Summer At The Movies - 2008 Edition
Join us as we venture forth into theaters each week this summer to bring you (drumroll, please) Summer At The Movies ‘08!
Death Race (2008)Release Date: August 22, 2008
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    This film is rated R.Plot: It’s the year 2020. To combat prison overcrowding, the powers-that-be have devised a brutal 3-day car chase, with the winner gaining their freedom. Speedway champion Aimes (Statham) takes on the challenge when he is framed for a murder he didn’t commit. But it’s going to take all his skills to make it to the finish line of this race alive.

       
    ★★★½☆ "...this violent and action-packed film keeps the adrenaline flowing from start to finish!"
     
Babylon A.D. (2008)Release Date: August 29, 2008
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    This film is rated PG-13.Plot: A mercenary (Diesel) and a nun (Yeoh), escorting a woman (Thierry) from post-apocalyptic Russia to New York, discover the woman’s genes have been tampered with. Based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec.

       
    ★☆☆☆☆ "...a film that sounds better on paper than it looks in exectuion - in other words, a typical Vin Diesel flick."
     
Tropic Thunder (2008)Release Date: August 13, 2008
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    This film is rated R.Plot: A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

       
    ★★★★☆ "...Good performances by Stiller, Black and Downey are just the tip of the iceberg in the funniest film of the summer!"
     
The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008)Release Date: July 25, 2008
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    This film is rated PG-13.Plot: With an agent missing and a possible psychic (Connolly) their only lead, the FBI calls in a man known for his work in the paranormal at the Bureau: ex-agent Fox Mulder (Duchovny). Of course, Mulder wants to bring his old partner, Dana Scully (Anderson) in with him – but she isn’t sure if she wants to get back into that type of work. Based on characters from the TV series “The X-Files.”

       
    ★★☆☆☆ "...despite having Mulder and Scully together again on the big screen, this 2nd film of the popular TV show will probably disappoint."
     
Hancock (2008)Release Date: July 02, 2008
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    This film is rated PG-13.Plot: A homeless superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public (Smith) meets a PR guy (Bateman) who wants to revitalize his image.

       
    ★★☆☆☆ "...all the fun of the first half is almost completely erased by an incredibly lackluster second act."
     
WALL-E (2008)Release Date: June 27, 2008
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    This film is rated G.Plot: 700 years after humans have left the Earth due to high levels of toxicity, a cleaner robot named WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifters – Earth Class) has become a bit more self-aware than it’s programmers originally anticipated. When a probe named EVE comes to check on Earth, WALL-E falls immediately in love. When she leaves, he stows away on her ship…and finally discovers what he was meant to do.

       
    ★★★★★ "...young and old will fall in love with Pixar's newest character in a film so good you'll forget it's animated!"
     
Sex And The City (2008)Release Date: May 30, 2008
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    This film is rated R.Plot: The continuing adventures of Carrie (Parker), Samantha (Cattrall), Charlotte (Davis) and Miranda (Nixon) as they live their lives in Manhattan four years after the series ended.

       
    ★★★★☆ "...has everything a girls' night out could ask for: comedy, drama, sex and much more."