…)Starring Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte…Good family fun.I have to tell you right off the bat that scoring this was difficult. This was a really enjoyable film and almost received a “Theatre Worthy” score from me. It’s not often...

Rated PG-13Directed by Shekhar Kapur (The Four Feathers, Elizabeth…)Starring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen… ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….