Mountain Movie Review
The Wicker Man

(Rated PG-13)

On a California highway, police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) stops a station wagon to return a little girl's lost doll. Moments later, a runaway truck slams into the station wagon, igniting it into a fiery wreck with the mother and child trapped inside. Edward fails to save them before the car explodes...and then spends months of his life choking down pills to get the image of their faces out of his head. But Edward is about to get a second chance.

A desperate letter from his former girlfriend, Willow (Kate Beahan), arrives at his home with no postmark. Her daughter Rowan has gone missing, and Edward is the only person she trusts to help locate her. She asks him to come to her home on an island Summersisle a place with its own traditions where people observe a forgotten way of life. Edward seizes the opportunity to make his life right again, and soon finds himself bound for the islands of the Pacific Northwest.

But nothing is what it seems on isolated Summersisle, dominated by its matriarch Sister

Summersisle (Ellen Burstyn). The secretive people of Summersisle ridicule his investigation, insisting that a child named Rowan never existed there.

In unraveling Summersisle's secrets, Edward is drawn into a web of ancient traditions and deceit, and each step he takes closer to the lost child brings him one step closer to the Wicker Man.

A remake of the 1973 horror film of the same name.

Invincible (Rated

PG)

When the coach (Greg Kinnear) of the beloved hometown football team hosts an unprecedented open tryout, the public consensus was that it was a waste of time -no one good enough to play professional football was going to be found this way.

Certainly no one like Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg), a down-on-hisluck 30-year-old teacher and part-time bartender who never even played college football. But against these odds, Papale makes the team and lives every fan's fantasy -moving from his cheap seats in the stands to standing on the field as a professional football player.

Inspired by a true story.

Material Girls

(Rated PG)

Ava and Tanzie Marchetta have it all. The heiresses to a multi-million dollar cosmetics company, the girls approach life as one big party. But when a scandal involving one of their products emerges, the girls are left penniless, homeless, and seemingly helpless.

They could, of course, take the easy way out and listen to the board of directors who want to sell the company to their biggest competitor, but that would forever taint the name of their late father, who built it from the ground up. Instead, Ava and Tanzie decide to protect what is rightfully theirs.

What it's going to take to do that will require them to do some things they've never really considered...growing up, taking initiative and responsibility, and asking for help from others, rather than expecting it to fall into their laps. If they can find their inner strength, they might be able to clear their father's name. If not, the party might be over...for good.