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New Flicks


Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

This December, Christmas cheer takes a holiday.

Genre: Adventure / Fantasy / Comedy
Director: Brad Silberling
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Emily Browning, Kara Hoffman, Liam Aiken

This is the story of the Bauedelaires, three young orphans, Violet (Browning), Klaus (Aiken) and Sunny, looking for a new home, who are taken in by a series of odd relatives and other people, including Lemony Snicket, who narrates the film, and starting with the cunning and dastardly Count Olaf (Carrey), who hopes to snatch their inheritance from them. Violet is the oldest of the Baudelaires at 14 and is their brave and fast-thinking leader. The only boy is middle child Klaus, 12, who is intensely intelligent and obsessed with words. The youngest is infant Sunny, who speaks in a language only her siblings can understand and she has a tendency to…bite.

 

Blade:Trinity

The final hunt begins

Genre: Action / Suspense / Horror
Director: David S. Goyer
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey

For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of night, with the world above unaware of the brutal ongoing war. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed - The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail (Jessica Biel) and Hannibal (Ryan Reynolds), two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to an ancient creature that is hunting him...the original vampire, Dracula.


Source: IMDB.com / YahooMovies Hollywood.com

 

 

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