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The X-Files: I Want to Believe
The Movie Mom | July 24th 2008 by Nell Minow
I want to believe, too, but this movie did not make it happen. Six years after the record-breaking television series ended its run, this attempt to carry the franchise forward is unlikely to make any new fans or entirely satisfy... read more
Get Smart
The Movie Mom | June 19th 2008 by Nell Minow
The big-screen version of the classic 1960's television show created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry is more than an update. It shrewdly tweaks the original, making its hero, Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) smarter and more capable than the bumbling... read more
'Get Smart' Then and Now
The Movie Mom | June 17th 2008 by Nell Minow
The New York Times has a great feature on adapting the 1960's television show "Get Smart" for the big screen, staying true to the spirit of the original and with in-jokes for the fans but updating it and making it... read more
The Incredible Hulk
The Movie Mom | June 12th 2008 by Nell Minow
It begins with a zippy credit sequence that dispatches with the backstory Ang Lee's lumbering 2003 version took more than an hour to slog through. And we're off! Who cares what kind of gamma rays turned David Banner into the... read more
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