Published: Fri, 25 Sep 2009
Description: (NECN) - With the weekend right around the corner, new movies have hit the theaters. Garen Daly, film critic and host of FrugalYankee.com, shares his thoughts on what films are fit to see, and what are not: Fame It's a very frenetic fi...
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" It's Friday morning in time to take a look at the movies -- to the box office joining is now Daren -- going to -- I'm gonna see you carry -- and I'm doing well and anxious to hear what you say about this first though let's watch a clip from one that's gonna catapult back in the eighties fame. So what's old is new again what did you think."
" Leo that that particular scene we get there's one of the better soon. It's very hyper kinetic very frenetic and they really trying get all the energy of all these young artists who are striving to be actors and musicians and and and young filmmakers. And it really doesn't really work and that's too bad because there's some really good talent in here and we elected them and we want to story and you're saying there's some familiar talent if you're a fan of the show back in the eighties right this we have some really good cast -- and for the teachers they've got. Charles -- they've got Kelsey Grammer it got that he knew were. I'm Megan -- They've got these great people and Debbie Allen isn't too. But they don't use them very well as. The failure that the you just don't get to know the people all of that plus and you don't care about them. Their talk about another from a little later and it does that very well but unfortunately the first time director he -- music videos. And as a result -- left a little cold. This global live forever be looking to stay three weeks -- really utterly ashamed and as far as being appropriate for certain audiences how all I think you should actually it's rated PG so they really counted down and -- try to do that they're trying to make a High School Musical. Fourteen but it's a little ADHD."
" And -- everything -- let's move on and take a look at a movie getting a lot of reviews a lot of buzz and it's Henrique. You don't have citizenship."
" Is in you don't have a country thanks. -- Where you're from. Israel."
" Room. The Palestinian entity. Occupation -- These -- cute idea for fourteen years and women around the house."
" This is a wonderful classic immigrant story as you saw there you see this woman and a young we're trying to go through customs and United States. They're from Palestine and -- a quirk of fate -- ending up moving to Illinois. And it's just classic immigrant story of the the biases they we encounter the cruising need to succeed and all the troubles that are there. A wonderful thought she is a single mom and he's a young teenage what they go from the Israeli security points. That navigating the halls of an American high school which wanna scare is import prevalent saying. It's important for everyone to see but it's a really good on his reluctance to be talked about in his personal it's a National Geographic. Entertainment -- shouldn't turn anyone off. And it's made with Kuwaiti and Canadian American money but it's directed by new director from Kansas a young woman by any machinery -- And it's very very good it's well done and it's kind of uplifting no matter how many troubles I run into. I think I'm like I'm glad you enjoyed yet -- an important topic got time one more and this movie called Harris this. This is Paris's advice senator -- another -- a couple of -- people really Hyannis this stars Julia and I should ads were talking before it went on outlook you can. I told you all and she is this a very good actress and she does a really good job of bringing her. Her -- her gravitas to this -- this is a wonderful high and too. Paris and the people living in Paris now we're talking earlier a little bit about how in Spain it didn't really click with -- while these stories going to get it in Paris it does -- The main stories about a young man who needs a heart operation -- his brother. She brings her three kids who live them and it's a story about all these two weaving stories about Paris beautiful shots of the architecture it's very sweet very French. If you love French from you're gonna really really -- gonna -- at the he did is it appeared there. No it isn't it's got that kind of classic -- doom feeling a melancholy to it but it's not a tear Jerker. And in some places up with him because you do have some successful stores with in this special because it stars -- okay. Ardent Clinton at the back of my pleasure as well."