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Clooney's gonna get your 'Goats'

By Matt Gleason, Tulsa World, Okla.

Nov. 5--George Clooney fans "The Men Who Stare at Goats"

This is based on an actual real story of the military training soldiers to use psychic powers in combat. This looks like one zany movie, but in Clooney I trust. Plus, I can't help but love Jeff Bridges, who plays a hippie Obi-Wan to the nation's psychic weapons. And, really, who doesn't love to kill goats with their mind?

Families "Disney's A Christmas Carol"

Remember when Robert Zemeckis made original live-action films like "Romancing the Stone," "Back to the Future," "Forrest Gump" and "Cast Away?" Well, now he's content to make motion-capture flicks like "Beowulf," "The Polar Express" and now this. Honestly, I'm so tired of the Scrooge story (and Jim Carrey, who voices that hum-bugging coot) that I have no desire to see this. However, this is a surefire family-friendly -- and 3-D -- movie. As for me, I'd rather watch a rerun of Bill Murray's "Scrooged" on cable.

Teens and adults "The Box"

"The Razzie Awards" honor Hollywood's most putrid offerings, so here's my nomination. This horror flick revolves around the question: What would you do if a button in a box could give you a $1 million, but, at the same time, kill a stranger? Hmmm, here's another question: What would you do if you had to endure 115 minutes of Cameron Diaz trying really, really hard to act like a grown up, while looking like a '70s-style stewardess?

I think you know the answer to both of these questions: Run away!

Horror (or,

People who want to stay awake at night afraid of being abducted by aliens)

"The Fourth Kind" This is supposed to be based on actual case studies of Alaskans abducted by aliens. Yeah, and "The Blair Witch Project" was a real documentary, too. Yikes, what Hollywood will do to sell a film starring (ugh) Milla Jovovich. Or, maybe, I'm wrong and these people were actually abducted and share similar sightings of a menacing owl. Huh? What? Come -- (OH NO, I'M BEING ABDUCTED. SOMEONE GRAB A VIDEO CAMERA AND MILLA JOVOVICH!)

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