MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Wanted’ Is Fantastical and Fantastic!

THE LADY IS A TRAMP: No, Wanted is not a Walt Disney film, but it is a thrilling actioner in which Angelina Jolie plays Fox, a trampstamped assassin who teaches common man Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) how to bring out the expert killer in himself.
PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES
SEBRING, June 30, 2008 – Call Wesley [...]

NATIONAL BOX OFFICE: ‘Wall-E’, ‘Wanted’ Win

SEBRING, June 30, 2008 – Put a couple Ws in the win column.
Pixar’s animated feature Wall-E and fantastical, Walter Mittyesque Wanted finished No. 1 and No. 2 at the North American box office respectively.
Wall-E became champ by virtue of a $62.5 million take at theater ticket windows for the weekend of June 27-29. Wanted finished [...]

MOVIE REVIEW: Carell Conjures Up Laughs in ‘Get Smart’

TWO HEADS: Should be better than one, but with the bumbling, stumbling of Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell), one might have to rely on Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) to save the day in Get Smart, which plays at the Fairmount Cinema 6.
PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.
SEBRING, June 27, 2008 – It is hard to find a [...]

‘Get Smart’ Wins Sebring Box Office

SEBRING, June 27, 2008 – Steve Carell won over Highlands County, too, for the weekend of June 20-22.
The comedian helped propel Get Smart to the top of the Sebring box office, which we base on attendance rather than total dollar value, although there is a close relationship between those two elements.
Reported attendance for Get Smart [...]

NEW MOVIES FRIDAY: ‘Wall-E,’ ‘Wanted’ Open in Sebring

NOTE: Scroll down for the trailers of the films that open today in Sebring.
SEBRING, June 27, 2008 – The summer blockbusters just keep coming! Wall-E and Wanted open today at the Fairmount Cinema 6 and Carmike Cinema 8 respectively.
Waiting in the wings for a mid-week release next week are Hancock and Kitt Kitteridge: An American [...]

DVD Review: ‘No Country for Old Men’

Available on: DVD pan and scan  
No Country for Old Men is an atypical movie that is typical for the Coen Brothers. If you’ve seen some of their other movies, Fargo, Blood Simple, or Raising Arizona, then you know what to expect: quirky, imaginative characters that deliver deadpan lines to great effect.
Unfortunately, the story in [...]

NATIONAL BOX OFFICE: ‘Get Smart’ Gets to the Top

SEBRING, June 25, 2008 – An old TV comedy broke fresh ground as a big screen adaptation and won the box office competition for the weekend of June 20-22.
The spy antics of Stever Carell and Anne Hathaway lifted Get Smart to a $39.1 in gate receipts and made it the No. 1 film in its [...]

MOVIE REVIEW: Love Guru Farce Funny

SELF HELP SUCK-UP: Guru Pitka (Mike Myers) lands a job with powerful executrix Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) in hope that he lands a guest spot on Oprah.
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SEBRING, June 22, 2008 – Mike Myers pokes fun with panache at positive thinking and stereotypes in The Love Guru, which plays at the Carmike Cinema [...]

NEW MOVIES: ‘Get Smart,’ ‘Love Guru’ Debut in Sebring

SEBRING, June 21, 2008 – Two new movies are in town for their openings this weekend. Get Smart opens at the Fairmount Cinema 6 and Love Guru opens at the Carmike Cinema 8.
Get Smart stars funnyman Steve Carell (TV’s The Office, The 40-year-old Virgin, Dan in Real Life), Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries, [...]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Then She Found Me’ Sparks Thought

KNEED TO KNOW: Garish talk show host Bernice Graves (Bette Midler) will do anything to get to know the daughter she gave away for adoption (Helen Hunt) in Then She Found Me at the Fairmount Cinema 6.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THINKfilm
SEBRING, June 19, 2009 – Oscar- and Emmy – winning actress Helen Hunt directs her first [...]