Dan's Papers - June 6, 2008 - Tiffany Razzano's Mini-Movie Reviews

A young Indian man living in southern India in the 1930s is torn between his hopes for the future and his loyalty to local tribal customs and traditions when it's discovered that his boss, a British spice grower living in India, is having an affair with a married woman from a local village.

Following the popular The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, siblings Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are pulled back into the world of Narnia one year later, but discover more than 1,000 years have passed in the fantasy world. They again team up with Aslan, this time to overthrow the evil General Miraz, who is acting as king, and restore the exiled heir, Prince Caspian, to the throne.

The true story of the largest counterfeit ring in history. In 1936, Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, an underworld counterfeiter, is thrown into a concentration camp, where he is handpicked by the Nazis to produce fake foreign currency in order to weaken the economy of Germany's enemies.

The leader of an archaeological dig in Nazi-occupied Poland discovers seven-year-old Jakob, who had just witnessed the murder of his family and kidnapping of his sister, hiding at the site. As Jakob gets older, he is haunted by the tragedy and is consumed by the uncertainty of his sister's fate.

Harrison Ford is back as the archaeologist, professor and adventurer Indiana Jones, fired from his post at Marshall College after returning to the real world because of suspicions of the government. On his way out of town, he meets Mutt (Shia LaBeouf), who convinces him to travel to Peru to search for the Crystal Skyll of Akator.

Robert Downey Jr. is given his chance to bring yet another comic book character to life. When wealthy industrialist and inventor Tony Stark (Downey) is kidnapped and forced to build a weapon that could cause immense devastation, he instead creates a high-tech suit of armor and escapes. He vows to use his suit to protect the world from evil.

Jack Black lends his voice to Po, a slacker panda and kung fu fanatic who becomes an unlikely hero when he is unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy and become a kung fu master. And when the evil snow leopard Tai Lung escapes from prison, Po must step up to save the day. Also starring Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen and David Cross.

HBO's "Sex in the City" girls - Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon - reunite for the big screen. The movie picks up four years after the TV show ended and producers have been pretty hush-hush about any plot twists that can be expected. Jennifer Hudson and Chris Noth also star.

Kristin McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman), a young couple staying at the Hoyts' summer home after attending a friend's wedding nearby, are terrorized by mysterious, masked invaders.

Bored with his life, college professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) returns to his NYC home from a conference to find that a young foreign couple has moved in. Victims of a real estate scam, the couple has nowhere to go. Vale allows them to stay with him and an unlikely connection begins, changing his life.

Adam Sandler stars as Zohan Dvir, a Mossad agent who fakes his own death in order to move to New York City and pursue his dream of becoming a hairdresser. Eventually he's recognized, risking his new life and career.