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Sara enjoys a good day on the beach with her daughter Kate in New Line Cinema's drama My Sister's Keeper, a Warner Bros.

"Think of me as you with a vagina," Vera Farmiga's character Alex says to George Clooney's Ryan at one point in Up in the Air , the new film from Jason Reitman , opening in theaters Dec.

In director Jason Reitman's latest cinematic endeavor, "Up in the Air," George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizer who re-evaluates his emotionally detached lifestyle.

As a horror fan, it pains me to admit that the vast majority of films populating the genre these days are absolute crap.

Just finished watching the new Warner Home Video DVD of Orphan , the 2009 Evil Kid That Only the Audience Knows is Evil horror flick starring Vera Farmiga and the charmingly monikered CCH Pounder .

Rupert Isaacson and Kristin Neff seem the best of parents - concerned, loving, patient, intellectually enlightened - and yet they're worn down by their four-year-old autistic son, Rowan, with his four-hour tantrums, his rejection of toilet training, his inability to answer to his name.

ORPHAN : If you can get past the icky notion of demonizing orphans -- and that's a big if -- you'll discover a genuinely terrifying chiller about a 9-year-old monster -child whose adoptive parents rue the day they brought her home from the orphanage.

Creepy, crazy, scary and funny, Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat re-invigorates the Halloween horror season.

Until Paranormal Activities came out, this was unquestionably the most notable horror film of the year.

Isabelle Fuhrmann is shown in a scene from "Orphan." "Orphan," Warner Home Video, 123 minutes, Rated R for disturbing violent content, some sexuality and language - With their marriage faltering a bit after their third child, Jessica, was stillborn, Kate and John Coleman decide to adopt Esther .

WOODY ALLEN'S "Whatever Works" drew mostly middling reviews during its big-screen run, complaints keying to the same-old older-man, much-younger-woman story line and star Larry David's annoying spews of negativity.

Out in a now nationwide release and just in time for Halloween is a oeParanormal Activity.a It was first had a very limited released, only hitting a few big cities in late September as a kind of test drive to see how audiences liked it.

Let's start by saying the marketing for Orphan is very misleading. This is not a horror movie.

Woody Allen's latest, "Whatever Works," was originally written in the 1970s and covers many of the themes the actor-comedian-writer had on his mind in those days a ' women , old movies and music, the charms of hometown Manhattan and the impermanent and ephemeral nature of love.

"I am not a number, I am a free man!" shouts Number Six, the titular character played by Patrick McGoohan in one of the UK's greatest cult series.

Farmiga and James Caan have joined the cast of new Keanu Reeves romantic comedy Henrya s Crime .

It's wise to carry low expectations for horror movies these days. This anticipation certainly will result in a win-win situation, especially with the state of the genre.

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'Ice Age: Dawn of The Dinosaurs' : At times, this third go-round for the prehistoric mammals of the "Ice Age" franchise feels like a sitcom nearing the end of its run.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 20th Century Fox, $29.98/$34.98; Blu-ray, $39.99 At times, this third go-round for the prehistoric mammals of the "Ice Age" franchise feels like a sitcom nearing the end of its run.