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Carolina Moon

Wasn’t it one of the Wolfe boys who said that you can’t go home again? I suppose it is true in an abstract sense since all places and those returning are not the same as time passes. You can go back but you shouldn’t expect things to be the same as when you left. Tory Bodeen (Claire Forlani) is back to stay in her small home town but she’s not expecting much to be different when she left. Via a psychic vision, she knew where to find the body of her best friend Hope who had been murdered, the first of a string that continues every year on the same day. Her father had been the principal suspect when he was paid off to skip town. Folks are not too welcoming when she begins to open up her small shop on main street. But a few are able to move beyond the gossip. Cade Lavelle (Oliver Hudson) is still goofy over her and his sister Faith (Josie Davis) proves to be a fountain of support that Tory (and Faith) finds surprising.


Director:  Stephen Tolkin
Writer:  Stephen Tolkin; Nora Roberts
Cast:
Claire Forlani -  Victoria ‘Tory’ Bodeen
Oliver Hudson -  Cade Lavelle
Josie Davis -  Faith Lavelle
Jonathan Scarfe -  Dwight Collier
Chad Willett -  Wade Mooney
Jacqueline Bisset -  Margaret Lavelle
Shaun Johnston -  Han Bodeen
Greg Lawson -  Police Chief Carl Russ
Maureen Rooney -  Sari Bodeen
Kailin See -  Sherry Bellows
Shae Keebler -  Young Hope Lavelle / Young Faith Lavelle
Gabrielle Casha -  Young Tory Bodeen
Brieanna Moench -  Lissy
Kade Phillips -  Young Cade
Connor Robinson -  Young Wade
Taison Gelinas -  Young Dwight









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Walking Tall: The Payback

Sneaky, creepy guys bluster and chatter like squirrels and they have a predilection for going after the girls. Harvey Morris (A.J. Buckley) and his two buddies arrive at Crystal Martin’s (Jennifer Sipes) trailer eager to punish her for talking to the good guys about a secret council meeting. They try intimidation and move on to rape to show how manly they are.


Director:  Tripp Reed; Earl Bellamy
Writer:  Joe Halpin; Brian Strasmann; Howard B. Kreitsek
Cast:
Kevin Sorbo -  Nick Prescott
Yvette Nipar -  Agent Kate Jensen
A.J. Buckley -  Harvey Morris
Gail Cronauer -  Emma Prescott
Bentley Mitchum -  Walter Morris
Haley Ramm -  Samantha Jensen
Jennifer Sipes -  Crystal Martin
Robert Paschall Jr. -  Doyle Reed
Charles Baker -  Nate
Ron Bath -  Restaurant Patron
Riley Chambers -  Juror
Steve M. Clark -  Police/Deputy Sheriff
Jerry Cotton -  Traxell Byrne
John S. Davies -  Det. Pete Michaels
Vince Davis -  Dan Moses
J.D. Fryberger -  Howie









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Spider-Man 3

You work hard to get to the point in your career where you think you have finally made it. Work is going well, you feel you have begun to accomplish all you set out to do. Mary Jane Parker (Kirsten Dunst) is in just such a position. She’s featured in a musical and hopes it will be the springboard for her life as a singer. She knows it went well and Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) finally came to watch one of her shows. Life is good. Then the devastating reviews come in and she’s replaced with nary a word form the producers. And Peter doesn’t fulfill his boyfriend-end of the bargain.


Director:  Sam Raimi
Writer:  Sam Raimi; Ivan Raimi; Alvin Sargent; Stan Lee; Steve Ditko
Cast:
Tobey Maguire -  Spider-Man / Peter Parker
Kirsten Dunst -  Mary Jane Watson
James Franco -  New Goblin / Harry Osborn
Thomas Haden Church -  Sandman / Flint Marko
Topher Grace -  Venom / Edward ‘Eddie’ Brock
Bryce Dallas Howard -  Gwen Stacy
Rosemary Harris -  May Parker
J.K. Simmons -  J. Jonah Jameson
James Cromwell -  Captain Stacy
Theresa Russell -  Emma Marko
Dylan Baker -  Dr. Curt Connors
Bill Nunn -  Joseph ‘Robbie’ Robertson
Bruce Campbell -  Maître d?
Elizabeth Banks -  Betty Brant
Ted Raimi -  Hoffman
Willem Dafoe -  Norman Osborn









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Rise

Sometimes what you realize that you don’t know as much as you think you do. Proto-vampire Sadie (Lucy Liu) is killing those who turned her. She finds Eve (Carla Gugino) in a lounge and is about to stake her with a crossbow, when Eve tries to persuade and seduce her with information and misdirection. Sadie may be a novice and in need of some context for her future, but a silver tongue will only take you so far.

In a delightful skirmish of words we discover that Sadie’s saviour isn’t what he seems to be. Eve isn’t as charming as she thinks she is. And Sadie isn’t as gullible as Eve hopes.


Director:  Sebastian Gutierrez
Writer:  Sebastian Gutierrez
Cast:
Robert Forster -  Lloyd
Cameron Richardson -  Collette
Lucy Liu -  Sadie Blake
Allan Rich -  Harrison
Samantha Shelton -  LA Weekly Editor
Kevin Wheatley -  Ethan Mills
Margo Harshman -  Tricia Rawlins
Cameron Goodman -  Kaitlin
Holt McCallany -  Rourke
James D’Arcy -  Bishop
Carla Gugino -  Eve
Michael Chiklis -  Clyde Rawlins
Paul Cassell -  Detective Easton
Mako -  Poe
Sam Cooper -  Coroner’s Assistant
Natsuko Ohama -  Sadie’s Mother









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Enchanted

The day-to-day drudgery of maintaining a home, the meeting and avoiding street people from musicians to street vendors and the startling impact of meeting someone who may be ‘the one’ are situations that always call for a method to handle them with grace and aplomb. My approach has always been to take the centre and try to avoid the pain of crushes (for that is what they usually are), the harangue of solicitation and the ennui of cleaning. But I hadn’t thought that breaking into song might solve the annoyance of having to be involved in these events. Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) makes it seems so worthwhile. I think I’ll give it a try.


Director:  Kevin Lima
Writer:  Bill Kelly
Cast:
Julie Andrews -  Narrator
Amy Adams -  Giselle
Patrick Dempsey -  Robert Philip
James Marsden -  Prince Edward
Susan Sarandon -  Queen Narissa
Timothy Spall -  Nathaniel
Idina Menzel -  Nancy Tremaine
Rachel Covey -  Morgan Philip
Jeff Bennett -  Pip in Andalasia
Kevin Lima -  Pip in New York
Emma Rose Lima -  Bluebird / Fawn / Rapunzel
Teala Dunn -  Bunny
Fred Tatasciore -  Troll
Courtney Williams -  Sunglass Street Vendor
William Huntley -  Grumpy
Samantha Ivers -  Angie