Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Walden Media
Director: Gabor Csupo
Screenwriter: Jeff Stockwell, David Paterson
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Robert Patrick, Zooey Deschanel
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG (for thematic elements including bullying, some peril and mild language)
Synopsis
When producer and screenwriter David Paterson was a boy, his best friend, an eight-year-old girl named Lisa Hill, was struck by lightning and killed. His mother, author Katherine Paterson, used this real-life experience as the basis for her children's novel Bridge to Terabithia. David Paterson has now produced and wrote the screenplay for this film adaptation of the novel. This film is powerful because it comes from the depth of the soul. Stories can come from no better place.
Review by David Bruce: This story comes from the depth of human tragedy and grief. What do you do when unspeakable joy turns into unimaginable grief? In this case, it was allowing the grieving soul to work through the event through story telling, and the cinematic arts!
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Ghost Rider (2007)
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Screenwriter: Mark Steven Johnson
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Donal Logue, Peter Fonda
Genre: Action, Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for horror violence and disturbing images)
From Marvel Comics, creators of "Spider-Man," "Blade" and "X-Men," comes a new hero... "Ghost Rider." Long ago, superstar motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze made a deal with the devil to protect the ones he loved most: his father and his childhood sweetheart, Roxanne (Eva Mendes). Now, the devil has come for his due. By day, Johnny is a die-hard stunt rider... but at night, in the presence of evil, he becomes the Ghost Rider, a bounty hunter of rogue demons. Forced to do the devil's bidding, Johnny is determined to confront his fate and use his curse and powers to defend the innocent.
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Music and Lyrics (2007)
Release Date: February 14, 2007
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Marc Lawrence
Screenwriter: Marc Lawrence
Starring: Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Brad Garrett, Kristen Johnston, Campbell Scott, Haley Bennett
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some sexual content)
Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) is a washed-up 80s pop star who's been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit at county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her, but there's a problem—Alex hasn't written a song in years, he's never written lyrics, and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days. Enter Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore), Alex's beguilingly quirky plant lady, whose flair for words strikes a chord with the struggling songwriter. On the rebound from a bad relationship, Sophie is reluctant to collaborate with anyone, especially commitment-phobe Alex. As their chemistry heats up at the piano and under it, Alex and Sophie will have to face their fears—and the music—if they want to find the love and success they both deserve.
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Hannibal Rising (2007)
Release Date: February 9, 2007Studio: MGM, The Weinstein CompanyDirector: Peter WebberScreenwriter: Thomas HarrisStarring: Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, Richard Brake, Kevin McKiddGenre: ThrillerMPAA Rating: R (for strong grisly violent content and some language/sexual references)Plot Summary: In "Red Dragon" we learned who he was. In "Silence of the Lambs" we learned how he did it. Now comes the most chilling chapter in the life of Hannibal Lecter – the one that answers the most elusive question of all - why?"Hannibal Rising" marks the first time in the award-winning series, best selling author Thomas Harris ("Red Dragon," "Silence of the Lambs") writes the screenplay – reaching back to explore the origins of Lecter's rage, terror and savagery.
Norbit (2007)
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: Brian Robbins
Screenwriter: Eddie Murphy, Charles Murphy, Jay Scherick, David Ronn
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude & sexual humor, some nudity, and language)
Norbit (Eddie Murphy) has never had it easy. As a baby, he was abandoned on the steps of a Chinese restaurant/orphanage and raised by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy). Things get worse when he's forced into marriage by the mean, junk food-chugging queen, Rasputia (Eddie Murphy). Just when Norbit's hanging by his last thread, his childhood sweetheart, Kate (Thandie Newton), moves back to town. In the comedy "Norbit," he'll find that nice guys sometimes finish first.
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The Messengers (2007)
Release Date: February 2, 2007
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Screenwriter: Mark Wheaton
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic material, disturbing violence and terror)
There is evidence to suggest that children are highly susceptible to paranormal phenomenon. They can see what adults cannot, they believe what adults deny. And they are trying to warn us. In "The Messengers," a suspense thriller starring Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller and John Corbett, the Solomon family has left big city life for a secluded farm in North Dakota. Soon after they arrive at their new home, 16 year-old Jess and her 3 year old brother begin seeing ominous apparitions that no one else can see, and are repeatedly attacked by something from the other side. Now they must try desperately to warn the rest of the family before it's too late.
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Black Snake Moan (2007)
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Director: Craig Brewer
Screenwriter: Craig Brewer
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cothran, Michael Raymond-James
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content, language, some violence and drug use)
“God seemed fit to put you in my path and I’m gonna cure you of your wickedness.”
There was a time when Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) played the blues; a time he got Bojo's Juke Joint shakin' back in the day. Now he lives them. Bitter and broken from a cheating wife and a shattered marriage, Lazarus' soul is lost in spent dreams and betrayal's contempt... Until Rae (Christina Ricci). Half naked and beaten unconscious, Rae is left for dead on the side of the road when Lazarus discovers her. The God-fearing, middle-aged black man quickly learns that the young white woman he's nursing back to health is none other than the town tramp from the small Tennessee town where they live. Worse, she has a peculiar anxiety disorder. He realizes when the fever hits, Rae's affliction has more to do with love lost than any found. Abused as a child and abandoned by her mother, Rae is used by just about every man in the phone book.
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Epic Movie (2007)
Release Date: January 26, 2007
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Starring: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Crispin Glover, Tony Cox, Héctor Jiménez, Carmen Electra, Darrell Hammond, David Carradine, Kevin McDonald, George Alvarez, Fred Willard, Jayma Mays, Crista Flanagan
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual humor, language and some comic violence)
Epic Movie" is a movie of, well, epic proportions... we measured. The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican "libre" wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, and the fourth a "normal" resident of a mutant "X"-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (with a "G"). There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry – and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia.
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Smokin' Aces (2007)
Release Date: January 26, 2007
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Joe Carnahan
Screenwriter: Joe Carnahan
Starring: Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Peter Berg, Taraji Henson, Chris Pine, Martin Henderson, Jason Bateman, Common
Genre: Action, Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, pervasive language, some nudity and drug use)
n these interlocking tales of high stakes and low lifes, Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel (Piven)--a sleazy magician who has agreed to turn state's evidence against the Vegas mob. The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-target Sparazza, places Aces into protective custody-under the supervision of two agents (Reynolds and Liotta) dispatched to Aces' Lake Tahoe hideout.
When word of the price on Aces' head spreads into the community of ex-cons and cons-to-be, it entices bounty hunters, thugs-for-hire, smokin' hot vixens and double-crossing mobsters to join in the hunt. With all eyes on Tahoe, this rogues' gallery collides in a comic race to hit the jackpot and rub out Aces.
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Blood and Chocolate (2007)
Release Date: January 26, 2007
Studio: MGM
Director: Katja von Garnier
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger
Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Riemann, Bryan Dick, Chris Geere, Tom Harper, John Kerr, Jack Wilson, Vitalie Ursu, Bogdan Voda, Kata Dobó, Rodica Mandache, Lia Bugnar, Mihai Calin
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence/terror, some sexuality and substance abuse)
"Blood and Chocolate" is based on Annette Curtis Klause's novel about a teenage werewolf who has spent her life trying to hide the fact that she is part wolf. She must choose between her love for a human and her family after her relationship with a visiting American threatens to expose her secret.
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Because I Said So (2007)
Release Date: February 2, 2007
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Michael Lehmann
Screenwriter: Karen Leigh Hopkins, Jessie Nelson
Starring: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo, Steven Collins
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content including dialogue, some mature thematic material and partial nudity)
Keaton stars as Daphne Wilder, a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. She is the proud mom of three daughters: stable psychologist Maggie (Graham), sexy and irreverent Mae (Perabo) and insecure, adorable Milly (Moore)-who, when it comes to men, is like psychotic flypaper.
In order to prevent her youngest from making the same mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set Milly up with the perfect man. Little does Milly know, however, that her mom placed an ad in the online personals to find him. Comic mayhem unfolds as Daphne continues to do the wrong thing for the right reasons...all in the name of love.
In a hilarious battle of strong wills, the mother-daughter dynamic is tested in all its fierce, wacky complexity. The girls help Daphne finally discover the truths and impossibilities of motherly love, all while trying to answer the questions: where does it begin and where should it end?
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The Good German (2006)
Release Date: December 15, 2006 (NY, LA, Toronto; wider release: December 22; wider release: January 19, 2007)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Screenwriter: Paul Attanasio
Starring: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Leland Orser, Beau Bridges, Tony Curran
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for language, violence and some sexual content)
Based on the novel by Joseph Kanon, "The Good German" takes place in the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, where U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar (George Clooney) becomes embroiled with Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt by both the American and Russian armies. Intrigue mounts as Jake tries to uncover the secrets Lena may be hiding in her desperation to get herself and her husband out of Berlin. Tully (Tobey Maguire), a soldier in the American army motor pool assigned to drive Jake around Berlin, has black market connections that may be Lena's way out -- or lead them all into even darker territory.
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The Hitcher (2007)
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Studio: Rogue Pictures (Focus Features)
Director: Dave Meyers
Screenwriter: Eric Red, Jake Wade Wall, Eric Bernt
Starring: Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton, Neal McDonough
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, terror and language)
Dave Meyers makes his feature directorial debut on the new thriller, which tracks the terrifying trajectory of Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush) and Jim Halsey (Zachary Knighton), a collegiate couple who are tormented by the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder, a.k.a. The Hitcher (Sean Bean).
The young couple hit the road in a 1970 Oldsmobile 442, en route to spring break. But their pleasure trip soon turns into a waking nightmare. The initial encounters with Ryder are increasingly off-putting for Grace and Jim, and they bravely fight back when he ambushes them. But they are truly blindsided when he implicates them in a horrific slaying and continues to shadow them.
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Catch and Release (2007)
Release Date: January 26, 2007
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Susannah Grant
Screenwriter: Susannah Grant
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant, Kevin Smith, Sam Jaeger, Fiona Shaw, Juliette Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, language and some drug use)
Jennifer Garner stars in the romantic comedy-drama "Catch and Release," from writer-director Susannah Grant, an Academy Award® nominee for her screenplay for "Erin Brockovich." After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray Wheeler (Garner) finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam (Kevin Smith), hyper-responsible Dennis (Sam Jaeger), and, oddly enough, his old childhood buddy Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), an irresponsible playboy whom she'd previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to the last man she ever expected to fall for.
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Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)
Arthur and the Invisibles
Release Date: December 29, 2006 (LA - one week only; wide release: January 12, 2007)
Studio: MGM
Director: Luc Besson
Screenwriter: Luc Besson
Starring: Robert De Niro, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, David Bowie, Freddie Highmore, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Anderson, Chazz Palminteri, Jason Bateman, Jimmy Fallon, Mia Farrow
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG (for fantasy action and brief suggestive material)
From the creative mind of talented filmmaker Luc Besson ("La Femme Nikita," "The Fifth Element"), comes a larger-than-life, family adventure about a boy who, after his grandfather disappears, sets out to save his family home from emerging real estate developers. Arthur learns that he must follow his grandfather's ancient clues to a vast treasure – and unlock the passageway to a spectacular new world filled with mysterious little people, so tiny they are considered invisible, and enlist their help. But once in the magical land, Arthur must join swords with a beautiful princess and a reckless army of defenders to save the land from the evil wizard. It seems like an impossible task, but as he discovers along the way, sometimes the smallest heroes can make the biggest difference.
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Freedom Writers (2007)
Release Date: January 5, 2007Studio: Paramount PicturesDirector: Richard LaGraveneseScreenwriter: Richard LaGraveneseStarring: Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, MarioGenre: DramaMPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violent content, some thematic material and language)"Freedom Writers" is inspired by a true story and the diaries of real Long Beach teenagers after the LA riots, during the worst outbreak of interracial gang warfare. Two-time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank stars as Erin Gruwell, whose passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino, and Asian gangbangers who hate her even more than each other. When Erin begins to listen to them in a way no adult has ever done, she begins to understand that for these kids, getting through the day alive is enough -- they are not delinquents but teenagers fighting "a war of the streets" that began long before they were born. Erin gives them something they never had from a teacher before -- respect. For the first time, these teens experience a hope that maybe, they might show the world that their lives matter and they have something to say. • video review • visual review • news • trailers • clips 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 music vid • photos • credits • cast • filmmakers • notes, interviews & articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, •
