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[ September 25, 2009 to September 27, 2009. ] Walt Disney offers up this big-budget science fiction action adventure, in which people vicariously live out their fantasies by having their conscioussness inhabit artificial bodies. Sounds like an interesting premise for exploring how technology can changes our lives, but you just know Hollywood needs some kind of generic plot device to drive the story – and [...]

[ September 23, 2009 to September 27, 2009. ] Summit Entertainment releases this big-budget update of Osamu Tezuka’s classic 1960s animation series, which set the standards for anime for decades to come. Freddie Highmore provides the voice of the titular robot, created by a grieving scientist (voiced by Nicolas Cage) in the image of his dead son. Former Aardman Animations director David Bowers was [...]

[ September 18, 2009 to September 20, 2009. ] This computer-animated family fantasy features the voices of Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell, Andy Samberg, James Caan, Mr. T and Tracy Morgan. The screenplay tells of an aspiring young inventor whose contraptions always go wrong until he finds a method make cloud rain food instead of water. Co-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller wrote [...]

[ September 9, 2009; 11:00 am; ] Here is the trailer for 9, the new animated feature film produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, and directed by Shane Acker. Not to get too carried away, it looks absolutely awesome, immediately jumping to the top of the “Must See” list for 2009  (although, curiously, the look of the characters is less suggestive [...]

[ September 11, 2009; ] Stop me if you’ve heard this one: some girls are being killed because they were involved in a prank that accidentally killed one of their sorority sisters. Well, it should sound familiar: this is a remake of 1983’s HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW – although why anyone would bother securing the rights is a mystery. Although [...]

[ September 18, 2009 to September 20, 2009. ] Megan Fox (TRANSFORMERS) stars in this horror flick about a hot high school chick possessed by a demon that kills off her male classmates. (Sounds like MANDY LANE meets THE EXORCIST, with maybe a little TEETH thrown in.) Amanda Seyfriend, Adam Brody, and J.K. Simmons co-star. Karyn Kusama directs from a script by Diablo Cody, [...]