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Gray Matters (2007) [PG-13] -- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $11.50
Review-lite: What if your closest sister promised to help you find your dream girl, and then fell in love with her herself? Such is the story of this twisty romantic comedy starring Heather Graham as Gray, the sister and best friend of Sam (Thomas Cavanagh), and their mutual love interest Charlie (Bridget Moynahan). Gray Matters, written and directed by Sue Kramer, though the title rings of too many colliding bad clichés, fulfills its niche just fine. There's nothing too spectacular about the story or the characters. Everything about it is nice. There's nothing ground-breaking about it. It just seems very natural. We still live in a world brimming with prejudice and hatred toward people who possess biological differences they cannot or will not comprehend. Films like this help to remind us of the reality of people who cannot control whom they love or why despite our proper societal pressures and falsely perceived norms. (click for full details and complete review)
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Reno 911!: Miami (2007) [R] -- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $5.50
Review-lite: "Cops" parody "Reno 911!" depicts the lives of the Reno Sheriff's Department has reached the big screen as Reno 911!: Miami with its somewhat humorous moments though not enough to induce a downloading frenzy for seasons 1-4 from iTunes™. While the humor was degrees above duds like Let's Go to Prison and Beerfest, primarily due to the cast of zany characters and actors who take themselves way too seriously to the point of great parody, the net effect of the story wasn’t terribly entertaining. Co-writer / director Ben Garant has probably re-created the look and feel of the show. Unfortunately, the result is only semi-humorous with too much focus on the tensions of race and gender preferences and non-fashion model body types. Fans of the show may enjoy this; but, for everyone else, this little slice of a world we had not known previously is, perhaps, best left undiscovered. (click for full details and complete review)
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Reno 911!: The Complete Fourth Season Uncensored! [DVD](2006)
All 11 episodes from the fourth season--including "Weigel's Pregnant," "The Junior Bros.," "Rick's on It," "Son of a Chechekevitch," and "The Investigation Continues"--are collected in a two-disc set. 5 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; audio commentary; extended scene; more.
Reno 911!: The Complete Second Season Uncensored! [DVD](2004)
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Reno 911!: The Complete Third Season Uncensored! [DVD](2005)
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Reno 911!: Reno's Most Wanted Uncensored [DVD](2003)
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Reno 911!: The Complete First Season [DVD](2003)
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007) [PG] -- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $11.75
Review-lite: Jeff Stockwell and David Paterson have adapted David's mother's novel, Bridge to Terabithia for direction by Gabor Csupo. Young actors Josh Hutcherson and AnnaSophia Robb take the leading roles as Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke, two sixth graders who become friends via an imaginary world they create to protect themselves from the woes of their real, pre-teen lives. Those unfamiliar with Bridge to Terabithia and relying on the preview will be disappointed to find this is not about kids traveling to a spectacular world of fantasy, battling incredible characters, and emerging victorious. Quite arguably, this is not for kids at all, especially not little kids. Instead, the story serves grown-ups better for it illustrates, in an extremely tragic way, the problem with our cultural evolutionary history which has adults all but abandoning everything that makes life worth living by the time we must grow up and get serious with life. (click for full details and complete review)
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Miss Potter (2006) [PG] -- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $13.50
Review-lite: Having grown up on Peter Rabbit it was delightful to get a look into the life of one of the world's greatest children's authors, Miss Beatrix Potter, via the lens of Chris Noonan's new film, Miss Potter. A member of the English upper class, Beatrix had every childhood need met by servants and an over-bearing mother. Her father cultivated her talent for drawing imaginative characters and telling clever tales. Renée Zellweger portrays the adult Beatrix beautifully in the film with only an occasional of over-enthusiasm. From the point of view of historical biography, the film does and exquisite job of capturing the infectious zest for the imagination that was such a prominent ingredient of Beatrix Potter's life's work. The film could have been a bit more magical than it was, still it aptly portrays the life of this incredible, forward-thinking person who gave so much joy to the world. (click for full details and complete review)
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