Continuing with the release of every important film of the year, comes the number 1 box office animated film. A very funny family film that will become a classic and is one that will never date. Speaking of dates, a perfect date movie in the Ugly Truth is a sure fire winner.

New Releases this Week:

The Ugly Truth

Cast: Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, Cheryl Hines, Bonnie Somerville, Bree Turner, Eric Winter, Vicki Lewis, Holly Weber, Nick Searcy, Yvette Nicole Brown

Hot Scotsman Gerard Butler and the lovely “doctor” Katherine Heigl star in this delightful yet raunchy romantic comedy.
TV producer Abby (Heigl) is forced to work with relationship ‘expert’ Mike (Butler), who advises women to use sex to get men. They make a bet: unless his methods snag her dream man (Winter) for her, he’ll leave the show.
Can’t miss, co-star two of the most popular and eye pleasing new actors in the business and you have a sure renter.



Up

Cast: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger.

From Disney-Pixar here is the highest grossing animation this year. A comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman (voiced by Ed Asner) who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But, he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic eight-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. This was shown in 3D in the theatres and thankfully Disney didn’t try to release the DVD this way. In Blu-Ray it’s spectacular, yet a must see DVD in any format. The first animated movie to open the Cannes film festival and sure to garner loads of awards come Oscar time, leads to a question though, how is Disney going to top this one?

Classics Now Playing at the Spot

The Naked Gun Series:

One of the funniest series ever starring Leslie Nielsen is now at the Spot, rarely shown on TV because of one co-star namely O.J. Simpson!

The Naked Gun : From the files of Police Squad

Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson,

The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad! Came about in 1988 and grossed almost $100 million, spawned two sequels and countless imitators. Also continuing to prove the best acting OJ ever did was trying to put on a pair of gloves in a California courtroom.

As Lieutenant Frank Drebin, the star is Leslie Nielsen; he is as dapper as he is deadpan, and somehow this makes the fact that he's actually a bumbling idiot endlessly funny. The plot of the film is somewhat superfluous, and finds Frank attempting to thwart the assassination of Queen Elizabeth (at a baseball game of all places), avenge the attempted murder of his colleague Nordberg (played by O.J. Simpson, that’s irony for you!), and find love with the beautiful Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley).



Naked Gun 2 ½ Smell of Fear


In the first sequel Frank Drebin is walking out of the men's room, causing First Lady Barbara Bush to slam face-first into the door. That's the Drebin we know and love: a walking disaster who is utterly and completely unaware of the destruction he constantly causes.

Naked Gun 33 1/3 the Final Insult

This last of the series is just as funny as the other two. Having retired from Police Squad, Frank Drebin is having difficulty adjusting to domestic life and the prospect of starting a family. When a vicious terrorist (Fred Ward) is linked to a previous suspect (Anna Nicole Smith), Ed (George Kennedy) and Nordberg recruit Frank to come back and go undercover…



Dave Chappelle’s Block Party


In September 2004, wildly popular comedian Dave Chappelle took his time and money to put together a block party for Brooklyn, New York. To entertain the crowds, he invited hip-hop luminaries such as Kanye West, The Roots, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Dead Prez, Common, and, after pleasing some higher power, he also managed to get The Fugees to reunite for this special day. "Block Party" is the documentary covering the invites, the reasoning, and the spectacle.
It cuts back and forth between concert footage with his standup and the often-funny events that precipitated it.

Unforgiven

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek, Frances Fisher, Anna Levine, David Mucci, Rob Campbell

Clint Eastwood won the best director Oscar for this superb Western. In all it won 4 academy awards including best picture and has become somewhat of a classic. Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman (who won for best supporting actor) and Richard Harris are terrific, and even though Hackman plays the brutal bad guy sheriff, I couldn’t help feel sorry for him in the end. A must see...

Tomorrow Never Dies

Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Ricky Jay

One of the best Pierce Bronson James Bond movies and for the first time since Sean Connery left the franchise; it feels like a real James Bond adventure. Jonathan Pryce plays a villain cut from the same cloth as Blofeld and Goldfinger, and it’s a treat to see the lovely Teri Hatcher years before she moved to desperate housewife land! If you are a newcomer to the Bond movies and just think of 007 as Daniel Craig, this is a good one to start your viewing off with.