Holiday movie preview

November 17, 11:23 PMDC New Movies ExaminerLaura Ballou

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Thanksgiving is next week and that means movies! Growing up, it was our family tradition to end Thanksgiving with an outing to the movies. This year offers a variety of movie choices.  You can watch an animated comedy with the kids, or an action packed adventure starring Jason Statham with your buddies. So peruse at you leisure and plan on going to the movies with your loved ones and friends this Thanksgiving!

‘A Christmas Tale’

Opens: Nov. 14  Genre: Family Drama  Rated: NR

Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon) are the parents of three grown children. Their oldest died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone - including lovesick cousin Simon and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia - return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly - and hilariously - devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.

  ‘Twilight’

Opens: Nov. 21 Genre: Fantasy/Drama Rated: PG13

TWILIGHT is a love story between a teen girl and a vampire. When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is sent to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, everything changes when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). What will they do when a clan of new vampires – James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) – come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?...

 'Four Christmases’

Opens: Nov. 26 Genre: Comedy/Romance Rated:PG13

When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had , until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation—and unable to escape—they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified to find childhood fears raised and adolescent wounds reopened.

  ‘Transporter 3’

 Opens: Nov. 26 Genre: Action/Adventure Rated: PG13

Frank Martin has been pressured into transporting Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Ukraine, from Marseilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea. Along the way, with the help of Inspector Tarconi, Frank has to contend with the people who strong armed him to take the job.

  ‘Australia’

Opens: Nov. 26 Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama

An English aristocrat inherits an Australian ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver to drive 2,000-head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

 'Bolt'

 Opens: Nov.21 Genre:Animated Rated: PG

 For super-dog BOLT (John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue – at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet – a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (Miley Cyrus).

For more Information on Holiday Movie Previews please visit these websites.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/holiday-movie-preview-bon_n_140827.html

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/10/30/200404.php

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-holidaymovies08-pg,0,4364900.photogallery