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DVD Tuesday: ‘Tangled’ and ‘Black Swan’

W. Andrew Powell
Reviews
Arriving this week on store shelves: Disney debuts their latest animated princess story, Tangled, starring Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi; Academy Award-winner Natalie Portman stars in Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller, Black Swan; plus reviews of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Riddick Collection on Blu-ray.
Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli

‘The Book of Eli’ reads like post-apocalyptic disappointment

W. Andrew Powell
Movie & DVD News and Reviews
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Today felt like a very long day, made all the longer by what I can only call an exasperating movie. At 7:30 tonight I was at Warner's public screening for The Book of Eli, which stars Denzel Washington as a religious wanderer with a crazy kung fu grip. The story falls under the usual "post-apocalyptic America" plot where a long-forgotten war has left the country, and most likely the world, devastated and practically unlivable, which effectively ends all civilization as we know it.
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Film Friday: ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’, ’88 Minutes’

W. Andrew Powell
Reviews
Barely a month has passed since Judd Apatow's disaster Drillbit Taylor bombed in theatres, and already the busy producer has a new comedy ready to bring in the crowds. Forgetting Sarah Marshall will almost certainly be the big film of the weekend, but other hopefuls arriving this week include 88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino; Hong Kong action film, The Forbidden Kingdom; and the drama Emotional Arithmetic.