8 Mile (R)
 First Purple Rain, then (shudder) Glitter, now this. In case you haven't read the headlines (or listened to his lyrics), Eminem grew up on the streets of Detroit, yo. His mom was abusive and his dad was a no-show. And since he's spent a few years on top of the charts, Mr. Slim felt obligated to make this self-indulgent biopic.
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16, Knoxville Center
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (PG-13)
Rather than just animate Sandler's hi-larious Hanukah song, this flick has a storyline about a hoodlum and some life lessons. Plus, "The Hanukah Song, Part 3" makes its debut.
Now Showing: Carmike 10, Downtown West
Analyze That (R)
More De Niro, more Crystal, more contrast between a tough-guy mobster and his neurotic shrink.
Now Showing: Cinemark's Tinseltown, Carmike 10, Foothills 12, Downtown West
Bowling for Columbine (R)
The NRA's been saying it for years: "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." Now leftist author, filmmaker, muckraker and all-around curmudgeon Michael Moore agrees. Well, sort of. As he totes his rolling camera from an interview with accused killer-of-innocent-children-through-music Marilyn Manson, to a bank that's giving away free firearms to customers, Moore tries to discover why America's violent death rate far surpasses that of Canada, a nation with just as many guns.
Now Showing: Downtown West
Die Another Day (Pg-13)
Yes, Bond is back (again... and again... and again) and this time Halle Berry's his groovy sidechick. Plot has something to do with criminal mastermind scheming to take over the world, I think.
Now Showing: Carmike 10, Foothills 12, Cinemark's Tinseltown, Halls Cinema 7, West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square
Drumline (PG-13)
A hip-hop drummer from Harlem is in for a rude awakening when he joins the regimented marching band at a southern university. From the director of the "Wassaaaaaaap?!" Budweiser commercials, so you know it's gotta be good.
Now Showing: Halls Cinema 7, West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square, Carmike 10, Foothills 12, Cinemark's Tinseltown
The Emperor's Club (PG-13)
There's this increasing trend of big-budget films premiering at Downtown West and no where else in town, as if to claim some sort of indie cachet. Well, I won't stand for it. Know this film comes to you from Universal Pictures, and stars Kevin Kline as an inspirational treacle... I mean teacher.
Now Showing: Downtown West
Empire (R)
Ahh, 'tis the season for gangsters. This first offering from Universal's Latin-oriented Arenas division draws parallels between the "money is king" attitudes of a South Bronx drug dealer (John Leguizamo) and a Wall Street investment banker (Peter Sarsgaard). Of course, an ocean still divides the two New York worlds; so when the dealer attempts to go "legit," repercussions aren't always pleasant.
Now Showing: Knoxville Center, Wynnsong 16
Far from Heaven (PG-13)
Often dark and abstrusely intellectual writer/director Todd Haynes pays homage to glossy '50s auteur Douglas Sirk. Julianne Moore plays a picture-perfect Connecticut housewife who, when dealing with a wayward husband, begins breaking some taboos of her own.
Now Showing: Downtown West
Friday After Next (R)
If you've been following Ice Cube's career, you'll know this is the sequel to Next Friday (2000), itself a sequel to—guess what?—Friday (1995). This guy just can't let go of a character: Barbershop 2 is already in the works. Anyway, the plot's nominally about tracking down the guy who robbed him on Christmas, but it's really about getting booty and smoking doobie.
Now Showing: Carmike 10, Downtown West
Gangs of New York (R)
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Now Showing: Farragut Towne Square, Knoxville Center, Cinemark's Tinseltown, Wynnsong 16
Ghost Ship (R)
Talk about scary—filmmaking as marketing strikes again. A salvage crew tries to tow a haunted ship in from sea. Evil strikes. People scream. Occasionally, as the sound track swells, some of them die, awfully.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PG)
Some kinda sequel to some kinda thing about a kid who goes to a weird school. Starring a whole bunch of Brits—including the irresistably named Rupert Grint.
Now Showing: Farragut Towne Square, Knoxville Center, Cinemark's Tinseltown, Wynnsong 16, Foothills 12
The Hot Chick (PG-13)
Ahh, the well of body-switching plots never does run dry, does it? Unfortunately, neither does Rob Schneider.
Now Showing: Halls Cinema 7, Farragut Towne Square, Knoxville Center, Wynnsong 16, Foothills 12, Cinemark's Tinseltown
Jackass the Movie (R)
Stupid people do stupid things and film it. Thirteen-year-olds go "Coooo-oooool!"
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (G)
The first feature film from Big Idea, a maker of videos, plush toys and other kids' stuff. They maintain, "The irresponsible use of popular media has had a profoundly negative impact on America's moral and spiritual health... The best way to improve people's lives is to promote biblical values and encourage spiritual growth." So they've created a cartoon with characters named Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber.
Now Showing: Movies 7
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (PG-13)
Who says the 21st-century lifestyle has bred short attention spans? Not when we keep breeding drawn-out series of epics. Well, the wait is over for Book Two, which will present more of the same (hobbits, orcs, yada yada) and some new stuff (tree beings called ents, lots more screen time to a remarkably life-like CGI Gollum). It all clocks in at about three hours.
Now Showing: Halls Cinema 7, West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square, Cinemark's Tinseltown, The Ritz, Carmike 10, Foothills 12
Maid in Manhattan (PG-13)
New York hotel housekeeper Jennifer Lopez just happens to be trying on a wealthy guest's clothes when a handsome politician (Ralph Fiennes) walks in on her (no, he doesn't catch any skin). An elaborate ruse must then be produced to further the illusion, by which we mean Royal Shakespeare Company alum Fiennes must somehow pass for Richard Gere.
Now Showing: Halls Cinema 7, Farragut Towne Square, Knoxville Center, Wynnsong 16, Foothills 12, Cinemark's Tinseltown
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PG)
Yet another indie melting-pot film, about a 30-year-old Greek-American woman (Nia Vardalos, who also wrote the script) falling in love with a WASPy guy. Cultural complications ensue, but (as the title suggests) love carries the day.
Now Showing: Downtown West, Knoxville Center
Red Dragon (R)
Don't we get any breather between sequel and prequel? Apparently not. Can't we be spared another gruesome, squishy walk inside Hannibal Lector's skull? Again, no. Not even if this movie's already been made, in the form of 1986's well-received Manhunter? I think you know better than to ask.
Now Showing: Movies 7
The Ring (PG-13)
The devilishly scary Japanese hit gets remade with Mulholland Drive's Naomi Watts in the lead. A familiar-sounding plot revolves around a video that brings death to all who view it. Directed by Gore Verbinski.
Now Showing: Downtown West
The Santa Clause 2 (G)
Oy gevalt. Must I convey this plot to you? Isn't it sufficient to know that the whole dreary enterprise once again stars Tim Allen? I thought so.
Now Showing: Cinemark's Tinseltown, Halls Cinema 7, Wynnsong 16, Foothills 12, Farragut Towne Square, Knoxville Center
Signs (PG-13)
Director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) is back with another creepfest, this one about a single father (Mel Gibson) who discovers crop circles on his Pennsylvania farm. And then there are the strange lights in the sky... also with Joaquin Phoenix.
Now Showing: Movies 7
Solaris (PG-13)
Steven Soderbergh's version of Stanislaw Lem's 1961 sci-fi classic novel about a spaceman and his dead wife. With George Clooney, whose bare bottom asked for top billing.
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16
Star Trek: Nemesis (PG-13)
There seems to be a strange electromagnetic signature coming from Kolarus III, Captain Picard. Could it have anything to do with the dismantled pieces of android, or the impending peace with the Romulans, or your bio-engineered replica who's now promising not to use his weapons of mass destruction?
Now Showing: Halls Cinema 7, Farragut Towne Square, Knoxville Center, Wynnsong 16, Foothills 12, Cinemark's Tinseltown
Stuart Little 2 (PG)
The cheeky rodent returns in a sequel that has even less to do with E.B. White's classic children's book than the first movie did.
Now Showing: Movies 7
Sweet Home Alabama (PG-13)
Talented Reese Witherspoon continues a disappointing descent into fluffier and fluffier fare with a by-the-books romantic comedy. She stars as Melanie, a hotshot New York designer who heads home to 'Bama to seek a divorce from the "redneck husband" she married in high school. Since she's now engaged to the NYC mayor's son, it's all a bit urgent.
Now Showing: Movies 7
Treasure Planet (PG)
From the folks who brought you The Little Mermaid—an animated updating of Stevenson's Treasure Island set in space.
Now Showing: Cinemark's Tinseltown, West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square, Carmike 10, Foothills 12
Tuck Everlasting (PG)
Based on Natalie Babbitt's pre-teen classic. A 15-year-old girl falls for a 104-year-old forest dweller—hey, get your mind out of the gutter. Her beau looks 17; it's just that he and his family have slurped from the fountain of youth, that's all. Will she do the same?
Now Showing: Carmike 10
Two Weeks Notice (PG-13)
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Now Showing: West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square, Halls Cinema 7, Cinemark's Tinseltown, Carmike 10, Foothills 12
Wes Craven Presents: They (PG-13)
A psychology student discovers that her night terrors extend far beyond her bedroom and into the minds of perfect strangers. Kinda like the nightmare I had about Dubya being elected president. Only less scary.
Now Showing: Downtown West
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (PG)
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Now Showing: West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square, Halls Cinema 7, Cinemark's Tinseltown, Carmike 10, Foothills 12
XXX (PG-13)
Hunky baldie Vin Diesel is XXX, "a new breed of secret agent." He's an extreme stunt maniac recruited by G-man Samuel L. Jackson to fight Russian thugs in Prague. Bam bam POW!
Now Showing: Movies 7
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