Recommended THE FILM I'll give director Drew Barrymore this: she made Ellen Page appealing. "Whip It" takes the tart-tongued "Juno" star to the crashin', smashin' world of roller derby for a coming-of-age dramedy that bites off a little more than it can chew. Energetically woven by Barrymore, the film suffers from an acute case of the adaptation blues, trying to cram in as many plot points as ...

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FROM STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES Madge Levinson, who has appeared with Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page in Whip It!, and Sigourney Weaver in Prayers for Bobby, as well as a host of community theatrical productions, has been named the 2010 recipient of the Robert E. Gard Superior Volunteer Award by the American Association of Community Theatre. Levinson was recognized for ...

Highly Recommended The Film: The deck seems stacked against Drew Barrymore with Whip It , her directorial debut. It's a film about roller derby -- scratch that, a coming-of-age comedy revolving around roller derby -- that features pulse-pounding music, girls clothes-lining each other, and Jimmy Fallon as the house announcer for the "hell on wheels". Moreover, Ellen Page is double (triple ...

Read movie reviews and learn more about what's going on in Hollywood on our Movie Site OK, raise your hand if you thought that by 2010 we'd be driving spacemobiles like the Jetsons. It's weird, isn't it? The hot cars we drove back in the '70s have returned all shiny and new in showrooms, I'm listening to something called "SIRIUSly Sinatra" on satellite radio, and all of these old vintage movies ...

In theaters BROKEN EMBRACES, written and directed by Pedro Almodovar, 128 minutes, rated R. Just as in Pedro Almodovar's 2006 film "Volver," his latest, "Broken Embraces," reminds you ...

By day, they go by their regular names — Sarah, Allison, Linneae and Teresa. They work regular jobs — teacher, physician, day-care provider and graphic artist. All that changes Saturday night.

Who survivors Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are facing a slew of protests over their plans to perform halftime at the Super Bowl Sunday. Protect Our Children has been throwing pamphlets all around Miami's Sun Life Stadium featuring a grinnin' Pete abov

A relationship picture (“Adam”), a daredevil biography (“Amelia”), a romantic drama (“Love Happens”), a sports documentary (“More Than a Game”) and a horror spoof (“Zombieland”) are among the new arrivals on this Super Bowl weekend. The top DVD/Blu-ray Disc rental and sales offerings are:Best Renters1. “Zombieland” (R); Grade: B+; with Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin and Jesse Eisenberg in an ...

By Matt Brunson WARNER ARCHIVES (1941-1981). Selected titles from the recent batch of films available only through the Warner Archives label include vehicles featuring Marlene Dietrich, Chevy Chase and cinema's original swinger, Tarzan. A mild disappointment from Warner Bros.'s richest period (the '30s and '40s), Manpower (1941) stars Edward G. Robinson and George Raft as best friends who work ...