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Photo from the movie Bride Wars via the nydailynews In the first Cinema thread for 2009, we are hit again with more poor movies than quality ones. With just two atrocious releases on the second Friday in 2009, you maybe better off seeing "Milk" or "Frost Nixon" for the first time (or second, third, or heck, fourth time) instead of either "The Others" (will Meagan Good ever been any movie that is, well, good) and "Bride Wars" (for one quality actress, Anne Hathaway continues to put herself in a lot of junk). Maybe the only thing even remotely positive about getting "The Others" on bootleg (or by viewing it by other means) is the fact that The Wire's Idris Elba (aka Stringer Bell) is in the film. Obvious, his presence won't make the film better. Nevertheless, he deserves the fill shoutout. Fin.

(Photo from thecia.com) The always excellent columnist Elizabeth Weizman of the New York Daily News gets it perfectly right with her title to her review of this movie: 'High School Musical 3' is reliably cheesy It is only for the kids, and that's it. Hopefully, this movie won't have another installment on the big screen. It just needs to stay happily cheesy at happily cheesy Disney, where it belongs. (Photo from moviesmedia.ign.com) Meagan Good again lowers herself as an actress in another terrible role, in another terrible movie. And speaking of staying put, why in the hell is there another "Saw" movie out? There's already five of these things. Goodness gracious. Again, the excellent Weizman sums up how terrible the fifth installment is : It's time to acknowledge that killing off your lead is a major tactical error in an ongoing franchise. Next October, the filmmakers either need to figure out a way to bring Bell back for real, or stop torturing fans...