State of Play: Steamed Blue Crabs Recipe

This fast-paced thriller provides enough superior action, acting and atmosphere to keep you on the edge of your seat during its not quite two hour run. It’s not the adrenaline-pumping, nausea-inducing shaky camera world kill tour that The Bourne Identity franchise has morphed into – there’s no way the now pudgy Russell Crowe could keep up the pace, but he more than makes up for it with his rumpled reporter’s instincts to find out the truth no matter where it takes him.

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March of the Penguins: Penguin Party Log and Iceberg Parfait Recipe

If you missed it at theaters, sit back in awe while you witness the single-minded determination of the March of the Penguins, as they trek the frozen white landscape of Antarctica and the sapphire waters that lap at its icebound banks.

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The Life Before Her Eyes: Ground Beef Zucchini Skillet Recipe

You’re sure to find something to like in this artsy teen metaphysical thriller/ morality play. Whether Director Perelman transcends genre or gets himself muddled up in too many is for you to decide. But see it for the acting alone, especially the superb performances by the three female leads.

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The Dark Knight: Lobster Fra Diavolo Recipe

This film certainly lives up to its name, and the fans are lapping up its brooding nihilism in record numbers. Not only is it breaking box office records, but quite a few movie rules as well, taking us on an unpredictable roller coaster of a ride ever threatening to burst over the rails into a dark abyss.

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The Departed and Other Oscar Heavyweights: Drunken Strawberries

It is awash with blood and gore and a kind of poetic profanity, but somehow this cops and robbers showdown manages to touch upon the vagaries of identity, the complexity of goodness, and the poisonous nectar of evil without missing a beat. Match that with a truly stellar cast that delivers the goods and you’re in for a 2 1/2 hour roller coaster that soars across the screen.

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