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G-O-O-D

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  • Title: Akeelah and the Bee
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How cool are spelling bees?  The film asks that question multiple times and the answer shifts from person to person over the course of the film including our title character.  Akeelah and the Bee actually makes the National Spelling Bee look pretty darn cool.  Now c’mon folks, that should pique your interest.

Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is an underachieving student in Crenshaw, California with an older sister (Erica Hubbard) who has a baby, a brother (Julito McCullum) who wants to become a gangbanger, and a mother (Angela Bassett) who works all the time and has little time or patience for her kids’ problems and screw-ups. 

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Don’t Call Me Stupid!

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  • Title: A Fish Called Wanda
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A hitman who quotes Nietzsche and believes the London Underground is a political movement, a stuttering animal lover who keeps accidentally killing small dogs, an English barrister stuck in a loveless marriage, a thief used as a patsy, and a woman named Wanda who wraps each one of them around her little finger to get what she wants.  Rarely are romantic comedies this good.

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2046

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  • Title: 2046
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2046

2046, the latest from Kar Wai Wong, is a mysterious tale of love and loss.  The film is a follow up to In the Mood For Love and although some of the same characters appear as in the first movie it really isn’t what you would describe as a sequel.  What it turns out to be is a complex love story spanning years and distances, time and space, in the search for 2046.

What is 2046?  It’s a time, it’s a place, it’s the title of a novel, it’s a state of mind, and it’s the number of a hotel room that houses a series of women who catch the attention of our protagonist who lives across the hall.  2046 is as much art as film and tells a winding, sometimes confusing but thoroughly enjoyable, story through times and memories, both real and imaginary. 

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The Fastest Man Alive

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  • Title: The Flash
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the-flash-complete-series-dvdMy five favorite comic book heroes in no particular order are Batman, the Silver Surfer, Captain Marvel (Shazam!), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan, except no substitutes), and the Silver Age Flash.  The Flash uses the origin and character of the Barry Allen Flash but puts him in modern times while incorporating characters from both the Silver Age Flash and the current Wally West version (such as Tina McGee).

Barry Allen (John Wesley Shipp) is a police scientist.  While working late at the lab one stormy night a lightning bolt strikes through the window hitting a rack of chemicals and the mild mannered Allen.  After the accident Barry finds he is always hungry and what starts as a short run might make him end up 30 miles away in just seconds.

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Bareback Mountain

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  • Title: Brokeback Mountain
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Brokeback Mountain seems to be this year’s belle of the ball garnering seven Golden Globe nominations.  Is it the best film of the year?  No, but it’s pretty darn good.  Garnering huge attention for it’s detailed look at the secret homosexual relationship between two cowboys Ang Lee gives us an intriguing tale that just like Heath Ledger’s character desperately wants to say more than it is knows how to.

The story involves the secret relationship of Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) which begins one summer as the two cowboys herd sheep up on Brokeback Mountain.  A physical relationship develops between the two that picks up years later as both men have moved on with their lives, settled down and married.  On fishing trips back to Brokeback the two bask in the joy of being together knowing that the outside world will never accept them and they can only truly be together on the mountain.

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