Mountain Movie Review
The Covenant

(Rated PG-13)

In 1692, in the Ipswich Colony of Massachusetts, five families with untold power formed a covenant of silence. One family, lusting for more, was banished-their bloodline disappearing without a trace. Until now.

Four young students at an elite private school, who are descendants of the original families who settled in Ipswich Colony in the 1600s, are bound by their sacred ancestry and special powers. When the body of a dead student is discovered after a party, secrets begin to unravel that threaten to break the covenant of silence that has protected their families for hundreds of years.

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.

Scoop

(Rated PG-13)

The late U.K. journalist Joe Strombel (Ian McShane) is being mourned by his colleagues- even as, stuck in limbo, Joe remains committed to pursuing a hot tip on the identity of "the Tarot Card Killer" at large in London. But how can

his legwork get done now? Via the very much alive Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson).

Sondra is an American journalism student visiting friends in London. During a stage performance by another American, magician Sid Waterman (Woody Allen), Sondra is shocked to find herself able to see and hear Joe. From beyond, he gives her the scoop of a lifetime and urges her to pursue it. Sondra immediately starts chasing the big story, enlisting the aid of a reluctant Sid. That chase leads right to handsome British aristocrat Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman). Soon, Sondra finds that the romance of her life may well be the dangerous scoop she's looking for.

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-his-luck 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.