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Meryl Streep stars with Pierce Brosnan in the musical Mamma Mia!
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Published: August 7, 2008
BABY MAMA (
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Tina Fey plays a successful career woman who hires a surrogate to carry her baby.
Rated: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference.
Showing: Marketplace.
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN ()
The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian.
Rated: PG for epic battle action and violence.
Showing: Marketplace.
THE DARK KNIGHT ()
The third Batman franchise continues with this sequel to Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as the moody, wealthy fighter of crime. He goes up against The Joker again (Heath Ledger, in his last role). Also involved is Two-Face, this time played by Aaron Eckhart.
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside.
HANCOCK ()
This summer-blockbuster threat is a comedy starring Will Smith as a
conflicted, sarcastic and misunderstood superhero whose heroics always leave lots of damage in their wake.
Rated: PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence and adult language.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10.
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY ()
Ron Perlman returns as the sardonic, immortal demi-demon who must keep rebellious mythical creatures from destroying humanity.
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and some language.
Showing: Wynnsong 12.
THE INCREDIBLE HULK ()
Edward Norton plays gamma-ray-bombarded Dr. Bruce Banner; the usual digital effects play his massive green alter ego.
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence, some frightening sci-fi images, and brief suggestive content.
Showing: Marketplace.
IRON MAN ()
The strangest aspect of the latest superhero franchise-wannabe is also its most welcome: Robert Downey Jr. is playing Tony Stark, multimillionaire industrialist turned iron-clad avenger.
Rated: PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content.
Showing: Marketplace.
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3-D ()
Brendan Fraser stars in this 3-D extravaganza based on the Jules Verne classic sci-fi novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Rating: PG for intense adventure action and some scary moments.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10.
MAMMA MIA! ()
Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and the music of ABBA highlight this musical about a woman sorting out which of three old flames is the dad to walk her daughter down the aisle at her wedding.
Rated: PG-13 for some sex-related comments.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside.
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR ()
Brendan Fraser returns for the third time as an adventurer battling a bunch of very old undead people, this time in China. Michelle Yeoh plays a 2,000-year-old sorceress.
Rated: PG-13 for adventure action and violence.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside.
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS ()
Seth Rogan stars as a lackadaisical pothead who has to go on the lam when he witnesses a murder involving a crooked cop and a drug dealer.
Rated: R for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside.
SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 2 ()
The further growing pains of best-friends-forever Bridget, Lena, Carmen, and Tibby. Based on the fourth book in Ann Brashares' best-selling young-adult series and starring America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel.
Rated: PG-13 for mature material and sensuality.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10.
SPACE CHIMPS ()
Stanley Tucci and Cheryl Hines provide voices for an animated tale of lower primates in space.
Rated: G
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10.
STEP BROTHERS ()
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are adult slackers who become family when one's mom marries the other's dad.
Rated: R for crude and sexual content, and pervasive language.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10.
THE STRANGERS (not reviewed)
A couple (Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) face terror as masked intruders invade their home.
Rated: R for violence/terror and language.
Showing: Marketplace.
SWING VOTE ()
The entire presidential campaign comes down to a single vote, which will be cast by an amiable loser played by Kevin Costner. All the candidates descend on him, hoping to win his support.
Rated: PG-13 for language.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12.
TROPIC THUNDER (opens Aug. 13)
In this comedy, action actors filming a war movie in the jungle do not know that the people acting as their enemies aren't acting. Written and directed by Ben Stiller, with Robert Downey Jr. as a white actor who colors his skin to look black and then starts to think he is black.
Rated: R for pervasive language including sexual references, violent content and drug material.
Showing: Grand 18
WALL-E ()
An adorably bedraggled robot, alone for 700 years, is visited by slick robots from outer space, who take him with them on an adventure of discovery and even robot love. An animated family film from Pixar.
Rated: G.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12.
WANTED ()
Angelina Jolie's an operative for a secret agency who helps train a dormant prodigy (James McAvoy) to use his super abilities. With Morgan Freeman.
Rated: R for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive adult language and some sexuality.
Showing: Marketplace.
THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE ()
The filmmakers want to believe that the once-popular X-Files TV show still has an audience. In this film, women are missing and it sounds like a job for the paranormal-investigating X-Files squad in the FBI -- only it was disbanded years ago. And Mulder and Scully (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) don't want to bring it back again.
Rated: PG-13 for violent and disturbing content and thematic material.
Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10.
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