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 NANNY McPHEE (2006)
Director: Kirk Jones. Stars: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury. The Plot: Governess Nanny McPhee (Thompson) uses magic to reign in the behavior of seven ne'er-do-well children in her charge. |
 NAPOLEON
DYNAMITE (2004)
Review by Chris Utley:
In a summer of full of ogres, killer robots, natural disasters and Spideys
with multimillion dollar budgets, a little flick set in middle America
with a most unsung hero has emerged from the pack as one of the genuine
successes of the year. Napoleon Dynamite is a simple movie about -- let's
be honest folks -- a geek (Jon Heder). |
 NARC
(2002)
Review by David Bruce: In homage to such classic films as "The
French Connection" and "Serpico," writer/director Joe Carnahan's
"Narc" explores the dark underbelly of the drug world. |
 NATIONAL
TREASURE (2004)
David Bruce reviews: All his life, Benjamin Gates
has been searching for a treasure no one believed existed: amassed through
the ages, moved across continents, to become the greatest treasure the
world has ever known. Hidden by our Founding Fathers, they left clues
to the Treasure's location right before our eyes. |
 THE NEW WORLD (2005)
Director: Terrence Malick. Stars: Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, David Thewlis. A chronicle of the adventurous life of Captain John Smith (Farrell), who helped settle the colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, and his relationship with Pocahontas, the young Algonquian native who Smith claimed saved him from sure death. |
 NICHOLAS
NICKLEBY (2002)
Review by David Bruce: For many people the word "classic"
wears the musty shroud of age. But the very thing that makes it a classic,
which is to say something that has long outlasted the time in which it
was born, is the natural and illuminating way it applies to any era in
which it is being read. Dickens’ stays fresh because he is not just
writing about human events, which are always changing and dating, but
human nature, which is constant. |
 THE
NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993)
Review by Ken Priebe: I like to see Jack Skellington as a passionate spiritual
seeker, which is probably part of why I’ve always related to him
as a character. When I first saw the film and fell in love with it, I
was still searching for something to believe in myself. |
 NIGHT WATCH (2005)
Night Watch revolves around the conflict and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness -- the result of a medieval truce between the opposing sides. As night falls, the dark forces battle the super-human "Others" of the Night Watch, whose mission is to patrol and protect. |
THE NINTH GATE
(2000)
Here is the dark side, the evil world of Lucifer. A world where everything
is reversed. |
 NOBODY NOKNOWS (2005)
Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers. They have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note asking her 12-year-old boy to look after his younger siblings. And so begins the children's odyssey, a journey nobody knows. |
 THE
NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE (2006)
Director: Mary Harron. Stars: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor
Bettie Page (Mol) explodes in the 1950s as the world's sexiest pin-up girl; her
status as a sex icon (and still-legendary bondage photos) eventually makes her
the target of a Senate investigation. |
 NORTH COUNTRY (2005)
Director: Niki Caro. Stars: Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand. A fictionalized account of Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, where a female miner (Theron) who endures a range of abuses files a landmark lawsuit. Overview (dial up speed) |
NORTHFORK
(2003)
Review by Darrel Manson: Northfork is
a beguiling story of loss and resurrection, about adjusting to the strange
new places towards which we sometimes find ourselves heading. Blending
surreality and history, the film is spun in the manner of an American
fairy tale that tackles such themes as land, life, faith, death, the afterlife
and the power of dreams with a distinctively playful touch. |
 THE
NOTEBOOK (2004)
Review by Greg Wright: A young woman comes to the
coastal town of Seabrook, North Carolina to spend the summer with her
family. Still in her teens, Allie Hamilton meets local boy Noah Calhoun
at a Carnival. On the spot, Noah senses that he and Allie are meant to
be together. The two fall deeply in love. |
 NOTRE
MUSIQUE (2004)
Review by Darrel Manson: The film is structured
in three “kingdoms”: Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. The
first and last are rather short, the Purgatory kingdom makes up the bulk
of the film. Hell is about war. It is a collage of brief clips of
war. Some documentary war footage, some clips from war movies, war
in the twentieth century, war in past ages. |
 NOTTING
HILL (1999)
A romantic comedy that mixes fate, destiny and free will into a clever
story. |
 NOVEMBER (2005)
November is a psychological thriller exploring a woman's struggle to transcend trauma through a surreal blend of emotion and memory. The narrative and visual style are comprised of dreamlike moments and images stemming from Sophie's subjective experience, blurring the line between reality and the unconscious. |
 NOWHERE
IN AFRICA (2001)
Review by Darrel Manson: Nowhere in Africa follows the life of
the Redlich family, which has emigrated from Germany before the start
of the war and began working on a farm in Kenya. |
 NYPD BLUE TV Series
Review by Maurice Broaddus: Spiritual reality has always been one of the underpinnings of the show. God is at the root of Andy Sipowicz’s character. When he lost his faith in Him, his life completely unraveled into a drunken spiral into prostitution and self-loathing. In that, the show has come full circle with John Jr.’s channeling the spirit of Andy past. John Jr. is flailing about after the suicide of his father followed shortly by the suicide of his girlfriend, not knowing how to put his back together. [I’m just not quite buying Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s performance. He plays his character just this side of over the top, like he’s wearing a character he’s not quite comfortable with.] He could learn a lot from his partner. |
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