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Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) is a widower with seven terrifying children who have driven away 17 previous nannies before Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) arrives. Garbed in black, covered with warts, possessed of a wicked walking stick, she laws down the law. Meanwhile, will Brown marry the scullery maid (Kelly Macdonald) he doesn’t realize he loves, or go through with marriage with the terrifying but rich Mrs. Quickly (Celia Imrie ). He has to marry someone, or he’ll lose the fortune of Great Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury). One of those British family movies where the happy endings arrives after scary and eccentric happenings.

Two for one: Combines ancient cliches of the military training movie with ancient cliches of the boxing movie, in the story of how Jake (James Franco) is a working-class kid who gets into the Naval Academy and has all sorts of trouble leading up to a heavyweight fight with his superior officer. There is not a moment of this movie that rings true. The dialogue is clunky and lame, Jake’s romance with an officer named Ali (Jordan Brewster) is against academy rules, I think, and if the Navy is fighting a war anywhere, you won’t hear it mentioned in this movie.

Amelie Mauresmo’s Australian Open win means the Frenchwoman can finally uncork a bottle of rare 1937 vintage wine she has been storing until she claimed her first grand slam title.

A masterpiece made of small moments and inward, withdrawn people. Steven Soderbergh shot in a small Ohio town, using three locals as his actors, and achieves an almost hypnotic effect from the materials of real life. Debbie Doebereiner, Dustin Ashley and Misty Dawn Wilkins work two jobs and are too exhausted for social lives, but a small shift in their routines leads to murder. No, it’s not a thriller, although it has a police investigation. It’s the story of lives of quiet desperation, and it’s a masterpiece.

Roland Piquepaille writes “After 12 years of development and with the help of NASA’s Embedded Web Technology software, the TMIO company is delivering its first smart ovens. You can monitor these refrigerator-ovens from any Internet connection. For example, you can adjust and control the oven settings from your cell phone and be sure that dinner is ready when you get home. But cooking from your office or your car won’t come cheap: these ovens carry a price tag of $8,699. Right now, they’re only available in North America, but I bet there soon will be distributors in other parts of the world. Read more for additional details about these smart ovens.”

Torch columnist Bruce Mitchell, with host Wade Keller, discuss the buyrate success of Hell in a Cell between Randy Orton and Undertaker, the ratings success of Edge so far and what it means, WrestleMania 22 thoughts, whether Spirit Squad is a worthwhile gimmick, several other current events, and of course some tangents including Rick Steiner’s near-main event push 15 years ago…

Apostata writes “As reported by the CBC, ‘Salmon researchers working on the Brooks Peninsula [British Columbia] were shocked last November when an octopus attacked their expensive and sensitive equipment.’ Apparently it was caught on video, but no word on when/where it will be available. Apparently this is the first documented attack.” Obviously the start of something bigger.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with another batch of Sundance reviews, includ…

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Reuters - A three-way race for
Thursday night’s 9 p.m. hour ended with a convincing win by CBS
powerhouse “CSI,” with respectable showings by ABC’s “Dancing
With the Stars” and NBC’s “My Name Is Earl.”