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Contributor: Bob Smithouser

The Replacements

A grizzled coach comes out of retirement to train a group of misfits-in-need-of-redemption.

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Elizabethtown

Orlando Bloom lost his job, girlfriend and father. Will a journey through the valley of the shadow of death yield a new lease on life? If Kirsten Dunst has anything to say about it, it will.

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Home on the Range

Three milk cows must apprehend a cattle rustler and save their dairy farm in this lackluster animated Disney feature.

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Little Secrets

It’s an unexpected pleasure to encounter a sweet family film about friendship, integrity and how hiding brokenness hinders healing.

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Gone in 60 Seconds

A reformed car thief is given three days to steal 50 pristine autos for a crime kingpin in exchange for his brother’s life. To do so, he rallies his own retired partners.

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Resident Evil

It’s the living vs. the undead in this gory horror thriller.

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When Kids’ Meals Aren’t for Kids

The other day I learned that fast-food kids’ meals may be even less healthy than I thought. Fries aside, and not counting greasy burgers, sugary drinks or those processed chicken nuggety things, it turns out something else in those colorful, puzzle-tat …

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Little Girl Lost

Lindsay Lohan is up to her old tricks again. Sadly, I’m not referring to the playful mischief that endeared her to us in 1998’s family comedy The Parent Trap. “I will be very surprised if she doesn’t go to jail,” criminal defense attorney Steve Cron to …

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MVP: Most Valuable Primate

There’s something charming (and admittedly formulaic) about teams in conflict being pulled together by gifted critters. Such is the case in this movie.

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Corky Romano

Notorious crime boss Pops Romano will spend his final years in prison unless someone can infiltrate the FBI and destroy incriminating evidence. But who?

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The Ultimate Rescue Mission

Acknowledging that a popular song, movie or TV show contains an element of “big-T” Truth is not the same as endorsing the entire product. Makes sense, right? Even so, I have to be careful how I talk about those little pop-culture epiphanies, and with w …

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Disturbia

Thanks to a pair of binocs and neighbors who don’t believe in curtains, a housebound teen discovers ‘reality shows’ in his own backyard. (One features a killer!)

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Finding Forrester

Cultures collide when a reclusive, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist befriends a gifted black teenager. Basketball, books and the Bronx.

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Eight Legged Freaks

The juxtaposition of humor and horror puts this flick in a class with other modern B-movie yuk/yecch-fests including “Mars Attacks!” and “Tremors.”

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Godzilla 2000

Believe it or not, ‘Godzilla 2000’ is the 23rd film in this popular sci-fi series about a giant radioactive lizard that first stormed Tokyo in 1954.

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