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‘WALL-E’ touches, teaches and tickles

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"WALL-E" is essentially a silent film in which the two main characters, a mismatched pair of robots, communicate through bleeps and blips and maybe three words between them. But with images and sound effects alone, it touches, it teaches and it tickles. It's the best Pixar film since "Finding Nemo."

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Prenatal preoccupation: Parents fear Hollywood makes pregnancy look a little too cool
By Megan Scott - Associated Press
July 1, 2008
News that 17 girls at a Massachusetts high school became pregnant this year is raising questions about whether pregnancy has become something alluring to teens. Many teen pregnancies still take place against a backdrop of economic distress or a search for love, experts say — that’s been the case for years.
Top movies net more than $100M
By David Germain - Associated Press Writer
June 30, 2008
A lonely little robot made millions of friends during the weekend — and even outgunned Angelina Jolie.
‘WALL-E’ touches, teaches and tickles
By Roger Moore - The Orlando Sentinel
June 27, 2008
The late, great Stanley Kubrick (“2001: A Space Odyssey”) used to say that if you can turn off the sound and still follow the story, you’ve made a film, but if you black out the picture and can still follow the story with only the sound, you haven’t.
‘Get Smart’ gets audience for $39M
By David Germain - Associated Press Writer
June 23, 2008
Audiences still get Maxwell Smart. Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway’s “Get Smart,” the Warner Bros. big screen update of the 1960s spy sitcom, raked in $39.2 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend movie, according to studio estimates Sunday.
‘Love Guru’ a lame self-help romp
By David Germain - AP Movie Writer
June 20, 2008
In “The Love Guru,” Mike Myers must come to love himself before he can love others. From the credits of this scattershot comedy sketch stretched and strained to movie length, Myers clearly loved himself to the point of narcissism going in.
‘Hulk’ marvels at $54M opening
By David Germain - Associated Press Writer
June 16, 2008
“The Incredible Hulk” was a box-office bruiser, yanking in $54.5 million over opening weekend and laying to rest the stigma of his unappreciated big-screen adventure five years ago.
Beatty earns lifetime achievement award
By Sandy Cohen - AP Entertainment Writer
June 15, 2008
Bill Clinton was among those saluting Warren Beatty as the Oscar-winning actor-director received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.
‘Hulk’ strong but far too familiar
By Roger Moore - The Orlando Sentinel
June 13, 2008
The Hulk may be “incredible,” but he’s no Iron Man. But he’s close, or at least close enough for fans. That money-minting movie machine, Marvel Studios, trots out its superhero formula for the second time in two months with “The Incredible Hulk,” and the close proximity to “Iron Man” robs it of whatever novelty it might have had.
‘Panda’ delivers knockout chops
Associated Press
June 9, 2008
Jack Black’s Po the panda outgunned Adam Sandler’s Zo the hairdresser. Black’s cartoon comedy “Kung Fu Panda” pulled in $60 million in ticket sales to debut as the weekend’s No. 1 movie, while Sandler’s salon romp “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” opened in second place with $40 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
‘Kung Fu Panda’ a wacky and wise parody
By Roger Moore — The Orlando Sentinel
June 6, 2008
Po dreams of being a great martial artist. He longs to have skills, “an awesome aura so awesome, his enemies would go blind from overdoses of pure awesomeness!”
‘Sex’ sells with $56.8 million debut
Associated Press
June 3, 2008
“Sex and the City” remained a fashionable choice for movie-goers as women turned out in huge numbers for the big-screen version, which led the weekend box office with $56.8 million.
‘Transformers’ wins top film honor at MTV Movie Awards
By Derrik J. Lang - Associated Press Writer
June 2, 2008
The “Transformers” have another chunk of metal to add to their collection.
‘Sex and the City’ comfy fit for cinema
By Roger Moore - The Orlando Sentinel
May 30, 2008
If the boys can swoon over the return of Indiana Jones to the multiplex, then certainly the girls deserve equal sentimental time. The new “Sex and the City” movie more than fills that bill.
‘Indiana Jones’ and the $125M holiday weekend
By Ryan Nakashima - Associated Press Writer
May 26, 2008
Indiana Jones unearthed box office gold at domestic theaters with a performance that puts it on track to become the second biggest Memorial Day movie opening ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.
French ‘Class’ wins Cannes’ top prize
May 26, 2008
The French film “The Class,” a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.

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