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DVD Tuesday: ‘True Grit’ and ‘Just Go With It’

W. Andrew Powell
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Debuting on DVD and Blu-ray this week: the Coen brothers' True Grit, with Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld; the silly romantic comedy Just Go With It, starring Adam Sandler; the thriller Sanctum, by director Alister Grierson; plus a look at Blue Crush 2 and the final season of Stargate Universe.
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Film Friday: ‘Sanctum’ and ‘The Roommate’

W. Andrew Powell
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This is apparently a bad week to be a movie fan, or a movie critic for that matter. New films opening this weekend include three big duds, including: the underwater thriller, Sanctum; the college thriller, The Roommate, starring Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly; and the psychological drama, Frankie and Alice, starring Halle Berry.
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Review: ‘The Fantastic Four’

W. Andrew Powell
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Everybody loves a good hero. They're daring people with amazing abilities who want to make the world better. So it was natural that when computer animation finally became realistic enough to make anything look real, we reached back into the comic books and decided to make movies about the kinds of heroes we've always wanted to see on the silver screen... superheroes.