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Chuck Baker (right, voice of Dwayne Johnson) encounters one of the natives of Glipforg in the computer-animated comedy Planet 51.

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Movie Review: Planet 51

Astonishing animation isn’t matched by storytelling

By KAREN MARTIN SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Posted: November 20, 2009 4:02 a.m.

The computer-generated renderings, co-produced by Spain’s Ilion Animation and the United Kingdom’s Handmade Films, is stunning in its detail and creativity.
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Movie Review: New York, I Love You

By Philip Martin
Posted: November 20, 2009 4:01 a.m.

New York, I Love You is the second installment (after 2006’s Paris, j’taime) in a proposed series of portmanteau films about big cities and little serendipitous romances.
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Movie Review: An Education

By Philip Martin
Posted: November 20, 2009 4 a.m.

An Education is about the British preoccupation with status, about the aspirant bourgeois and the outliers who exist beyond convention, in a moveable feast of booze, sex and petty criminality. It’s a surprisingly gentle film given it’s about a precocious 16-year-old honor student’s affair with a cad twice her age - an affair that occurred in a time and place where indiscretions had large consequences.
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Movie Review: The Blind Side

By ROGER MOORE ORLANDO (FLA.) SENTINEL
Posted: November 20, 2009 3:58 a.m.

The Blind Side 86 Cast: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw, Ray McKinnon, Kathy Bates Director: John Lee Hancock Rating: PG-13, for one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references Running time: 126 minutes
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Home movies

By KAREN MARTIN SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Posted: November 20, 2009 3:56 a.m.

Recent DVD releases: Betty Blue (not rated, 186 minutes) This is the director’s cut of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1986 sexy, tragic drama about a young handyman (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and a beautiful waitress (Beatrice Dalle) who begin an erotic escapade that grows into a genuine relationship, then tumbles into madness. The DVD includes director’s commentary.
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Film clips

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Posted: November 20, 2009 3:56 a.m.

At area theaters 78 AMELIA, PG Hilary Swank plays aviator Amelia Earhart and Richard Gere plays her partner and eventual husband, publisher George Putnam.
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Screen gems

By KAREN MARTIN SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Posted: November 20, 2009 3:54 a.m.

Searching for an Arkansas connection to the movies you’re seeing? Watch for Little Rock resident filmmaker and actor Ray McKinnon in The Blind Side, opening today.
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Box office

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE PRESS SERVICES
Posted: November 20, 2009 3:53 a.m.

Disaster hammered the weekend box office as the doomsday epic 2012 debuted at No. 1 with $65.2 million domestically and pulled in $230.4 million worldwide.
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Movie Review: Precious

By ANN HORNADAY THE WASHINGTON POST
Posted: November 20, 2009 3:48 a.m.

Movies come, movies go. A rare few arrive like gifts, sent by some cosmic messenger to awaken compassion and empathy. Such is the movie Precious : Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, which qualifies as the most improbably beautiful film of the year.
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Wonderful animation, woeful plotting in ‘Planet 51’

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Posted: November 19, 2009 11 a.m.

In terms of animation, “Planet 51” is out of this world, writes reviewer Karen Martin in Friday’s MovieStyle section.
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Movie Review: 2012

It’s the end of the world as we know it’s not

By Philip Martin
Posted: November 13, 2009 4:33 a.m.

Loud and preposterous, blusteringly vacant and at times ruthlessly entertaining, 2012 is the sort of inevitable exploding movie that frustrates description: It’s sort of an Airplane/Scary Movie-style satire pastiche of disaster movies (specifically Irwin Allen disaster movies such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno), backed down just enough that it could be received as a straight sci-fi actioner.
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Movie Review: Pirate Radio

By Philip Martin
Posted: November 13, 2009 4:32 a.m.

Pirate Radio is an amiable mess of a period piece about an interesting time in British pop music history when, in the mid-1960 s, the BBC’s control of the airwaves was threatened by offshore broadcasters beaming the sounds of England’s newest hitmakers into British bedrooms and parlors.
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Movie Review: Bronson

By Philip Martin
Posted: November 13, 2009 4:32 a.m.

A stylized portrait of a criminal famous in his native Britain as perhaps the most violent man in Her Majesty’s prison system, Bronson serves primarily as a showcase for Tom Hardy’s undeniably brilliant performance.
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Screen gems

By KAREN MARTIN SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Posted: November 13, 2009 4:30 a.m.

Some of us didn’t see Twilight when it was released in November 2008. Then we dodged its DVD release in March, thinking we had something better to do. Now we’re sorry, because there’s a hugely anticipated sequel on the way and we feel like we’re on the outside of a phenomenon that’s passing us by.
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Box office

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE PRESS SERVICES
Posted: November 13, 2009 4:29 a.m.

The Christmas presents were opened several weeks ahead of schedule, but not for the studio that decorated the tree.
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