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The Fog stars Tom Welling as Nick Castle and Maggie Grace as Elizabeth Williams. Tom Welling is the star of the WB's Smallville. He plays a young Clark Kent before he moved to Metropolis. The Fog seemed a lot like a episode of Smallville complete with it's usual music choices. Maggie Grace was recently killed off of the very popular show Lost on ABC. Her Lost TV step brother Boone played by Ian Somerhalder also met the same fate dying off of Lost. He coincidentally, played a character named Adam a few seasons ago on Smallville.

I highly recommend the Legend of Zorro dvd! It's got the expected Zorro swashbuckling sword play, explosions, and a awesome train scene. It's hard to compare it to the first Zorro with Antonio Banderas. I'm tempted to say it may not been quite as good, but it would be close. I'll have to watch it again to be sure.

This week Big Momma comedy takes the number one spot with 28 million big ones. This is Martin Lawrence's biggest movie since Bad Boys 2 which also starred Will Smith.

1. Big Momma's House 2, $28 million starring Martin Lawrence

This weeks box office was taken over by matrix like vampires and werewolves in Underworld Evolution. It was followed by two other cool looking movies Hoodwinked, and Glory Road. It's about time there was a motivational sports movie made. Seems like the Rocky, Karate Kid type films haven't been around for quite a while.

The Great Raid stars Spiderman's James Franco as Captain Prince a real life hero from World War 2 who lead a courageous raid to save captured American soldiers from the Japanese.

The movie is very patriotic in tone, but it's more of a historical piece than a John Wayne flag waver. It's authenic, realistic, and respectful to the real life soldiers and heroes of World War 2. If action is your ownly reason for watching movies you may be disappointed just a little. This movie is mostly story driven and is for those of us who love history. Still the ending is very action packed filled with explosions, gunfire, etc. The good guys win in the end. Just the way I like a movie.

Please enjoy this article by By Robert Sprackland on King Kong 1933 and 2005.

Those of us who are 82 years old or older might remember the premier of a novel motion picture. While many movies during the Great Depression aimed to provide good feelings and a ray of hopeful sunshine into devastated lives, this particular movie had a somewhat different effect on the audiences. When people got their first glimpse of the giant ape called Kong, pandemonium broke out in the theater. People unintentionally mimicked sacrifice Ann Darrow (played by almost constantly screaming Fay Wray) and panicked. Like Darrow, they screamed, some fainted; others ran to the aisles and out of the theater.

Jason Statham is the Transporter, Frank Martin. More so than the first Frank Martin comes off as a super hero on this one. There is even a scene where a bad guy refers to Frank as a super hero.
I personally love super hero movies so I won't complain too much.

This weekend "King Kong" took an unexpected fall for a couple of more notches to number 7. "Chronicles of Narnia" still hanging in the top 5 at 4. A family friendly animated flick "Hoodwinked" takes the top spot at number one and a awesome looking basketball movie, "Glory Road" takes the second spot. At the risk of getting blasted by special interest groups, I'm surprised the Brokeback Mountain has remained in the top ten for another week. I guess all that constant advertising and pulling from just about everywhere has paid off for the over-hyped latest Hollywood liberal machine. John Wayne is probably rolling over in his grave, pilgrims. Normally, a flick that hovers toward the bottom of the top ten having never entered the top 5 would be considered a total flop, but obviously Hollywood loves this film, so it could make two dollars and be declared the greatest thing since swiss cheese. That's just my observation. You really do have to wonder what the Duke would have to say about it since he was the king of westerns. It probably wouldn't sound very pretty.

Here's a new movie review for the movie Hostel. I can understand Robert's opinion. I might go even farther to say personally, I hate most horror movies. Gore isn't scary it's just warps the mind! Seeing people suffer is just not my bag of tea. I don't think Hollywood has truly made anything that is actually scary since the old Twilight Zone TV show. It's scary when you don't know what's going to happen to a character that you actually can identify with or care about. Call me crazy, I think there should be at least some thought put into a movie. Anyway here's Robert Crane's review on Hostel.

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