Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 2/29/08Penelope (PG)Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O’Hara, Richard E. GrantDirected by Mark PalanskyA family is saddled with a Gypsy curse that dictates that their daughter will have a piggy face. This plays it’s tongue-in-cheek romance with the visual trickery and voice-overs used in TV’s “Pushing Daisies” and has a fun time including the moral lesson of paparazzi-style media hype. Good but not … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 2/22/08Charlie Bartlett (R)Starring Anton Yelchin, Robert DowneyDirected by: Jon PollHere is a movie that (because of its mistakes), presents a great opportunity for parents to talk with their teens about drug abuse. With a sense of deja-vu, this blast from the past tries to be “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” “with the ill conceived addition of Ferris being the prescription drug supplier for … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 2/15/08 Spiderwick Chronicles (PG)Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Seth Rogen, Martin ShortDirected by: Mark WatersBased on a series of popular YA novels, this has latchkey kids, clueless parents, nightmare-inducing goblins and action sequences as terrifying as the raptor attacks in “Jurrasic Park“. GRANDPA ALERT: Truly terrifying for younger children.3 and 1/2 pieces of scary fairy tale toast. Definitely, Maybe (PG-13)Ryan Reynolds, Isla … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 2/08/08Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (PG-13)Martin Lawrence, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant, Louis C.K., Michael Clarke Duncan, Mike Epps, Mo’Nique, Nicole Ari Parker, Cedric the Entertainer, James Earl JonesDirected by: David NewmanLong anticipated with several months of TV ads, the premise is that when a Self-Help talk show host returns home for his parents’ 50th Anniversary Party, he gets no respect. It includes all the required sit-com … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 2/01/08 Over Her Dead Body (PG-13)Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane, Stephen Root, Jason BiggsDirected by David Kitay When his bride-to-be is killed on the day of the wedding, the distraught fiancé consults a psychic. But he gets a sort of two-for-one deal “a new girlfriend and the old one (as a ghost).2 pieces of corpse bride toast.Eye (PG-13)Jessica Alba, … Read More »