Show 3CD 3 bad Free range cowboys: good Thaft as deep as tt gets Costner plays Charley Waite a veteran cowpoke who Town fathers Opening this week “Freddy vs Jason” Rated R No one wins in this showdown o between horror icons Freddy Krueger and Jason Vbothees — except maybe the manufacturers 0) of their trademark sweater and hockey o striped mask which prove indestructible More marketing gimmick than film with an actual plot “Freddy vs Jason" combines elements of both the "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th” movies The two villains kill everyone in sight before turn- -' their talons — er talents — ing X on each other Nothing scary or 0)' suspenseful hare but the movie does embrace its horror flick conventions and squeezes them o for every d o opportunitypossible R for pervasive CD O strong horror violence-gor- e gruesome images sexuality drug use and language 98 min One and a half stars' out of four — The Associated Press rides herd with the aging plainsman he calls only “Boss" played by Robert Duval Michael Gambon plays a violent rancher Annette Bening steals a scene d or two from the cast R for violence 135 min Two and a half stars out of four —The Associated Press 5 u male-dominate- “Uptown Girts" RatedPQ-1- 3 Ray (Dakota Fanning) the daughter of a distant record company executive fives an obsessively orderly Me on Ihe Upper East Side Molly (Brittany Murphy) the grown-u- p daughter of a'deceased rock star Ives in messy decadence on the Upper West Side But when she learns her accountant stole her inheritance she forced to take a job as Ray's nanny After initial fireworks the rigid responsible child eventually teaches the adult to grow up adult teachand the es the rigid responefole chfld to loosen up You saw this movie last year when it starred Hugh Grant and was cafled "About a Boy’ The difference here is nearly everything and everybody £ -- laugh-out-lou- free-spirit- ed free-spirit- “Open Range" Rated R A tip d the cowboy hat to the Western movies of yesteryear directed by and starring Kevin Costner Although this is easily the best of its genre to come along since "Tombstone” and g the "Unforgiven" its biggest shortfall is an over- simplified view of good and evil Oscar-winnin- is headache-inducin- g PG-13f- or sexual content and language 93 min One star out of four —The Associated Press V ) a great (and Stillshowing But Rdossril resize Rated PQ A remake of the 1978 Disney movie that starred Jodto Foster and Barbara Harris as a mother and daughter who wake up one morning and find they've switched bodes This is some- thing It seemed the world dd not need But the new “Freaky Friday” is surprisingly funny and charming and that has everything to do with Its stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan have a great gift for physical comedy and are so convincing — this is going to sound ridcu-lousthey actualy make you believe they’ve swiped bodes for the day Even when mother and daughter reach an of each others’ Ives the moment has emotional resonance because you've come to care about the characters so much PG for mid thematic elements and some language 95 min Three stars out of four — The Associated Press unden-Wandn- “SWAT” Rated PQr13 Based on the 70s TV drama of the same name — which was on the air for al of a year and a - 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