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08 SNAPSJohnny Depp jams with his old band

10 SHORTSCasting about for a young Will Ferrell,and Godzilla invades Tokyo, again

12 SPOTLIGHTFido director Andrew Currie on his zombie obsession

38 TRIVIAWhich Wild Hogs star was oncearrested for having a loaded gun in his suitcase?

39 ON THE SLATE

40 STYLEA short dress goes a long way this spring

42 LINER NOTESPeter Elkas on Wall of Fire

44 NAME OF THE GAMEPrepare for an ancient Greeksmackdown in God of War II

46 VIDEO AND DVDFrom silly to suave: Borat and Casino Royale arrive on DVD

48 HOROSCOPEBite your tongue Pisces

50 FAMOUS LAST WORDSSienna Miller talks cheap

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SPRING MOVIE PREVIEW

20 MARCHINTERVIEW: Adam Sandler on Reign Over Me I BY EARL DITTMAN

28 APRILINTERVIEW: Scarlett Johansson on The Nanny Diaries I BY EARL DITTMAN

34 MAYINTERVIEW: Kirsten Dunst on Spider-Man 3 I BY BOB STRAUSS

13 SHARKBOYHow Rob Stewart nearly lost his legmaking Sharkwater I BY MARNI WEISZ

14 TOM’S ROM-COMOttawa’s Tom Cavanagh rolls intotheatres as an amiable doctor in theromantic comedy Gray Matters. Findout how a guy with three degreesfrom Queen’s University (althoughnone in drama) carved out aHollywood career I BY MARNI WEISZ

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In November of 1999 we launched thismagazine as the in-theatre publicationfor Famous Players theatres. We thoughtthat was pretty great — we had an instant,national readership of movie lovers.

Then, in 2005, Famous Players waspurchased by Cineplex, as was this magazine. Since that time, we havecontinued to be available in theatres bearing the Famous Players andAlliance Atlantis names.

But as of this issue, Famous is available in all Cineplex Entertainmenttheatres — that means Cineplex Odeon, Famous Players and Galaxycinemas (we’re still at Alliance theatres too). So some of you may belooking at Famous for the very first time. Welcome.

We hope you enjoy reading this magazine as much as we enjoy putting it together. You’ll find that, even though Famous is meant tobe fun and entertaining, we take creating it very seriously. Our feature stories are based on interviews with the biggest names in Hollywood, we scour the entertainment world for unique and interesting photographs (rather than the usual red-carpet fare), andwe do everything we can to keep you in the loop when it comes to current and upcoming films.

And how great is this? To celebrate the expansion, we’re going tosend one lucky contest winner to Los Angeles to attend the red-carpet premiere of Transformers. Check out page 18 for all the details.

Speaking of upcoming films, you may have noticed that this is ourSpring Preview Issue. Starting on page 19 you can read about all themovies being released from now until the end of May, with spotlightson some of the most exciting films.

Plus, each month of that preview starts with a great interview —March is Adam Sandler for Reign Over Me, a heartbreaking drama about a guy who just can’t deal with reality after losing his family on9/11; April is all about our cover girl, Scarlett Johansson, who stars in The Nanny Diaries, an adaptation of the populartell-all book of the same name; and May goes toKirsten Dunst, whose spunky Mary Jane Watsonmay finally get a proposal from her web-slingingboyfriend in Spider-Man 3.

Plus, on page 14, you’ll find my chat withCanadian actor Tom Cavanagh (Ed from Ed) abouthis latest film, Gray Matters.

Once again, welcome to all of our new readers,we’re thrilled to have you.

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Ewan McGregor (right) and his dad — quite literally — get jiggy at a Robbie Burnsnight in London that was hosted by Obi-Wan himself. Proceeds went to one ofMcGregor’s pet causes, Children’s HospiceAssociation Scotland. PHOTO BY NICK HARVEY/WIREIMAGE

A little snow couldn’t keep Natalie Portman(left) and a friend from doing some sightseeingwhile in Prague. The actor was in the CzechRepublic for the premiere of her period dramaGoya’s Ghosts, directed by Czech directorMilos Forman. PHOTO BY BIG PICTURES UK/KEYSTONE

Johnny Depp (second from right) playsguitar with his old new wave band The Kids atthe Sheila Witkin Memorial Reunion Concert inPompano Beach, Florida. Witkin, who died lastyear, was the band’s manager and agent, andthe mother of one of its members. PHOTO BY CHRIS GORDON/GETTY

No pictures, please! The Last Mimzyco-stars Rainn Wilson (left) and Timothy Huttonjoke with the paparazzi as they walk downMain Street in Park City, Utah. They were thereto screen their supernatural family flick at theSundance Film Festival. PHOTO BY SCOTT HALLERAN/GETTY

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As you can see by this photo,part of the new Will Ferrell

movie, Blades of Glory, takesplace in Montreal, at the “Jeux du Monde Wintersports.”

The movie follows Chazz(Ferrell) and Jimmy (NapoleonDynamite’s Jon Heder), a couple

of world-class Men’s figureskaters who’ve been on- and off-ice rivals since they werekids. When they tie for the goldmedal at the “World WintersportGames” they get into a brawlatop the podium and are bannedfrom Men’s figure skating for

life. But then they discover aloophole in the rules — if theyteam up and perform as a pairthey must be allowed tocompete. Hilarity ensues.

Several segments were shot in Montreal last March,including one with “YoungChazz” and “Young Jimmy” thatsets the stage for their rivalry. A casting call for kids who canskate was sent out, specifyingall of the spins, axels and toeloops the boys must be able tocomplete. But the call alsogives some interesting behind-the-scenes tidbits about thepint-sized players’ motivation:

“Young Chazz is a troubledkid, with a darker energy. DO NOT play the scenes forcomedy…play the realemotions,” and “YOUNG JIMMYis an angelic kid, with a light &

happy energy.” Also, “Theactors should be as natural aspossible, not cutesy, or over-the-top. It is VERY IMPORTANTthat the scenes totally be playedfor the reality. We are looking forNON-ACTING, SUBTLE, REAL& NATURAL acting.”

In the end, the non-speakingrole of Young Jimmy went toeight-year-old Zachary Ferrenfrom Chatham, Ontario. But,alas, it doesn’t look like asuitable Young Chazz could befound in these parts becausethe role went to Laguna Beach,California, native Ridge Canipe,a 13-year-old wonder who hasalready appeared in movies likeBad News Bears and Walk theLine, and on TV’s DesperateHousewives and CSI. No wordwhether the California boy didhis own double toe loops. —MW

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reading Harry Potter goes tocollege? It creates its own versionof intramural Quidditch.

Students at Middlebury Collegein Vermont originally came up withthe game, which is slowlyspreading to other Northeasterncollege campuses. Now, thesecrazy earth-bound kids don’t haveflying brooms to ride, but they dorun around with brooms betweentheir legs, wearing capes.

The object of the game is tocapture the Snitch — a flying

golden ball in the books andmovies — which, in this case, is a tennis ball, stuffed inside asock, that hangs out of the shortsof a fleet-footed runner. The real-life Snitch, who wears a yellowoutfit (complete with yellow facepaint), is chased around the fieldwhile the Bludgers (attackers)toss dodgeballs at one another.The Quaffle (a small ball used forscoring points) is a volleyballthat’s fired at gold-painted Hula Hoops mounted on chairs. As yet, there is no mandatory drug testing for this sport. —IR

WILL FERRELL’S TROUBLED CHILD

ArtifactThis month’s objet de film: Godzilla

Perhaps the biggest film star to come out of Japan, Godzilla,was front and centre at the recent opening of the brand-new

National Art Centre at Tokyo. The gallery is unique in that it hasno permanent collection, instead using its 14,000 square metresof exhibition space for visiting shows, giving it an “unpredictablequality” according the building’s architect, Kisho Kurokawa.Godzilla was part of the very first visiting exhibit, “The Power ofExpression, Japan,” which pulled together works of manga(Japanese graphic novels), anime and entertainment art from thepast several decades. —MW

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Zombies are a hot commodity inHollywood. The undead have made ahuge cinematic comeback, thanks

mostly to the resurgence of horror flicks. Butin director Andrew Currie’s (Mile Zero) latestmovie, Fido (in theatres March 16), zombiesdon’t seem all that scary, having beendomesticated and put to work as servantsand labourers, even kept as family pets.

The film, set in the idyllic 1950s, picks up after a dust cloud passes throughEarth’s atmosphere and causes the dead to rise in search of human flesh. But thanksto a collar invented by the ZomConcorporation, zombies are controlled andconsidered docile. Helen (Carrie-AnneMoss) and Bill (Dylan Baker) Robinsoneven allow their son Timmy to keep a zombienamed Fido (Billy Connolly) as a pet.

“Fido is more of a comedy and reallyisn’t a horror film, although it plays withthe genre,” says Currie on the line from his Vancouver office.

“And at the heart of it all is the theme:Love, not fear, makes us alive. It’s reallyabout the family and the father, played byDylan Baker, who is this guy who iscompletely fear-based. He’s terrified ofzombies but he’s also terrified of intimacy,and the central irony of it all is that Fido,who’s dead, comes into the family and yourealize he’s more emotionally engaged andalive than the father.”

Currie is partial to zombies, having used the zombie metaphor in his short filmNight of the Living, which he made while aresident at the Canadian Film Centre. Thatone was about a boy who thinks hisalcoholic father is a zombie.

“I don’t know what attracts me tozombies, probably it’s that the zombierepresents ‘the other.’ They are very close tohumans, and I’m sure they’re tied into ourown fear of mortality and illness and all ofthat. They sort of embody that, don’t they?”

For actor Carrie-Anne Moss, Fido marked

the beginning of a new life — shortly afteraccepting the role of Helen she discoveredshe was pregnant. She assumed Currie wouldfind another actor for the part but insteadhe wrote the pregnancy into the script.

“When Carrie-Anne found out she waspregnant she let us know quite early in theprocess,” remembers Currie. “And whenshe talked to me about the pregnancy weboth got really excited because the film’stheme of death, and the fear of death, ismatched with the idea of what it means tobe alive, and for her to have this living childinside her, it just sort of deepened thewhole thing in a really organic way.”

The kicker was that Currie’s partner andFido’s producer, Mary Ann Waterhouse, alsobecame pregnant before filming started.“They were actually pregnant within a fewweeks of each other,” says Currie. “It wasgreat. They were both radiant and happy, itwas a really special and wonderfulsurprise.” —INGRID RANDOJA

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A bout five years ago, Toronto-based wildlife photographerRob Stewart set out to make a documentary about one ofhis lifelong passions, sharks. He figured it would be an

informative film filled with beautiful underwater imagery, sortof like an underwater version of Baraka, the 1992 documentaryabout life on Earth that was made up of striking imagery fromaround the world.

But three weeks into the shoot a string ofdramatic incidents turned the movie fromunderwater eye candy to a human drama involving politics, criminal charges and anear-death experience. The resulting film,Sharkwater, is released in theatres this month.

Stewart was doing some last-minute tweaksto the film’s colour at a Toronto editing facility when he spoke with Famous.

Tell me about this film. “I tried to make justan underwater movie, then everything went to hell. While wewere making the movie, the conservation group that I wasworking with collided with a fishing boat in Guatemala, weended up getting charged with attempted murder in Costa Rica,and then getting arrested and exposing this corruption ring, Iwas filming this Taiwanese mafia. Everything went crazy andwe ended up having to turn the cameras on ourselves in casewe were stuck in a Costa Rican prison, so I would have arecord of that. And when I came back from that main shoot I had this crazy human drama and none of the underwaterBaraka that I thought I was going to make.”

You contracted flesh-eating disease while you were shooting, andwere taken to a hospital in the Galapagos Islands where doctorswanted to remove your leg. How did you recover from that? “Sevendays of superstrong Ecuadorian antibiotics and little blue pills that made me sleep the whole time. After that I had Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus and TB. Dengue Fever is sortof like West Nile, I actually got West Nile in Toronto. I got

back from this trip and I was getting overDengue and I got bitten by a mosquito ina park in Toronto and it was West Nile.And then I had latent tuberculosis that

was just sitting in me. I finished university in Africa, so I probably contracted it there. It stayed dormant in me until myimmune system was so devastated by the other two.”

How are you now? “Good. I’m a little more sensitive, so if Imiss a few nights of sleep in a row I’ll probably get sick.”

Why this obsession with sharks? “There’s a lot we can learn fromthem. We’re living at a time on Earth when human’s survival onthe planet is in jeopardy. We’re not living in balance with thenatural world, we’re breaking virtually every ecological lawthere is on the planet. So we can look to sharks because they’rethe only large animal that survived for 400-million years, figureout how they live in balance with the world. Also, there’s noother animal you can look at that’s so perfectly designed to liveon Earth. I grew up as a boy catching snakes and lizards andstuff like that and sharks are sort of the ultimate cool boy animal — they’re big, they’re menacing, they’re beautiful andpowerful, and nobody really likes them.”

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For many, Ottawa native Tom Cavanaghwill always be synonymous with Ed Stevens, the bowling alley lawyer

he played for four seasons on the NBC series Ed. And for good reason. The 43-year-old actor shares much with Stuckyville’s prodigal son, including thesame amiable, enthusiastic demeanorand self-deprecating sense of humour.

Since Ed went off the air in 2004, Cavanagh has rarely been out of work, appearing in several episodes of Scrubs, the doomed TV series Love Monkey, andthe satirical Broadway musical Urinetown.That last credit isn’t as much of a departureas you might think. After graduating fromKingston, Ontario’s Queen’s University,Cavanagh earned roles in song-and-danceproductions like A Chorus Line and Cabaret,then moved to New York to appear in theBroadway musical Shenandoah.

“I really, really liked the city and havebeen fortunate enough to get some filmshere. So I’ve had a place here for a longtime,” says Cavanagh over the phonefrom his New York home. The actor married Maureen Grise, a photo editor forSports Illustrated, a couple of years ago andthey now have a one-year-old daughter.

In Cavanagh’s latest movie, Gray Matters,he plays Sam, an amiable doctor who fallsin love with Charlie (Bridget Moynahan)after meeting her at a dog park. Problemis, Sam’s sister Gray (Heather Graham)— who is just realizing she’s gay — alsofalls for Charlie. Alan Cumming is cast as aScottish cabbie with a crush on Gray, whileSissy Spacek has a small role as Gray’s loopy psychiatrist.

“We had a screening for the New YorkFilm Critics last night, which seemed togo fine. Nobody threw anything,” jokes Cavanagh.

So what’s your take on Gray Matters?“It’s basically your typical cops and robbers car chase…no, just kidding. Sue Kramer, the director, attempted tomake an homage to the musical romanticcomedies of the ’40s but set it in the


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present day, which, if you thinkabout it, is an interesting conceit. It’s avery personal story for Sue, not just inthat respect, but because it’s a sort of Valentine to her sister, who’s gay.”

The topic is treated in a very light manner.Was that on purpose?“It was 100 percent purposeful. It reallywasn’t going to be one of these teen coming-of-age, dripping with angstthings. Sue had no desire to do that. Itwas basically — look, it’s sometimes anegative word in our culture — but it’s amovie that’s unabashedly populist. Shewanted to make a commercial movie, andshe did. While [coming out is] a big storyfor the individual, in her point of view itshouldn’t be a big deal. So she didn’twant to treat it as ‘Oh my gosh, look howheavy this is.’ There are serious moments,but largely it’s a romantic comedy.”

The most progressive thing about the moviemay be casting Alan Cumming, an openlygay actor, as a straight man with a crush onthe leading lady.“Yeah, I mean Alan, if you’ve seen his stuff,he’s a vicious talent. Any time I see Alanin a role like that I want him to be on thescreen all the time. You know, like, ‘GetCavanagh out of there and put Cummingon screen for a few more minutes.’ And inthis role, it’s very straight, it’s a sweet role,and maybe not typically what you’re usedto seeing [from him]. I think you will findthat this guy is eminently watchable.”

And filmmakers rarely cast gay actors in astraight, romantic roles.“I really hadn’t thought of it that way.Hopefully that’ll change…. You don’thave to be a drug addict to play a drug addict. You don’t have to be straight to playstraight. That’s just a very short-sightedway for the entertainment industry tolook at things.”

You went to Queen’s, where you played basketball and earned three degrees — Biology, English and Education — but didyou study drama there? Do they even havea drama department?“They have a very good drama department,very accomplished, very well-respected,but no, I took it initially as an elective myfirst year and just realized that I felt moreat home with the doing than the crafts-man part of it. There were always plentyof plays being put on at Queen’s — bothstraight theatre and musical theatre,

so if that’s what you want to be involved in there’s plenty of opportunities. I took advantage of that.”

How do you end up with three degrees?“You have five years of basketball eligibility[laughs]. I knew that I wasn’t going to usethose degrees professionally, but I was interested in the subject matter. I was doing plays throughout my stay there and that, as much as anything, was myuniversity experience.”

I can see how you can act without formaltraining, but how do you do musicals without formal training?“My family’s very musical, my mother’s amusic teacher. My sisters both haveawards of distinction as pianists, my dad’sinto musicals, my brother and I and myfather all play guitar, and there’s alwayssinging around the place. I always playedin a band throughout college, really justa college band, but a lot of fun. So I’mused to playing on stage and performinganyway, so it was an easy step.”

And did you have to dance?“Sure.”

So where did that come from?“I dunno [laughs], that’s another crazyquestion. I’m sure it was very awful dancing, but I think I was coordinatedenough to play sports so a lot of my dancecame, initially, as pure mimicry. Youknow, I may not be able to do all thesecombinations or dance competently otherwise, but if you just show me whatthe moves are and teach me where every-thing needs to go, you know, I’ll workvery hard at that and hopefully, by thetime we open, hopefully, you can put meat the back and I can get away with it.”

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says their anxiety is for naught. “I likewhat I’ve been doing, so I don’t really seeany reason to do anything different,”insists Sandler, who has already madesuch family-fare as Big Daddy and the animated Eight Crazy Nights.

“I believe in what I’ve done in the past,and I hope that my kid enjoys some ofthe movies I’ve made and enjoys some ofthe movies I make in the future,” he continues. “I don’t think that she’ll digthem until she’s maybe 14 or 15 or maybe

10, but I know that I’ll show her them her whole life. I’ll be like, ‘Watch daddynow. Let it affect you the way that it affect-ed all of America.’”

His next movie, I Now Pronounce YouChuck and Larry, is another comedy, butthis time it’s about a subject that is neithersafe nor particularly mainstream — same-sex marriage. Although Sandlerperformed at the Republican NationalConvention in 2004, he supports gay rights.

“I’ve always been an open-minded

person, it’s just that in my earlier films Ididn’t have the box-office power to saythe things I wanted to say,” says Sandler.“Now that I’m seen as a little popular, Ican say and do a lot more of what I want.”

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larryhas Sandler and Kevin James playing two heterosexual fireman buddies inPhiladelphia who are forced to act like agay couple in order to receive much-needed insurance and other benefits being awarded to domestic partners. Thefilm also stars Jessica Biel, Dan Akyroydand former firefighter Steve Buscemi,who worked at a New York fire station forseveral years before making it as an actor.

Some people have suggested Sandlerwas anxious to do the film as a way tosend a middle-finger salute to some gossip columnists who questioned hissexual leanings before he got married.

“You know, when you don’t go on TVand talk about how many women yousleep with, some people in Hollywoodthat are supposedly ‘in the know’ startwhispering that you’re gay,” he says witha smirk. “If I were gay, I wouldn’t beashamed to admit it, I think I’ve demon-strated that with Big Daddy [with its positive depiction of a gay couple]. Thisis the part of being famous that most actors hate — people making up thingsabout you that aren’t true. But you learnto ignore it and keep on doing whatyou’re here for — making people laughor cry and try to teach them a thing ortwo along the way.”

Earl Dittman is a Houston-based entertainment writer.

“Now that I have afamily, it’s hard toimagine what friendsand relatives of thepeople who died felt,”says Sandler.“Hopefully, this moviewill help to heal someof that pain”

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It’s hard to deny; most peoplego to Adam Sandler moviessimply to see him act silly.

And, like many of his comicbrethren — Jim Carrey, ChrisRock, Steve Martin — whenthey take on serious roles, theprojects often fair poorly.

Sandler himself has hadmixed success with more dramatic fare — earning greatreviews and a Golden Globenomination for Punch-DrunkLove, but suffering through amediocre reaction to Spanglish.

“You always want every single one ofyour movies to make a lot of money and be popular with your fans, but I can never grow as an actor if I let badbox-office numbers scare me away from the more dramatic films,” says the40-year-old New York native who got hisfirst big break in 1990 when he joined thecast of Saturday Night Live. “I’m not afraidto take chances, because all it can do ishelp me grow as an artist and a person. Ilike testing myself a little bit.”

In the same breath, though, Sandleradmits he finds it more relaxing to makejokes and do pratfalls than to shoot a sad scene. “I’m much more comfortableshowing up at a set knowing that we havea funny scene coming up,” he says. “Imean, if I have to do a really depressingscene, I don’t like sitting in my trailer being depressed all day. I don’t like that,

but I do it because it’s important for myperformance. But I’m glad when it’sover, because it feels like a relief. If I didthe best that I could do, I feel a hugesense of accomplishment. But I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you that I wouldrather go to work in a movie like Click, soI can fart in David Hasselhoff’s face.”

Whatever calm and satisfaction Sandlermay get from expelling bodily gases inthe face of a former TV star were put onthe back burner when his wife, formermodel Jackie Titone (now Jackie Sandler),read director Mike Binder’s script forReign Over Me, about a man who lost hisfamily on 9/11.

“She told me she thought that I couldreally do it justice, but I thought it was avery heavy movie, and I was scared to do it,” Sandler recalls. “But she really encouraged me and told me it was amovie I would be proud of.”

Sandler plays Charlie Fineman, whoselife has been consumed by anguish sincehis family died in the World Trade Center.An unexpected meeting with an oldfriend, however, begins to change his world.

“Basically, at its core, it’s just about aman who’s been through a terrible thing,”says Sandler. “Charlie lost his family in9/11, and he has a hard time just livinglife and just being in the moment. Hedoesn’t want to know about life. He triesto pretend that he never had a family. Hecan only deal with his life by thinkingabout stuff in his past, about growing up.

“One day, he bumps into this guy, Alan— Don Cheadle plays him — and Charlieand Alan both went to dental school together,” Sandler continues. “But Charliehasn’t spoken to anyone in five years, andfor some reason, Alan makes him feelcomfortable. So it’s about a friendshipthat changes both their lives.”

Although the story sounds like it couldhave been based on real people — likeWorld Trade Center and United 93 before it— Sandler insists that it’s not. “He is nota real guy or at least not one particular real guy,” explains Sandler. “Now, Mikedid a lot of research and met a lot of people like Charlie that were affected by9/11, so I guess you could say a lot ofCharlie’s words and certainly his grief arereal. Now that I have a family, it’s hard toimagine what friends and relatives of thepeople who died felt. Hopefully, thismovie will help to heal some of that pain.”

Aside from his wife, Sandler’s familynow consists of 10-month-old daughterSadie Madison. He says he never had anydoubts about becoming a dad, his sistersboth have kids and he’s always loved beingaround them. “Every day, I get more andmore excited, and I feel comfortable withher. I just want her to feel comfortablewith me. My arms aren’t perfect for thekid’s head when I cradle her. I got togrow the boobs.”

If Sandler’s fans are worried fatherhoodwill steer “The Sandman” toward makingmore family-oriented movies, the actor

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M A R C H 2

WILD HOGSWHO’S IN IT? John Travolta, Martin LawrenceWHO DIRECTED? Walt Becker (Van Wilder)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This buddy comedy/roadpic stars Travolta, Lawrence, Tim Allen andWilliam H. Macy as four middle-aged guys whodecide to shake up their lives by taking theirHarleys for an extended spin. Their bondingexercise turns ugly when they run into abiker gang led by the menacing Ray Liotta.

ZODIACWHO’S IN IT? Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. WHO DIRECTED? David Fincher (Panic Room)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? During the late ’60s andearly ’70s, a serial killer operating inNorthern California taunts the police withcryptic letters published on the front pageof the San Francisco Chronicle, whichdraws the interest of not only the cops, but ajournalist (Downey Jr.) and the paper’scartoonist (Gyllenhaal). Based on the real-life case of the Zodiac killer, who was neverapprehended and was last heard from in1974. The San Francisco police officiallyclosed the case file in April 2004.

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THE NAMESAKEWHO’S IN IT? Kal Penn, Jacinda BarrettWHO DIRECTED? Mira Nair (Vanity Fair)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Gogol Ganguli (Penn) wasborn in New York, but his Indian name, darkskin and immigrant parents make him feelmore like an outsider than an American.It’s only when his father finally tells himthe story of how he came by his name thathe truly understands his place in the world.

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THE EXWHO’S IN IT? Zach Braff, Amanda Peet WHO DIRECTED? Jesse Peretz (The Château)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Braff stars as Tom, alaid-back guy who’s forced to work at hisfather-in-law’s advertising agency when his

lawyer wife Sofia (Peet) decides to stay athome with their newborn. And if that’s notbad enough, Tom’s smarmy co-worker Chip(Jason Bateman) — who had a “thing” withSofia back in high school — is out tosabotage his nascent career.

300WHO’S IN IT? Gerard Butler, Lena HeadeyWHO DIRECTED? Zack Snyder(Dawn of the Dead)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This extravaganza of historic eye-candy is based on Frank Miller’s gory graphic novel thatrecounts the Battle of Thermopylae, whichsaw 300 Spartan soldiers take onthousands of invading Persian warriors in480 BC. Like Sin City, Miller’s othergraphic-novel-turned-film, 300 was shotagainst a blue screen, thereby allowingdirector Snyder to fill in the backgroundwith elaborate and fantastical CGI effects.Also screening in IMAX where available.

GRAY MATTERSWHO’S IN IT? Tom Cavanagh, Heather GrahamWHO DIRECTED? Sue Kramer (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A brother and sister(Cavanagh, Graham) both fall for the samewoman after meeting her at a dog park. See Tom Cavanagh interview, page 14.

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SUNSHINEWHO’S IN IT? Cillian Murphy, Michelle YeohWHO DIRECTED? Danny Boyle (28 Days Later)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Fifty years from now thesun starts to peter out, which means Earthwill soon hit a deep freeze — that is,unless a group of astronauts can find a wayto restart the life-giving globe.

I THINK I LOVE MY WIFEWHO’S IN IT? Chris Rock, Kerry WashingtonWHO DIRECTED? Chris Rock (Head of State)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Rock remakes the 1972French comedy Chloe in the Afternoon,which finds a happily married man (Rock)seriously tempted to cheat on his wife (Gina Torres) with a mischievous ex-flame(Washington). It’ll be interesting to see ifthe usually acerbic Rock can capture thecharm of the original French film.

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SHOOTERWHO’S IN IT? Mark Wahlberg, Kate MaraWHO DIRECTED? Antoine Fuqua (King Arthur)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? He’s part Jason Bourne,part John Rambo — he’s Bob Lee Swagger(Wahlberg), a retired U.S. military sniperwho’s contacted by the Feds to stop anassassination attempt on the President,but is then double-crossed so it looks as ifhe’s the shooter. Of course, Bob Lee Swagger(we’ll take any opportunity to use thisname in a sentence) goes on the hunt tofind out who framed Bob Lee Swagger.

PREMONITIONWHO’S IN IT? Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahonWHO DIRECTED? Mennan Yapo (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A cop comes to the doorand informs Linda (Bullock) that herhusband was killed in a traffic accident. Yetthe next morning she wakes up and he’sthere beside her. When the premonitionkeeps repeating itself, Linda searches for away to stop the event from happening.

FIDOWHO’S IN IT? Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy ConnollyWHO DIRECTED? Andrew Currie (Mile Zero)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? During the idyllic 1950s acloud of space dust passes through Earth’satmosphere and causes the dead to rise. Butall’s well, thanks to a collar invented by theZomCon corporation, which makes zombiesdocile. Little Timmy Robinson’s best friend ishis zombie pet Fido (Connolly)…but Fido isshowing some disturbing signs of rebellion.See Andrew Currie interview, page 12.

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SHARKWATERWHO’S IN IT? Rob Stewart, Paul WatsonWHO DIRECTED? Rob Stewart (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Writer/director Stewart’s long-held passion for sharks is thejumping off point for this documentary aboutthe magnificent — yet much-maligned —creatures, now battling poachers, the shark-fin trade and their own bad reps to stay alive.See Rob Stewart interview, page 13.

THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2WHO’S IN IT? Jacob Vargas, Derek MearsWHO DIRECTED? Martin Weisz (Rohtenburg)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The New Mexico touristboard must just loooove this horror seriesabout a colony of cannibalistic mutantsliving in the NM desert who feed on passingtourists. This time around it’s a group ofNational Guard trainees on the menu.

THE LAST MIMZYWHO’S IN IT? Chris O’Neil, Rhiannon Leigh WrynWHO DIRECTED? Robert Shaye (Book of Love)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A brother and sister

discover an assortment of odd toys thatgives them strange powers. Both theirparents (Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson)and their science teacher, Mr. White (Rainn Wilson), find the developmentunnerving and suspect the kids may bechanneling some alien energy.

MR. BROOKS WHO’S IN IT? Kevin Costner, Demi MooreWHO DIRECTED? Bruce A. Evans (Kuffs)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Mr. Brooks (Costner) isan affable, ordinary bloke — he wearsglasses, nice suits, is married with a wifeand kid — but his demeanor changes whenMarshall (William Hurt), his serial-killeralter ego, takes over. Moore stars as thedetective assigned to track down theelusive killer.

REIGN OVER MEWHO’S IN IT? Adam Sandler, Don CheadleWHO DIRECTED? Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? See Adam Sandlerinterview, page 20.

DEAD SILENCEWHO’S IN IT? Ryan Kwanten, Donnie WahlbergWHO DIRECTED? James Wan (Saw)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? From the writer anddirector of Saw comes this scary flick abouta widower (Kwanten) who thinks themysterious murder of a female ventriloquistdecades earlier may have something to dowith his wife’s death.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLESVOICES: Patrick Stewart, Sarah Michelle GellarWHO DIRECTED? Kevin Munroe (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The TMNT have beenkicking around since 1984, whencartoonists Kevin Eastman and Peter Lairdused a tax refund and a loan from a relativeto self-publish a single comic book featuring four heroic turtles who possessamazing martial arts skills. Action figures,lunch boxes, Saturday morning cartoons

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and even a travelling musicalfollowed. Now they come to the big screenin all their CGI glory, taking on an army ofevil creatures led by a black-heartedindustrialist.

PRIDEWHO’S IN IT? Terrence Howard, Bernie MacWHO DIRECTED? Sunu Gonera (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Howard stars as Jim Ellis, a recreation centre instructorwho, during the summer of 1974, starts acompetitive swim program for African-American teens in Philadelphia. Howard’s(Hustle & Flow) riveting screen presenceshould help elevate this latest based-on-a-true-story, underdog sports movie.

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THE LOOKOUTWHO’S IN IT? Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla FisherWHO DIRECTED? Scott Frank (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Chris Pratt (Gordon-Levitt) was a high school jock and man-about-town until an accident left himslightly brain-damaged. He now works as ajanitor at a bank, and it’s his access to the

building that makes him the perfectaccomplice for a band of robbers planninga heist.

MEET THE ROBINSONSVOICES: Daniel Hansen, Wesley SingermanWHO DIRECTED? Stephen J. Anderson (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In this computer-animated pic, a 12-year-old orphan namedLewis invents a memory scanner in thehopes he can learn something about his

birth mother. But his invention is stolen,and before Lewis can track down the thiefWilbur Robinson appears to whisk him intothe future where the Robinson clan awaitshis arrival.

THE REAPINGWHO’S IN IT? Hilary Swank, Idris ElbaWHO DIRECTED? Stephen Hopkins (Under Suspicion)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? If you think you seeJesus’ face inside a Swanson frozen dinnerthen it’s time to call Katherine Winter(Swank), who makes it her job to debunkreligious phenomenon. But Katherine isstumped when she heads to a swampyLouisiana hamlet where the locals believe they are the victims of Biblicalplagues, and a little girl is the cause of the evil events.

RESCUE DAWNWHO’S IN IT? Christian Bale, Steve ZahnWHO DIRECTED? Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? American fighter pilotDieter Dengler (Bale) is shot down overLaos in 1966 and captured by Viet Congsoldiers. After enduring six months in abrutal POW camp alongside otherprisoners (including two played by Zahnand Jeremy Davies), Dengler escapes into the jungle where his fight for survival continues.



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Rival skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Heder) disgracetheir sport (unlike, say, Olympic judges) when they get into a brawl after a competition.Banned from singles skating, the two decide to make nice and attempt a comeback in theonly category they can: pairs skating. Sure, pairs skaters are usually comprised of oneman and one woman, but there is no rule that forbids same-sex couples, so let the doubleaxels and triple Lutz-double toe loops fly!

Co-directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck are both making their big-screen debuts,while two of the four writers — John Altschuler and David Krinsky — have written forTV’s King of the Hill.

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After spending the betterpart of 2005 and early2006 in England filmingtwo Woody Allen films,Scoop and Match Point,then going to Bulgariato do Brian De Palma’sThe Black Dahlia,Scarlett Johanssonwas happy to spendthe first part of last year shootingThe Nanny Diariesin her nativeNew York City.

“I was so ready to spend some time athome after being away for what seemedlike ages,” says the 22-year-old actor,sitting in a short, white silk dress duringan interview at a Manhattan hotel. “It wasso wonderful to shoot in New York inspring and summer, because the cityreally looks its best during those months.”

The fact that the husband and wifeteam of Shari Springer Berman andRobert Pulcini (American Splendor), alsonative New Yorkers, were directing thefilm completed the set’s New York vibe.

“I told everybody to take all the timethey needed to finish the movie,” saysJohansson, “because I didn’t want toleave too quickly.”

The Nanny Diaries, of course, began its existence as a best-selling novel by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin.Much like The Devil Wears Prada, the

book is sort-of true, based on Kraus andMcLaughlin’s “job from hell” experiencesworking as nannies in elitist Manhattan.

Johansson plays Annie Braddock, astruggling college student who becomesthe nanny for four-year-old Grayer(Nicholas Art), the son of a wealthy andwildly dysfunctional Upper East Sidecouple that Annie labels “Mr. X” (PaulGiamatti) and “Mrs. X” (Laura Linney)as she begins telling her best friendLynette (singer Alicia Keys) about the job.

“To have Paul Giamatti and LauraLinney with you in the same film onlymakes you better because they are theessence of great acting and only makeyou strive to be better. You just can watchthem for hours and hours and learn somany things about acting that you didn’teven know,” says Johansson. Then sheadds, “The person that really blew meaway was Alicia. She was incredible! Iknew she had just done another movie[Smokin’ Aces], but I didn’t realize howcomfortable she would be with acting.”

Johansson also has a lot of affection forher seven-year-old co-star Nicholas, whichisn’t surprising since she was a child actorherself, making her big-screen debut inRob Reiner’s North when she was just 10.And she was only 14 when she got her bigbreak playing a tormented teen comingto terms with the death of a friend inRobert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer.

“We hit it off immediately,” Johanssonsays of young Nick, “I guess because I

know what it’s like to be his age and tofeel that kind of pressure. He didn’thave a problem at all with his lines ordirection. Of course, if I really wanted toget his attention, I would just offer himcookies. It always worked with me whenthey needed me to hit my mark as a kid.”

Born into a family of five children(including a twin brother), Johanssonsays her craving for attention made her ashowbiz natural. However, she’s alwaysthought of herself as more of a song-and-dance gal than a dramatic actor.

“I started acting when I was aboutseven, and I always just loved to perform,”she remembers, searching her poshManhattan hotel suite for a bottle openerto pop the top off her mineral water.

“I was one of those type of singing anddancing kids — one of those ‘Broadwayaudition for Annie type kids.’ Believe it ornot, I loved that stuff and still do. I thinkit would surprise most people that I know the lyrics to every Rodgers andHammerstein musical ever written. I loveOklahoma and Carousel, too. That’s one ofthe reasons I was so excited to haveAlicia with me on The Nanny Diaries,because we would break out in songwhenever we got the chance. I do that allthe time. During Scoop, Hugh Jackmanand I would sing a lot of musical tunestogether on the set. I wouldn’t think thathe would’ve known all of those songs. Imean, there was Wolverine belting outsongs from Oklahoma — it was surreal.”

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Johansson’s wholesome beauty, huskyvoice and curvy figure have rocketed herto the top of many a “Sexiest Celebrities”list, and earned her a lucrative contractpromoting L’Oreal cosmetics. So doesshe ever get tired of the compliments?

“I have to be honest, it’s really very nicewhen people that you don’t even knowcome up to you to tell you that you’resexy,” she says with a big smile. “And youknow they really mean it, it’s not a pickupline or anything like that. So, yeah, it is anice thing to hear. It makes me feelreally nice and cheerful. I imagineeveryone would react that way.”

She says that, most of the time, shefeels pretty good about the way she looks,but she refuses to call herself sexy, sayingthat’s up to others to decide. Plus, shepoints out, the people who decide suchthings don’t see her 24 hours a day.

“I know what I look like after threehours of sleep or what I look like after ahalf-day of sleep. It’s not always a pretty sight,” she says. “I wake up somemornings, look in the mirror, and thinkto myself, ‘Okay, this is a good day. I can

face the world.’ Now, other days I wakeup and go, ‘Oh my God, I need a hattoday!’ I mean, I still feel nice. And itreally feels good when people say you’resexy even when you feel like you’rehaving one of those ‘I need a hat’ days.It’s definitely a nice thing to hear and areal boost to the ego.”

As her fame grows, however, so doesthe public’s interest in her personal life. When her relationship with actor Josh Hartnett bit the dust late last year,the breakup generated lots of ink.

“I think as an actor, it’s nice to not have everyone know your business.Certainly in the society that we live intoday, people seem to want to focus moreon things that are very superfluous andunimportant instead of focusing on whatis actually going on in the world. It’smuch easier to find out who is datingwho than getting any real story aboutwhat’s going on in Iraq, Africa or Haiti.”

And “superfluous” is not generally a word you would use to describe Scarlett Johansson, or the majority of hermovie choices. With two films about the

British monarchy, The Other Boleyn Girland Mary, Queen of Scots, already in theediting room, and filming on Amazon —another period piece in which she’llplay, believe it or not, a gladiatrix (femalegladiator) looking for revenge in ancientRome — set to begin any day, Johanssoncontinues to choose substantial rolesover ones that let her simply look prettyand fall in love.

“I hope to always be searching forultimate satisfaction until the day that Idie, otherwise, gosh, how boring,” saysthe no-nonsense New Yorker. “I mean,it’s good to feel satisfied, but I never wantto stop looking or stop being curiousabout things. I think that you can get toa point in your life where you’recomfortable with that, but I never want tobe too comfortable.

“I’m saying that now, of course, as a 22-year-old girl,” she adds. “Ask me inanother 35 years and I’ll probably tell youthat all I want to be is comfortable.”

Earl Dittman is a Houston-based entertainment writer.

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FIREHOUSE DOGWHO’S IN IT? Josh Hutcherson, Aaron AbramsWHO DIRECTED? Todd Holland (The Wizard)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Rexxx is a pamperedpooch working as a canine actor inHollywood…until a stunt goes awry and he loses his job and his home.Fortunately, the bedraggled pup is taken in by Shane (Hutcherson), the son of afirefighter (Bruce Greenwood), and isaccepted as the firehouse mascot.

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WEDDING DAZEWHO’S IN IT? Jason Biggs, Isla FisherWHO DIRECTED? Michael Ian Black (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? After losing the womanhe loves, and in a moment of uninhibiteddesperation, a man (Biggs) proposes to hisunhappy waitress (Fisher)...and she accepts.Can two strangers make a marriage work?

THE HOAXWHO’S IN IT? Richard Gere, Alfred MolinaWHO DIRECTED? Lasse Hallström (Chocolat)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Based on the true story ofClifford Irving (Gere), who convincedMcGraw-Hill to publish his biography ofreclusive millionaire Howard Hughes bytelling them he was tight with Hughes. He wasn’t.

ARE WE DONE YET?WHO’S IN IT? Ice Cube, Nia LongWHO DIRECTED? Steve Carr (Rebound)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? If Cube thought taking aroad trip with his girlfriend’s two kids was achallenge, he never should have agreed torenovate a house with them. Now married tosaid girlfriend (Long), Cube moves the wholeclan to the country where they buy a fixer-upper in this sequel to Are We There Yet?

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HOT FUZZWHO’S IN IT? Simon Pegg, Nick FrostWHO DIRECTED? Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Nicholas Angel (Pegg) isa hotshot London cop. And that’s theproblem. He’s so good he makes the rest ofthe cops look bad. So they send him off tothe sleepy little community of Sandford,statistically the safest city in the country.But when a series of grisly accidents takesplace, Angel realizes that statistic is wrong.

DISTURBIAWHO’S IN IT? Shia LaBeouf, David MorseWHO DIRECTED? D.J. Caruso (Taking Lives)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Call it Rear Window for

the teen set. LaBeouf plays a rebelliousteen sentenced to three months housearrest. Plagued with extreme boredom, hebecomes an acute observer of hisneighbours and notices that somethingain’t right next door. In fact, someone onthe street just might be a murderer.

PERFECT STRANGERWHO’S IN IT? Halle Berry, Bruce WillisWHO DIRECTED? James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Berry plays Ro, ajournalist whose friend turns up dead afterhaving an affair with a powerful, married adexecutive (Willis) she met online. Suspectinghe’s responsible for the murder, Ro goesundercover, posing as a temp at his agency.

SPRING BREAKDOWNWHO’S IN IT? Parker Posey, Amy PoehlerWHO DIRECTED? Ryan Shiraki (Poster Boy)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The geeks inherit Spring Break in this comedy starring Posey, Poehler and Rachel Dratch as three thirtysomething friends who travel to South Padre Island during Spring Break tokeep an eye on Posey’s boss’s daughter, asupposed party-girl who turns out to be asgeeky as the rest of them.

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WRESTLEMANIA 23WWE-PAY-PER VIEW A P R I L 1Tickets for this highlight of the WWEseason sold out almost as soon as theywent on sale back in November. But thatdoesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the flyingsweat, ripped bodies and bitter grudges up close and personal. Go towww.cineplex.com to buy tickets andfor a list of theatres where you canwatch the event live as it unfolds atDetroit’s Ford Field.

A P R I L 6GRINDHOUSE First, you should know that a“grindhouse” is a type of theatreknown for showing back-to-backexploitation films with extremesex and violence. They wereparticularly popular in the 1970sand ’80s.

Next, you should know that this is notone but two separate movies — onewritten and directed by Quentin Tarantino(Kill Bill), the other by Robert Rodriguez(Sin City). There’s even a series of faketrailers in between to give viewers abreak. And they’ll need it.

Tarantino’s film, which is subtitled “Death Proof,” has Kurt Russell playing astuntman named Mike who likes to killbeautiful women with his car. His target onthis particular night is a foxy DJ named

Jungle Julia, and two of her hot friends. Meanwhile, in Rodriguez’s

“Planet Terror,” a couple of doctorsworking the graveyard shift (Josh Brolin,Marley Shelton) are swamped with patientssporting open sores and vacant looks intheir eyes. One of the wounded is Cherry(Rose McGowan), whose leg was rippedoff in a roadside attack. Now, havingreplaced that leg with a gun, Cherry andher ex-boyfriend Wray (Six Feet Under’sFreddy Rodriguez) seek revenge.

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TRADEWHO’S IN IT? Kevin Kline, Cesar RamosWHO DIRECTED? Marco Kreuzpaintner(Sommersturm)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The last couple of yearshave seen both a documentary and a made-for-TV movie about the sex trade’s practiceof human trafficking. Now comes this gravedrama from German director Kreuzpaintner.Kline plays a Texas cop who, after sufferinghis own loss to the despicable industry,joins forces with a 17-year-old Mexican boywho’s trying to find his kidnapped sister.

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THE NANNY DIARIESWHO’S IN IT? Scarlett Johansson, Alicia KeysWHO DIRECTED? Shari Springer Berman,Robert Pulcini (American Splendor)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? See Scarlett Johanssoninterview, page 28.

VACANCYWHO’S IN IT? Kate Beckinsale, Luke WilsonWHO DIRECTED? Nimród Antal (Kontroll)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? When David (Wilson)and Amy’s (Beckinsale) car breaks down inthe middle of nowhere, they’re forced tostay the night at a remote motel. They passthe time watching low-budget slashermovies on TV, and then realize the filmswere all shot in their very room. If theydon’t escape, they could be the next movie’s stars.

IN THE LAND OF WOMENWHO’S IN IT? Adam Brody, Meg RyanWHO DIRECTED? Jon Kasden (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Brody plays a young L.A.screenwriter who has just had his heartbroken by his actress girlfriend. So hepicks up and moves from L.A. to Michiganto take care of his ailing grandmother, andends up becoming entranced by the familyof women living across the street.

PATHFINDERWHO’S IN IT? Karl Urban, Moon BloodgoodWHO DIRECTED? Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Six hundred years beforeColumbus “discovered” North America, theVikings made the trip, several times, often engaging in bloody battles with theNative American tribes. On one suchjourney they leave one of their own childrenbehind. Years later the Vikings return topick up the slaughter, but that abandonedchild is now a grown man (Urban) and joinswith the natives who raised him to fight the attacking Norsemen.

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THE INVISIBLEWHO’S IN IT? Justin Chatwin, Margarita LevievaWHO DIRECTED? David S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This spooky teen thrillerrevolves around Nick Powell (Chatwin), ayoung student who is beaten almost todeath. But as his nearly lifeless body lies at

the side of a road, his soul moves about the world as it did in life. Now, in non-corporeal form, he must find a way to helpsomeone discover his body — before he’sgone for good.

FRACTUREWHO’S IN IT? Ryan Gosling, Anthony HopkinsWHO DIRECTED? Gregory Hoblit (Hart’s War)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Gosling plays anAssistant DA who gets tangled up with aman (Hopkins) who was set free on atechnicality after attempting to kill his wife.

BALLS OF FURYWHO’S IN IT? Christopher Walken, Dan FoglerWHO DIRECTED? Ben Garant (Reno 911!: Miami)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Garant, who recentlymade his directing debut with the spinoffof his Reno 911! TV show, helms thiscomedy that takes place in the world ofcompetitive ping-pong. Fogler plays a ping-pong master who’s recruited by theFBI to infiltrate an illegal, undergroundping-pong tournament and perhaps nab theeccentric criminal (Walken) responsible forhis father’s death.

NEXTWHO’S IN IT? Nicolas Cage, Julianne MooreWHO DIRECTED? Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Tired of being a testsubject for psychic experiments, a manwho can see into the future (Cage) movesto Vegas and tries to live quietly off of hisill-gotten winnings. But then an FBI agent (Moore) tracks him down in the hopehe can predict terrorist attacks. Based on a short story called “The Golden Man,”which was written by Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner) back in 1954.

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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA IL TRITTICOCheck www.cineplex.com for a list oftheatres where you can watch it live, and to buy tickets.

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Sure, Spider-Man 3 looksl ike i t ’s f i l led withwall-to-wall crawlingaction, suspense andspecial effects.

Tobey Maguire’shero, Peter Parker, faces not one, not two,but three vi l lains — Thomas HadenChurch’s Sandman,Topher Grace’s Venom,and James Franco’sHarry Osborn, Parker’sformer friend who

finally takes up his dead father’s Green Goblin mantle.

As if that weren’t enough, some alienentity covers Parker — a.k.a. Spider-Man —with an all-black Spidey suit that enhanceshis powers but also affects his mind.

It sounds like a fanboy’s dream. Butask Kirsten Dunst — who’s back for athird round as Parker’s love interest,Mary Jane Watson — and she’ll tell youthat Spider-Man 3 is really all aboutsomething else: feelings.

“It’s very dramatic and very emotional,”the 24-year-old veteran actor says like,well, the young woman that she is. “Itreally concentrates on the characters’relationships, more so than before.”

Probably true. One of the hallmarks of director Sam Raimi’s Spidey films is that, along with all the stunts and fights,they stick pretty true to the soap opera

complications that made the Marvelcomics a sensation in the first place.

Still, Dunst may be a bit more focusedon the film’s romantic aspects than anyoneelse. After all, this is the film whereParker decides to ask for Mary Jane’shand in marriage. But complicationsarise, both because the alien force bringsout a darker side of Spidey, and becauseM.J. now has competition in the form ofher boyfriend’s other great comic-booklove, blonde bombshell Gwen Stacy, thedaughter of Police Captain Stacy.

“Her character adds another type ofwoman that puts Peter in a position,obviously, of conflict with me and lyingand all that,” Dunst says. “All of thosethings just create more drama in ourrelationship.”

Gwen is played by 26-year-old M. NightShyamalan favourite Bryce Dallas Howard(The Village, Lady in the Water). Andalthough she may be a rival on screen,Dunst was happy to have an actress herown age around. “It’s so funny,” Dunstsays, “everyone acts as if it’s a competitivething, but Bryce and I got along betterthan anybody. I was happy to have anothergirl to share all that testosterone with on the set. I mean, we have [producer]Laura Ziskin and other great ladies, but itwas nice to come to set and have a girl tohang out with.

“And I know, she’s the redhead and wearing a blond wig, and I’m the opposite,” Dunst adds, chuckling.

“We laughed about it.”Though Dunst is more often drawn to

serious-minded work, she insists thissuperhero series satisfies her creativeneeds as much as, say, last year’s costume-laden period piece Marie Antoinette.

“I approach Spider-Man as just asimportant as any artier things I do,” shesays. “These movies are very personal tome, and the relationships that I have withthose people now have so much history.I can’t really compare the experiencewith other films, but it’s like a family tome. Coming back to a place where youknow everybody is a good thing becauseyou’re confident and you’re not afraid togive your opinions on anything, lightingor whatever it is.”

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since Spider-Man 3 was not easy to make.“It’s a long movie,” she says of the

demanding production period. “Whenyou start doing the blue-screen work andyou’re just lying there reacting to all ofthese things that aren’t there in theselong takes, you feel like you’re losingyour mind. But when it comes to theacting, that’s what it’s all about for Sam.”

Since the last Spider-Man movie wasreleased early in 2004 (earning a then-record-breaking $88-million U.S. in itsopening weekend), Dunst has acted inthree films, with mixed success. Therewas the romantic comedy Wimbledon, seton the famed English tennis courts, thedisappointing love story Elizabethtownfrom director Cameron Crowe, andMarie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola’s bio-pic

that fulfilled neither awards season norfashion trend-setting expectations.

Yet Dunst doesn’t seem too concernedabout the fates of those projects.

“Everyone has their own opinion andthey’re entitled to them,” she saysconfidently. “Each movie’s not foreverybody, you can’t please ’em all. So Idon’t really have a problem with peoplenot liking some things I do.”

Yet if this third Spider-Man moviefollows in the footsteps of the first two —what with their stellar critical acclaim and$1.5-billion worldwide earnings to date— Dunst will once again come as close to“pleasing ’em all” as an actor can.

Bob Strauss is a Los Angeles-based entertainment writer.

“It’s very dramatic and

very emotional,”Dunst says of the

film. “It reallyconcentrates on the characters’

relationships, moreso than before”

Will Mary-Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and

Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) get married?

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SPIDER-MAN 3WHO’S IN IT? Tobey Maguire, Kirsten DunstWHO DIRECTED? Sam Raimi (Spider-Man 2) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? See Kirsten Dunstinterview, page 34.

LUCKY YOUWHO’S IN IT? Eric Bana, Drew BarrymoreWHO DIRECTED? Curtis Hanson (In Her Shoes)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Bana stars as a hotshotpoker player competing in the gruellingWorld Series of Poker who winds up goinghead-to-head against his estranged father(Robert Duvall). Look for cameos by real-lifepoker pros Sam Farha, Doyle Brunson andCanada’s own Daniel Negreanu.

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28 WEEKS LATERWHO’S IN IT? Robert Carlyle, Rose ByrneWHO DIRECTED? Juan Carlos Fresnadillo(Intacto)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This sequel to 28 Dayspicks up six months after the first movieended. The Rage virus has killed 60-millionpeople, leaving 7,000 uninfected souls torepopulate Britain. The U.S. military hastaken control of the project, allowing people

like Don (Carlyle) and his girlfriend Scarlett(Byrne) back into a secure section ofLondon. However, a security breach allowsan infected person inside the safe zone,which means the whole crazed killing couldbegin again.

GEORGIA RULE WHO’S IN IT? Lindsay Lohan, Jane FondaWHO DIRECTED? Garry Marshall (Raising Helen)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? If the name of this dramasounds familiar it’s probably because youheard it mentioned alongside terms such as “discourteous, irresponsible andunprofessional” and “spoiled child.” That’sthe way James G. Robinson, the CEO ofMorgan Creek Productions, the companywho made this film, described Lohan’sbehaviour during filming in a letter he sentto her and to the media. Moving beyond thebehind-the-scenes dra-mah, the filmfollows a rebellious teen (Lohan) who isforced to live on her grandmother Georgia’s(Fonda) farm, where she learns that somepeople actually get up at dawn instead ofgetting home then.

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1408WHO’S IN IT? John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson WHO DIRECTED? Mikael Håfström (Derailed)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This horror takes place inroom 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel, where aparanormal debunker (Cusack) has agreedto stay the night, although no one has everlasted more than an hour there before dying.

SHREK THE THIRDVOICES: Mike Myers, Cameron DiazWHO DIRECTED? Chris Miller and Raman HuiWHAT’S IT ABOUT? After King Harold kicksthe bucket, Shrek and Fiona are next in lineto rule Far Far Away. But Shrek’s heart liesin his swamp home and he’ll do anything tolose the crown, including going in search ofyoung Artie (Justin Timberlake) who couldhave a claim to the throne.

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M A Y 2 5PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S ENDWill this third Pirates movie really and trulymark the end of a series that has bankedalmost $1.5-billion worldwide? It’s hard toimagine Disney’s bean-counters closing thistreasure chest. And what about Johnny Depp,a.k.a. Captain Jack Sparrow? His loopyobsession with the fey pirate makes itseem like he’d be thrilled to play Sparrowfor the rest of his career.

So what to expect this time around?Well, the pic starts with Will (OrlandoBloom), Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) and theback-from-the-dead Captain Barbossa(Geoffrey Rush) setting sail for ‘World’s End’to rescue Jack from Davy Jones’ Locker,where he was banished at the end of thesecond movie. Rescuing Jack is enough ofa challenge, but then throw in four

nefarious types — Davy Jones (Bill Nighy),Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander), James Norrington (Jack Davenport) andnew baddie, Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat) —who have banded together in an attempt toput all pirates out of business and cornerthe market on the looting industry.

Of course, the highlight of the film will probably be the long-awaitedappearance of aged rocker Keith Richards,who pops up as Jack’s father. It’s well-reported that Depp based his character onthe less-than-coherent Richards, andrumours were flying that Richards hit thesauce before his scenes were filmed anddirector Verbinski had to literally hold himin place while shooting.

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PITT PLAYS AN ACTOR WHO LOOKS JUST LIKE BRAD PITT, CAINEREMAKES SLEUTH AND BYNES UPDATES SNOW WHITE | BY INGRID RANDOJA

� Nicole Kidman will produce and star in Rabbit Hole, about a couple dealingwith an unexpected tragedy. � 36 casts George Clooney and Robert De Niroas competing detectives looking to stop a band of thieves. � Look for Brittany Murphy as Sigmund Freud’s patient in the adaptation of the novel The White Hotel. � Sandra Bullock drives her male pals to distraction when she embraces her feminine side in One of the Guys.BR

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He’ll be 74 this month, but Michael Caine justwon’t slow down. In Flawless, he’ll play a janitorwho teams with Demi Moore for a diamond heist.He’s gearing up to play butler Alfred once morein the second Batman pic, The Dark Knight.And in a “life comes full circle” moment, he’llstar in the remake of Sleuth as an aging writerengaged in a battle of wits with a hairdresser(Jude Law) who’s having an affair with his wife.In the original 1972 film, Caine played theyoung stud opposite Laurence Olivier.

Brad’s busy yearAngelina and the kids will have less time to spendwith hunky partner and father Brad Pitt this year as the 43-year-old actor has a dizzying slate of films lined up. He’s finishing directorDavid Fincher’s The Curious Case of BenjaminButton, about a man who grows younger eachday. He’s set to appear in Dirty Tricks, theWatergate drama focusing on Martha Mitchell(Meryl Streep), wife of Attorney GeneralJohn Mitchell, who leaked damaging informationto the press. In Dallas Buyer’s Club, helmed by Marc Forster, he’ll play a man dying of AIDS whoshops the black market for meds. Chad Schmidtcasts him as a struggling actor who just happensto look exactly like real-life star Brad Pitt. And inState of Play, based on the BBC mini-series, he’llplay a journalist who discovers a prominentpolitician’s involvement in a murder. Whew.

Bynes’fairy tale roleLindsay Lohan may be Hollywood’s mostsought-after 20-year-old actor, but thatcould change ifAmanda Bynescontinues her careercharge. Five years on the teen TV seriesWhat I Like About Youled to starring roles inthe light comediesWhat a Girl Wants andShe’s the Man. Herprofile was given ahuge boost when shewas cast alongsideJohn Travolta, NicoleBlonsky and MichellePfeiffer in thissummer’s highlyanticipated musicalHairspray, and she’spresently shootingSydney White inOrlando, Florida.Originally titled SydneyWhite and the SevenDorks, the film re-imagines the Snow White fairy talewith Bynes as White, a college freshman who joins a sororitycomprised of sevensocial outcasts andmakes it her job totransform her pals andtake down the reigningcampus mean queen,played by Sara Paxton.

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Did you enjoy wearing thosecozy layers and hiding under tiers ofsubtle grey-on-grey voluminousclothing all winter? Well, spring ishere and those layers and sludgycolours are a distant memory. In theirplace are new silhouettes that revealthe body — trapeze dresses, tanks,shifts. Dresses of all kinds are the big news so sign up for Bikram yogaclasses now, because these revealingfashions demand serious toning.

The Eighties Two: Electric Boogaloo Find your Ray Ban Wayfarers, thenrent the movie Breakin’, becausethe Eighties are back. Luella showeda tank dress printed with interlinkedtrapezoids for a retro-yet-currentlook. Crayon brights like grass greenand canary yellow are back too.

The Runner Stella McCartney’s line for Adidas is in its fifth season, leggings areapparently never going to go away and even proto-hippie label Marniis showing sporty gear. Just clip ona brushed metal iPod Shuffleloaded with Babyshambles and go.

Thank You For SmokingIf you’re not wearing a dress thisspring, chances are you’ll be pullingon some very skinny cigarettepants. Pair them with one of thisspring’s narrow jackets.

I RobotSpace-age angulardesigns in black, silver(like our model in Fendi)and gold contrast starklywith bare limbs. Skirts areshort, shoes are high andaccessories shine. Expectto see this look filter downas lots of hard-edgedmetallics with black-and-white patent accessories.PHOTO BY EDOUARD BLONDEL/KEYSTONE

Shorter DressesShorter dresses are backwith a vengeance, likethis one from Canadiandesigner Arthur Mendonça.Hemlines stop well abovethe knee with lots ofvolume and then lots ofleg. Like last summer, achunky shoe effectivelycuts the sweetness of thedresses to avoid aWhatever Happened toBaby Jane? vibe. Soremember, with shoes, theclunkier, the better.PHOTO BY SEAN BARKER

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A Fine RomanceSpring means flowers, andthis season’s romanticdressing sees bloomseverywhere for both day and night, from giant peoniesat Marchesa and Rodarte to sheer blossoms at Erin Fetherston and the subtle embellishment on ourmodel for Bill Blass. PHOTO BY JODI JONES/ZUMA-KEYSTONE

Dermalogica Solar Defense Booster spf30($55, dermalogica.com forretailers) makes it easy toalways wear sunscreen since itblends effortlessly with yourmoisturizer or foundation.

Covergirl TruBlend NaturallyLuminous Blush in Pure Romance($14, drugstores) contains tiny particles of mica-infusedpigment for sheer reflection, not shine. The result is a pinkwash that’s soft and utterly un-Barbie like.

Try The Body Shop LiplifeGloss ($14.50) in pink lycheefor a subtle rosy tint with a hint of shimmer. And thesqueezable test tube/angledapplicator makes for precisecolour application.

Lancome’s Pop Cherub Palette($72, Sears) in “La Vie Revée Des Anges” pairs pastel eye colours with a dark chocolate for lining, andsports a detachable cherubcharm so even your cellphonecan play dress-up.

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If you’ve lost that lovin’feeling then you need tosettle in with Peter Elkas’

newest disc, Wall of Fire(available March 13).

“I guess I can say it’s amake-out record,” says thesinger/songwriter on the linefrom his Toronto apartment. “Itsort of dawned on myself and

the guys in the band when wewere recording the third orfourth song...we were like, ‘Ithink we’re making a make-outrecord.’ Or, it’s a party recordfor two people.”

Wall of Fire is Elkas’ second solo disc, following hiscritically acclaimed debut Party of One (2004), which he

released after spending 12years with the Montreal bandLocal Rabbits. Elkas has asoulful voice and a way withwords, especially when itcomes to the subject ofrelationships. This CD is full of tales of hooking up — andbreaking up — with ladies, and the songs sound all themore sexy coming from a guywith dark, brooding looks that remind you of a young Cat Stevens.

“A lot of the album is aboutmoving from one thing to thenext, there are transitions goingon,” he explains. “It’s about thebridges you cross when you getto them in relationships.”

Elkas is himself happilysettled with a girlfriend whotreated him to a vacation inMexico last month. However,the timing couldn’t have beenworse with the CD’s release soclose at hand.

“My girlfriend was given the trip as a bonus from workand I was just rolled into thepackage,” he says with a laugh.“It was supposed to be avacation but I pretty muchstewed the entire time aboutwhat was going on — we didn’thave the CD cover conceptnailed down, stuff like that.

“It’s an emotional rollercoaster when a record comesout and you always forget howstressful it is, but it’s alsoreally, really fun. And it’s fun tobe talking about my sophomore

release ’cause I never thoughtI’d be doing this when I wasyounger. I thought I was goingto have fun in a band for a fewyears, but it just sort of stuck,and it’s 15 years later and I’mstill plugging away.”

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rcade Fire’s sophomore CD, Neon Bible (available March 6), opens with a rolling kettle drumthat clears a path for the ear-catching single “Black Mirror,” and you know straight away theMontreal band is going to try its damnedest to knock you off your feet. And they do.

More energetic than their debut CD Funeral, Neon Bible revels in its noisiness, and the band —which already incorporates a stage full of instruments for both touring and recording — includes apipe organ, hurdy-gurdy, military choir and full orchestra to back it up this time around. But it’s notjust noise for the sake of noise, Arcade Fire are masters at layering their melodies with odd, yetcomplementary, sounds, and as always their almost evangelical approach to rock sends theirmusic to a higher plane.

RED1Beg For Nothing >> March 6Vancouver’s reggae-lovin’,hip-hop MC leaves theRascalz behind to drophis first solo disc.

GOOD CHARLOTTEGood Morning Revival >> March 27The pop/punk outfitreleases its fourth disc, so look for lead singerJoel Madden to be seenwhoopin’ it up with gal-pal Nicole Ritchie.

CHAMILLIONAIREUltimate Victory >> March 27Rapper Chamillionaire(pronounced Ka-MIL-yin-air) asks Alicia Keys,Kanye West, 50 Cent andothers to join him on hisfirst CD since 2005’s The Sound of Revenge

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: SHADOW OFCHERNOBYL PCPost-apocalyptic scenarios are common invideogames, but the jumping off point forS.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a real-life nuclear disaster.Created in the Ukraine, this long-awaitedfirst-person shooter imagines a secondmysterious “event” at Chernobyl thatunleashes a bunch of otherworldly mutants.

The action takes place on a 300-square-kilometre map — more like you’d find in arole-playing game — where a treasurehunter/mercenary type hunts for artifactsand battles monsters. In an impressiveexample of squeezing lemons into lemonade,the developers made many trips to theChernobyl Exclusion Zone to get the eeriefeel right, where they took in “the barrenstreets of Pripyat, the murky sarcophagusof Reactor #4, destroyed settlements andthe irradiated vehicle cemetery.”

SSX BLUR WII With huge air, blurring speed and signature“Uber” tricks, the SSX series has providedsome of the best snowboarding and skiingthrills since it launched in 2000. For thisre-grooming, racers tilt the Wii’s nunchukcontroller left and right to carve downhill.

Then, when jumping, you use the Wii remoteto draw — yes, draw — on-screen shapesthat become gravity-defying Uber moves.

As well as a single-player tournament,Blur has both split-screen and turn-basedmultiplayer play. And while videosnowboarding is a lot safer than the realthing, given the Wii-related injuries postedon YouTube, you still better move thecoffee table.

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GOD OF WAR II PS2 “The Gods of Olympus haveabandoned me, now there is nohope,” growled Kratos, thebrutal but oddly sympathetic

anti-hero of 2005’s God of War,as he cast himself off the highestmountain in all of Greece. Andso began arguably the greatestof all PS2 action games.

The story then flashed back to a few weeks earlier,launching into hours of non-stop, hand-to-handviolence, puzzles, monsters andextraordinary visuals, whichexplained how Kratos, a formerchampion of the gods, hadcome to this sorry end. Ofcourse, since a sequel hasarrived — fatuous spoiler alert— he didn’t actually die in thefirst game. Now Kratos has re-upped for God of War II,likely the last significant gamefor any console of the now-fading class of 2000-2001.

In the original’s finale, oursociopathic Spartan with themountainous WWE muscles andcreepy full-body tattoos haddethroned Ares to become thenew Olympian god of war. Butas GoW II begins, Kratos is stilltortured by visions of the pastand driven by revenge. Andoops — he’s become a morevengeful and bloodier god thaneven ol’ Ares, who was notexactly Mister Rogers. Butwhile Greek gods may becompelling when they walkdown the red carpet at the

Oscars, omnipotence does not make for exciting gameplay,so our hard-hearted hero isquickly stripped of his powersand immortality.

Now, to end his continuedtorment, Kratos (did we mentionhe’s not a happy guy) mustjourney to the ends of the Earthand face more dark and violenthorrors drawn from Greekmythology. Happily for us, he’llstill face them with two hugeserrated blades welded to hishands with chains, and use thesame balletic-but-bloodycombat moves, like thedemurely named Plume ofPrometheus.

Speaking of gore, creativecarnage — not mindless killing,so much as intelligent mindlesskilling — is a God of Warhallmark. So this one’s going tobe rated “Mature” for suchvividly rendered delights asbroken necks, decapitations,bodies cleaved in two, wingsripped off, impaled eyeballsand, gasp, sexual situations.But like a Scorsese take on theancients, it’s all in service ofthe story — honest.

GOD IS ALIVEBlood and blades fly in the splatterific sequel God of War II I BY SCOTT GARDNER

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and Joseph in this retelling of the birth ofJesus. The film aims to make the ultimatemoment for Christianity more intimate andrelatable.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM STARS: Ben Stiller, Robin WilliamsDIRECTOR: Shawn Levy (The Pink Panther)STORY: This huge box-office hit sees Stillerplaying a night-time security guard at New York’s Museum of Natural History(really a soundstage in Vancouver) who’sshocked and terrified to discover that oncethe building’s locked up for the night, theexhibits spring to life. Williams plays areanimated model of Teddy Roosevelt,

while Owen Wilson steps in as a miniaturecowboy and Ricky Gervais is the museum’ssnotty director.

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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESSSTARS: Will Smith, Thandie NewtonDIRECTOR: Gabriele Muccino (Remember Me)STORY: Based on a true rags-to-riches case,Smith stars as Chris Gardner, a strugglingSan Francisco salesman who can’t makeenough money to keep his family afloat.His frustrated wife (Newton) takes off,leaving him to take care of his kid (Smith’sreal-life son Jaden) while desperately trying

to earn a job as a stockbroker at one of thecountry’s largest brokerages.

VAN WILDER 2: THE RISE OF TAJ STARS: Kal Penn, Lauren CohanDIRECTOR: Mort Nathan (Boat Trip)STORY: In 2002’s Van Wilder, Canadiancutie-pie Ryan Reynolds starred as thetitular antihero, a popular campus slackeradored by less-popular campus slackers.Now one of those slackers, Taj MahalBadalandabad (Penn) is heading toEngland for grad school, and bringing allthe lessons he learned from Wilder along.DVD EXTRAS: deleted scenes, gag reel,making-of and on-set featurettes

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CASINO ROYALE ($42)This 21st Bond movie has adistinctly retro feel for manyreasons. It does away withelaborate CGI effects in favourof hand-to-hand combat. It’sbased on the very first bookabout Bond, written in 1953,and begins before he’s even a00 agent. Plus, it starts in blackand white.

But make no mistake, this is amodern spy story set very muchwithin today’s political climate.

Terrorism is the foe to beathere, as Bond’s target Le Chiffre(Mads Mikkelsen) hopes to fundterrorists with winnings from ahigh-stakes poker game. Bond,being an accomplished pokerplayer himself, is chosen to takeon Le Chiffre. Another very

modern touch comes when avideo of Bond killing asuspected terrorist who may, infact, have been unarmed endsup on the internet, causingmuch embarrassment for MI6.

The film also takes advantageof the fact that new Bond Daniel Craig is perhaps thesexiest 007 since Sean Conneryby emphasizing his love affairwith fellow agent Vesper Lynd

(Eva Green), even setting it upas the reason poor ol’ James hastrouble committing down the line.

Just some of the extras you’llfind on the DVD are “BecomingBond: An Intimate Look at howDaniel Craig Stepped into theRole of the 6th James Bond,”“James Bond: For Real: InsideLook at Action and Stunts,”“Bond Girls Are Forever: CloserLook at Bond’s Leading Ladies,”and the Chris Cornell musicvideo, “You Know My Name.”

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HAPPY FEET ($36)Director George Miller broughtan odd pedigree to this animatedfeature about an adorableemperor penguin who justdoesn’t fit in. Miller’s big-screendirectorial debut was the post-apocalyptic Mel Gibson thrillerMad Max. Maybe that’s why thislatest entry into the cute-animal-

out-of-water genre had an edgethat raised it head and flippersabove most of its peers.

Elijah Wood voices Mumble,a penguin lad born without theability to sing. And that’s aproblem when you live in asociety where singing is the wayyou find a mate. Exiled from hisclan, Mumble is forced to wanderalone — until, that is, he hooksup with a much more acceptinggroup of Mexican penguins.Robin Williams turns in amemorable performance as theleader of those Mexican birdsand, if you’ve got good ears,listen for the voice of the lateSteve Irwin as an elephant seal.

The DVD features a whack ofbonus features, including“Mumble Meets a Blue Whale,”“A Happy Feet Moment,” “DanceLike a Penguin: Stomp to theBeat,” a couple of music videosand the Looney Tunes cartoon “I Love to Singa.”

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FAST FOOD NATION STARS: Greg Kinnear,Wilmer ValderramaDIRECTOR: RichardLinklater (Before Sunset)STORY: Linklater’sadaptation of Eric Schlosser’s 2001

best-selling non-fiction of the same nameambitiously ties together a number ofstorylines all pertaining to the ills of thefast-food industry — from health hazards toinsipid marketing to labour violations.

LET’S GO TO PRISONSTARS: Dax Shepard, Will ArnettDIRECTOR: Bob Odenkirk (Relative Strangers)STORY: Long-time con John Lyshitski(Shepard) has one goal in life. Seek revengeon the judge who sent him to the pen. Butwhen he gets out of prison, he learns thatjudge just died, thwarting his plans to geteven. So he manages to get the judge’spampered son Nelson Biederman IV (Arnett)arrested, along with himself, and then triesto make Biederman’s life in prison a livinghell. DVD EXTRAS: alternate ending, deletedand extended scenes, soundtrack sessions

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THE HOLIDAYSTARS: Kate Winslet, Cameron DiazDIRECTOR: Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give)STORY: Two lovelorn women living on eitherside of the Atlantic Ocean — sweet Brit Iris(Winslet) and brash American Amanda(Diaz) — decide to swap houses and givetheir broken hearts a break. But what doyou know? Each finds love while abroad.

SHORTBUSSTARS: Sook-Yin Lee, Lindsay BeamishDIRECTOR: John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)STORY: Canadian radio and TV personality

Lee turned heads (especially those of herbosses at the CBC) by appearing in thisexplicit film (the sex is real) about a groupof sexually experimental New Yorkers whoconverge at an exclusive, underground clubcalled Shortbus. DVD EXTRAS: bonusfootage, commentary track

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BLOOD DIAMONDSTARS: Leonard DiCaprio,Djimon HounsouDIRECTOR: Edward Zwick(The Last Samurai)STORY: This drama about the civil war inSierra Leone circa 1999

caused a lot of trouble for certain players inthe diamond industry by raising awarenessof the brutal methods through which someof the gems are retrieved and traded.DiCaprio plays a smuggler who teams witha fisherman (Hounsou) to find a rare pinkdiamond which may help them save thefisherman’s son from the vicious rebels whokidnapped him as a child. DVD EXTRAS:director commentary and journal

ROCKY BALBOASTARS: Sylvester Stallone, Milo VentimigliaDIRECTOR: Sylvester Stallone (Rocky II)STORY: The reviews were surprisingly positivefor this sixth Rocky movie, with terms like“crowd-pleaser” and “cheering him on”making it into many critiques. The storymimics that of the original film, when a muchstronger heavyweight champ — this timereal-life light-heavyweight Antonio Tarverplaying Mason “the Line” Dixon —challenges underdog Rocky to a fight.

THE NATIVITY STORY STARS: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar IsaacDIRECTOR: Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown)STORY: Well, if you don’t know that, youprobably don’t know what a video store iseither. Castle-Hughes and Isaac portray Mary


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BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGSOF AMERICA FOR MAKEBENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN ($44)($44)British comic actor Sacha Baron Cohenhas been doing Borat as a sidecharacter on Da Ali G Show for years,and when it was announced that hewould turn the faux anti-Semiticguerrilla journalist from the very realcountry of Kazakhstan into a movie,waves of delight filled fans ofsophomoric humour. But there’s a smartside to Borat as well. By pretending tobe a racist idiot, Cohen has amazingsuccess bringing out the racist idiots inpeople who otherwise keep that side ofthemselves hidden away.

The film follows Borat on a trip acrossthe U.S. as he both tries to learn aboutAmerica to make benefit his homecountry, and track down PamelaAnderson to make her his bride.

You’ll find five extended and/ordeleted scenes on the DVD, anadditional montage of deleted footage,and another montage of material fromthe film’s publicity tour, which includedstops in Toronto, at Comic-Con and theCannes Film Festival.

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PiscesFebruary 20 � March 20Look forward to a productive stretch.You’re motivated and energetic, and canreach a financial goal ahead of schedule.People irritate you around the 15th, somake an effort to bite your tongue. Avoiddo-it-yourself solutions to mechanical ortechnical problems.

AriesMarch 21 � April 20Change is emphasized. You may bemoving, switching doctors or taking on anew role at work. In any case, research andsecond opinions are a must. Be willing toshare a leadership position after the 15th.Take advantage of late-month travelopportunities.

TaurusApril 21 � May 22 You love variety, and should not bedisappointed in this month that includeshigh-maintenance visitors, last-minutework changes, and at least one large andlavish event. Watch out for occasionalreckless streaks. Be wary of acceptingfavours around the 20th.

GeminiMay 23 � June 21 You’re better than ever at getting ideasacross. Those ideas now relate toeverything from a major family event toyour strong feelings about improving theenvironment. It’s a good time to scaledown. Surround yourself with upbeatpeople from the 17th onward.

CancerJune 22 � July 22You’re a shrewd judge of character with anunderstanding of who’s trustworthy. By the20th you’re ready to make a compromise.Be cautious about accepting unusualoffers, no matter how flattering they seem.Late-month brainstorming can lead to afinancial payoff.

LeoJuly 23 � August 22You’re in a good position to negotiate dealsand to settle a family dispute. Just be surethat all offers are realistic. The vernalequinox of the 20th marks the start of a

period of creativity. Something you do forfun can turn into a source of income.

VirgoAugust 23 � September 22Follow up on family plans sketched outduring a recent gathering. You hear severalversions of a story and must figure out whichone is accurate. Your role in a project isminor, yet you manage to steal the show.Athletic activities require careful preparation.

LibraSeptember 23 � October 22 It’s a good month to pursue new interests— including sports-related ones — and toexplore ways of increasing your income.Keep a sense of perspective after the18th, when a small incident is blown outof proportion. You and a relative boosteach other’s morale.

ScorpioOctober 23 � November 21 Intuitive, intense, and competitive —those are three of your notable qualities,and they’re all on display now. But there’sa nostalgic theme too, and you’ll bespending more time with relatives yourarely see. Take small risks in romance. Be cautious in money matters.

SagittariusNovember 22 � December 22March is a “building” month — a time tosign up for courses, test ideas andestablish friendships. Confidences areshared with you around the 18th, but don’treveal any of your own secrets until at leastthe 27th. Your memory for family detailsproves valuable.

CapricornDecember 23 � January 20March finds you determined, or — in theeyes of some — annoyingly stubborn. Butby the 31st, you’ve reached a milestone onyour way to a major goal. A recentacquisition is worth more than youthought. A new acquaintance helps youadapt to a difficult change.

AquariusJanuary 21 � February 19 Watch for a tendency to judge people tooquickly, or to make snap decisions.Approach matters with persistence,concentration and careful evaluation. Youand a partner begin to see eye to eye on amajor issue. Some good financial newsarrives by the 31st.

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1st: Ron Howard2nd: Daniel Craig3rd: Jessica Biel4th: Patricia Heaton5th: Eva Mendes6th: Rob Reiner7th: Rachel Weisz8th: Aidan Quinn9th: Juliette Binoche10th: Sharon Stone11th: Thora Birch

12th: Liza Minnelli13th: William H. Macy14th: Billy Crystal15th: Eva Longoria16th: Erik Estrada17th: Gary Sinise18th: Queen Latifah19th: Glenn Close20th: Holly Hunter21st: Matthew Broderick22nd: Reese Witherspoon

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EVA LONGORIA“I’m still really frugal. The other day I gotupset because every zipper was broken ina box of Ziploc bags I was using…. Icalled the number on the package andthey sent me five free boxes. I felt better.It’s the principle of the matter.”

ANNE HATHAWAY“When I was in Chile, I bought a scarf fora dollar and I wear it all the time.”

JACK BLACK “I’m always cheap — every day. It’sstrange: I’ll spend hand-over-fist, butthen I’ll switch over to Sprint to save 20 cents a month.”

SHANNON ELIZABETH “I like to go to Costco and buy toilet paperin bulk.”

JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT“My Bonne Bell lip gloss is about 75cents — and I have worn it to almostevery main Hollywood event for years!”

SIENNA MILLER“My ex-stepmother is an interior designer,so I can get stuff at cost — it’s the upside ofhaving a father who remarries a few times.”

TYRA BANKS “If people come to my house and don’tfinish their water, I’ll write their name onthe bottle and give it to them when theycome back.”

LEELEE SOBIESKI“I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than$200 on a dress, and that’s for somethingreally nice, like for a film festival or apremiere or something. I never buyanything really expensive.”

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InsideeveryHonda truckis aHondatruck.

Element CR-V Pilot Odyssey Ridgeline

The full line of Honda trucks may all look different and be built for different purposes, but they have one thing

in common: Every Honda truck is built on a rigid unibody frame. And, a unibody is stronger, safer, smoother, and

quieter-riding than traditional body-on-frame construction. After all, as good looking as Honda trucks are, it’s what’s

inside that counts. See the Element, Pilot, Odyssey, Ridgeline and the all-new CR-V inside, and out, at honda.ca.

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