21st Dec, 2006

The Good German

A U.S. Army war correspondent is drawn into a deadly mystery in post-war Berlin as he seeks out his wartime mistress in this adaptation of author Joseph Kanon’s best-selling novel. The war is over, and Jake Geismar (George Clooney) is an American journalist assigned the task of covering the peace in Berlin — but he was once lovers with a mysterious woman named Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett). Lena is a lady with many secrets to hide, however, and now that the fighting has ceased, she has every intention of… [more]

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21st Dec, 2006

Dreamgirls

Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyoncé Knowles) are about to find out just what it’s like to have their wildest dreams come true. Discovered at a local talent show by ambitious manager Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx), the trio known as “the Dreamettes” is soon… [more]

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21st Dec, 2006

Charlotte’s Web

E.B. White’s classic children’s story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family’s farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern’s father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the runt of litter, but Fern has become attached to the little pig and persuades her father to let him live. The pig, named Wilbur (voice of Dominic Scott Kay), becomes Fern’s pet, but when he grows larger, he’s put in the… [more]

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21st Dec, 2006

Eragon

Industrial Light and Magic special-effects wizard Stefen Fangmeier makes the leap into the director’s chair with this coming-of-age fantasy concerning a young boy whose discovery of a mysterious dinosaur egg leads him on a predestined journey to become a Dragon Rider and defend his peaceful world against an evil king. Based on the best-selling novel by Christopher Paolini, Eragon tells the tale of the titular character (Ed Speleers), a humble farm boy living in the land of Alagaësia, whose life is forever… [more]

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21st Dec, 2006

We Are Marshall

A true story of tragedy, hope, and resilience comes to the screen in this sports drama. Huntington, WV, is home to Marshall University, a school where college football is a way of life. Huntington is also a town that learned to deal with tragedy in the fall of 1970 when Marshall’s “Thundering Herd” boarded an airliner to return home after a football game in North Carolina. The jet crashed into a hill due to bad weather, and 75 members of Marshall’s football squad and athletic staff died that night. The… [more]

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21st Dec, 2006

Rocky Balboa

Sylvester Stallone returns to the director’s chair for Rocky Balboa, the fifth sequel to the film that made him a superstar thirty years before. The movie begins with Rocky (Stallone) still mourning the death of his loyal and beloved wife Adrian, who died three years previously after losing a battle against cancer. Rocky owns an Italian restaurant and spends his days living in his working class Philadelphia neighborhood, visiting with his customers, and telling stories about his past. His grown son has a job… [more]

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21st Dec, 2006

Night at the Museum: The IMAX Experience

Good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley, despite being perpetually down on his luck, thinks he’s destined for something big. But, even he could never have imagined how “big,” when he accepts what appears to be a menial job as a graveyard-shift security guard at a museum of natural history. During Larry’s watch, extraordinary things begin to occur: Mayans, Roman Gladiators, and cowboys emerge from their diorama to wage epic battles; in his quest for fire, a Neanderthal burns down his own display; Attila the Hun… [more]

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21st Dec, 2006

The Good Shepherd

One man bears witness to the secret history of America during the Cold War in this drama directed by celebrated actor Robert De Niro. In early 1939, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a man with a bright future ahead of him — he’s a top student at Yale, he has been accepted into the college’s powerful and influential secret society Skull and Bones, and is widely regarded as a man of intelligence, principles, and discretion. Wilson begins traveling in influential circles, and before long he’s dating Clover Russell… [more]

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21st Dec, 2006

Curse of the Golden Flower

A dying love between two powerful people leads to deceit, infidelity, and conspiracy in this epic-scale historical drama from director Zhang Yimou. During the latter days of the Tang dynasty, the Emperor (Chow Yun-Fat) returns home from the war with his son Prince Jai (Jay Chou) in tow. However, the monarch gets a chilly reception from the Empress (Gong Li); though she’s eager to see her son, her marriage has become deeply acrimonious, and she’s taken a lover, Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson from the… [more]

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21st Dec, 2006

Night at the Museum

A bumbling night watchman at New York’s Museum of Natural History inadvertently unleashes havoc when he triggers a dormant curse that fully animates the historical displays in a wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a kind-hearted dreamer who always knew that he was destined for greatness, he just never know how it would all play out. Though his job as a lowly graveyard-shift security guard at the Museum… [more]

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