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Arts & Entertainment<br />
The Hunting Party - Release: September 7, 2007<br />
An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced<br />
cameraman (Terrence Howard) and a discredited reporter<br />
(Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia’s top<br />
war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when their<br />
target mistakes them for a CIA hit squad and decides to<br />
have them eliminated in a light-hearted thriller inspired by<br />
Scott Anderson’s popular Esquire article.<br />
Directed By: Richard Shepard<br />
Dragon Wars - Release: September 14, 2007<br />
D-Wars begins with an antique dealer named Jack<br />
(Robert Forster) watching a young patron, Ethan<br />
Kendrick (Cody Erens) getting zapped with a force<br />
emanating from a chest in his shop. Realizing the<br />
significance of this event, Jack bequeaths a medal to<br />
the boy and speaks to him of events that happened a<br />
half-millennium ago. In a bygone era, giant creatures<br />
called Buraki roamed the land, morphing from<br />
serpents into dragons and back again. An ancient<br />
warrior-apprentice saved the life of his beloved<br />
from these monstrosities. The warrior’s spirit was<br />
contained in the aforementioned chest, and it has<br />
now filled Ethan. Jack advises Eathan to seek out<br />
the incarnation of the ancient warrior’s beloved,<br />
she can be recognized by a red dragon tattoo on<br />
her shoulder. When the woman reaches her 20th<br />
birthday she and Ethan will be able to reincarnate<br />
Imoogi as dragons. It isn’t long before the Buraki<br />
serpent and all of his enormous minions resurface<br />
and decide to lay waste to the City of Angels, as<br />
they look for the chosen pair. Directed By: Shim Hyung<br />
Rae, Rating: PG-13, Run Time: 90min<br />
The Brave One - Release: September 14, 2007<br />
Neil Jordan’s The Brave One stars Jodie Foster as<br />
a happy woman whose life changes irrevocably<br />
after a brutal assault leaves her partner (Naveen<br />
Andrews) dead. The woman, feeling that the<br />
police investigation will be unable to catch the<br />
perpetrators, begins to live in constant fear. This<br />
outlook results in the woman eventually dispatching<br />
vigilante justice. Terrence Howard co-stars as the<br />
officer in charge of the investigation. Directed By: Neil<br />
Jordan, Rating: R<br />
Sources: Moviefone.<strong>com</strong> & WildAboutMovies.<strong>com</strong><br />
Mr. Woodcock - Release: September 14, 2007<br />
John Farley (Seann William Scott) grew up as a chubby<br />
kid with no athletic skills and poor self-esteem, and during<br />
his early teenage years his nemesis was Mr. Woodcock<br />
(Billy Bob Thornton), his junior-high gym teacher, who<br />
took a glee in tormenting John and others like them. Years<br />
later, John has slimmed down, <strong>com</strong>e to terms with his<br />
self-image and be<strong>com</strong>e a best-selling author, publishing a<br />
self-help book on over<strong>com</strong>ing the specters of the past. John<br />
<strong>com</strong>es home to visit his widowed mother, Beverly (Susan<br />
Sarandon) and discovers she’s getting married again, er<br />
new fiancée is none other than Mr. Woodcock. John is<br />
determined to keep Beverly from walking down the aisle<br />
with Woodcock. Directed By: Craig Gillespie, Rating: PG-13<br />
Good Luck Chuck - Release: September 21, 2007<br />
When Charlie Kagan was ten years old he broke the<br />
cardinal rules of spin-the-bottle, Charlie refused to lip-lock<br />
with a demented Goth girl and she put a hex on him. Now,<br />
twenty-five years later, Charlie (Dane Cook) is still cursed.<br />
Charlie discovers at an ex-girlfriend’s wedding that every<br />
woman he’s ever slept with has found true love with the<br />
next guy after him. A life filled with all sex and no love<br />
has Charlie lonelier than ever that is, until he meets Cam<br />
(Jessica Alba). Cam is as hard-to-get as she is beautiful.<br />
But when a genuine romance develops, Charlie realizes he’s<br />
got to find a way to break his good-luck curse…before the<br />
girl of his dreams winds up with the next guy she meets.<br />
Directed By: Mark Helfrich<br />
lnto The Wild - Release: September 21, 2007<br />
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top<br />
student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Emile<br />
Hirsch) abandons his possessions, gives his entire<br />
$24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes<br />
to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way,<br />
Christopher encounters a series of characters that<br />
shape his life. Directed By: Sean Penn<br />
In The Valley of Elah - Release: September 14, 2007<br />
The story of a war veteran (Tommy Lee Jones), his wife<br />
(Susan Sarandon), the search for their son (James Franco), a<br />
soldier who recently returned from Iraq but has mysteriously<br />
gone missing and the police detective (Charlize Theron)<br />
who helps in the investigation. Paul Haggis directs from<br />
his original screenplay based on a story by Mark Boal and<br />
Haggis. Directed By: Paul Haggis, Rating: R,<br />
Run Time: 114min<br />
Feast of Love - Release: September 28, 2007<br />
From multiple Academy Award winning director Robert<br />
Benton <strong>com</strong>es a kaleidoscopic ode to love in all its funny,<br />
sad, sexy, crazy, heartbreaking and extraordinary facets.<br />
This thoroughly modern version of a Midsummer Night’s<br />
Dream erupts in a tight-knit Oregon neighborhood as local<br />
professor Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) witnesses<br />
love whipping up mischief among the town’s residents<br />
who include Greg Kinnear, Selma Blair, Radha Mitchell,<br />
Billy Burke, Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemmingway and Jane<br />
Alexander. Directed By: Robert Benton Rating: R<br />
Resident Evil - Release: September 21, 2007<br />
The final chapter of the Resident Evil film trilogy<br />
finds genetically altered Alice (Milla Jovovich)<br />
joining forces with Carlos (Oded Fehr) and<br />
L.J. (Mike Epps) to take down the Umbrella<br />
Corporation once and for all. Now instilled with<br />
super-human strength, senses and dexterity as a<br />
result of the biogenetic experimentation conducted<br />
on her by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice and the<br />
rest of the survivors set out to eliminate a virus that<br />
threatens to turn every human undead and ensure<br />
that the organization pays the price for their crimes.<br />
Directed By: Russell Mulcahy<br />
Sydney White - Release: September 21, 2007<br />
In a college <strong>com</strong>edy that puts a modern-day twist<br />
on an age-old story, “Sydney White” tells the tale<br />
of a tomboy freshman who ditches her conniving<br />
sorority sisters and finds a new home with a group<br />
of very dorky outcasts. Fed up with the way they’ve<br />
all been treated, she’s off to war against the reigning<br />
campus royalty. With the help of one lovestruck frat<br />
boy named Tyler (Matt Long), she and the doofs<br />
campaign to take over student government. Fighting<br />
for the rights of misfits big and small, Syd organizes<br />
her gang to revolutionize the system, once and for all.<br />
Directed By: Joe Nussbaum, Rating: PG-13<br />
The Game Plan - Release: September 28, 2007<br />
A sports-themed family <strong>com</strong>edy concerning a<br />
football superstar who abandons the gridiron to<br />
answer the call of fatherhood after learning that<br />
he has a daughter he never knew. Kyra Sedgwick<br />
stars as the professional athlete’s ruthless agent who<br />
would rather see her client scoring touchdowns<br />
than cementing familial bonds, and Nichole<br />
Millard teams with Kathryn Price to pen the<br />
screenplay. Directed By: Andy Flickman, Rating: PG<br />
The Kingdom - Release: September 28, 2007<br />
In the aftermath of a deadly attack on American forces<br />
in Riyadh, diplomats are slow to act, but meanwhile,<br />
FBI special agent Ronald Fleuri (Jamie Foxx) assembles<br />
a secret team of U.S. counter-terrorism investigators to<br />
enter the city and find the criminal behind what has<br />
quickly be<strong>com</strong>e an international incident. The crew,<br />
however, finds their attempt to capture the perpetrators<br />
stalled by bureaucracy and their presence unwel<strong>com</strong>e.<br />
Directed By: Peter Berg Rating: R<br />
In the Shadow of the Moon - Release: September 7, 2007<br />
Between 1968 and 1972, 9 American spacecrafts<br />
voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its<br />
surface. They remain the only people to have stood<br />
on another world. We bring together for the first,<br />
and possibly the last time, surviving crew members<br />
from every Apollo mission that flew to the Moon,<br />
and allows them to tell their story in their own<br />
words. This first-hand testimony is interwoven with<br />
visually stunning archival material which has been<br />
re-mastered from the original NASA film footage.<br />
Directed By: David Sington, Rating: PG, Run Time: 100min<br />
Movie<br />
Trivia<br />
September - Name That Actor/Actress!<br />
This actress has played a housekeeper, an FBI agent, a fifteenth century<br />
queen, a writer and a nanny. Who is she?<br />
This actor has portrayed a politician, a closeted gay, a topographer, an art<br />
auctioneer and a clergyman. Who is he?<br />
This actor has played a barrister, a <strong>com</strong>poser, a valet, a Nazi and a doctor. Who is he?<br />
This actress has played the daughter of an art forger, a chef, a translator, a princess and a bookstore clerk.<br />
Who is she?<br />
This actor has played a ship’s captain, a titan of industry, a cold-blooded killer, a gold prospector and a<br />
nightclub owner. Who is he?<br />
This actress played a queen, a promiscuous fashion model, a southern belle, a spurned wife and a young<br />
woman on the verge of insanity. Who is she?<br />
This actor has played a pirate, a playwright, a gypsy, a journalist and a renegade CIA agent. Who is he?<br />
1. Emma Thompson 2. Hugh Grant 3. Dick Bogarde 4.Audrey Hepburn 5. Humphrey Bogart 6. Elizabeth Taylor 7. Johnny Depp<br />
your richest kin folk buys a new house and you have to help take the wheels off of it.<br />
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