Rainn Wilson stars as a drummer booted out of the hair band Vesuvius, just before they hit it big, who gets a second chance at glory twenty-years later. The film, loosely inspired on the life of Pete Best contains a cameo from The Beattles former drummer. Emma Stone, Christina Applegate, Jane Lynch, Josh Gad, Will Arnett, and Teddy Geiger also star. The movie powerslides into theaters on Wednesday. Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.
This new documentary from Patrick Creadon takes a look at the fiscal insecurity and rising debt of the United States current buying on credit model. The documentary earned a nomination at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Check out the official site. The film opens on Friday.
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Taking place between Episode II: Attack of the Clones (read the review) and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (read the review) this new animated film follows Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) and Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) in their continuing battle to put down the resistance of the Separatists and their near-endless supply of droid armies.
When Jabba the Hutt’s (Kevin Michael Richardson) son is taken hostage Anakin, along with his spunky new tweenage padawan Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein), is sent to retrieve the young Huttling from Count Dooku’s Dark Jedi assassin Asaji Ventress (Nika Futterman). Control of Hutt space in the Outer Rim could be a deciding factor in the war and the Republic can not afford the Jedi to fail.
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Henry Poole Is Here has a lot of things going for it; but unfortunately, most of the things the film does well are outweighed by a religious message that doesn’t restrict itself. Those who don’t question Christianity won’t have a problem with it, but anyone with different beliefs will feel ignored.
The film begins with the depressed main character Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) moving into a new neighborhood for reasons not revealed until later in the film. All we know is that Henry keeps on saying he doesn’t plan on living in the house for very long. As he gets moved in, his days are lazily comprised of sitting in various corners around his house and yard, as he eats frozen pizza, doughnuts, and pours down vodka like it’s water down the sink.
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In an attempt to teach their spoiled stars a lesson the director (Steve Coogan) and author (Nick Nolte) of the new war film send the actors into the jungle where they encounter real danger and are forced to fight for their lives.
The platoon is led by action star Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) whose career is on a downhill spiral. His choices for roles outside his chosen genre (with his insane amount of sequels), such as a mentally-impaired farm hand called Simple Jack, have earned him scorn and tanked at the box office.
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