Show ovie OVle Briefs s Diana Joy Jones Arts Reporter i From powerhouse dramas sweeping romances and rich period pieces to family friendly comedies Decembers December's theatrical releases offer a considerable palate of choices for movie movie- goers Cadillac Records Cadillac Records chronicles the tumultuous k t. t ups and downs of legendary musical figures in the surrounded by racial s sexual t and musical revolutions i Cadillac Records stars starsA Adrien A en Brody and r Knowles Dec 5 2008 ii J Extreme Movie i A satire on teen sex films which involves 1 plot lines better deft I ft Brought q audiences by the same directorial team that f assaulted assaulted America with Not Not ot another Teen Teen Movie Movie vie f Extreme Movie mocks r rand and exploits the sexual t. t misadventures of a group of friends Extreme Movie A stars Michael Cera Frankie Muniz and Jamie Kennedy t I D 5 0 FV Y The War I ri Zone iZone J Vigilante Frank Castle 1 I this time played by Ray I Stevenson is back for a s third film interpretation of tI t the comic book born hero I This time Castle is pitted 2 against disfigured crime boss Jigsaw Dominic West Dec 5 2008 j Local Color ColorA S SA A young man man John I Trevor Morgan is studying to be an artist c and seeks the help of ofa a lone veteran painter Armin Stahl Mueller-Stahl in hopes to perfect his art Honored with awards and nominations at several independent film festivals Local Color promises to tell an inspirational story about growing up and simultaneously recapturing youth Limited Release Dec 5 2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still Aliens threaten to destroy the planet plan t earth if fit it continues to exist in chaos Keanu Reeves stars as an extraterrestrial being sent t to earth to deliver the fateful message Dec Dee 12 2008 Delgo This animated fantasy features an all star voice cast including Freddie Jr Eric Idl Idle V Val I Kilmer Jennifer Love 1 Hewitt and Anne Bancroft A A youth struggles to secure peace among among- two rivo divided r realms amidst mythical c creatures creature in this sweeping sweeping- of f friendly family-friendly epic Dec 1 12 2008 r 1 j Nothing like the 1 I Holidays Nothing like the Holidays is a c comedy medy c c drama irama 3 that profiles the e struggles of one family as a athey they hey come together during 1 Christmas time Dec 12 2008 Doubt n r In Inthe the early Sister S Aloysius Beauvier Meryl i ii t principal of St a Nicholas accuses a priest ti tl Phillip Seymour Hoffman 2 of f molesting a male A African American student A Against the school loosens i its strict code Beauvier i powerfully oppresses the priest as he fights to prove 1 his innocence Doubt is 1 based on a play by John Patrick Shanley Limited 1 Release Dec 12 2008 the The Reader The Reader is a heavy drama about an adolescent i who has i Ian an affair with an older woman As the years 1 pass he encounters encounters her i again This time time time-he he is a a law s student and she is on trial i for War Crimes Set in the i aftermath of World War II The Reader stars Kate and Ralph Fiennes 1 Limited Release Dec Dee 12 j. j 2008 Where God Left His 5 Shoes A homeless family looks i for f or hope and shelter during t the holidays Limited I Release D Dec c 12 2008 Seven Pounds Ben Thomas Will Smith e enters and ch changes the lives o of seven individuals in s search earch of his own personal redemption This dramatic tale ale reunites the team f from the The Pursuit of Dec Dee 19 2008 Yes Man Jim Carrey stars in this comic tale of a man who embraces braces the word yes yes' to tol l devastating extreme Dec Dee 19 2008 Bedtime Stories Whimsical story of aman a aman anan man nan named Skeeter Adam Sandier Sandler whose stories intended to put his niece and Ind nephew to sleep start to o come to life Dec 25 2008 The Curious Case of I Benjamin Button An old man grows young i in this wishful thinking t tale talc Based on a narrative I by F. F Scott Fitzgerald main c character Benjamin Button r reverses in age from his ef e eighties to youth Dec 25 2008 f Marley and Me Marley is a cute puppy on 1 the outside but causes his owners Owen Wilson and J Jennifer Aniston nothing 1 but trouble Dec Dee 25 2008 The Spirit Frank Miller creator of graphic novels novel's Sin City i and directs this film 1 based on the graphic novel 1 by Will Eisner After a cop is murdered his spirit i returns to fight crime With Witha i a Sin City feel s The he Spirit stars Gabriel Macht Eva Mendes and Samuel L. L Jackson Dec 25 2008 Va Valkyrie e Valkyrie is a complex World Wa II thriller drama i in which a plot is devised 1 to undermine Hitler Dec 25 2008 Revolutionary Road RoadA A young couple struggles 1 to find their identities during the by leaving A America in favor in France 1 Riddled with deception and i romance Revolutionary Road is based on a novel 1 by Richard Yates Defiance Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber star in this wartime drama which depicts two brothers' brothers efforts to help free other Jews from Nazi captivity ty Dec 31 2008 |