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Kam's Kapsules by Kam Williams

Cellular (PG-13 for violence, terror, profanity, and sexual references). Kim Basinger stars in this crime thriller as a distraught kidnap victim who enlists the assistance of the stranger (Chris Evans) whose cell phone she mistakenly calls.

Collateral (R for violence and profanity). Michael Mann directs this crime thriller about a cabbie (Jamie Foxx) who doesn't know that the customer (Tom Cruise) he's been driving around all day is a contract killer.

Criminal (R for profanity). John C. Reilly, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Diego Luna star in this remake of the Argentine thriller Nine Queens (2000). Crime caper revolves around a couple of con artists who conspire to swindle a stamp collector.

First Daughter (PG for mild profanity, sexual situations, and alcohol abuse). Katie Holmes's vehicle about a U.S. President's (Michael Keaton) independent-minded teenager who falls for the undercover Secret Service agent (Marc Blucas) she doesn't know has been assigned to shadow her every move at college.

The Forgotten (PG-13 for violence, profanity, and intense themes). Sci-fi thriller with Julianne Moore as a bewildered single mom who hooks up with an equally frustrated father (Dominic West) to find the missing kids they suspect might have been abducted by aliens but who their psychiatrists say never even existed.

Garden State (R for sex, expletives, and drug use). Semi-autobiographical romance drama, written by, directed by, and starring Zach Braff about a lithium-dependent TV star, back in his hometown for the first time in 9 years to attend his mother's funeral, who meets the Jersey girl (Natalie Portman) of his dreams.

Hero (PG-13 for martial arts violence and sensuality). Jet Li handles the title role in this remake of The Emperor and the Assassin, based on the true story of an assassin hired to stop a diabolical plot to assassinate the emperor of China.

Intimate Strangers (R for sexual dialogue). Relationship drama, directed by Patrice Leconte, about a woman (Sandrine Bonnaire) who mistakes a tax attorney (Fabrice Luchini) for her new pschiatrist (Michael Duchaussoy) and proceeds to share her deep, dark secrets with the accommodating stranger. In French with subtitles.

The Last Shot (R for sex and expletives). This Mafia-meets-mainstream comedy, based on actual events which transpired in Providence, R.I., revolves around an aspiring filmmaker (Matthew Broderick) who is unaware that his producer (Alec Baldwin) is an FBI agent who has underwritten the project merely to mount an elaborate mob sting.

Maria, Full of Grace (R for drug use, graphic images, and profanity). Harrowing tale about a pregnant, 17 year-old, Colombian peasant who agrees to smuggle heroin into the U.S. for a vicious kingpin in return for a big payday. In Spanish with subtitles.

Mr. 3000 (PG-13 for sex and expletives). Bernie Mack handles the title role in a comedy about a retired baseball star who decides to come out of retirement after a revision of his lifetime stats leaves him a few hits short of greatness. Angela Bassett co-stars as a sports reporter turned love interest.

Napoleon Dynamite (PG for adult themes and mild epithets). Coming-of-age comedy about a weird teen raised by his uncle and grandmother in rural Idaho where his commitments to dancing and to the path of the ninja have left him socially-isolated.

Paparazzi (PG-13 for sex, expletives, and intensely violent sequences). Revenge thriller about a movie star (Cole Hauser) who hatches a plot against the four photographers who caused the car accident which injured his wife (Robin Tunney) and young son (Blake Bryan). With cameos by Mel Gibson, Chris Rock, Vince Vaughn, and Mathew McConaughey.

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (G). Sequel to Disney's surprise hit of the summer of 2001 has San Francisco ugly duckling-turned-European royalty now in the mythical country of Genovia where she learns that she must marry in 30 days or lose the crown. Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, Larry Miller, and Katherine Marshall reprise their roles.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (R for profanity, some nudity, and violence). High body-count sci-fi horror sequel pits survivors of virus outbreak against those infected inhabitants of Raccoon City who have been turned by the biochemical disaster into a race of bloodthirsty zombies. Cast includes Milla Jovovich, Mike Epps, and Oded Fehr

Rosenstrasse (PG-13 for mature themes, violence, and drug use). World War II drama, set in Berlin, recounts the fight of a group of Aryan wives for the lives of their Jewish husbands who had been rounded up by the Gestapo for deportation to Hitler's concentration camps. In German and English with subtitles.

Shaun of the Dead (R for profanity and gore). Silly spoof of the horror genre, set in London, stars Simon Pegg as a slacker with a host of problems who soaks his woes with pals at a local pub till things go from bad to worse when zombies start rising from the dead.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (PG for violence and epithets). Action adventure, set in 1939, stars Gwyneth Palrow as a New York City newspaper reporter who teams up with a pilot ex-boyfriend (Jude Law) to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the world's leading scientists

Vanity Fair (PG-13 for sensuality, nudity, and brief violence). Reese Witherspoon stars in the seventh screen version of the William Makepeace Thackeray novel, set in London in the 1820s, about a poor girl's attempt to enter high society.

We Don't Live Here Anymore (R for sex and expletives). Provocative drama adapted from the Andre Dubus novella, about the effect of an affair on the close friendship of two married couples. With Naomi Watts, Laura Dern, Mark Ruffalo and Peter Krause.

Wimbledon (PG-13 for sex, expletives, and nudity). Romantic comedy about a washed-up tennis pro (Paul Bettany) who makes the most of his last shot at glory while falling for the rising star (Kirsten Dunst) of the female circuit.

Without a Paddle (PG-13 for sex, expletives, drug use, violence, and crude humor) City meets country comedy about the backwoods woes of three buddies from Philly in the Pacific Northwest for a canoeing camping trip which goes horribly wrong. Spoof even includes cameo by Burt Reynolds.