It's hard out here for a swim coach: Tom Arnold lectures Terrence Howard as Bernie Mac holds the "Hustle & Flow" star back in the inspirational sports drama "Pride."

Shout it from the rooftops: "Are We Done Yet?" Looks like the trouble is just beginning for Aleisha Allen, Philip Daniel Bolden and the now family-friendly Ice Cube. Story Tools E-mail this story Print Greece: Secrets of the Past: The latest IMAX feature offers an "archaeological mystery" and a travelogue of the Greek Isles enhanced by digital re-creations of such ancient milestones as the creation of the Parthenon and the volcanic destruction of Santorini. Narrated by Nia Vardalos ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding"). Runs through June 22. Tickets $8; $7.25 senior citizens; $6.25 children (ages 3-12).

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Hurricane on the Bayou: "A festive, blues-infused celebration and a somber environmental warning for America's most unique city," narrated by Meryl Streep. IMAX film runs through Nov. 9. Sponsored by the Weather Channel; locally sponsored by MLGW. Tickets $8; $6.25 children (ages 3-12); seniors (55 and up), FREE.

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Indie Memphis Micro Cinema Club #28: This month's edition of the series devoted to short film showcases eight selections from the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, including Chris Landreth's "Ryan," winner of the 2005 Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

Spare Parts (Not rated, 87 min.) Writer-director Damjan Kozole's 2003 movie from Slovenia made its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The story concerns a pair of men who spend their nights illegally transporting refugees from Croatia through Slovenia and into Italy. Described by the Hollywood Reporter as "part buddy movie and part moral drama, with some motorcycle speedway racing thrown in," the film is this month's offering in the Wider Angle Film Series devoted to international cinema.

Amazing Grace (PG, 111 min.) This earnest paean to the power of righteous social-justice activism stars Ioan Groffudd as William Wilberforce, a tireless abolitionist and member of Parliament whose moral fervor helped convince Britain to end its participation in the slave trade in 1807, decades before America's Civil War. As he wages his underdog campaign against a pro-slavery establishment, Wilberforce could be a role model for today's reformers; the men in the film may wear powdered wigs, but their rhetoric is clearly intended to be relevant to the situation in the U.S. today: "Our fear of an unknown enemy must not be allowed to erode our long-cherished liberties," a Wilberforce ally says, as war with France looms. Some viewers may be troubled by the narrow "white" perspective of the action, but the focus here is on political drama rather than the horrors of slavery itself. Michael Apted ("Coal Miner's Daughter") directs with journeymen efficiency; the unlikely allies who produced the film include family-friendly Walden Media ("The Chronicles of Narnia"), Hollywood veteran Edward R. Pressman ("Conan the Barbarian") and visionary filmmaker Terrence Malick.

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The Astronaut Farmer (PG, 106 min.) Ex-NASA hopeful turned Texas rancher Billy Bob Thornton pursues his dream by building a private rocket ship to outer space in his barn. Written and directed by identical twins Mark and Michael Polish ("Northfork").

Blades of Glory (PG-13, 90 min.) Stupid is as stupid does, and "Blades of Glory" does stupid right. The prissy, Spandexed flipside to last year's NASCAR-approved homage to high testosterone, "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," "Blades" again follows Will Ferrell and a funny sidekick (Jon Heder of "Napoleon Dynamite," this time) through an inspirational sports movie spoof in which the heroes must hit rock bottom before they can triple-lutz back to the top. Like "Ricky Bobby" and "Anchorman," the movie (directed by feature newcomers Josh Gordon and Will Speck) is enacted in a style that could be described as deadpan mugging: The characters are utterly, absurdly over-the-top, yet they never wink at the audience or betray any awareness that they are trapped inside a live-action cartoon. Maybe that explains why people at the screening I attended literally gasped aloud during the "suspenseful" ice-competition climax.

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Breach (PG-13, 110 min.) Inspired by the true story of the 2001 arrest of "the worst spy in American history," Robert Hanssen, "Breach" is a movie of rare integrity, designed and staged with a naturalism that, in the early stages of the film, may be mistaken for a lack of imagination. The movie is as plain and unadorned as the dull wardrobes and impersonal offices of its FBI characters, but if director Billy Ray ("Shattered Glass") occasionally seems to plod as he leads us through his story, his powerful final shot proves he knew exactly where he was going. Chris Cooper stars as Hanssen, who is presented as an enignmatic combination of patriot and traitor; Ryan Phillippe is the FBI agent-in-training who brings him to justice.

Bridge to Terabithia (PG, 96 min.) A real surprise: A "family" film (adapted from a popular novel by Katherine Paterson) that is more convincing, honest and intense than most "adult" movies. Josh Hutcherson and AnnaSophia Robb are superb as a pair of rural fifth-graders who create an imaginary kingdom in a nearby woods as an escape from the hardships of home and school; the fantasy elements emphasized in the ad campaign actually take up less time than the movie's honest depiction of family economic troubles, schoolyard injustice and unpredictable tragedy. A very promising live-action debut for longtime animation director Gabor Csupo ("Rugrats," "The Simpsons").

Charlotte's Web (G, 98 min.) Spending time with director Gary Winick's live-action and CGI animals is in no way an adequate substitute for the much richer experience of E.B. White's 1952 novel; even so, this movie is effective and entertaining, with Julia Roberts appropriately sounding like both a loving mother and an angel as she gives voice to Charlotte, the spider who befriends a young pig named Wilbur (Dominic Scott Kay). White's tale is so sweet and wise that even stench jokes and flatulence gags can't strip it of its dignity. I confess: By the end of the film, my eyes were as moist as a spider's web in the morning dew.

Dead Silence (R, 89 min.) Dolls, dummies and puppets can be pretty creepy, as the "Saw" team of director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell demonstrates here with a nutty but effective ghost story that eschews ultraviolence for "classic horror" influences, including images inspired by Mario Bava and a twist lifted from a short story by Robert "Psycho" Bloch. One question: Why such a lamely generic title? This is the sixth "Dead Silence" since 1989.

Dreamgirls (PG-13, 131 min.) "American Idol" also-ran Jennifer Hudson gets her revenge and then some in director Bill Condon's adaptation of the smash 1981 Broadway musical. Hudson's plus-size talent is the take-no-prisoners raison d'etre of this otherwise slight soap-opera dance run through a "Motown for Dummies" re-imagining of two crucial decades of American popular music and social change, as embodied by a Supremes-like trio known as "The Dreams." Condon mishandles about half the production numbers, but the message of female empowerment comes through. Eddie Murphy as a James Brown-like dynamo is Hudson's only real competition; the cast also includes Jamie Foxx, Beyonce and Danny Glover.

Firehouse Dog (PG, 105 min.) A Hollywood canine star lost in a small town discovers there's more to life than diamond collars and poodle harems after he befriends a rebellious boy and his firefighter father.

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The Hills Have Eyes II (R, 90 min.) The 2006 remake of Wes Craven's savage 1977 cannibal classic spawns a noxious followup that's almost as wretched as the original film's idiot 1985 sequel. (Got that?) If Alexandre Aja's savvy and ultraviolent remake reimagined Craven's mutants as U.S. military-spawned terrorist insurgents reacting to those who "invade" their space, Martin Weisz's part two literalizes the idea by recasting the victims as National Guard soldiers on a training mission in the desert. Unfortunately, this cheap topicality (complete with a death from "friendly fire") inspires mostly ugly, offensive and sometimes sexual violence, visited upon trainees who are almost dumb enough to deserve their fates. Stick around through the end credits for the stirring rock theme song, by a band called LoudLion: "The hills have eyes/ They'll eat you alive..." Etc.

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The Host (R, 119 min.) When the toothy petals of its slimy flower mouth unfold to engulf an unlucky victim, the giant Korean river monster in "The Host" looks like something imagined by H.P. Lovecraft and painted by Georgia O'Keeffe. Despite this face that only a Mothra could love, director Bong Joon-ho's thriller has become the biggest hit in the history of Korean cinema and the monster movie of choice for the world's highbrow reviewers, who have responded to the film's merger of "Little Miss Sunshine" dysfunctional- family humor with monster menace; the literal and figurative Molotov cocktails it tosses at the Establishment; and its canny update of the Cold War paranoia of 1950s sci-fi, which here mutates into fears of SARS, biological contamination and what a newscaster refers to as U.S. "invervention." All this, plus a sequence -- the monster's public debut on the banks of the Han River -- that is the most exciting I've seen on the big screen since the rural road ambush in "Children of Men." "The Host" is a monster indeed: occasionally unwieldy, but something anybody who sees it is unlikely to forget.

I Think I Love My Wife (R, 94 min.) Chris Rock directed, co-wrote and stars in this romantic comedy inspired by "Chloe in the Afternoon" (1972), the last of French director Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales."

The Last King of Scotland (R, 123 min.) Forest Whitaker is mesmerizing as brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in a film of nightmarish artistry that recognizes, grapples with and transcends the do-gooder perspective that informs such other Africa-has-gone-to-hell epics as "Catch a Fire" and "Blood Diamond." James McAvoy is Whitaker's match in the trickier role of a hip young Scottish doctor who travels to Africa in 1971 with vague and ill-informed backpacker notions of helping the poor; the story is Faustian as well as Freudian as the doctor -- rejecting the comfortable future planned for him by his physician dad -- goes to work for Amin, a more compelling father figure who promises access to wealth, power and sex. Director Kevin Macdonald's compositions are dense with beautiful, sometimes brutal images; when the camera wobbles and the cuts become frequent, the freneticism is justified by the increased fracturing of Amin's sanity and the doctor's security.

The Last Mimzy (PG, 94 min.) A 10-year-old boy (Chris O'Neil) and his younger sister (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) find a box containing mysterious "toys" that give them strange powers in this sometimes spooky, coulda-been classic with a genuine science-fiction premise. (It's easy to imagine Professor Quatermass of "Five Million Years to Earth" investigating the toys instead of the Homeland Security operative played by Michael Clarke Duncan.) Directed by New Line Cinema founder Bob Shaye and adapted from the 1943 story "Mimsy Were the Borogroves" by Lewis Padgett, the movie is marred only by its in-your-face product placement, its cheaply relevant Patriot Act-referencing subplot and Shaye's journeyman visual sense. Even so, "Mimzy" demonstrates that a simple shot of a small stone hovering impossibly in the air can be more awe-inspiring than a CGI space attack, when presented in the context of an emotional story with characters we care about.

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The Lookout (R, 99 min.) Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in a heist thriller written and directed by Scott Frank, scripter of the Elmore Leonard adaptations "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight."

Meet the Robinsons (G, 101 min.) Viewers may feel a kinship with the hypercaffeinated scientist voiced by Laurie Metcalf after experiencing this manic and overstrenuously wacky but beautifully designed and animated expansion of William Joyce's picture book. Directed by Stephen J. Anderson, Disney's second post-Pixar CGI feature tells the story of a genius orphan boy propelled into a zany future of singing frogs, sentient bowler hats and mind-boggling time travel paradoxes; the result is something like a Douglas Adams yarn for kids with ADD.

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The Messengers (PG-13, 91 min.) Ghosts haunt a North Dakota farmhouse in the first English-language film from Hong Kong twins Oxide and Danny Pang ("The Eye").

Night at the Museum (PG, 109 min.) Ben Stiller is the new security guard at a natural history museum where the exhibits come to life after dark in this indifferently staged special-effects comedy for young audiences. Despite the large CGI budget, the liveliest museum piece here isn't the reanimated T. Rex skeleton but 86-year-old Mickey Rooney as a museum guard who doesn't look a day older than the film's resurrected mummy but is a lot more entertaining.

Norbit (PG-13, 100 min.) The mean, clumsy humor here is in inverse ratio to the achievement of special effects makeup genius Rick Baker (an Oscar-winner for the seminal fat-suit comedy, "The Nutty Professor"), who convincingly transforms Eddie Murphy into both Rasputia, a jigglingly gargantuan hoochie whose massive hams are striped with cellulite, and the racist Asian character Mr. Wong, proprietor of the "Golden Wonton Orphanage." Murphy (who wrote the script with his brother, Charles) also plays Rasputia's unfortunate husband, Norbit, a bespectacled mouse of a man in love with his childhood crush (Thandie Newton); the ugliness of the stereotypes are enhanced by Brian Robbins' direction, which is as flat as Rasputia is broad. Chicago critic Josh Larsen said it best: "'Norbit' only wants to be a laugh riot, yet it's so loaded with cultural self-loathing that I'm afraid a race riot would be a more proper response."

Peaceful Warrior (PG-13, 120 min.) Dan Millman's best-selling self-help memoir comes to the screen, with Scott Mechlowicz as struggling gymnast Millman and Nick Nolte as a gas station guru dubbed "Socrates."

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The Pursuit of Happyness (PG-13, 118 min.) Fans of such books as "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" should be well pleased with this fact-inspired urban-blight "Kramer vs. Kramer" about a heroic single father and struggling portable-bone-density-scanner salesman (Will Smith) who escapes poverty in 1980s San Francisco by becoming a stock broker. "I'm in a competitive internship at Dean Witter!" he announces triumphantly, which is not exactly as memorable a movie exultation of defiance as "I'm Spartacus!" Director Gabriele Muccino establishes a convincingly gritty sense of place and time, and the movie doesn't shrink from depicting the humiliation of the salesman's downward spiral through an economy that literally drains him of his life's blood, which he sells by the pint for a few extra dollars. Even so, it's hard to cozy up to a movie that segregates people into these categories: Guitar-strumming hippie chicks, homeless nutcases, Chinese-speaking day care operators and non-Smith black folks -- bad; rich white stock brokers with box seats at 49ers games -- good. With Smith's real-life son, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, as his screen son.

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TMNT (PG, 87 min.) The "Superman Returns" of kiddie action fare, director Kevin Munroe's "TMNT" isn't a franchise redo but a years-later, surprisingly downbeat sequel that finds the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles depressed and directionless, at least until the menace of an immortal industrialist (voiced by Patrick Stewart) and 13 ancient monsters inspires the heroes on the half-shell to reclaim their "Cowabunga!" glory. Unlike the three live-action 1990s movies based on the playful comic books by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, the new "TMNT" (more a logo than a title) is entirely computer-animated; the CGI is impressive, but the movie takes itself as seriously as "300," with terrapins instead of Spartans.

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300 (R, 117 min.) Coming soon to a football camp, police academy, military base, neocon assembly and jihadist cell near you: "300," a motivational (and ultraviolent) celebration of the "no retreat, no surrender" code of the ancient Spartans that disdains cut-and-run senators, coalition-of-the-willing- but-wimpy Arcadians, "diseased old mystics," the physically inferior (never trust a hunchback) and anyone who doesn't understand (to quote Queen Gorgo) that "freedom isn't free." Adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novel by director Zack Snyder (the zingy "Dawn of the Dead" remake), this spectacular fantasy vision of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae sets its Speedo-wearing warrior hunks within a computer-created Neverlandscape also inhabited by CGI charging rhinos and Cyclopean monster-wrestlers. The digital trickery is perhaps most impressive in transforming the action sequences into comic book-inspired tableaux of stylized poses and frozen-in-time highlights; at such moments, the carnage seems to unfold panel by panel, as in a graphic novel, instead of at the filmic rate of 24 frames per second.

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Wild Hogs (PG-13, 100 min.) John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy are among the midlife crisis-stricken buddies who take off on a comic cross-country motorcycle trip.

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