Dal­ton Rus­sell (Clive Owen) enters a bank dis­guised as a painter. With spe­cial flash­lights, he is able to take out the secu­ri­ty cam­eras. He then fires a few rounds from his firearm to fright­en the peo­ple in the bank. He is not alone. There are four armed rob­bers in total. They ask every­one to lie down on the ground and to not move; a famil­iar request… 

“Audi­ences don’t know some­body sits down and writes a pic­ture. They think the actors make it up as they go along.”- William Hold­en in Bil­ly Wilder’s “Sun­set Boule­vard.” Those who watch “Tris­tram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Sto­ry” will sure­ly recall Holden’s words since, more often that not, the char­ac­ters in this movie seem to be invent­ing their lines as they go along. The actors… 

Review by Paul Stathakis | March 22, 2006 “If you want to chase your dreams, you need to break the rules.” Aman­da Bynes plays a girl who dis­guis­es her­self as a boy so that she can play on the school’s men’s soc­cer team. Her room­mate nev­er sus­pects her dis­guise, and even when she for­gets to speak with a deep man-like tone, she gets away with it. This comedy… 

In “The Shag­gy Dog”, a remake of a 1959 film fea­tur­ing Fred Mac­Mur­ray, Tim Allen stars as Dave Dou­glas, an assis­tant dis­trict attor­ney assigned to a case involv­ing an ani­mal lab­o­ra­to­ry. He is unex­pect­ed­ly bit­ten by a 300-year-old dog, which was stolen from a monastery in Tibet. The dog car­ries a spe­cif­ic genet­ic-mutat­ing DNA that could help a mad researcher devel­op an impor­tant serum. Allen…