| I think this movie is worth seeing because it offers viewers the opportunity to see and hear some of the leaders of the environmental movement whom they'd not otherwise be exposed to. Rated PG. |
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| Slick's Flick Picks |
Bet you can't say it quickly three times!
Worth Renting, English, A-M
| Not your everyday, garden variety good-versus-evil film. This fast- moving thriller is about a corporation's efforts to win a plaintiffs' class action suit filed against it for water pollution and wrongful deaths. But some of the attorneys representing them start to have a change of heart and the plot thickens. The most incredible thing was that the bad guys wore their seat belts in the chase scene!?! Rated R. |
| Werner Herzog directs and narrates his documentary of the research conducted on Antarctica, inside its active volcano and under its sea ice . . . and with equal curiosity, the researchers and their support staff. He illustrates both the idea that "off the map, things get strange," as well as the sacredness of one of the most remote places on Earth. A cappella music by the Hungarian Women's Choir adds to the film's emotion. NR. |
| This character-centered indie film depicts the entanglements -- emotional, criminal and redemptive -- between two struggling mothers, one white and the other Mohawk. Rated R. |
| Based on the true story of the Duchess of Devonshire, from whom Princess Diana descended, I like any move about the convoluted lives of royalty back then that isn't confusing or boring. Itl reminds of how much progress we have and haven't made. Rated PG13. |
| After the book of the same title, this film depicts the Holocaust from the perspective of two 8-year-old boys, one the son of a Nazi officer and the other, a Jew in a concentration camp, in a way that earns its PG-13 rating for a film on such a gruesome topic. |
| You don't have to be a baby boomer that attended Catholic schools to find this film, based on a Pulitzer-winning novel by John Patrick Shanley, gripping, chilling and thought provoking. Rated PG-13. |
| Based on the life of the first openly gay man elected to major public office in the US. Harvey Milk's anger over violent police crack-downs on gay bars and right-wing legislative efforts to preclude civil rights for homosexuals led him to go into politics. He and San Francisco mayor, George Moscone, were murdered in 1978. Rated R. |
| A fun boy-meets-girl film starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson about love, redemption and hope -- and can't we all use more of those emotions? Rated PG-13. |
| Based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald with an incredible plot about a man born with an old body that got younger and younger as he aged, that was intriguing throughout its 166 minutes. And how can I discount that it's been nominated for 13 Academy Awards? PG-13. |
| A funny, sexy and non-linear telling of the familiar plot of spies falling in love, this time within the context of a battle between two corporate egos. Rated PG-13. |
| A (fair and accurate as best as I could tell) look at the industrialization of food production, from seed stocks to crops and livestock to the people laboring on factory farms and in slaughterhouses to consumers' dinner tables, and lastly, to the state/national capitols and courthouses, where corporate control is bought and enforced. PG. Village 8 |
| The complete opposite of a chick flick, this raucous, raunchy and, well, totally inappropriate movie about four dudes on a bachelor party trip to Las Vegas, is wickedly and therapeutically funny. R. Various theaters. |
| Based on the true stories of pioneering TV chef Julia Child and of a contemporary young woman that set out to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's "Joy of Cooking" in 365 days. Rated PG-13. Baxter and others. |
| The latest from Michael Moore, 20 years after his landmark film, "Roger & Me." The last scene is the funniest. Rated R. |
| A coming-of-age film set in England in 1961, with an ending that caught me completely off-guard. Rated PG-13. Baxter and other theaters. |
| About Nelson Mandela's shrewd use of a nearly all-white rugby team to show his commitment to use reconciliation to lead and unite his country. It gave me hope for humanity, a desire to return to Africa and to drop by earXtacy to buy the soundtrack. PG-13. |
| This one would downright hokey if it weren't based on a true story. Since it is, however, it's heart-warming and encouraging. It's also a movie that should appear to the whole family, even teen-aged boys into football. Rated PG-13. Village 8 and Great Escape New Albany. |
| 3D sci-fi meets parable promoting the protecting of our planet. In English and a made up language with subtitles. Rated PG-13. Stonybrook. |
| A fun, unnarrated documentary about the lives of four babies, from Namibia, Mongolia, Japan and the US, from birth to learning to walk. Predictably, the American and Japanese babies have programmed lives while the Namibian and Mongolian babies were more free to explore and learn on their own--and seemed much happier. Rated PG. |