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During a day of male bonding, Cliff and Martin get along like Navy buddies. And Olivia is curious about Santa: "Is he white, black, Chinese, what?" Martin: Joseph C. Phillips.

A Boston couple receive an invitation to their own wedding and are challenged to marry in one week or separate.

Our lust for cinematic-robot delight peaked this year, with last month's "Terminator: Salvation" and this week's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." But Skynet's terminators and the Autobots and Decepticons are only a few among many fascinating robots in film.

If you find summer Sunday evenings are too nice to spend inside, but you're in the mood to see a movie, head for Barracks Square.

The Motion Code does great things for parts of the movie, but it can't quite make up for Keanu Reeves.

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Like a scene from the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still," enter neighborhoods could be wiped off the face of the earth as part of a radical "City-Shrinking" plan being considered by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama.

When I hear that another science fiction movie is being re-made the first thought that comes to mind is "Why?" Really, how do the studio execs come to the conclusion that this film should be redone versus the other? What exactly is the criteria? If you're going to take someone else's work and redo it then there should be rules.

Looking for some holiday spirit to escape the economic gloom? Never fear, Hollywood is here.

THE Day The Earth Stood Still fell between the two stools. Starting out as what looked like a goodish, straight science fiction film it became a film with a oea messagea in the worst sense of that phrase.

Prison Break star Robert Knepper is to join the cast of US TV drama Heroes as a new villain, according to industry newspaper The Hollywood Reporter.

Actor Robert Knepper continues his villainous streak. Coming off a role as bad guy Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell on Fox's "Prison Break," Knepper has been tapped as the new lead villain on NBC's "Heroes" next season.

The Day The Earth Stood Still is a remake of an old movie of the same name starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly as the step-mom and Jon Hamm fromA Mad Men .

Actor Keanu Reeves attends 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' Premiere at AMC Loews Lincoln Square on December 9, 2008 in New York City.

Video Event of the Week: Is it the Criterion Collection's Pigs, Pimps and Prostitutes , a box set of three still startlingly erotic art house classics by Shohei Imamura ? Might Lionsgate's new Blu-ray and DVD editions of New in Town , with Renee Zellwegger as the voice of a talking chipmunk, make the cut? Or lets face it, isn't it likely that ...

Posted May 20, 2009, 6:50 a.m. Another movie: "The Day The Earth Stood Still". This is a remake that has few similarities to the original .

Anyway, as to the movie's plot:A Keanu Reeves plays a monotonal alien, which is kind of like me playing a conservative novelist.A He comes to earth on a mysterious mission so the Secretary of State summons astro-biologist Jennifer Connelly, because when aliens invade your planet, dude, you need the cutest scientist you can find.

Keanu Reeves is to star in a modern retelling of the classic novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, according to The Hollywood Reporter Monday.

Reeves will star in "Jekyll" - the modern-day remake of the classic split-personality tale "The Strange Case of Dr.

THE plot may sound familiar: resistance fighters battle killer robots called Terminators that have destroyed the Earth in a nuclear holocaust.