“Kit Kittredge: An American Girl”
*** 1/2 RATING | “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” is rife with feisty, generous pleasures. Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, a 9-year-old living, observing and typing furiously during the early 1930s. This Cincinnati kid aches to become a reporter. She bursts into the offices of the The Register, articles in hand. The paper’s editor isn’t ready to hire a pint-size freelancer, even one with the instincts and energy of Rosalind Russell’s Hildy Johnson. And, in the spirit of “write what you know,” Kit hits the typewriter. Those familiar with Kit and the American Girl dolls and their well-researched tales should be pleased with this outing. G. 1 hour, 4 minutes. Lisa Kennedy
Journey to the Center of the Earth
** 1/2 RATING | Essentially a three-character story, the movie casts Brendan Fraser as absent-minded geologist Trevor Anderson, who forgets his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) is coming for a visit. Just as Sean arrives, Trevor stumbles on clues left by his brother that lead him to believe Jules Verne’s fantasy novel actually was based on a real journey to the Earth’s center. So he takes the boy along to Iceland to follow his brother’s footsteps to the center of the Earth. They are aided by Hannah, an Icelandic guide. PG-13. 1 hour, 33 minutes.
David Germain, Associated Press
Hell Ride
* RATING | “Hell Ride” is a biker exploitation picture, the sort of movie you’d have seen in a drive-in or “grind house” in the 1970s. It has lonesome highways and roadhouses, road-worn hogs and high-mileage actors riding them, guns and crossbows and long-neck beers and naked, nubile women offering themselves to the homely guys, talking dirty and wrestling in Wesson Oil. R.
1 hour, 23 minutes. Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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