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Присе́ки — село в Бежецком районе Тверской области. Входит в состав Васюковского сельского поселения.

География
Находится в 11 километрах к югу от районного центра Бежецк, на левом берегу реки Мологи.

История
Село упоминается в письменных источниках с конца XIV века. По переписи 1710 года в Городецком стане Бежецкого уезда значится: вотчина Троицы Сергиева монастыря село Присеки з деревнями….

В 1859 году в казённом селе Присеки при реке Мологе — церковь, 59 дворов, 360 жителей. В середине XIX-начале XX века село центр прихода Скорыневской волости Бежецкого уезда Тверской губернии. В 1887 году село Присеки имеет 84 двора, 435 жителей.

По переписи 1920 года в Присеках — 504 жителя.

С 1935 года село центр сельсовета Бежецкого района Калининской области.

В 1997 году — 107 хозяйств, 270 жителей. Администрация Присецкого сельского округа, центральная усадьба и правление колхоза «Заря», неполная средняя школа, детсад, библиотека, медпункт, почта, магазин.

Население

Население по переписи 2002 года — 266 человек: 123 мужчины, 143 женщины.

Достопримечательности
 Церковь Успения (1793, начало XIX века).

Примечания

Ссылки
 Сборник статистических сведений о Тверской губернии. Т. 6, вып. 2: Бежецкий уезд. — 1891.
 Электронный энциклопедический справочник «Тверская область»
 Православные Храмы Тверской Земли

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Tendai Mtawarira sustained a groin injury in Saturday's 35-6 victory over Italy in Padova, and while the experienced front ranker will be afforded the maximum time to recover, it was decided to call up Du Toit as extra cover.
Meanwhile, the Springbok squad arrived in Cardiff on Sunday afternoon following their victory over Italy. The match in Cardiff is the final Test of the Springboks' Outgoing Tour.


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Bases de lançamentos espaciais, também conhecidas como espaçoportos ou cosmódromos, são estruturas especialmente preparadas para o lançamento de veículos espaciais, como foguetes e ônibus espaciais.

As bases com condições para lançamento são as seguintes:

 América do Norte (Estados Unidos)
 Estação da Força Aérea de Cabo Canaveral (de 1963-1973 conhecida como Cabo Kennedy), em Merritt Island, Flórida
 Centro Espacial John Kennedy Space Center, em Merritt Island, Flórida
 Base da Força Aérea de Vandenberg, Califórnia
 Complexo de Lançamentos de Kodiak, Kodiak Island Borough, Alasca
 Aeroporto de Meadows, Bakersfield, Califórnia. Tecnicamente não é considerada uma base de lançamentos espaciais, mas realiza pesquisas e testes orbitais dos foguetes Pegasus.
 Base de Lançamentos Espaciais de Mojave, Mojave, Califórnia
 Base de Lançamentos Espaciais de Oklahoma, Burns Flat, Oklahoma
 Base de Lançamentos Espaciais Regional de Southwest, Upham, Novo México

 América do Sul
 Centro de Lançamento da Barreira do Inferno, Parnamirim - RN, Brasil
 Centro Espacial de Lançamentos de Alcântara, Maranhão, Brasil
 Centro Espacial de Kourou, Guiana Francesa

 Ásia
 Cosmódromo de Baikonur, Tyuratam, Cazaquistão
 Cosmódromo de Plesetsk, Rússia
 Cosmódromo de Vostochny, Rússia
 Centro de Lançamento de Satélite de Wenchang, China
 Centro de Lançamento de Satélite de Jiuquan, China
 Centro de Lançamento de Taiyuan, China
 Centro Espacial de Xichang, China
 Centro Espacial de Tanegashima, Ilhas Tanegashima, Japão
 Centro Espacial de Uchinoura, Japão
 Centro Espacial de Satish Dhawan, Índia

 Europa
 Centro de Lançamento de Esrange, Quiruna, Suécia
 Centro de Lançamento de Andøya, Andøy, Noruega

 Oceania
 Base de Lançamentos Espaciais das Ilhas Christmas, Austrália

Ver também
 Astronáutica
 Exploração espacial
 Lista de foguetes
 Plataforma de lançamento
 Veículo de lançamento

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December 11, 2014 admin	Civil Rights
Cops use taser on woman while she recorded arrest of another man
"You a dumb bitch," video captures cop saying after yanking victim from car.
A 36-year-old Baltimore woman claims she was tased by police and arrested while filming the arrest of a man with her mobile phone, according to a lawsuit to be served on the Baltimore City Police Department as early as Thursday.
Video of the March 30 melee surfaced online this week. Police erased the 135-second recording from the woman's phone, but it was recovered from her cloud account, according to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City lawsuit (PDF), which seeks $7 million.
Kianga Mwamba was driving home from a family gathering in March. Stopped in traffic, she began filming the nearby arrest of a man who she says was kicked by police.
"You telling me I can't record," the woman says on the video as police tell her to move on.
"I'll park. I'll park. I'll park," the woman is heard saying in her own recording.
All of a sudden an officer says, "Out of the car. Out of the car."
She was yanked out. "He burning me. He burning me," the woman is heard screaming.
The lawsuit comes as at least one state, Illinois, moves to ban the recording of the police amid calls across the nation for cops to be equipped with body cameras to help prevent future police scuffles resulting in deaths. President Barack Obama has also weighed in on the issue, announcing last week that the administration would provide $75 million in funding to police departments to purchase body cameras. Even before Obama's announcement, local police departments were gobbling them up as fast as they could in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri death of Michael Brown.
Mwamba was arrested on charges of assault for allegedly trying to run over two officers. Charges were dropped, and she suffered cuts and bruises.
At the end of the tape, an officer says, "You a dumb bitch, you know that?"
"What did I do?" she asks.
"You just tried to run over an officer," the officer responds.
While in custody, she gave her phone to an officer to show the video that she didn't try to run over anybody. The video was allegedly erased from the phone in what her attorney, Joshua Insley, described in a telephone interview as a "coverup."
The police department said in a statement that the language the officer used was "both offensive and unacceptable."
"The video does not capture enough information to draw definitive conclusions about what transpired before, during, and after the arrest," the department said. "What is clear is that the language used is unacceptable and will not be tolerated."
The suit, filed last week, said the police "attacked" the woman, "dragged" her from her vehicle, and "threw her onto the street, handcuffed her, tasered her, called her a 'dumb bitch,' and kept her restrained."
The suit says the officers arrested Mwamba and "threw her face-down on the street" to "prevent the disclosure of the video taken of them beating a handcuffed man."
That handcuffed man was 27-year-old Cordell Bruce, who faces assault charges on allegations of striking an officer outside a nightclub—charges Bruce denies. The video does not capture him being beaten by police.


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August 21, 2020	Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
The Associated Press reports:
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Master director Hirokazu Kore-eda adapts Akimi Yoshida's manga of four sisters creating a new family in the wake of a father's passing. The resulting film is one of his finest to date.
When their father—absent for the last 15 years—dies, three sisters travel to his funeral and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings….
The Toronto International Film Festival presented another great lineup of Japanese films this year, among them the latest by festival favourites Takashi Miike, Sion Sono, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Naomi Kawase and Mamoru Hosoda. Hirokazu Kore-eda is probably the festival's most beloved Japanese director—every film in his career since 1996 has had its place in the TIFF lineup. He is back this year with his adaptation of Akimi Yoshida's bestselling serial manga Umimachi Diary, titled Our Little Sister in English.
In one of the film's closing scenes at the beach, the sisters agree that a key component to happiness is the ability to see and appreciate beauty. That too is the key to enjoying this film, whether searching Haruka Ayase's perfect porcelain beauty for ripples of submerged regret and guilt, gazing at Kore-eda's lovely watercolour photography or appreciating the delicately balanced screenplay that shows us very little yet tells us so much. The film has been embraced by the Japanese film public and rightfully so.
Our Little Sister is about the three twenty-something Kōda sisters who live in Kamakura in a rambling wooden house owned by their great-aunt Fumiyo (Kirin Kiki). Sachi (Haruka Ayase), the eldest sister and de facto head of the family, works as a terminal care nurse; the middle child, Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa), has a successful career at a bank; the youngest, Chika (Kaho), is a fun-loving free spirit. Learning of their estranged father's death—he left 15 years earlier to marry another woman in Yamagata—the sisters travel to the funeral and encounter his widow and his daughter: their 14-year-old half-sister, Suzu (Suzu Hirose). Suzu's mother is clearly not a competent parent and the sisters, identifying with shy Suzu's loss, impulsively invite their half-sister to live with them. She accepts and soon joins their household.
The film explores the gentle shifts and evolving alliances within this emerging family, probing the theme of family dynamics, particularly those in fragmented or composite families. As in films like Nobody Knows and Still Walking, it is the absent characters—those separated by death or circumstance—who are of major significance; here too they are very much present. Kore-eda cleverly shows them to us as reflections within the living characters: stern but sensitive Sachi is the shadow of her grandmother, Yoshino is their romantically confused mother and in Chika we see the free spirit of her father. The film also benefits from an unforced chemistry between the sisters, often seen laughing or bickering over a meal. Kore-eda has said that this byplay is genuine as the four leads spent almost a year together making the film and had ample time to get to know one another as well as their characters. Kore-eda has been called the world's finest director of children, wrapping stories around their unscripted and natural behaviour. It's clear he has done the same here, capturing unguarded moments from the adult cast.
The film's pace is slow and it should be: this sumptuous banquet of subtle flavours and rich variety is something to savour. It takes it time and it is certainly worth yours.
Our Little Sister has been picked up for Canadian distribution, so expect to see it in cinemas, and at the JCCC, soon.


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How would you improve Crazy Beat?
Discussion about the band and related projects.
Moderators: tom_cas1, Caitlin, MrMagpie
AdvertBreak
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Post by AdvertBreak » 16 Jan 2016, 00:02
The only thing that does my head in is the second verse. "Come on Bush, party with me, lets do drugs!" I know the whole thing is tongue in cheek, but for fuck sake.
The rest of it sounds like 2000s Fatboy Slim with added post-punk revival though. Not bad at all.
But, regardless, whenever I think of Think Tank, I kinda think of the song as this sad little blip that stops it from being a classic, and that's only because you hate it so. So, in order for Think Tank to become a classic (no comments about it never being one without Graham etc.), how would you actually re-arrange the song altogether?
And sure, Donald Duck and yeah yeah yeahs will come up a lot, but those are fiiiine
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Lt Pinkerton
Re: How would you improve Crazy Beat?
Post by Lt Pinkerton » 16 Jan 2016, 00:19
Denying its existence as I've been doing for the last 10 years.
Seriously though, what I find extremely annoying about Crazy Beat is how uninteresting the instrumental track is. There's nothing fun going on about it, not even Alex's bass - and I think we can all agree that there isn't a Blur album with better basslines than Think Tank. It sounds like something they wrote and recorded in five minutes, and not in a good way as in, say, Ong Ong. Also, Damon's vocal delivery doesn't fit the song's style at all, he's sounding tired and boring in what's supposed to be an uplifting tune. But even if it had been recorded properly, it still wouldn't fit in Think Tank, an album in which every upbeat song arguably has something experimental and groovy about it.
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Post by daii » 16 Jan 2016, 01:07
I think it would be a much better song if you take off the annoying "crazy beat, crazy beat yeah yeah". I can't stand it. Really. I hate it. When I listen to think tank is the only song I skip.
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Post by MsMagicAmerica » 16 Jan 2016, 02:07
Lt Pinkerton wrote: Denying its existence as I've been doing for the last 10 years.
What would I change? Well, I'd get rid of the Crazy Beats, the Yeah yeah yeahs, the Donald Duck voice, and of fuck it all of the damn song.
Post by Pasta » 16 Jan 2016, 09:52
Put it in the bin
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Post by Daysleeper » 16 Jan 2016, 10:49
The song doesn't have many, if any redeeming features!
Dire lyrics, lazy musicianship, terrible Donald ducks and yeah yeah yeahs.
A real embarrassment to the band, Damon said as much himself.
My least favourite Blur song.
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Post by davidsutter » 16 Jan 2016, 13:03
The demo from 2001 that evolved into it sounded alright.
I'd scrap what exists, go back to that and try to create something else from it.
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Post by Consigliere_11 » 16 Jan 2016, 13:20
Whoa, people really hate Crazy Beat. I mean, I don't like it, but I still listen to it every time.
For me, the problem is in the positioning - it follows melancholic and much slower "Out of Time", which is rather annoying - the first two tracks of the record put you in a mellow mood and than out of nowhere there is this crazy guitar and duck voice. Not the most pleasant experience. But I think, it would sit nicely somewhere around "We've Got a File on You" - the latter could be a sort of an outro.
And, it can't fixed by now, but I think that they shouldn't have released it as a single. Much of a negative reception comes from the fact that is should have been one of the record's leading songs - but it clearly isn't.
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You know how weaksauce one-hit wonders often try to remake their big song and end up making everything about it worse?
That's what Crazy Beat sounds like, if you only knew it and Song 2 that's what you'd think Blur is.
So how would you improve Think Tank in that respect? If CB wasn't on it, then what song would take its place?
Post by bugman » 16 Jan 2016, 15:25
still id like to hear a version with alternative lyrics and without norman cook. i know that they recorded this version
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Post by 101reykjavik » 16 Jan 2016, 16:14
AdvertBreak wrote: So how would you improve Think Tank in that respect? If CB wasn't on it, then what song would take its place?
The thing is, TT is 13 tracks so you could easily just ditch it and still have a perfectly acceptable 12 track album, so I probably wouldn't replace it with anything.
Money Makes Me Crazy could potentially replace it. I think the song could even be a minor hit.
Mrbriggs
Post by Mrbriggs » 16 Jan 2016, 23:08
Consigliere_11 wrote: Money Makes Me Crazy could potentially replace it. I think the song could even be a minor hit.
This is what I was thinking too. That way there's still a catchy, upbeat song on the album, except this one is actually good.
If I had to replace it with something, I personally like "Don't Be"
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Over the winter, I have been scrambling around the countryside taking pictures of everything and anything including the animals of Turkey.My friends are quite used to me and while the locals raise their eyebrows in amazement, they will just claim they don't know that crazy English women that can take up to 400 pictures a day just to get the one picture that makes her happy. Thank god for digital cameras because if we were still in the old days of Kodak film, this would be costing me a fortune.
Anyway, this photo essay is dedicated to all animals that have the misfortune of having my zoom lens shoved in their face at the most unexpected moments. I make a point of carrying a camera with me wherever I go, whether it is my normal point and shoot or my Fuji FinePix with a better zoom feature. Sometimes you can grab a photo when you least expect the opportunity to arise while other photos I have specifically gone looking for.
Thank you as well to all the photo blogs and forums that I have been following as I have picked up quite a few tips and I hope that readers can see that in the following photographs. If you are a keen photographer yourself, and know any useful hints and tips about taking pictures of animals, then I would love to hear from you in the comment box.
This poor duck was trying to get an afternoon siesta. Took in the village of Herakleia.
This poor tortoise just wanted to be left alone.
This rooster actually scared the hell out of me!
Nice pics. My favorite is the "Pigeon I think".
Great shots! We miss Turkey!
@Turkeys for life – That rooster did scare me Julia. I just wanted to get the picture and then get out of there!
@Sarah – Glad you understand Sarah as I get some weird looks from my friends when I am on the 50th photo of the same subject!
Great pics Natalie! Next time you are near Milas, you must drop in to my village. We have so many animals here..cows, sheep, goats, donkeys, chickens, storks, cats and dogs. You'll have a field day!
Wow, these are so beautiful. You know it's so hard to take pictures of animal because they moved unexpectedly. But girl you did a great job. I totally understand what you mean by taking 400 pictures but just to get one beautiful one. When I take pictures of the cherry blossom, my fiance was like can you stop already. Didn't you have enough? hahah anyways great post!
that is one mean looking rooster. And that camel is massive. Wow. My favorite here was the one of the pigeon. Cool angle and lighting.
Great photos Natalie. I have a bit of an obsession with taking photos of cockerels and hens which I didn't realise till a friend pointed it out. 🙂 I just like them. Yours looks a scary character!


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2006 film lineup
Summer is the season of high expectations and profound disappointments. That suntan looks more like sunburn, your beer stays ice cold till the moment it's opened, and fat guys are the only ones hanging by the pool in bikini briefs. So it goes with summer movies: Sequels to beloved faves have all the flavor of week-old popcorn, blockbusters make pennies on their many dollars, and somewhere there's Adam Sandler pouring sour lemonade when you were craving something more refreshing. Maybe there's more hope this year, if only because last summer was such a bummer; Monster-in-Law, Stealth or Dukes of Hazzard, anyone? Thought not.
There is certainly more promise to the 2006 lineup. Film freaks and fanboys find it hard not to get a little worked up over the returns of Superman, Crockett and Tubbs, Jack Sparrow, and Dante and Randal (well...). A Prairie Home Companion, with its all-star cast and NPR roots, promises to be this year's Cinderella Man: a great movie nobody sees, because the crowds will be too busy huffing Freon with Will Ferrell, Steve Carell and Vince Vaughn again. Much of what you'll find below feels like yesterday's movies reheated — like someone went to Blockbuster and cut-and-pasted everything on the comedy shelf. But they'll all need a prayer to hold their own against The Da Vinci Code. Here's $20 right now that says only the Pope won't see it. Though even he may get around to it, once he's checked out Snakes on a Plane. — Robert Wilonsky
The following previews were written by Luke Y. Thompson, Jordan Harper, Melissa Levine and Robert Wilonsky.
The Break-up
(Universal)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston and Jon Favreau
Directed by: Peyton Reed (Bring It On )
Written by: Jeremy Garelick, Jay Lavender and Vince Vaughn
What it's about: Vaughn and Aniston play a couple on the outs, neither of whom wants to abandon the house they share. So they take turns pissing each other off; it's a bit like The War of the Roses, only nobody dies. Far as we know.
Why you should see it: At their best, Vaughn and Aniston have the whole comedy thing down pat.
Why you should not: Test audiences absolutely despised the ending, so a new, happier one was recently reshot.
(THINKfilm)
Starring: Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon and Marisa Tomei
Directed by: Kevin Bacon
Written by: Hannah Shakespeare, based on the novel by Victoria Redel
What it's about: This first notch in Kevin Bacon's feature-directing belt stars Sedgwick as an overprotective mother who must send her son off to school for the first time. Will she watch him bloom into a man, or possibly resent another woman in his life and go all wacky?
Why you should see it: That special something that has made Bacon the 0th degree in our celluloid consciousness might reveal cinematic genius.
Why you should not: What are the odds of Bacon being a triple threat of decent actor, middling musician and awesome director?
(Fox)
Starring: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles and a freaky evil kid that isn't Dakota Fanning for once
Directed by: John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines)
Written by: Dan McDermott
What it's about: A prominent ambassador (Schreiber) adopts a little boy who turns out to be the son of Satan. They already made this movie a bunch of times already, but June 6 will be 6-6-06, which seems reason enough for another half-baked remake.
Why you should see it: The 1976 Richard Donner movie didn't exactly cry out for a do-over, but at least this one has a high standard to aim for.
Why you should not: Compelling remakes of '70s horror movies come around about, oh, never.
A Prairie Home Companion
(Picturehouse)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan and Garrison Keillor
Directed by: Robert Altman
Written by: Garrison Keillor
What it's about: Set behind the scenes of Keillor's beloved National Public Radio show, the movie chronicles a fictional finale in which the St. Paul station that airs the show has been sold to a Texas conglomerate.
Why you should see it: It is a great movie — a two-hour good-time grin with some surprising moments of heartbreak.
Why you should not: Fact is, even if you don't love Keillor's show or Altman's movies, this sucker packs some profound magic. Perhaps that's not your thing either?
(Disney)
Starring: The voices of Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt and Paul Newman
Written and directed by: John Lasseter (Toy Story, A Bug's Life)
What it's about: Wilson plays hotshot racer Lightning McQueen, who gets stuck in podunk Radiator Springs, where antics and puns ensue, and, shucks, he just might learn a little something about life.
Why you should see it: This is Pixar, people. Their mixture of eye-popping animation, anthropomorphic characters and celebrity voices haven't yielded a single dud.
Why you should not: Something in the trailers suggests this might be the movie where the Pixar formula goes astray. After the talking toys, fish, monsters and insects, cars just seem a little pedestrian.
Agnes and His Brothers
(First Run)
Starring: Martin Weiss, Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run) and Herbert Knaup
Written and directed by: Oskar Roehler
What it's about: A trio of brothers — one now a woman — attempt to discover the reasons behind their unhappy relationships. Could it be...Dad?
Why you should see it: Sex addiction, suburban anomie and transsexual chic.
Why you should not: German family dramas: Always a pleasure.
(Lee Daniels Entertainment)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Directed by: First-timer Lee Daniels (co-producer of Monster's Ball)
Written by: Will Rokos (Monster's Ball)
What it's about: Mirren plays a terminally ill professional killer hired for one last job; Gooding plays her stepson and lover (!).
Why you should see it: It sounds like a train wreck, but it could be a glorious one.
Why you should not: Word is there are a couple explicit sex scenes — you really want to see Cuba and Helen get it on?
The Heart of the Game
(Miramax)
Starring: Ludacris (Crash), Devon Crosby Helms and Maude Lepley
Written and directed by: Ward Serrill
What it's about: The world of high school basketball gets another documentary treatment, this one about a Seattle girls team and its irrepressible coach.
Why you should see it: The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and you are there!
Why you should not: There's no reason to believe the gender switch will help circumvent the sports-movie clichés.
Starring: Lucas Black (Jarhead), Bow Wow and Zachary Ty Bryan
Directed by: Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow)
Written by: Alfredo Botello, Chris Morgan (Cellular) and Kario Salem (The Score)
What it's about: Brightly colored cars in illegal street races ...this time in Japan. The bad news is that efforts to bring back Vin Diesel fell through. The good news is Paul Walker's gone too.
Why you should see it: Better Luck Tomorrow showed that Justin Lin had the chops to direct an edgy youth movie...
Why you should not:...but Annapolis proved he's capable of much worse.
(WB)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Shohreh Aghdashloo
Directed by: Alejandro Agresti (Valentin)
Written by: David Auburn (Proof)
What it's about: It's like Speed, but without a bus, bomb or Dennis Hopper. And with a mailbox that transports love letters through time. A remake of the Korean film Il Mare, in which a man and woman write each other letters, only to discover that they're both living in the same house, but in different time periods two years apart.
Why you should see it: Could Keanu plus time travel equal an excellent adventure?
Why you should not: Every other love story Keanu has ever done. Also, Valentin was cloying, annoying crap.
(Paramount)
Starring: Jack Black and Efren Ramirez
Directed by: Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite)
Written by: Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess and Mike White
What it's about: Black (Nacho) plays a Mexican cook who stuffs his face into a wrestler's mask to save his financially strapped orphanage.
Why you should see it: Mike White wrote the best part Jack Black's ever been given, as Dewey Finn in School of Rock.
Why you should not: Because Napoleon Dynamite was a great four-minute movie that went on just a little too long.
(IFC)
Starring: Will Shortz, Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart
Directed by: First-timer Patrick Creadon
What it's about: A documentary about puzzle master Will Shortz, longtime editor of The New York Times' crossword and weekly guest on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday.
Why you should see it: 13 down: J-O-N-S-T-E-W-A-R-T.
Why you should not: Virtually no chance of car chases or steamy sex.
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
(Lions Gate)
Starring: Leonard Cohen, Bono and The Edge
Directed by: Lian Lunson
What it's about: Lunson's doc about the singer-songwriter, featuring a pretty candid interview with the inexplicable ladies' man, uses a tribute show at the Sydney Concert Hall in 2005 to tell Cohen's beguiling journey from Montreal to a monastery on Mount Baldy.
Why you should see it: Because Lunson mingles footage of Cohen talking with scenes of his acolytes singing his famous-blue-raincoat songs.
Why you should not: See above; the performances are as mediocre as Cohen is magnetic.
(Sony)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken and David Hasselhoff
Directed by: Frank Coraci (The Waterboy)
Written by: Jack Giarraputo, Tim Herlihy (almost every Sandler movie to date), Steve Koren & Mark O'Keefe (Bruce Almighty) and Sandler
What it's about: Sandler obtains a magic universal remote control that can control the universe! Pausing, rewinding and slow-motion-replaying the world around him is a lot of fun...until the remote gets stuck in fast-forward.
Why you should see it: Whatever you may think of Sandler, a movie that brings Walken and Hasselhoff together cannot be all bad.
Why you should not: Seems like a good premise, but so did The Benchwarmers' at one point.
Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties
Starring: Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt
Directed by: Tim Hill (Muppets from Space)
Written by: Joel Cohen (Cheaper by the Dozen)
What it's about: America's favorite fat cat twenty years ago takes a trip to Jolly Old London and switches places with a rich, fat feline in this essential sequel to 2004's Garfield. For more information, read Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.
Why you should see it: Old pro Bill Murray can get laughs reading obituaries.
Why you should not: He's Bill Murray, not He Who Is Risen.
Waist Deep
(Focus)
Starring: Tyrese Gibson (Four Brothers), Meagan Good (Roll Bounce) and Larenz Tate (Crash)
Directed by: Vondie Curtis-Hall (Gridlock'd)
Written by: Hall, Michael Mahern (Mobsters ) and Darin Scott (Tales from the Hood)
What it's about: An ex-convict (Gibson) is driven to desperation when his son is kidnapped and held for ransom by a vicious crime lord. He begins to rob banks to raise the ransom — but only banks where the thug has an account.
Why you should see it: It's rated R, and based on the preview it looks like the two beautiful leads get sweaty.
Why you should not: Hall directed Glitter. Yep, that Glitter.
Strangers With Candy
Starring: Amy Sedaris, Matthew Broderick and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Directed by: Paul Dinello
Written by: Stephen Colbert (The Daily Show), Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris
What it's about: A feature-film spinoff of the popular 1999-2000 Comedy Central series starring Sedaris as a 46-year-old ex-con high-school student.
Why you should see it: If you don't think Stephen Colbert knows funny, you don't know funny.
Why you should not: It could feel like one long inside joke made for those who've seen the show.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Adrien Grenier
Directed by: David Frankel (Entourage, Sex and the City)
Written by: Aline Brosh McKenna (Laws of Attraction) and Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex), based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger
What it's about: Big-screen adaptation of Weisberger's thinly disguised "fiction" book about working as assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour (Streep).
Why you should see it: Streep rarely chooses unredeemable projects.
Why you should not: Do we care how hard it is to work for a fashion magazine?
(Warner Bros.)
Starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey
Directed by: Bryan Singer (X-Men, X-2)
Written by: Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris
What it's about: Set five years after Superman II, more or less, Superman returns from self-imposed exile to find Lois Lane with a kid and Lex Luthor out of prison, with yet another plan for world domination.
Why you should see it: Singer made the X-Men movies into something accessible to mainstream audiences without sacrificing its comic-book roots; he made superheroes human.
Why you should not: Look, it can't be any worse than Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
Starring: Marlon and Shawn Wayans
Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans (Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2)
Written by: The Wayans brothers
What it's about: A digitally remastered Shawn Wayans plays a weensy little criminal mistaken for a baby by a wannabe dad (Marlon).
Why you should see it: Consider it your biennial dose of Wayans charm.
Why you should not: Perhaps you recall White Chicks?
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
(Buena Vista)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley
Directed by: Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
Written by: Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio (Shrek), based on the Disneyland ride
What it's about: Bill Nighy joins the fun as supernatural part-man/part-octopus villain Davey Jones, out to collect the soul of Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) just in time to ruin the marriage plans of Will (Bloom) and Elizabeth (Knightley).
Why you should see it: Depp's Jack Sparrow is one of the most entertaining characters in cinematic history.
Why you should not: Bloom's still a stiff. And Chow Yun-Fat is in part three, not this one.
Featuring: Pelé and Matt Dillon
Directed by: Paul Crowder (Riding Giants, Dogtown and Z-Boys) and John Dower
Written by: John Dower and Mark Monroe
What it's about: Matt Dillon narrates a documentary about the New York Cosmos, the soccer team that brought Brazilian superstar Pelé to America.
Why you should see it: The agony and the ecstasy.
Why you should not: There's soccer in it.
(Warner Independent)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Woody Harrelson
Written and directed by: Richard Linklater, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick
What it's about: In the near future, a government drug-enforcement agent (Reeves) winds up being ordered to spy on himself. Like Linklater's Waking Life, the entire movie is done in rotoscoped animation, so it's hard to tell whether or not it really counts that Winona Ryder does her first-ever nude scene.
Why you should see it: Previous Philip K. Dick-based movies: Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall...
Why you should not: ...also Paycheck, Screamers and Impostor.
(Weinstein Company)
Starring: Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder (Lost) and Christina Milian
Directed by: First-timer Jim Sonzero
Written by: Stephen Susco, with Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street), Tim Day, Vince Gilligan and Ray Wright, based on the film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
What it's about: A remake of the J-horror flick Kairo: When the souls of dead kids start popping up on her server, Kristen Bell needs to seriously think about getting a firewall.
Why you should see it: Bell is fantastic as a teenage private eye on Veronica Mars, so she should be up for teen ghostbuster too.
Why you should not: If Hollywood is good at anything, it's taking a subtle, moody piece of art (like Kairo) and turning it into one long, steaming, bespangled turd.
You, Me and Dupree
Starring: Matt Dillon, Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson and Michael Douglas
Directed by: Anthony and Joe Russo (Welcome to Collinwood)
Written by: Mike LeSieur
What it's about: Wilson's the best man in Dillon and Hudson's wedding, and when he loses his job after traveling to Hawaii for the wedding, they let him stay in their house.
Why you should see it: The Russos have estimable TV credits, including stints on Arrested Development and FX's woefully unappreciated Lucky.
Why you should not: There hasn't been a lovable Owen Wilson movie since...since... Bottle Rocket? That can't be right.
Clerks II
(MGM)
Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson and Rosario Dawson
Written and directed by: Kevin Smith (Clerks)
What it's about: Dante (O'Halloran) and Randal (Anderson) are still slacking away their lives, except their twenties have turned into their thirties, and both work at fast-food joint Mooby's. In other words, this is what Kevin Smith does when his attempt at maturity (Jersey Girl) tanks, and he's left going back to the well. Again. And again.
Why you should see it: Because it's just like Clerks. With a Jason Lee cameo.
Why you should not: It really is just like Clerks.
Starring: Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Cinderella Man), Bryce Dallas Howard (Manderlay) and Freddy Rodriguez
Written and directed by: M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, The Village)
What it's about: A lonely apartment building superintendent (Giamatti) discovers a beautiful woman (Howard) in the building's swimming pool, who turns out to be a mermaid. And there are other supernatural creatures after her...
Why you should see it: Advance word says there's no gratuitous twist ending this time. Shyamalan's a good director when he doesn't paint himself into a corner; even The Village had its moments until that terrible "surprise" finish.
Why you should not: This film's been labeled a "bedtime story." What does that even mean?
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Lee and Nick Cannon
Directed by: First-timer Gil Kenan
Written by: Pamela Pettler, Dan Harmon and Ron Schrab
What it's about: Sounds like The 'Burbs meets Poltergeist: Three kids live next door to a creepy house that turns out to be...duh-duh-dunh...a monster.
Why you should see it: Uh...uh...it's animated?
Why you should not: Have you seen the trailer? Was it made in 1992?
Super Ex-Girlfriend
Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson and Anna Faris
Directed by: Ivan Reitman (Old School)
Written by: Don Payne (The Simpsons)
What it's about: Wilson plays a normal dude who dumps the super-needy superhottie G-Girl (Thurman), who proves hell hath no fury like a superwoman scorned. In other words, what if Lois Lane broke up with Superman, and he didn't take it well? At all.
Why you should see it: Ivan Reitman directed Ghostbusters, Stripes and Meatballs.
Why you should not: Ivan Reitman directed Six Days Seven Nights, Father's Day and Evolution.
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Starring: John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Written and directed by: David Leaf and John Scheinfeld
What it's about: Focusing on the years when Lennon turned from musical genius to long-haired hippie, this documentary traces the efforts of the American government to silence — or at least keep away — the famous peacenik. Will the film take a few jabs at the current tightasses in charge? Does patchouli stink?
Why you should see it: This is interesting stuff, and there's got to be some laughs to be had at the expense of the super-square feds who wasted time going after a musician.
Why you should not: Three words: Hippie self-righteousness. (Two more? Yoko Ono.)
Starring: Kevin James, Courteney Cox Arquette and Danny Glover
Written and directed by: Steve Oedekerk (Kung Pow: Enter the Fist)
What it's about: The owner of a farm leaves his animals to go udderly (that's all mine, baby) nuts when he leaves the place under their control.
Why you should not: You have to assume nobody saw this the first time, when it was called Home on the Range.
Why you should not: The only people who haven't tired of talking-animal animated movies haven't been born yet.
I Could Never Be Your Woman
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd (The Forty-Year-Old Virgin) and Tracey Ullmann (I Love You to Death)
Written and directed by: Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless)
What it's about: Pfeiffer plays a lady growing long in the tooth (but still looking like Michelle Pfeiffer) who falls for a younger man (Rudd). Romantic Comedy blooms all around, and Ullmann as Mother Nature gets all up in everybody's business.
Why you should see it: When Heckerling is on, she makes movies like Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Plus, Rudd is due for a role that pushes him into the big leagues, where he belongs.
Why you should not: When she's not on, Heckerling makes movies like A Night at the Roxbury, Look Who's Talking Too and European Vacation.
Starring: Alison Lohman (Big Fish), Tim McGraw (Friday Night Lights) and Maria Bello (The Sisters)
Directed by: Michael Mayer (A Home at the End of the World)
Written by: Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner, based on the novel by Mary O'Hara
What it's about: A young girl tames wild horse in a heartbreaking attempt to win her father's love.
Why you should see it: Girls, horses, summer, love, magic.
Why you should not: If Mayer's treatment of Flicka is anything like his Home at the End of the World, we're in for a sapfest of personal triumph set to music.
John Tucker Must Die
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives), Brittany Snow (The Pacifier) and Ashanti (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Directed by: Betty Thomas (The Brady Bunch Movie)
Written by: Jeff Lowell
What it's about: When a trio of hotties discover they're dating the same cad (Metcalfe), they plot to bring about his ruination (but not, despite the title, his demise).
Why you should see it: By July 28, the effects of global warming will have cooked our brains into pink paste. Perfect time for teen comedy.
Why you should not: As this is the 9,432rd movie to try and convince us that an obvious beauty is a plain Jane for the first 30 minutes, the idea could be losing a spot of freshness.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx and Gong Li
Written and directed by: Michael Mann (Ali, The Insider)
What it's about: Gee, lessee. Crockett and Tubbs. Drug dealers. Speed boats. Guns. Flashy suits. Bad accents. Expensive cars. Hot chicks. That about covers it.
Why you should see it: See above.
Why you should not: See above. And no Jan Hammer theme song. Rip. Off.
Starring: Benoît Magimel (The Piano Teacher) and Laura Smet (Gilles' Wife)
Directed by: Claude Chabrol (The Flower of Evil)
Written by: Chabrol and Pierre Leccia, based on the novel by Ruth Rendell
What it's about: A hardworking, straight-arrow salesman (Magimel) falls in love with his sister's free-spirited bridesmaid (Smet), who turns out to be quite frighteningly insane.
Why you should see it: It sounds like Wedding Crashers, but scarier.
Why you should not: Fans of Bill O'Reilly may still want to boycott French things.
Brothers of the Head
Starring: Harry and Luke Treadaway, Will Kemp and Ken Russell
Directed by: Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (Lost in La Mancha)
Written by: Tony Grisoni (In This World), based on the novel by Brian Aldiss
What it's about: Conjoined twins (Harry and Luke Treadaway) under the control of an unscrupulous music promoter become a rock and roll success story in the '70s. Loosely based on a true story.
Why you should see it: The directors and screenwriter have worked with Terry Gilliam a fair amount, so one might imagine they've picked up a thing or two.
Why you should not: Fulton and Pepe are documentarians, and this is their first narrative feature. The transition doesn't always work (remember Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon?).
The House of Sand
(Sony Classics)
Starring: Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres and Ruy Guerra
Directed by: Andrucha Waddington (Me, You, Them)
Written by: Elena Soárez
What it's about: An early 20th-century Brazilian saga about an unhappy woman, a delirious husband and a barren landscape that proves difficult to escape.
Why you should see it: Waddington's got props back in Brazil.
Why you should not: 59 years on a dune = um pouco louco.
(Fox Searchlight)
Starring: Toni Collette (Connie and Carla), Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell and Alan Arkin
Directed by: First-timers Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Written by: Michael Arndt
What it's about: Kinnear's a scowling motivational speaker waiting for a book deal; Collette's his patient wife who wants to drive the family VW from Albuquerque to Los Angeles so their daughter (Abigail Breslin) can compete in what turns out to be the creepiest talent contest ever. Also in the van are suicidal uncle Carell, smack-happy Arkin and Paul Dano as the sullenest teen ever.
Why you should see it: It was a knockout hit at Sundance, where this National Lampoon's Vacation-with-a-darker-side sold for $10.5 million.
Why you should not: Dunno, unless you hate hearing Alan Arkin curse. A lot.
Starring: Emily Rios, Chalo Gonzalez and Jesse Garcia
Written and directed by: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
What it's about: On the verge of her fifteenth birthday, pregnant Magdalena is thrown out of her house and moves in with her great-great uncle and gay cousin, but she may lose even this makeshift family to urban gentrification.
Why you should see it: Love the Latina mama-drama.
Why you should not: Wacky outsiders overcome forces of oppression!
Starring: The voices of Zach Tyler, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti and Nicolas Cage
Written and directed by: John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius), based on the novel by John Nickel
What it's about: When a little boy (Tyler) takes out his frustrations on the ant hills in his yard, the bugs fight back.
Why you should see it: If you ignore the creepy undertones (to ants, a stomping kid isn't a bully, he's Osama Bin Laden), the story's got promise; Cage and Giamatti are A-list voice talent.
Why you should not: Boy, that creepy undertone seems hard to ignore. If all ants have souls and celebrity voices, that means this kid really is a mass murderer.
Starring: Jet Li, Nakamura Shidou and Betty Sun
Directed by: Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason)
Written by: There doesn't seem to be a credited screenwriter. But Yuen Woo-ping is the fight choreographer, which is what matters most
What it's about: Jet Li kicks some ass. Then a tragedy happens, and he doesn't want to kick any further ass, so he goes into seclusion, where he learns the true way of the warrior. The claim is that this will be Li's last martial-arts epic.
Why you should see it: Sigh. If you know your Hong Kong films, you'd have no doubt that Jet Li and Ronny Yu and Yuen Woo-ping teaming up can only be awesome.
Why you should not: Steer clear if action isn't your thing.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Sacha Baron Cohen
Directed by: Adam McKay (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
Written by: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay
What it's about: NASCAR champeen Ricky Bobby (Ferrell) finds his title being usurped by a French rival played by Ali G., a'ight?
Why you should see it: Anchorman had some brilliant moments.
Why you should not: Anchorman had some brilliant moments only if you were really, really high.
(Zeitgeist)
Starring: Czech actors you're very unlikely to have heard of.
Written and directed by: Jan Svankmajer (Little Otik)
What it's about: Blending his trademark surrealism and stop-motion animation with live-action, Svankmajer adapts two Edgar Allan Poe short stories and throws in some Marquis de Sade for good measure. Grave robbery, orgies and a mad sanitarium feature prominently.
Why you should see it: Does it not sound fabulous?
Why you should not: All the fat goth girls in the audience will probably reek of cigarettes. And for a movie about a man-eating tree stump, Little Otik wasn't as good as it should have been.
Starring: Justin Long (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story), Adam Herschman and Jonah Hill
Directed by: First-timer Steve Pink
Written by: Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Mark Perez
What it's about: A slack senior (Long) finds out that he's failed to get into college. So, of course, he and his similarly unmotivated pals fool their parents by inventing their own fraud of a university, which suddenly becomes crowded with similar rejects. Hey, it couldn't be any more worthless than your liberal arts degree, right?
Why you should see it: If a fake frat was funny (as it was in Old School), an entire fake university has to be a knee-slapper, right?
Why you should not: Of course not. Old School was only funny because it had Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn in it. No similar heavyweights present here.
Starring: Channing Tatum (Coach Carter), Rachel Griffiths and Heavy D
Directed by: Anne Fletcher
Written by: Duane Adler and Melissa Rosenberg
What it's about: Tatum plays a streetwise punk (is there any other kind?) who trashes a performing arts school and is sentenced to community service. He comes to find it ain't dat bad a joint, once a hot dancer at the school wiggles his broom just a little.
Why you should see it: Rachel Griffiths and Heavy D in the same movie! I only dared to dream...
Why you should not: Because it has to be awful.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Directed by: Oliver Stone (J.F.K. , The Doors)
Written by: Andrea Berloff What it's about: Cage and Peña play real-life Port Authority cops who made it out of the World Trade Center alive after the terror attack of September 11, 2001. Word is this isn't the work of a paranoid Ollie Stone, but a sober, down-to-the-details docudramatization of the events of the day, already seen this year in United 93.
Why you should see it: Cage is at his best when playing an everyman stuck in a horrific, real-life situation (his portrayal of an EMT in Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead remains among his career highlights, even if no one saw it).
Why you should not: Oliver Stone's a real hit-or-miss moviemaker; pray this is closer to Platoon and Salvador than Alexander or Any Given Sunday. Or Natural Born Killers. Or U-Turn. Or Nixon.
Starring: Tim Allen, Courteney Cox Arquette and Chevy Chase
Directed by: Peter Hewitt (Garfield)
Written by: David Berenbaum (Elf)
What it's about: Remember that Disney movie Sky High, about a retired superhero and the superschool his kids attend? This is pretty much the same thing, but with a bigger budget. And it's based on an actual comic book, Zoom's Academy for the Super-Gifted.
Why you should see it: Sky High was fun...
Why you should not: ...But do we need another version? Tim Allen instead of Kurt Russell isn't exactly what you'd call trading up.
The Night Listener
Starring: Robin Williams, Toni Collette and Rory Culkin
Directed by: Patrick Stettner (The Business of Strangers)
Written by: Armistead Maupin & Terry Anderson (The Young Graduates) and Stettner, based on the novel by Maupin
What it's about: Williams plays a Garrison Keillor-like public radio host who tells embellished stories of his life and friends, but when he receives the manuscript of a memoir from an abused child (Culkin), he doesn't realize that it may be equally embellished.
Why you should see it: Stettner deftly dealt with similar issues of deceit in The Business of Strangers; Williams can certainly be as annoying as your typical talk radio host.
Why you should not: When it comes to drama, Williams is either spot-on (One Hour Photo) or insufferably mawkish (What Dreams May Come). His character here is a gay man whose lover has battled AIDS, which may mean lots of hugging, tears and Williams doing that grinning thing that's supposed to make him look sad but really doesn't.
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Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, some snakes, and a plane
Directed by: David R. Ellis (Final Destination 2)
Written by: John Heffernan and Sebastian Gutierrez (Gothika)
What it's about: The title really says it all here. For full disclosure, it really should be Snakes on a Plane With a Bald-Headed Badass Black Guy Who Yells a Lot. Yes the snakes deserve to die, and he hopes they burn in hell.
Why you should see it: Pay attention. Snakes. Plane. Samuel L. Jackson. What's not to love?
Why you should not: Sorry, there's just no good excuse not to.
Starring: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor (I Shot Andy Warhol ) and Marisa Tomei
Written and directed by: Bent Hamer, based on the novel by Charles Bukowski
What it's about: Dillon plays Henry Chinaski (Bukowski's alter-ego) in this movie about drinking, writing, having sex and drinking. In other words, Bukowski.
Why you should see it: Dillon hasn't had a role this dark and juicy since Drugstore Cowboy, and the wonderful Lili Taylor just hasn't had enough roles, period.
Why you should not: Aren't we, as a people, dead-tired of Bukowski yet? Mickey Rourke nailed it in 1987's Barfly, and there hasn't been anything new to say about talented but pathetic drunks ever since.
Trust the Man
Starring: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Written and directed by: Bart Freundlich (The Myth of Fingerprints)
What it's about: Four New Yorkers in various stages of relationships hash out the old issues (sex, friendship, marriage, adultery) as they struggle to make sense of modern love. With jokes!
Why you should see it: The foursome of Duchovny, Moore, Crudup and Gyllenhaal have more than their fair share of talent (and vowels). And it looks like it doesn't take itself too seriously, which is instant death in these kinds of movies.
Why you should not: Are you really concerned about the problems of rich, white, wealthy, beautiful and well-apartmented Manhattanites?
Beerfest
Starring: Eric Christian Olsen (Not Another Teen Movie), Cameron Scher and Blanchard Ryan (Open Water)
Directed by: Jay Chandrasekhar (The Dukes of Hazzard)
Written by: Jay Chandrasekhar and Kevin Heffernan (Club Dread)
What it's about: Two wacky lugs travel to Germany to enter, compete in and perhaps maybe even triumph in a series of beer chugs. Seriously, that's it.
Why you should see it: It's possible to smuggle beer into a movie theater, but you're really better off with a pint of vodka to pour in a slushie.
Why you should not: Aside from the asinine concept, the label "from the director of The Dukes of Hazzard" packs the punch of a cigarette warning.
Starring: Anthony Mackie (She Hate Me), Wesley Jonathan (Roll Bounce) and Wayne Brady
Written and directed by: Preston A. Whitmore II (The Walking Dead)
What it's about: A gifted basketball player (Jonathan) wants to use his sports scholarship to get into UCLA pre-med; meanwhile, his best friend (Mackie) wants to get his GED and settle a street score. When romance enters the picture for both men, things get more complicated.
Why you should see it: I got nothin'. Sounds pretty predictable really.
Why you should not: Mankind did not need more Wayne Brady.
Starring: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance and Devon Aoki
Directed by: Corey Yuen (The Transporter, Hero)
Written by: J.F. Lawton (Pretty Woman) and Adam & Seth Gross (Devour), based on the videogame
What it's about: Chicks in bikinis fight guys with swords. It's modeled after a fighting game, and the movie doesn't look like it added a ton of plot or anything, though the fanboys are already up in arms over the fact that the women aren't fighting each other in the trailer.
Why you should see it: It could be as fun as the first Charlie's Angels.
Why you should not: It could be as tedious as Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
Starring: Luke Benward (Because of Winn-Dixie) and Hallie Kate Eisenberg (The Goodbye Girl)
Written and directed by: Bob Dolman (The Banger Sisters), based on the novel by Thomas Rockwell
What it's about: Fifth-grade kid goes head-to-head with the school bully by accepting a dare to eat ten worms in a single day.
Why you should see it: The classic children's book brings hope and courage to a new generation of victimized youth. Who don't read books.
Why you should not: How many classic-children's-book adaptations can you name?
Starring: André Benjamin (Four Brothers ), Antwan Patton (ATL) and Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow)
Written and directed by: First-timer Brian Barber
What it's about: Benjamin and Patton (the real-life duo of OutKast) play a couple of, um, ahead-of-their-times musicians in a 1930s Southern juke joint. Elaborate musical numbers compete for airtime with gangster politics as big bad Howard comes to town to muscle in on the club.
Why you should see it: Musically, Benjamin and Patton are at the top of their game, the concept of injecting their tunes with the flavor of old-school jazz has major promise, and Benjamin has already shown he's got screen skills.
Why you should not: Neither period black gangster films (Harlem Nights) nor musical gangster films (Bugsy Malone) tend to stand the test of time.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear and Michael Rispoli
Directed by: Ericson Core (TV's Family Law)
Written by: Brad Gann (Black Irish)
What it's about: A down-on-his-luck Philadelphia Eagles fan (Wahlberg) decides to attend an open tryout for the team and gets to live out his dream of playing professional football. It's from the producers of The Rookie, is the same basic idea and is similarly based on true events.
Why you should see it: The Rookie was formulaic, but it worked, and even appealed to people who couldn't care less about baseball.
Why you should not: Mark Wahlberg is no Dennis Quaid.
Starring: Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff and Anjelica Huston
Directed by: Martha Coolidge (The Prince & Me)
Written by: John Quaintance, Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin
What it's about: Duff and Duff play sisters — how about that? — who gots plenty of dough from their family's cosmetics company. But when the family biz is bankrupted by scandal, will the Duffs ever learn how to cope with being poor?
Why you should see it: Coolidge directed Valley Girl...
Why you should not: ...four years before Hilary Duff was born.
Starring: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza and Alex Reid
Written and directed by: Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers)
What it's about: Six female spelunkers become trapped deep in the bowels of the earth, and wouldn't you know it, this cave happens to be the home of flesh-eating creatures of the dark.
Why you should see it: It's a tight concept with plenty of opportunities for cat scares and gore for the popcorn crowd.
Why you should not: Man can only take so many cat scares before it's all a big wall of black and red noise.
Starring: Jason Statham, Amy Smart and Efren Ramirez (Napoleon Dynamite)
Written and directed by: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (visual effects artists on Biker Boyz)
What it's about: A hit man (Statham) is injected with a new designer drug that will kill him if his adrenaline level drops too low, so in order to find the person responsible and not die, he must remain agitated and excited. That shouldn't be too hard.
Why you should see it: Statham's Transporter movies have been over-the-top junk-food pleasures. Plus, how can you vote against Pedro?
Why you should not: Someone please explain how the effects guys from Biker Boyz have earned the right to direct a major movie.
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sam Shepard and Peter O'Brien
Directed by: Asif Kapadia
Written by: Adam Sussman
What it's about: Gellar plays a young woman whose life gets wacky when she begins to have nightmares about the 25-year-old murder of, yes, a young woman.
Why you should see it: Buffy doing what Buffy does best.
Why you should not: Die, Buffy, die!
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The purpose of this report is to demonstrate the consistency that convincingly supports the existence of truth by providing proofs or evidences about who is actually behind Juba Eye and Hot In Juba based on the given research and analysis. Both tabloids have been publishing luridly news, causing chock and disgust to the victims of social stigma in the world of social media. The author bases his findings on the intertwining evidences among the following websites: Hot in Juba, Juba Eye, Panluel Wel, and Talk of Juba as well as providing opinion on the used strategies.
First, let's start with the low hanging fruits that on April 5, 2017, the Eye Blog discreditably revealed Homeboy, Rok Ayom a.k.a. Good James Agut-Yar Aghok as someone who has been academically incompetent by a writer who has no merit to debate the victimized in light rather than under the pretext and shadow of Juba Eye – please click on the next square bracket to initiate the whole story further .
Khor Jool Mayen who is always known for his best singing ability, was later attacked and publicly humiliated after he proudly led Wut Aboudit when he appeared live on Facebook during the fundraiser in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday, April 1, 2017. The motives why he was stormed and censured harshly in public forum remain known only to Imatong, the editor of Juba Eye who is also an active editor at Hot In Juba.
Before that, the author of this item of information would like to educate readers of this piece about the previous preliminary findings that interrelated Hot In Juba and Panluel Wel site blogs, which was published on Bor Globe Network as well as Panluel Wel .
In a different development, there were other technical altercations that involved the author of this paper with another gentleman, Mayak Deng Aruei, the Host of Twic World; Aruei was accused of intriguing series of defamatory articles against elders and leaders of the then Bor County whether at a civil level or in a government when the signature of his website always appeared at the bottom of the released articles. He later testified and confessed in a lengthy article to stay clear off the alleged problem , naming Thon Garang to be the mastermind of that designated mission per the article published on Panluel Wel . Thon boldly took a lead and came forward, accepting the roles played in those Press Releases as well as he addressed his desires why he chose to do so. The brewed drama eventually ended there.
Presumably, Panluel Wel who also called Himself John Masura at Hot In Juba became aware and realized that it would not be safe haven anymore at the comfort of his hideout since dramatic art might spill over his hideaway palace! After he published Mayak's opinion article, the next day he updated Hot In Juba's registry profile editing the above address and forms of contact. Fortunately, every single piece of evidence that correlated Hot In Juba and Panluel Wel was successfully secured and saved before the edition. Assumedly, someone was believed to have associated with the office of Lost Boys Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona who could also had a close personal friendship with Panlual Wel during his studies at the George Washington University might have provided the above address for a web registration; or else, he himself could have taken a business card from the foundation if he happened to tour the organization.
However, that was not the end of the story as another deceitful geek called Mariak Bol Majok Adiang from Gorial took over the registry and became the legal registrant of Hot In Juba. Besides, Mariak officially hosts Talk of Juba. On the other hand, Mariak Bol Studied Web Design/Web Development at Zetech University and he is now believed to be the developer who actual designed Juba Eye, Hot In Juba, and Talk of Juba [4, 5]. Another point of evidence indicated that the time he became the registrant of Hot In Juba was also believed the time he was redesigning that website; most of the readers who were knowledgeable about the designs and contents of Hot In Juba and Talk of Juba at that time could agree with this writer, that the two blogs were pretty much very similar in design, shape, and background colors.
While he was the registrant of Hot In Juba, there was also a story that connected him with Achiech Malual Ayom Door on the same blog. The readers may click on the next square bracket to initiate the whole story further after this quote "Mariak couldn't mention the baby's name though. Hot in Juba at the time of writing this report couldn't identify the mother of Mariak's newborn baby (but we digging in to that) Mariak has a 1yr old son with Achiech Malual Ayom a daughter to SPLA deputy of general staff Gen. Malual Ayom & for whatever reason they are not staying together & the son is in the custody of the mother (Achiech Malual Ayom) ." Why did Mariak let someone else bashed the mother of his son on the blog he helped built? Did he intentionally turn her in because the couple might have had domestic issues? One could have guessed the other way or another!
The two gentlemen – Mariak Bol and John Masura were aware of this heinous business and this was how they responded; "The idea of hot in Juba website was inspired by Talk of Juba with which was run by my (online) brother Mariak Bol who I approached to sell my idea of Hot in Juba and if we could possibly work together. Mariak turned down my idea and so me and my friend Dexfont went ahead and teamed up with a US based South Sudanese web designer and launched our website in March 2015. My contract with an international NGO in Juba had just ended so I and Dexfont together with the web designer that I can't name now devoted much of our time to HIJ. The website soon went viral after publishing news about first South Sudanese open gay." Would Mariak Bol explain who was that his "online borther" and how did they meet? The bottom-line here was that Mariak's main role was to design and build blogs and partially less responsible for most of the egregious reports; however, John Masura is believed to have been managing the small-scale business after the developer completed the project! Below is the tracking record of Hot In Juba.
In addition, last year, this author released an initial report composed with allegations of accusing both Panluel Wel and Mariak Bol to have been playing very crucial roles in publishing crude and raw news about people's privacies on Hot In Juba . The accused gentlemen de-emphasized the alleged report. Panluel Wel mocked and ridiculed the allegations by retitling and highlighting the text of the written article in red; and this was how he responded . Moreover, Mariak was active on his Facebook page at the time and acted like he did not read anything about the surfaced allegations when observed. On the third day of the story, he wrote a pretentious testimony – kind of alibi defense on his Facebook page, saying that members of Bor Community falsely accused him as he had no time to stay that long on a computer or Facebook because recently he had an eye surgery and a doctor told him not to do so due to light effect.
After that Mariak built the website – Hot IN Juba and also updated the registry profiles of Hot In Juba, removing his name again and replaced it with Khamis Lado, an Equatorian name which is considered to be a fake blog registrant. Below is the present tracking record of Hot In Juba.
In its earliest lifecycle of Panlual Wel Blog, the editor footnote bore the following term: Junubin, an Arabic word that means South Sudanese Bloggers. After Hot In Juba got established and the report interrelated blogs surfaced, the term was later intentionally deleted, yet another Arabic word remains in the usage – Shukran, which means thank you. The same term (junubin) is very consistently used by Panluel Wel, Juba Eye, and Hot In Juba [10, 11, 12, 13]. This is another consistency of the Arabic phrase "shamarat" often used on Juba Eye and Hot In Juba as it was acknowledged in the previous report– the readers may click here to the next square bracket .
After a revelation was made last year, Hot In Juba became less aggressive on its technique of attacking people and the host became bored; therefore, he decided to come up with something that is hard to find such as the Juba Eye to accelerate his behavior of attacking people. First and foremost, let's explore where the Juba Eye has been registered. Research indicates that Juba Eye is registered at Godalming, Surrey in Great Britain. Below is the tracking record of Juba Eye.
More importantly, Paan luel Wel also removed the allegedly address above that linked his paanluelwel.com with Hot In Juba; he later generated a fake address and registration in Panama, a small country in Central America. After sometimes, he deleted that that registration and maintained no address while keeping "Registration Private." This was also another consistency he was believed to register Juba Eye in Godalming, Surrey Great Britain with a fake address and residency.
By the way, who is PaanLuel Wël? He is a South Sudanese by nationality; his biography indicates that he graduated with a Double Major in Economics and Philosophy from the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA; and lives in Washington DC, USA.
In 2008, his story was all over major newspapers in the United States and around the world that a former Jesuit Refugee Service scholar and Lost Boy of Sudan, Joseph Makwei Mabioor Deng won a scholarship from BANAA and had an admission in one of the top schools in the United States. Makwei similarly majored in a Double Major in Economics and Philosophy from the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA; and lived in Washington DC, USA; this description becomes the perfect match of the PaanLuel Wël's biography! Certainly, Makwei suffers in what this author perfectly called 'identiphobia ' – fear of being known publicly on social fora/forums. In 2010 on, he heavily involved political writings pertaining political issues that have been facing South Sudan on his paanluelwel.com; his blog later became popular and had hundred thousand of visitors and was featured as a distinguishing gust on BBC "his blog has received over 200,000 views and he was recently featured as a guest columnist on the BBC ." Besides, he wrote some books under his name and some under Paan Lual Wel. One of his books is written in Dinka language and this also fits "menh e jol mayen e rot gueng KCSE certificate de". Mading Yai was once quoted in kakuma during a traditional dance as saying " Yengo bii menh e Jol Mayen yeth chok dhuook yeen yoot nhial areet ele kene thondit E grade." This preceding quote was well written by someone who had such apparatus of writing Dinka like author Makwei.
The salient point here is that Makwei moderates Paan Luel Wel, Hot In Juba, and Juba Eye. There can be tipsters based in Australia who are aligned to the industry and pretty much, most of them are within the Kongor Dynasty. Makwei must convince the online community why did his registry link to Hot In Juba in the first place?
This is how Juba Eye can be brought down!
All victims of Juba Eye can link their stories of defamation and contact MESH DIGITAL LIMITED, the hosting server.
This is a war against all Bor South people. Today it is this victim and tomorrow it will be me, you or another well known person from Bor South. And I not joking; observe carefully and you will find that majority of the current and previous victims are from Bor South. This character assassination has been crafted by members of Twi East as a way to destroy Bor South. Makwei Mabioor Deng is from Kongor, Pan-Bior to be specific.
Everyone in Bor South needs to combat this, it is not the work of Majur Deng alone.
The motivation of these Twi guys is hate and money. They have a deep rooted hate against Bor South people. They also make money from the hate. I don't know if you know that Websites with many visitors make more money from advertisements than those with few or no visitors. These guys make up crazy stories that will attract everyone to their sites and that way, they make more money.
Makwei and cohorts are running a very risky business for they will reap what they are sowing.
Thank God for giving us Majur Deng!


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