Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner star in this new Disney film based on one of my favorite books by one of my favorite people. The book has already been filmed twice, once as an animated musical with songs by “Annie’s” Charles Strouse.  It looks like the whole family has a terrible, horrible, no good very …

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Mark Ciardi is an athlete turned producer who specializes in taking real-life sports stories that sound like Disney movies into actual Disney movies: “The Rookie” and “Miracle.”  His latest is the Cinderella story “Million Dollar Arm” about sports agent J.B. Bernstein’s “American Idol”-style competition to find athletes in India who could become major league baseball …

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Thanks to all who entered! The winners of the “Story of the Jews” DVDs are: Evan M. Highland Park, IL Jonathan B. New York, New York Yusuf N. Boston, MA Sheryl K. Tampa, Florida Dave D. Sharon, MA

All the basic ingredients are there for a slam-bang summer monster movie.  We have people in helmets and hazmat suits running to try to get away from something scary.  We have a scientist pleading with a military officer to trust him and the guy in camo responding that he can’t take that chance.  We have …

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