I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is a comedy in which Adam Sandler and Kevin James fake being gay and get married for domestic partner benefits. It also features a 3/4 naked Jessica Biel. The trailer shows off a bit more of the cast, including (an uncredited) Rob Schneider and Dan Aykroyd. But in reality what you want is at the end of the trailer, pictured above. The movie looks pretty damn funny — and did I mention Jessica Biel?

While I’ve been a comic book geek most of my life, I never got into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This wasn’t because it was a bad franchise, mind you. It was more that I was just a couple years too old to be in the target demographic.

By the time the first movie came out, I was graduating high school, and the sequel (featuring a then-cool Vanilla Ice) hit the screens when I was in college. If I had been five or six years younger, catching the turtles when I was still not yet a teenager, I’m sure this would have been a defining element of pop culture for me.

Now that 300 has officially become the “next big thing”, it is only a matter of time before the film becomes the catalyst of mind numbing social trends. Napoleon Dynamite is one of the worst culprits in this situation. For quite some time after the film’s DVD release, people were walking around aimlessly quoting John Heder with reckless abandon. I’m afraid that 300 has already started a trend.  A quote from the film has risen above the film’s hype, and even its criticisms. The quote is from Gerard Butler playing Leonidas, in which he exclaims “This is Sparta!”

Jason Bourne is back in action…

Even with three Oscar nominations, Children of Men was the most overlooked film of 2006. With Alfonso Cuar³n directing and Emmanuel Lubezki behind the camera, this film was both a technical masterpiece and a thought provoking thriller.

Theo Faron (Clive Owen) is convinced that the end of the world has come. Not only has the human race become incapable of reproducing, the world has long lost a reason for why one would want to have children. All hope for a future has been lost, so those living within the present have raped the planet for what it is worth. Government is in shambles, the medical community is clueless and the world’s youngest person has just died. The year is 2027 and Theo has just been handed responsibility for mankind’s last hope.

Have you ever seen a movie, and then thought "Wow! That is a true story?" Yeah, sometimes a biographical movie can both amaze us and shock us due to the reality of the story. Many biographical films are wonderful because they tell a true-life tale, and entertain us and education us at the same time.

In Hollywood and elsewhere, there’s plenty of work for unemployed actors and actresses, if they don’t mind playing Yorick and not Hamlet.

The enormous success of television shows featuring bloodied bodies (“Law and Order” and its clones, “Law and Order: SVU” and “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”; “Crossing Jordan”; “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and its clones, “CSI: Miami”; and “CSI New York”; “Cold Case”; “Bones”; as well as the many BBC America forensic science dramas), has increased the demand for actors to play gory corpses. Not much dialogue but plenty of exposure.

The Departed is an entertaining crime drama that Martin Scorsese refers to as his “B-Movie” because it was, in part, influenced by Warner Brothers’ 1930s gangster movies. While his welcome return to America’s mean streets finally won him an Oscar, all serious film aficionados and Scorsese fans know an asterisk needs to go into the record books because the Best Director and Best Picture awards were really bestowed to give the Academy credibility for their embarrassments of not awarding those honors to his previous works Raging Bull and Goodfellas. The Departed is good, but it doesn’t rise to the level of best.

Edith Piaf was one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century; top three probably. She also was one of the most tortured souls in the glamorous show biz world of her time. Olivier Dahan gave it a go at depicting her complicated story on screen. That’s a hell of a task if you ask me but the French director pulled it with less casualties than i would predict. He created a moving film with an excellent lead performance.

There are filmmakers that will be remembered forever. Bergman, Hitchcock, Welles, Scorsese, Fassbinder, Kurosawa, Altman, the list goes on. Now you can add Alfonso Cuaron to the list. His new film Children of Men, is a masterpiece, hands down. It was easily the best film of 2006, it is the best film of the decade, and it will stand as one of the greatest motion picture experiences ever made. After seeing it in a theater, I was stunned. There hasn’t been a film released in my lifetime that had affected as much. I was afraid that my praise came too soon, I was excited, I was happy to finally see a modern movie that was truly great. I knew I had to wait until the DVD came out to properly judge the film. I received the DVD yesterday, and I am happy to see that my first instinct was right.

What an absolutely draining experience. As I left the theater, I felt so emotionally spent that I just stood in the theater lobby, no speaking, not thinking, just standing there. I wasn’t quite prepared for the ringer the Reign Over Me put me through. This is not to say it is a perfect film, it has its flaws, but it creates this vivid portrait of two men going through turning points in their lives, and helping each other find what it is they are looking for. The movie also gives us an Adam Sandler that I have never seen before. In short, this is a surprisingly moving, well acted film that is well worth your time.

I was a big fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when they first appeared back in the 1980′s, and that carried through to the first live action film in 1990. Shortly thereafter, I grew out of the turtle phase and left such things behind me. I have now come full circle and have a growing nostalgia for such things from my youth. With the nostalgia kick, I was intrigued when I first learned of a new animated film, wary, but intrigued. The wariness was immediately eradicated when I saw the first teaser trailer showing the mean green machine in full computer generated glory, sprinting and jumping across the rooftops. Yes, that is what I’m talking about.

This is a very strong week, at least for me. There are plenty of films being released that will compete for your hard earned cash. There are even a number of films that I am not familiar with that are rather enticing. Of course, no week is complete without a stinker or two, and this week is no different. Whether you are looking for family films, tearjerkers, visionary drama, foreign majesty, or classic films, there is something for you. Just like every week, there is one that is standing tall, high above everyone else.

TMNT made a statement in its opening weekend, the mean green machine is back and ready to recapture its place in pop culture. Well, it may not have been that strong, but it did decidedly take the weekend’s top spot over from 300. The animated action film brought a new look Ninja Turtle to the fore, delivering more than this viewer was expecting. 300 held the top spot for two weeks, and while it did slip out of the top slot, it still pulled in a good chunk of change. It will be interesting to see if these two films have the legs to stick out as competition begins to get heavier.

This is a good example of what horror fans have to put up with. Horror fans all know about the good horror films that get everything firing on all cylinders, from acting, to story, to the all important scares. Horror fans all know about the bad horror films, the ones that are so inept that they wouldn’t scare a child and are plagued by a bad story and even worse acting. Then there are films such as The Hills Have Eyes II, which for my money does a lot of things right, but is tempered by the presence of some awful dialogue and acting. It has a story that we have seen before, but builds enough tension and delivers enough gore to keep us, or me at least, interested until the inevitable conclusion.

I’ll admit it: when I was six years old, my world revolved around the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Think about it – four overgrown turtles that are raised by a life-size rat that teaches them the way of the ninja…the possibilities are endless. I ate it up. The toys, clothes, movies, whatever – I had them all. As I have gotten older, I’ve revisited the movies and Saturday morning cartoon, and I’ve realized that this thing that I loved so much was so completely, and utterly stupid. Along comes TMNT to rub salt in the wounds.

There are a few things that you always need to have if you are going to make a decent American vigilante action movie. You must have a hero, filled to the brim with idealism and armed with a degree in kickin’ ass and taking names. You must also have at least one hot leading lady, and you earn bonus points for tastefully putting her in position to be half naked through most of the film. And finally, without question there must exist plenty of gunfights and explosions to keep the audiences entertained in between the afore mentioned partial nudity. These three elements never fail to give Average Joe Moviegoer his money’s worth.

Whoever said that celebrities move away and forget their roots has never met Halle Berry. A native of Cleveland, and one of the Lake Erie shore’s best exports, Berry has always looked back with a fond eye toward Cleveland’s culture, its people and its midwestern charm. So it is only fitting that on Thursday, when Ms. Berry returned to Cleveland for an exclusive premiere of her new flick Perfect Stranger, she was met with the warm roar of the crowd and some good ole C-town weather: rain.

The cineplex is under attack! The scene is grim, there are film cans scattered, bits of celluloid flutter about like leaves in the wind, and the people…

When a brother and sister discover a strange box they are unwittingly thrust into key roles in a story spanning centuries and wherein the future is at stake. Inside the box are several strange items, all of which prove to have magical properties, but for a purpose that they themselves must discover. Along the way, the two must overcome a government anti-terrorism unit which mistakes their activities for terrorist acts and find help from some unlikely places. The Last Mimzy, directed by Robert Shaye, is a movie aimed at children. But unlike the best of children’s movies, like E.T. and The Little Mermaid, this one is likely to fall flat with adults.