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Sex and fire unite in The Burning Plain, a 2009 drama by writer/director Guillermo Arriaga. Though it received little promotion during its release period, the Charlize Theron-starring film is a surprisingly engaging little film. The Burning Plain isn’t amazing, but it is worth seeing.

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There’s unfunny, and then there’s painfully unfunny, and the new R-rated romantic comedy She’s Out of My League falls somewhere between the two. A derivative of Knocked Up, about an awkward young man who finds himself with a much hotter girlfriend, the movie is two hours worth of forced dialogue and flat jokes. Stay away. Stay very far away.

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City Island is a surprisingly funny and charming dramedy from filmmaker Raymond De Felitta.  Not having seen any of De Felitta’s earlier films, based on the trailer, I expected City Island to be average at best, chocked full of quirky characters and good ideas, but suffering from mediocre execution.  However, I was happily proven wrong as the strength of the performances, particularly from Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies, and a great climactic scene at the end where the shit really hits the fan. The film is enjoyable throughout.

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In October 2009, a small film few had previously heard of named Paranormal Activity opened wide, riding the buzz of an ingenious months-long marketing campaign. It quickly became the most profitable movie of all time. A couple weeks later, The Fourth Kind, an eerily similar movie – also based upon “home footage” – had the misfortune of debuting, just too little, too late. The Milla Jovovich-starring movie arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray this week, and while it isn’t a great movie, it does order up some chilling moments – as long as you’re willing to suspend disbelief.

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Brothers, from acclaimed filmmaker Jim Sheridan, arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray next Tuesday, March 23, 2010. The movie explores the effects of war upon families, and is a remake of the 2004 Danish film Brodre. The results are mixed, as the movie treats audiences to some excellent performances but not much else. The Blu-Ray, meanwhile, doesn’t boast a whole lot of special features, but does provide some intriguing insights.

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Armored is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray, and not only have I finally reviewed the action-thriller, I am also giving away a copy of the movie on DVD! Enter the Armored DVD giveaway now, and then continue reading for the Armored movie review:

From the director of Vacancy and the upcoming Predators movie comes Armored, a B-grade action film about a group of armored truck guards who decide to steal their own cargo. The movie is what you’d expect it to be: completely watchable and yet fully forgettable.

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A few months ago, much to the disappointment of fans, director Paul Greengrass announced that he would not be doing a fourth Jason Bourne movie, essentially ending one of the most acclaimed action franchises of the 21st century. Thankfully, Greengrass and Bourne star Matt Damon have reunited for Green Zone, an action-thriller that could just as easily be another sequel, if not for a different protagonist and a much weaker screenplay.

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Princess Leia, skimpily dressed college girls and serial killers, oh my! Sorority Row has everything a good slasher movie needs, and then some (Princess Leia, really?!) – except for characters we care about and a sense of terror. In Sorority Row, several caddy sorority sisters discover that one of their boyfriends is cheating. So, the boyfriend does what any boyfriend would do to win back his girl’s heart: he accepts roofies from one of her sorority sisters, slips them in her drink and starts to make out with the unconscious girl. When she starts foaming at the mouth and chocking to death, however, he freaks out.

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Tilda Swinton delivers an excellent performance in Julia, a surprisingly effective drama-thriller about a drunkard’s simple kidnapping scheme gone horribly wrong. People looking for something a little different should add this to their Netflix list – it’s available on Instant Play – immediately.

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In The Brothers Bloom, Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody star as the title characters, con men who decide they’re going to take advantage of a lonely but rich hermit, played by Rachel Weisz. But what they don’t suspect is that she is more daring and clever than first imagined. Oh, and when one of them starts falling in love with her, that doesn’t help either.

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Friday was not a good day, and I blame Disney. Instead of partying my friends, I chose to watch Alice in Wonderland and Old Dogs, the latter of which arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray this week. Both movies are terrible, and the few beers I had between viewings weren’t enough.

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Nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, Food, Inc. provides a compelling look at the food industry and the consequences its actions have on American lifestyles. While the picture provides some insightful facts, it lacks the shooting gun to put it on the same plane as similar movies such as Super Size Me.

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2012 is one of those movies I approached with trepidation. After all, we’ve seen director Roland Emmerich attempt to destroy the world on several occasions in the past (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow), and 2012 – the destruction movie to end all destruction movies – was bound to be just a graphics-heavy onslaught of… well, graphics.

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Friday was a good day, up until I left work. At 5 pm, I drove home, ate some food and did some dishes. At 8 pm, I finished watching the Disney movie Old Dogs, which was painfully bad. At 10 pm, I sat down in a sparsely populated theater to watch Tim Burton’s new movie Alice in Wonderland. It’s truly sad that Old Dogs was the more enjoyable experience.

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The world just wouldn’t be the same without zombie movies. There’s just something deliciously satisfying about them. And despite the fact that they routinely share the same plot and the characters experience similar fates, the last decade has provided audiences with a shockingly consistent level of quality – in fact, I’d go so far as to say that the zombie subgenre is the most consistent of them all.

Read FilmJabber’s full The Crazies movie review.