ShareThis"SEX AND THE CITY." (2008. RATED R. NEW LINE HOME VIDEO. $28.98.)Grade: BThe Rocky Mountain News' Lisa Bornstein described "Sex and the City" with a string of adjectives: "exasperating, infuriating, feminist, sexist, heartwarming and a little addictive." That means the film version captured the longtime HBO series perfectly, she wrote.Besides updating the lives of the four heroines, the movie is a showpiece for extravagant consumption and fashion -- Sarah Jessica Parker's character, Carrie, wears 81 outfits in the movie. Although drama over men drives the plot, Bornstein says, "it's the way in which the women serve one another that gives the story its strength.""LEATHERHEADS." (2008. RATED PG-13. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. $29.98.)Grade: C+"Leatherheads" appears headed for an amusing look at a slice of American history, says critic Robert Denerstein. But, as director and star George Clooney attempts to revive "the robust spirit of bygone movie days," the movie loses its appeal as it "thumbs through a catalog of screwball-comedy ploys," and the ending fizzles.Clooney plays the aging star of a pro-football team in the early, failing days of the professional sport when a college hotshot and World War I hero joins the team and rejuvenates interest. An additional story line has Clooney's character and the war hero, John Krasinski of "The Office," fighting over a reporter, Renee Zellweger, investigating the hero's myth.OTHER NEW RELEASES-- "Deception": When a timid accountant finds a secret sex club, he hits a trail of sexual conquests leading to a world far more dangerous -- and a plot far more confusing -- than he could have imagined.-- "Run Fatboy Run": Five years after leaving his pregnant fiancee at the altar, an overweight slacker decides that the best way to win her back is to enter a marathon.(From the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.)
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