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The Right Stuff
Robert Downey Jr. takes off in 'Iron Man'
Young@Heart
A new documentary listens to the voices of aging but ageless singers
Then She Found Me
Helen Hunt should have stayed lost in her new feature
The Singing Revolution
How the Estonians sang their way to freedom
Jellyfish
Looking at life in the goldfish bowl of a Tel Aviv apartment building
Life Before Her Eyes
Uma Thurman revisits a traumatic high school shooting
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
That's easy for them to say; if only we could forget this lame comedy
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden
He's not watching this underwhelming Morgan Spurlock documentary
Baby Mama (PG-13; 96 min.) Tina Fey essentially portrays her character from 30 Rock and those AMEX ads, a successful exec at "Round Earth Foods" (the self-satisfied New Age CEO is a pony-tailed Steve Martin). Kate is without child, so she hires a white-trash surrogate mom, Angie (Amy Poehler). Surrogacy is merely outsourcing, says the head of a surrogate motherhood firm (scene-stealing Sigourney Weaver). Although Fey is more talking head than actress, her Odd Couple interplay with Poehler is often amusing, and the supporting cast is stellar. Baby Mama is not quite a great comedy, but it is a feminine relief from the Judd Apatow juggernaut. (Plays valleywide.) (DH)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (PG; 90 min.) Ben Stein attempts to convince audiences that a clique of dastardly pointy-headed intellectuals are preventing our schoolchildren from learning the truth about intelligent design. (Opens May 2 at Cinelux Plaza in Campbell.)
Made of Honor (PG-13; 101 min.) Patrick makes hearts throb in a romcom about a guy who gets close to the woman he loves by being her maid of honor. Also stars Michelle Monaghan. (Opens May 2 valleywide.)
Holly
Ron Livingston is shocked, shocked to learn that there is child prostitution in Cambodia
Forbidden Kingdom
Jet Li and Jackie Chan do their best to revive memories of better Hong Kong martial arts movies
Chapter 27
Jared Leto bulks up to play Lennon's creepy killer
Street Kings
Keanu Reeves tries to survive the mean streets of the LAPD
Run Fat Boy Run
Simon Pegg legs it out for new David Schwimmer comedy
21
The fix is in as Kevin Spacey leads card counters to victory
Smart People
Dennis Quaid plays a professor with a dysfunctional family
Shine a Light
Martin Scorsese's 'Shine a Light' captures the exuberance of a Stones show but doesn't reach greatness
The Duchess of Langeais
Jacques Rivette's 'The Duchess of Langeais' ups the ante on an aristocratic flirtation
Snow Angels
The chill factor freezes young romance in David Gordon Green's new film
Paranoid Park
A skateboard rolls into trouble in Gus Van Sant's latest
Flash Point
The fists and feet fly in a new Hong Kong action film
Funny Games
Naomi Watts and Tim Roth must endure the world's worst uninvited house guests
10,000 B.C.
Ancient history gets rewritten
Hell's House/The Rich Are Always With Us (Both 1932) A high school kid (Junior Durkin) doesn't realize that he's going to take the fall for a bootlegger (Pat O'Brien); Bette Davis co-stars, dyed blonde. "Two weeks to shoot—looked like a day and a half," she recalled later. Print from the Library of Congress. BILLED WITH The Rich Are Always With Us. A serio-comedy about a society lady (Ruth Chatterton) who gets divorced from her husband (John Miljan) but can't get him off her mind. Davis plays a playgirl called Malbro Barclay, who is very interested in the discarded husband. Davis was pleased with cinematographer Ernest Haller and the gowns by the fashion designer Orry-Kelly. "For the very first time, I had a certain chic," Davis commented later. "Ernie Haller was my miracle man during all the glory years." New print. (Plays May 1-2 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
Jimmy the Gent/Three on a Match (1934/1932) It has as many layers as a Runyon. James Cagney, who tried to get away with a shaved head for the part, stars as a hustling heir finder who invents heirs when he can't find them. Bette Davis is his blonde secretary. Cagney commented that his first-time pairing with Davis was blighted, since she was waiting impatiently to get over to RKO to do Of Human Bondage: "Her unhappiness seeped through to the rest of us, and she was a little hard to get along with." Michael Curtiz directs this film, deliberately meant to suggest to the viewer it was based on a Damon Runyon story. BILLED WITH Three on a Match. Three girls who were fellow students at P.S. 62 go their separate ways: Mary (Joan Blondell) ends up in reform school; Davis becomes a secretary; and Vivian (Ann Dvorak), the ritziest of the three, marries well but sickens of the rich life. Humphrey Bogart has a small part as the kind of stolid, staring gunman types he would later be mocking—right before punching them out. Did Bogart learn the toast "Here's looking at you" from this movie? Both prints are from the Library of Congress. (Plays May 3-4 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
Niles Film Museum This week's program: Oliver Twist (1922) with Jackie Coogan in the title role and Lon Chaney as Fagin. "He scared the bejesus out of me!"—Coogan. Also: Just Neighbors (1919) with Harold Lloyd, and the Keystone picture The Knockout (1914), with Charlie Chaplin as the battered referee overseeing a prizefight between Edgar Kennedy and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Molly Axtmann and Stephen Spies on piano and violin. (Plays May 3 at 7:30 in Fremont at the Edison Theater, 37417 Niles Blvd; www.nilesfilmmuseum.org.) (RvB)
Cult Leader
'Diary of the Dead' is a zombie film for the YouTube generation.
DVD review: 'Saved From the Flames'
This Flicker Alley set presents 54 short films made from 1896 to 1944, and they only whet one's appetite for whatever other treasures remain to be rescued.
DVD review: 'Beowulf: Director's Cut'
The extras are more entertaining than the film.
DVD review: 'She's Gotta Have It'
Mars attacks: 'Please baby baby baby please.'
Capsule review: 'Strangers on a Train'/'Rope'
These two Hitchcock flicks star San Jose's own Farley Granger.
