Film Gudie Friday For the Weekend of October 3rd.

Editor Note: Last week for the 1st time in a long time[expect the 1st four months this year] i did not do a film guide Friday because i was not feeling it so to make up not doing it last week i put stuff from last week wide released in this week guide.

All description are From The Detroit Free Press and Yahoo Movies.

"Beverly Hills Chihuahua"[PG]

Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia and others provide the voices for the dogs in this tale of a canine from the wrong side of the tracks in love with a pampered pooch from the 90210 ZIP code.

"Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist"[PG-13]


A chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band's secret show and ends up becoming a first date that could change two teens' lives.


"Blindness"[R]

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of blindness, and those afflicted are quarantined in an abandoned mental hospital, where social order breaks down. Julianne Moore stars.


"How to Lose Friends & Alienate People"[R]

A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York.


"An American Carol"[PG-13]


An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the Fourth of July holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.

"Flash of Genius"[PG-13]

Detroiter Robert Kearns takes on the automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. Greg Kinnear stars.

"Appaloosa"[R]


Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow. Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen star.


"Religulous"[R]


Satirist and talk-show host Bill Maher offers his take on the state of the world's religions. Rated R for language and sexual content.

Playing at the Maple Art in Bloomfield Hills

"Allah Made Me Funny"[NR]

Muslim comics hit the stage to offer their perspectives on life in the United States and post-9/11 stereotypes.

Still playing this week

Eagle Eye [PG-13]


Shia LaBeouf is forced to carry out the plans of a mysterious woman he has never met, but seems to know his every move

Nights in Rodanthe [PG-13]

Richard Gere and Diane Lane star as unhappy strangers who share a life-changing romance at a seaside North Carolina inn.


Fireproof [PG]


A firefighter reluctantly commits to a 40-day experiment he calls "The Love Dare" in an attempt to rescue his crumbling marriage.

Miracle at St. Anna [R]

Four soldiers from the army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines during WWII.

Choke [R]


A con-man regularly fakes choking in upscale restaurants, gets "saved," and collects checks from generous restaurant patrons.

SHowing this week at the DFT

MY WINNIPEG
(Canada/2007-directed by Guy Maddin)


Returning by popular demand, Canadian wunderkind Guy Maddin’s (Brand Upon the Brain!) joyously demented, visionary, brilliantly witty new work is a personal (and personally narrated) fever dream about young Guy’s childhood in the wintry wilds of the hometown of his memories. Magical, hilarious and deviously insightful, Maddin’s ruminations on the town that shaped his sensibilities result in a surprisingly sweet and utterly unique memoir. Maddin describes his mixture of documentary and surrealism as “docu-tasia,” yet no word can come close to describing this extraordinary filmmaker’s command of his medium – his ability to fashion films that appear to be long-lost artifacts from a movie history that never quite existed, but which speak comically – and eloquently – to our collective imaginations. (78 min.)

Showing:

Friday - 9:30 PM
Saturday - 9:30 PM

A GIRL CUT IN TWO
(France/2007/directed by Claude Chabrol)

Claude Chabrol is France’s grand master of suspense. With nearly 60 feature films behind him, including Le Boucher and This Man Must Die, Chabrol returns triumphantly to the screen with this razor-sharp, darkly seductive social satire, filled with unforgettably nasty characters. Ludivine Sagnier (Swimming Pool) is an ambitious and beautiful TV weather girl, torn between her love for a jaded novelist several decades her senior and the attentions of the young heir to a pharmaceutical fortune – whose bizarrely unstable behavior becomes increasingly alarming. As the whims and demands of both men begin to take their toll, passions darken, and the stakes of this fiendishly entertaining tale lead inexorably to a shocking yet satisfying conclusion. New York, Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. (115 min.)

Friday - 7:00 PM
Saturday - 7:00 PM
Sunday - 4:00 PM

Playing at dicount theahers

Ratings from Rotten Tomatoes at www.rottentomatoes.com

89% - KUNG FU PANDA (PG)
88% - HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (PG-13)
77% - INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (PG-13)
73% - WANTED (R)
67% - THE INCREDIBLE HULK (PG-13)
54% - STEP BROTHERS(R)[New]
52% - GET SMART (PG-13)
43% - THE STRANGERS (R)
38% - HANCOCK (PG-13)
38 % - SWING VOTE(PG-13)[New]
33% - SPACE CHIMPS (G)
20% - MEET DAVE (PG)
15% - MIRRORS(R)[New]
13% - THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR(PG-13)[New]
7% - BABYLON A.D.(PG-13)[New]

Opening up every where in wide released Next Week

Body of Lies (Wide)

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a CIA operative who must form uneasy alliances to uncover a major terrorist leader operating in Jordan.

City of Ember (Wide)

Two teens race against time, searching for clues to unlock the ancient mystery that could save the people of the City of Ember.

The Express (Wide)

The true story of Ernie Davis, the Syracuse University running back who became the first black man to win the Heisman Trophy.

Quarantine (Wide)

A television news crew is trapped in a quarantined apartment building where something mysterious has infected residents.

All the Discrtion is from the Free Press
can write today a buzy day
this is all we can do

Ghost Town (PG-13)


A man brought back from near-death discovers that he has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him. Greg Kinnear and Ricky Gervais star.




Igor (PG)


John Cusack and Jay Leno provide voices for this animated tale of a mad scientist's assistant who gets to build his own monster when his boss dies.


Lakeview Terrace (PG-13)

A Los Angeles police officer played by Samuel L. Jackson will stop at nothing to force out
the interracial couple next door.



My Best Friend's Girl (R)

A man is hired to take his best friend's ex-girlfriend out on a lousy date to make her realize how great her former boyfriend is. Dane Cook and Kate Hudson star.

Playing at the Main Art Theater in Royal Oak




Towelhead [R]

A 13-year-old Arab-American girl navigates adolescence and her own sexual awakening.

Playing at the Maple Art Theater in Bloomfield Hills

"In Search of a Midnight Kiss"[NR]


Broke on New Year's Eve, a young man just wants to go to bed, but a personal ad leads him to a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.


"Baghead"[R]


Actors retreat to a cabin to write a horror screenplay that will make them all stars. Then their story starts to come true.

and play this week at the DIA
to kick off the fall season.

OPERATION FILMMAKER
(USA/2007/directed by Nina Davenport)

In the wake of the Operation Iraqi Freedom, American actor-director Liev Schreiber had an idealistic notion: to rescue an Iraqi film student from the rubble of his country and bring him to the West as an intern on a Hollywood movie (Schreiber’s own Everything is Illuminated). What should have become a heartwarming tale – a small victory plucked from a nightmarish situation – quickly evolved into something quite different. As the war itself was already demonstrating, “good intentions” can yield startlingly unexpected consequences – not always for the better. This not-to-be-missed documentary features real-life appearances by Elijah Wood and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Special Jury Prize, Chicago International Film Festival. (92 min.)

Discount theater

93% - IRON MAN (PG-13)
89% - KUNG FU PANDA (PG)
88% - HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (PG-13)
77% - INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (PG-13)
73% - WANTED (R)
67% - THE INCREDIBLE HULK (PG-13)
52% - GET SMART (PG-13)
51% - SEX AND THE CITY (R)
43% - THE STRANGERS (R)
38% - HANCOCK (PG-13)
35% - THE ROCKER (PG-13)
33% - SPACE CHIMPS (G)
32% - THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE [PG-13] [New]
20% - MEET DAVE (PG)

And playing next week every where

Blindness (Wide)

When a plague of blindness devastates a city, the afflicted band together to overcome the horrific conditions of their quarantine.

Choke (Wide)

A con-man regularly fakes choking in upscale restaurants, gets "saved," and collects checks from generous restaurant patrons.

Eagle Eye (Wide)

Shia LaBeouf is forced to carry out the plans of a mysterious woman he has never met, but seems to know his every move.

Miracle at St. Anna (Wide)

Four soldiers from the army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines during WWII.

Nights in Rodanthe (Wide)

Richard Gere and Diane Lane star as unhappy strangers who share a life-changing romance at a seaside North Carolina inn.

Film Gudie Friday For the Weekend of September 12th

All the Description is from the Detroit Free Press.

"Burn After Reading"[R]


A disc containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. The latest from the Coen brothers stars Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

"Righteous Kill"[R]

Two veteran New York City detectives (Robert De Niro and Al Pacino) work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago.


"The Women"[PG-13]

A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort. The remake of George Cukor's 1939 film "The Women" stars Meg Ryan and Annette Bening.

"Tyler Perry's the Family That Preys"[PG-13]

The lives of two old friends become mired in their children's extramarital affairs and unethical business practices, while a paternity secret threatens to derail family fortunes.

What Playing at the Discount Theaher
with Rating from RottenTomatoes.com

93% - IRON MAN (PG-13)
89% - KUNG FU PANDA (PG)
88% - HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (PG-13)
77% - INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (PG-13)
73% - WANTED (R)
67% - THE INCREDIBLE HULK (PG-13)
52% - GET SMART (PG-13) [New]
51% - SEX AND THE CITY (R)
43% - THE STRANGERS (R)
38% - HANCOCK (PG-13)
35% - THE ROCKER (PG-13) [New]
35% - YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN (PG-13)
33% - SPACE CHIMPS (G)
20% - MEET DAVE (PG)

Next Week Everywhere

Ghost Town (NR - Yes)

After being dead for seven minutes, a man is miraculously revived to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.

Igor (PG)

A hunchbacked lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist and winning first place at the annual Evil Science Fair.

Lakeview Terrace (PG-13)

Samuel L. Jackson is a tightly-wound LAPD officer who terrorizes the young interracial couple that moves into the house next door.

My Best Friend's Girl (R)

Kate Hudson stars as a dream girl who poses a dilemma for a lovestruck ex and his buddy, the master "rebound specialist."

Film Gudie Friday for the weekend of September 5th

It the week after Labor day, so as for New movie not that much, unless you are going to watch Disaster Movie which got 0% rating in rottentomatto rating, Ouch.

[description from the free Press]

"Bangkok Dangerous"[R]

A hit man (Nicolas Cage) who is in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.

Playing at the Michigan Theaher

"Transsiberian"[R]

A train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.

New at the Discount theaher

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (PG-13)
WANTED(R)

New Next Week in Detroit:

Burn After Reading (R)

Brad Pitt, George Clooney and John Malkovich star in the Coen Brothers' comedy about a CIA disc that falls in the wrong hands.

Righteous Kill (R)

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino team up as a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer.

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (PG-13)

Two families--one upper-crust and the other working class-- are linked by scandal that threatens to unravel the lives of all involved.

The Women (PG-13)

Meg Ryan is a career woman who seems to be living the perfect life, until she discovers that her husband is cheating on her.

Film Gudie Friday for the Weekend of August 29th

Today is the last full day of the summer movie season and from the look of things, it better to goes to a festival then whatching a bad movie or you can see "The Dark Knights" for the 24th time.

OPENED WEDNESDAY

"Traitor":[PG-13]

Don Cheadle played traitor and is target by the C.I.A.,

OPENING FRIDAY

"Babylon A.D.":[PG-13]

[Discrption by the Free Press.]A mercenary agrees to escort a woman from Russia to China without realizing that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified messiah.

"College":[R]

Three Freashman visit a collage and crazy stuff break out.
it look like it happend every weekend during football season.

"Disaster Movie":[PG-13]

This time the latest movie that gose thur the spoof-a-palzooa
is the disaster movie will it be any good as Scary Movie or really bad
as Superhero Movie [i saw it and it total suck.]

"Frozen River":[R]

[Discrption by the Free Press.]On the Mohawk reservation between New York and Quebec, the lure of fast smuggling money attracts two single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage.

Opening at the Discount theaher

HANCOCK (PG-13)
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (PG-13)

and Opening this weekend on Dally Weekend.

Bangkok Dangerous (Wide)

Nic Cage is a cold-blooded hit man who heads to Bangkok to
pull off a series jobs and winds up falling in love with a local girl.

But there is alway Dally Next weekend.

Film Guide Friday for the Weekend

Well it almost the end of the first full week of the Olympic in Beijing, and we have almost week to go but if you cant stand the games of summer here some movies that are opening up the weekend,

Opening Wednesday

"Tropic Thunder": [R]

A group of self-absorbed actors which include a wash up actor and of all people a charterer actor playing a black guy show a war film and after the cost get out of control the crew get stuck in a real war in this Hollywood on Hollywood spoof.

Opening Friday

"Star Wars: The Clone Wars":[PG]

Depress since the end of the prequel of the Star Wars series, well your in luck because George Lucas present a new computer-generated animation versions of the star wars empire from a galaxy far, far away it have Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Amidala, no word if Jar, Jar Binks is in this one.

"Mirrors":[R]

And just before Jack Bauer is back on 24, Kiefer Sutherland play a ex-cop who can only finds a job as a night watchman at department store and besan haunted by demons coming out of Mirrors, it looks like it coming out charterer form player that are no longer on 24.

"Vicky Cristina Barcelona":[PG-13]
[deserption from the free press.]

Vicky and Cristina, these two young Americans spend a summer in Spain and meet a flamboyant artist and his beautiful but insane ex-wife. Vicky is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina is a sexually adventurous free spirit. When they all become amorously entangled, both comedic and harrowing results ensue.

"Fly Me to the Moon":[G]

And coming off a movie and chimps in space, was have a CGI movies about guess what chick birds in space, what next kittens and pup on space.

"Henry Poole Is Here":[PG]
[desription from the free Press]

A man becomes a recluse to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. Then a nosy neighbor intervenes.

Playing at the Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak

The Singing Revolution (NR)

And just in time for released in the middle of the Olympics another film that tell the true store of a lot of countrymen in Estonia singing for there country in there decorating of independence after collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Playing at the Maple Art Theater in Bloomfield Hills

"Man on Wire":[PG-13]

And not only that this is a must doc it the true story about Frenchman and tightrope walker Philippe Petit planing and walking the wire in between World Trade Center back in 1974. i hear this story on NPR and this is a must see.

Story on NPR.org

And Playing this weekend at the Detroit Film Theater at The D.I.A.

UP THE YANGTZE
(Canada/2008—directed by Yung Chang)

In China it's known simply as “The River.” But the Yangtze – and all the life that surrounds it – is undergoing a transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history: the Three Gorges Dam. Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang returns to the stunning, quickly-disappearing landscape of his grandfather’s youth to trace the surreal experience of a lavish “farewell cruise” – packed with well-to-do American and European tourists – as it traverses the gargantuan waterway. Overflowing with wit and deeply perceptive humanism, Chang captures a decisive moment in modern history in what The New York Times called “An astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history.” (93 min.)

Playing
Friday and Saturday at 7 P.M. and 9 P.M.
And Sunday at 4 P.M.

and the Last part of the special event
Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy

Part Four:
A Better World
Sunday at 2 P.M.

An episode of the rarely seen Fraggle Rock (1983) contrasts three communities: the musical Fraggles, the industrious Doozers, and the giant Gorgs, who all co-exist in a carefully balanced underground world—with those mysterious human creatures who live above ground. The Song of the Cloud Forest (1989) is a beautiful evocation of the rainforest that focuses on the story of a golden toad who must avoid the “uprights” trying to catch him. (90 min.)


and playing at the discount theaher

SEX AND THE CITY(R)
THE LOVE GURU(PG-13)
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN(PG-13)

And Opening Next Week all over Detroit

Opening Next Wednesday

The Rocker (Wide)

Rainn Wilson stars as a failed former '80s hair band drummer
who unexpectedly gets a second chance at rock n' roll glory.

Opening Next Friday

Death Race (Wide)

In the near future, prison inmates compete for their freedom in a brutal, ultraviolent auto race using heavily armed monster cars.

The House Bunny (Wide)

A Playboy bunny, kicked out of Hef's mansion, finds a new job
as the housemother at the most unpopular sorority on campus.

The Longshots (Wide)

The true story of 11-year-old quarterback Jasmine Plummer,
the first female player in the history of Pop Warner football.

Film Gudie Friday for the weekend of August 8th

This Week as we goes thur the dead movie month of August, there is three midweek released and three friday released but after it all said and done The Dark knight will be No. 1 again and who know it will gross 475 millions.

OPEN WEDNESDAY

"Pineapple Express":[R]

Two lazy slackers get weed and witness a murder and now running for there life big time as James Franco and Seth Rogen stars in this action comedy.

"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2":[PG-13]

this a follow up to there 2005 adventure find the four friends tavel to Greece as they reconnect after a summer apart and get reconnect by pants, Oh did i say School get back in about a month.

Open at the Landmark Maple Art Cinema III in Bloomfield Hills

"Bottle Shock":[PG-13]

Base on the ture story, this Comedy/Drama trace the route to changelln the frech in one thing they know really well, putting on better wine.
Did i mention i don't drink.

OPEN FRIDAY

Playing at Birmingham 8 in downtown birmingham

"American Teen":[PG-13]

A doc follow Four teen in there serion year in high school in one small Indiana town, it something we all been there before.

"Kabluey":[PG-13]

Scott Prendergast star in this Comedy where he take a job to surport his family, but the only job he can find a embarrassing corporate mascot. Ouch!

Playing in select theahers

"Hell Ride":[R]


This is a old school spaghetti western where the The Victors and 666ers duke it out with inter confict in between.
Can you say this a Cable movie.

Playing at the DFT at the DIA

ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
(USA/2007—directed by Werner Herzog)

“No director demonstrates Werner Herzog’s gift for depicting the crushing inhuman power of natural landscapes, and the way that power transforms the human subject into something problematic. The vast empty splendor of Antarctica represents the quintessential Herzog setting and inspiration, with the physicists, biologists and vocanologists Herzog interviews – each struggling to extract meaning from this place – functioning as both comic and heroic doppelgangers within the director’s visionary enterprise. With Herzog’s penchant for lyrical speculation balanced by solid scientific and historical fact, Encounters reveals a place that exists wholly apart from our prosaic day-to-day human society, and represents a decisive work by an artist at the height of his powers.” –Larry Gross, Telluride Film Festival (98 min.)

Playing
Friday and Sunday at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM
and Sunday at 4:00 PM

and Part three of
MUPPETS, MUSIC & MAGIC: JIM HENSON'S LEGACY

Part Three
Muppet Fairytales
Sunday at 2:00 PM

What happens when you kiss a frog? No one can tell the story better than Kermit and his friends in The Frog Prince (1971). The Elves and the Shoemaker (1994) asks the question: What if the elves who come to the aid of the shoemaker are actually Elvises? See these classic tales through the googly eyes of the Muppets.

And DOnt forget a special event
This upcoming Thursday

DJ SPOOKY'S REBIRTH OF A NATION
This THursday at 8 P.M.

Conceptual artist Paul D. Miller, AKA DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, draws on his celebrated skills as a writer, musician, club DJ, philosopher, and social critic to create a multimedia performance that examines mythmaking and propaganda. Rebirth of a Nation is a video remix of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, hailed for its use of pioneering editing techniques and reviled for its racist depiction of African-Americans and distorted account of American history. Through Rebirth of a Nation, Miller offers a twenty-first century response to Griffith’s film that questions the fragmented perceptions that make up our complex history. Working in the motif of “DJ as director,” the artist cuts and pastes celluloid sequences “live” to create a new experience. The accompanying soundtrack is a mix of Miller’s electronic compositions, including a score recorded by the acclaimed string ensemble Kronos Quartet. The performance will be followed by a moderated discussion with the artist.

New at the Discount theaher

MEET DAVE (PG)
THE INCREDIBLE HULK (PG-13)

And Opening Everwhere Next week

Opening This Wednesday

Tropic Thunder (R)

Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. are Hollywood actors on the set of a war movie where everything goes wrong.

Opening Next Friday

Fly Me to the Moon 3-D (G)

A 3-D animated adventure about three young house flies who
stow away aboard the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

Henry Poole is Here (PG)

The discovery of a neighborhood "miracle" disrupts a dying man's plan to live out his days in seclusion and quiet desperation.

Mirrors (R)

Kiefer Sutherland is a department store security guard who becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving the store's mirrors.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG)

Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi return in a new animated chapter in the saga of the Star Wars universe.

Film Gudie Friday for the weekend of August 1st

It look like Batman will be around us for about a Months in the box office so i you have not seen it yet do go see it, i know one friend have seen it six times already it may be 20 times before the DVD come out.

But it Augset the one months on the movie caldanr where movies who think are hot in May, June or July go to be big bomb just before fall here what up.

Swing Vote [PG-13]

Kevin Costner play a total loser and because a chain of events could decied the presidential election and it either between Dennis Hopper or Kelsey Grammer.
AY, Ay , AY
What would Olbermann would think about it.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [PG-13]

Brendan Fraser is back above ground [remember he was underground in Journey to the Center of the Earth]playing Explorer Rick O'Connell in the third Mummy film where this one is set in China and and he battle Jet Li, will this be tougher than less say The Rock.

Playing at the Landmark Main Art in Downtown Royal Oak

Brick Land [PG-13]
[From Yahoo Movies!]

The story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen, who arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life.

When Did You Last See Your Father? [PG-13]
From Yahoo Movies]

An unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur's terminal illness and imminent death.

And Playing this Weekend at the D.I.A.

JELLYFISH
(Israel/2007—directed by Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen)

With an assured delicacy and slightly-off-kilter perspective, this entertaining and haunting new movie introduces us to three women who cross paths at a Tel Aviv wedding. Batiya, who’s just lost a boyfriend, is working at the wedding in a dead-end waitress job. Joy, a Filipina domestic, tends to an aged woman while longing for the companionship of her own child, thousands of miles away. When the bride, Keren, breaks her ankle, a disastrously tragicomic honeymoon soon follows. Winner of the Camera d’Or prize for Best First Feature at the Cannes Festival, this elegant, comic film marks a new cinematic voice in the husband and wife team of writer-directors Keret and Geffen. Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals. (78 min.)

Playing Friday at 7 PM and 9:30 PM
Sunday at 4 PM and 7 PM
and Monday at 7 PM

And part Two of
MUPPETS, MUSIC & MAGIC: JIM HENSON'S LEGACY
Sunday at 2 PM

Part Two

Commercials & Experiments

A mind-blowing collection of shorts, crazy commercials and other rarities from the Henson vault. Highlights include: an industrial film for Wilson’s Meat that must be seen to be believed, excerpts from experimental TV programs The Cube and Youth 68, and Time Piece, an 8-minute masterpiece that showcases Henson’s talent for making music out of everyday sounds. (90min.)

Playing at the Discount theather

IRON MAN [PG-13]
MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN [R]

And Opening Everwhere in detroit next week
or if you get board

Pineapple Express (R)

Seth Rogen and James Franco are stoners who go on the run after witnessing a murder by a crooked cop and a dangerous drug lord.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (PG-13)

Four lifelong friends wear the traveling pants again and embark
on separate paths for their first year of college and beyond.

And for all you Drak Knight fans come around thanksgiving time
for a even darker adventher

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The six film in the Harry Potter Series
Out on November 21st, 2008

Film Gudie Friday for the weekend of July 25th

After last week record breaking $158,411,483 take for Batman: The Dark Knight it look like with the summer movie season going in to the dead late summer released shecuald it look like it will be in the top spot for two or three more weeks let see the other movie can try to knock off the batman.

"Step Brothers"[R]

Two grown-up brothers still live together with there parents and become brother over night as there parents get married, but they laziness drive them crazy and force them to go out to the real world, sound very familiar...., this film reunite Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly since the 2006 NASCAR comedy film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" which was directed by Adam McKay who also directed this film

"The X-Files: I Want to Believe" [PG-13]

Oh my god her we go aging as Chris C. Carter bring back Mulder and Scully for anodher supernatral adventerd just 10 years after the 1st X-files movie, worst part none of the film Critics have no idea what the plot so they want to bevied but have no idea what the movie is all about.

Bonus: How about a video from the classic Welsh alt rock bacd "Catatonia" own to our two hero's.

The rest are from the Detroit Free Press

Opening up this weekend at Main Art

"The Wackness"[R]

Edgy, bittersweet and funny coming-of-age story set in New York City in the summer of 1994.

"The Last Mistress":[NR]

Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy. Not rated.

OPening up this weekend at Maple Art

"Brideshead Revisited"[PG-13]

Capt. Charles Ryder, who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during World War II, grows involved with the aristocratic Catholic family that owns the Brideshead estate. He is especially taken with brother and sister Sebastian and Julia. Rated PG-13 for sexual content.

"CSNY DéjÀ Vu"[R]

The war in Iraq is the backdrop as the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Freedom of Speech Tour" crisscrosses North America in 2006. Echoes of Vietnam-era antiwar sentiment abound.

Playing this weekend at D.F.T. at the D.I.A.

DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE
(Italy/1961- directed by Pietro Germi)

Baron Cefalù (the brilliant Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli of The Conformist), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he hatches a plan to lure Roslaia into the arms of another and then murder her in a justifiable effort to “save his honor.” Pietro Germi’s hilarious satire of Sicilian male-chauvinist culture won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, though it was originally conceived as a drama until it became apparent that the absurdity lurking at the story’s core was a bitterly funny comedy in disguise. (104 min.)

MUPPETS, MUSIC & MAGIC: JIM HENSON'S LEGACY

Program One
Muppet History 101
Sunday – 2:00 PM

Learn your Muppet history! This is material you won’t see anywhere else: early TV appearances, commercials, guest spots on the The Dick Cavett Show, and more! Plus, this program contains the rarely-seen pilot for The Muppet Show—“The Muppets: Sex and Violence.” The program will be introduced by special guest Craig Shemin, archivist for the Henson Foundation. (90min.)

And opening at the Discount Theaher this weekend:

SON OF RAMBOW (PG-13)
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN(PG)
THE HAPPENING (R)

Opening Next week everywhere in Detroit

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Wide)

Brendan Fraser must stop China's ruthless Dragon Emperor and his vast resurrected terra cotta army from taking over the world.

Film Guide Friday for The Weekend of July 18th

This week is one of thouse weeks where one movie get all press because one something or one thing of greather important it get special attenion more the the surporrting cast, since a untimely event back in February the top released of this week have more meaning other than the script other than what it all about but who is in it

That Movie is:

The Dark Knight [PG-13]

This is the latest of the batman film fanchiese since it was reviled back in 2005 with "Batman Begins", Christian Bale return as the Cape Curser as he fight crime in Gotham City and his alter ego Bruce Wayne.

the movie also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal taking over form Katie Holmes as Bruce Wayne love inster Rachel Dawes, Michael Caine returing as his bulter Lord Alfred, Gary Oldman Lt. as Lt. Officer James Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox.

but there is one stars that is getting all the attention, that is the late Heath Ledger who played the comical but dangererst "The Joker" is what turn out to be his last complet film roll before his untimely death back January 22 at the age of 28

The early review that i have read it look like the heath protrail of the clown prince of crime [which have been play in the past by Jack Nickinson in "Batman" in 1989 and Cesar Romero in the 1960's tv seriers] is one of the best perfromnce of the joker ever on the on screen.

and not olny that this is a tribute to one of the great Character actor who was gone way too soon, and yes he was a really good actor, i saw the "I'am not there" in the discount thether back in march and he was really good in it, he was also in "Monster's Ball", "Lords of Dogtown" [which was base out of the wonderful doc dogtown and Z-Boys] and the movie that won him a oscar non "Brokeback Mountain"

He Left us far to soon, but he left us with of the great perfromnice of all time

Below are the trailer of "The Drak Knight" and something i have never done on Film Guide Friday a list of the Theatres that are showing the drak night and before you go to see the movie it made be wise to called ahead and resever your tickets so you wount be shut out.

Theatres that shwoing Batman:

AMC Laurel Park 10 - Livonia
AMC Livonia 20 - Livonia
AMC Star Fairlane 21 - Dearborn
AMC Star Gratiot 21 - Clinton Township
AMC Star Great Lakes 25 - Madison Heights
AMC Star John R 15 - Rochester Hills
AMC Star Rochester Hills 10 - Rochester Hills
AMC Star Southfield 20 - Southfield
AMC Star Taylor 10 - Taylor
Birmingham - Palladium 12 - Downtown Birmingham
Emagine Canton- Canton
Emagine Novi - Novi
Ford Wyoming 1-5[Drive-In] - Dearborn
Goodrich Canton 7 - Canton Township
Goodrich Krafft 8 Theater - Port Huron
Goodrich Oxford 7 - Oxford
Goodrich Quality 16 - Ann Arbor
MJR Adrian Cinema 10 - Adrian
MJR Brighton Towne Square Cinema 20 - Brighton
MJR Chesterfield Crossing Cinema 16 - Chesterfield
MJR Marketplace Sterling Heights Cinema 20 - Sterling Heights
MJR Southgate 20 - Southgate - Waterford Township
MJR Waterford Cinema 16 - Waterford Township
Phoenix Adlabs - Novi Town Center 8 - Novi,
Phoenix Theatres Bel-Air Centre - Detroit East Side
Phoenix Theatres West River Centre - Farmington Hills
Riverfront 4 - Downtown Detroit
Riverside Cinemas - Marine City
Showcase Cinemas Ann Arbor - Ann Arbor
UA Commerce Stadium 14 - Walled Lake

And this film is also show in IMAX
at these locations:

AMC Forum 30 with IMAX - Sterling Heights
IMAX at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village - Dearborn

There are other movie opening this weekend
and they are:

Mamma Mia! [PG-13]

Meryl Streep Daugher is geting married and not only that she have three differcen Father but one of them is the real father so do they take it on the maury show to ask that words "You Are The Father", No you make a Movie with a lot of ABBA songs in it.

and Sorry if i ask when will Mamma Mia! return to the fisher theater, i want to see the live stage version.


And as a added bouns
Here the song sung by ABBA



Space Chimps [G]

And coming off last week dud of a Movie like "Meet Dave" [which bomb big time last week], we have a movie with Animation space chimps trying to reteved a space probe after it was lost in a space hole.

1st Eddie murphy contorling a spaceship looking like himself, then Animation space monkeys what Next a bad remake of the mid 70's Space serier Space: 1999 who know it could be boring.

I go watch "Pigs in space" instaed




Playing at the Landmark Main Art in Royal Oak

Tell No One [NR]
[description from Rotten Tomatoes at www.rottentomatoes.com]

Francois Cluzet stars in this French thriller from director Guillaume Canet. Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, doctor Alex Beck receives an ominous email from an unknown source. The message contains a video image of Alex's thought-to-be dead wife in real time.

Plauing at the DFT at the DIA

MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD

A smash hit in Italy, My Brother is an Only Child reunites director Luchetti with the screenwriters of his acclaimed The Best of Youth. Set in a small town in the 1960s and 70s, it’s the story of two brothers who want to change the world – one as a prime mover in the local Communist Party, the other as a Fascist. What begins as a simple tale of sibling rivalry becomes an indelible portrait of the social upheavals of those turbulent times, as well as an unexpected love story. An intensely satisfying cinematic work about dreams and disillusionments, My Brother harks back to the exuberance of the early classics by Bellochio and Bertolucci.

And playing on the Saturday Double Creaher
feather at 3:00 PM on Saturday

THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD

These sequels to the 1957 classic The 7th Voyage of Sinbad both feature fantastic creatures from special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. In The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, the fearless sailor (played by John Phillip Law) reconstructs a golden map that leads him to strange lands and amazing adventures. (105 min.)

SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger finds our intrepid captain (Patrick Wayne) saddled with the task of restoring back into human form a prince who’s been transformed into a baboon just before his coronation day. Harryhausen’s last film in the Sinbad cycle was nearly two years in production, and looks great on the big, big screen! (113 min.)

New at the discount theaher Discount thether

Belived it or not

There is nothing new at the discount theaher this week show he is the latest listing from my fave discount theaher the Cinamark theaher in Warren.

Baby Mama
College Road Trip
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
Made of Honor
Prom Night
Speed Racer
Street Kings
Superhero Movie
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Strangers
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
What Happens in Vegas

and opening up next week in Detroit and everywhere else

Step Brothers (Wide)

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are middle-aged, overgrown boys who become step brothers when their parents get married.

The X-Files: I Want To Believe (Wide)

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their TV roles as agents searching for the truth and investigating the unexplained.

Flim Guide Friday for the Weekend of July 11th

There only three new films this week a wram up to next week to big released
here are the offering

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

it the return of everybody fave mis-understood mean rad superhero from the deep of hell in the Sequel to 2004 film which made almost $60 Millions bucks, as our red superhero battle a unstopable evil ouch this could be bad, did i mention this also star Selma Blair to Ron Perlman red menice.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

This time Brendan Fraser take a turn as a professor who take two friends to a expedition in Iceland where they goes below the Earth's surface and visit worlds and unusual people who may go back to the Earth's surface and may become the next Iceland singing super star [can you say "sugarcubes"]


Meet Dave


Eddie Murphy played a commandar of a spaceship the come Crashing into NYC as they find way to save there planet oh did i mention the spaceship is the from of Eddie Murphy

Playing at the Main Art Theaher in Royal Oak

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

This is the Biopic Documentary of the leagdonair gonzo journalism who set the stage for every other take no prisoner stlye of journalism which also feather his 1970 book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas which stars Johnny Depp who also Narrated the doc.

Bouns Trailer: on the bottom the the Gonzo Trailer is the trailers for the 1998 film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

Playing at the Maple Art Theaher in Bloomfield Hills

Elsa & Fred
[discrption from yahoo movies]

Aging widowers Elsa and Fred visit the Trevi Fountain in Rome, the landmark from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita", and the experience rekindles their passion for love.

And this week at Detroit Film Theatre at the D.I.A.

MY WINNIPEG

From Canadian wunderkind Guy Maddin (Brand Upon the Brain! The Saddest Music in the World) comes another joyously demented, deeply witty work; this time, it’s a personally narrated fever dream about young Guy’s childhood in the wintry hometown of his memories. Maddin describes My Winnipeg’s disarming blend of documentary and surrealism as “docutasia,” a singular vision that appears to be a long-lost artifact from a movie history that never quite existed. Winner, Best Canadian Feature, Toronto Film Festival.

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

In the beloved 3-D Creature from the Black Lagoon, a scientific expedition travels up the Amazon and encounters an astounding amphibian with humanoid features. The stalwart explorers (Richard Carlson, Julie Adams and Richard Denning) are amazed and terrified as they wrestle (literally) with the incredible Gill-Man! (79 min.)

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE

Based on a story by Ray Bradbury, It Came from Outer Space stars Richard Carlson as a man who believes he’s witnessed a spaceship’s crash landing – though local residents (mistakenly) dismiss it as a meteor. One by one, their minds are taken over by “it,” and it’s up to Carlson and Barbara Rush to stand up to the one-eyed monster! Both films will be shown in the miracle of “anaglyphic” 3-D. Red and blue glasses will be provided! (81 min.)

Playing at the Discount theaher

THE STRANGERS

Next Week

The Dark Knight (Wide)

Christian Bale returns as the Caped Crusader to protect Gotham City from the mad criminal mastermind known as the Joker.

Edtior Note: this movie is getting a lot of buzz because this is Heath Ledger last complet film before his untimely passing last Janurary.

Mamma Mia! (Wide)

On a musical quest to find her real father, a bride-to-be locates three men from her mother's past and invites them to her wedding.

Space Chimps (Wide)

Two NASA chimps find themselves on a fantastic journey to save a strange, uncharted planet's inhabitants from a tyrannical leader.