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Studio: Universal Pictures (2 hours 32 minutes)
Plot: A group of Jewish American soldiers wage a brutal guerilla war against Nazis.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Jacky Ido, Til Schweiger
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ****
Meet much loved Michigan author Beverly Jenkins, as she talks about her 2009 release Bring on the Blessings
Fragments
Studio:PeaceArch Entertainment
Plot: A group of strangers form a unique relationship with each other after surviving a random shooting at a diner.
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Josh Hutcherson
Rating: R
Bottom Line: **
By Samantha Ofole-Prince
“Can his pals cheer him up?
Will his pout ever end?
Is there something he can learn
From an unexpected friend?”
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Studio: 20th Century Fox (1 hr. 27 min.)
Plot: The Ice Age gang (Scrat, Sid, Manny, Ellie and Diego) discover a lost world of dinosaurs under the ice.
Cast: Vocal talents of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah
Rating: PG
Bottom Line: **
Imagine That
Studio: Paramount (1 hr. 47 min.)
Plot: A financial executive (Eddie Murphy) can’t stop his career from spiraling until he’s invited into his daughter’s imaginary world of fairy princesses.
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Bobb’e J. Thompson, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, James Patrick Stuart, Yara Shahidi
Rating: PG
Bottom Line: **1/2
Author Who Writes About How One Mistake Sacrifices Youth
Visits Lansing Bookstore
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Plot: A mild-mannered subway dispatcher tries to save a train full of hostages.
Cast: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Tuturro, Luis Guzman, James Gandolfini
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ****
Studio: Paramount (2 hrs. 27 min.)
Plot: Two years after saving the human race from the invading Decepticons, the Autobots battle the remaining Decepticons still hiding on Earth.
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: *1/2
Sleeping with the Enemy: God’s Man