Miley Cyrus' ‘Hannah Montana' persona goes from TV to the big screen
McClatchy Newspapers
4/8/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The steady beep of a school bus backing up fills the early morning air. It mixes with the drone of street traffic to create the melody of the city. All of the traffic is passing by a rather nondescript set of buildings on Sunset Avenue. The majority of the drivers ...
12 Rounds
Catholic Media Review
4/8/2009, by Christine Schult
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - In 12 Rounds, Cena plays Danny Fisher, a New Orleans cop who helps catch a terrorist, Miles Jackson. While he is apprehending Jackson, Jackson's girlfriend tries to run and gets hit and killed by a car. One year later, Jackson escapes and comes looking for ...
The Haunting in Connecticut
Catholic Media Review
4/8/2009, by Christine Schult
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - Matt Campbell is a teenager afflicted with cancer. He is participating in a treatment trial at a Connecticut hospital, so his family rents a house near the hospital. The guy who rents them the house mentions that the house has a "bit of history", which turns ...
Paul Walker talks fast and furiously about returning to car films that made him a star
McClatchy Newspapers
4/6/2009, by Barry Koltnow
The Orange County Register (MCT) - Didn't Paul Walker vow never to make another "Fast and Furious" movie? Did Vin Diesel really make more money than Walker for the fourth installment of the illegal street-racing movie franchise? How long did it take the teenage Walker to get a speeding ticket after ...
Baseball is sweet in the Dominican Republic, according to ‘Sugar'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/2/2009, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Baseball, or "beisbol," says Algenis Perez Soto, is more than a sport in his native country, the Dominican Republic. It's more than a religion, too. "Baseball has become a business, almost, there, not a sport," says Soto, young star of the new baseball/immigrant drama ...
Martin Starr's lucky streak continues with ‘Adventureland' role
McClatchy Newspapers
4/2/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Martin Starr has never had to worry about taking bad jobs just to pay the rent because he has landed enough acting roles to keep him going. He's certainly not having to worry about it now. Starr's not only a cast regular on the new Starz Channel comedy series "Party ...
Passing the (Joe) Buck: Jon Voight remembers ‘Midnight Cowboy,' 40 years later
McClatchy Newspapers
4/2/2009, by Roger Moore
he Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - It's a film that still has the power to move, shock and disturb, 40 years after its release. Characters, situations and lines of dialogue entered the cultural consciousness, starting with the title. Even though it was rated X, seemingly everybody saw "Midnight Cowboy." ...
‘Fast & Furious'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/1/2009, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - "Fast & Superfluous" is the fourth film in the "Fast/Furious" franchise, a tepid, repetitive and digitally augmented hot cars-hot women thriller that might probably won't give Vin Diesel and Paul Walker the career boost that "The Fast and the Furious" did. "Fast & ...
‘Adventureland'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/1/2009, by Robert W. Butler
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Fresh from college with a degree in Renaissance studies, young James (Jesse Eisenberg) anticipates a fun-filled European summer. But Dad's recent downsizing means there's no cash for a Riviera cavort, much less grad school. So unless someone needs help restoring a ...
Greg Mottola relives his amusement-park youth with ‘Adventureland'
McClatchy Newspapers
3/30/2009, by Rafer Guzmán
Newsday (MCT) - If you ever visited Farmingdale, N.Y.'s Adventureland amusement park in the mid-1980s and failed to win that giant plushy prize, Greg Mottola, a Long Island native whose 1984 summer job there inspired his new film, "Adventureland," may have an explanation. "I remember vividly ...
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