Tropic Thunder - Starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey, Jr., Jack Black, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise with many cameos Directed and written by Ben Stiller
Tropic Thunder is, at its heart, about a handful of mega Hollywood stars trying to film a big budget action movie adapted from a book about a gruesome exit from Vietnam. Only problem, things are going poorly on the set, so Four Leaf Tayback (Nolte) gets them dropped into the middle of the jungle and the Flying Dragon heroin gang. (Mouthful? Yep.) The brainiac leader of the group, Tugg Speedman (Stiller), is convinced they’re still actually filming the movie and leads the other wary and mental actors off on a quixotic quest to finish the movie. Basically it’s a parody of action and big budget movies, actors and biting satire on Hollywood as a whole. Yeah. I know. I kind of stripped away all of the excitement in the commercials. Good. Tropic Thunder is one-part brains for every part slapstick. The Hollywood insiders are all over this movie. They’re saying it’s brilliant. Back patting anyone? C- (Joe Allison)

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - Voices of Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Nika Futterman, Ian Abercrombie, Catherine Taber, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Daniels and Christopher Lee. Not written by George Lucas, but he apparently had his fingers all over the story
After a lot of initial action and plot setup, Anakin (Lanter) and his new protégé, Padawan Ahsoka (Eckstein) are sent on a mission to rescue Jabba the Hutt’s kidnapped little sluglet. At the center of things, not surprisingly, is the ever evil group of Sith. Seems the Hutt are in charge of trade routes (not really much new information there), and whoever can sway the Hutt will have a lot of control over the war to come. Basically: 30 minutes worth of plot and action streeeeeetched into an hour and a half. It didn’t bring anything new to the story, pacing was across the board, Jabba’s uncle was a BEATING, and you will be looking at your watch the whole time. Hard core Star Wars fans will walk away unimpressed. The rest will probably be bored. But… BUT… It sets up some interesting possibilities for an ongoing television series. D- (Joe Allison)

Life imitates film?
“Pants off” to David Duchovny (X-Files) and star of Showtime’s Californication, in which he plays a sex-obsessed character. In real life, he recently entered a rehab. facility for sex addition. In a statement released by his lawyer, Stanton Stein, the 48-year old actor said he did so voluntarily. The report was confirmed by Duchovny’s publicist.
He’s married to Tea Leoni and has two children.