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Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, the two form an uneasy partnership. Full story

If you've somehow not yet noticed Paul Rudd's subtle comic gifts, this is the movie -- structured like a romantic comedy but with a friendly, gentle gender-bending twist -- that makes them plain to see. Paul Rudd has made invaluable contributions to a slew of movies (including Clueless, The Object of My Affection, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Role Models), nearly always in an ensemble or supporting role and just as often raising the quality level of the film. Full story

Where genre movies are concerned, there's nothing like low expectations going in to boost your appreciation coming out. A remake of 1972's horror thriller, The Last House on the Left, promised to be a thoroughly dispiriting revisitation of a movie most of us certainly never wanted to see again, something -- in the current era of torture porn during which we've already had five Saw flicks -- on the order of last year's absolutely reprehensible and worthless The Strangers. But, Full story

Movie Synopsis Miss March is an upcoming sex comedy film directed by and starring members of the Whitest Kids U' Know Trevor Moore and Zach Cregger. It is scheduled for release on March 13, 2009. Full story

Based on the popular Japanese manga created by Akira Toriyama whose work spawned best-selling graphic novels, video games and a phenomenally successful television series, "Dragonball" centres on the heroic Goku, a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the Universe and controlling the mystical ... Full story

Zack Snyder's Watchmen is not your average graphic novel adaptation. Unlike with 300, which was short and sharp and shallow and easy to adapt, the original Watchmen is incredibly dense and, as written, unfilmable. So Snyder did something very smart - he didn't even try. What he did instead was to take ... Full story

Movie Synopsis Race to Witch Mountain is an upcoming remake of the original 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain, using elements from the originating book of the same name. The film is directed by Andy Fickman and stars Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino and Christine Lakin. Filming began in Los Angeles in March 2008. Race to Witch Mountain is scheduled to be released on March 13, 2009. Full story