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Successful filmmaking isn't always about quality. Sometimes the most entertaining film can be, well, pure crap.

Summer started early this year when "The Mummy Returns" broke all kinds of box office records in its early May release.

Abigail Breslin smacks of gingham and Ovaltine as the title character, a 1934 kid weathering the Depression with friends and family TY BURR EVOLUTION It's ponderous and it often plays like a screenful of borrowed parts , but this comedy about rapidly evolving alien matter bent on world domination has its low-comedy moments.

I've been staring at this for like twenty minutes and it's turning into a Fug Mad Libs in my head.

PASADENA, Calif. - Actor Ty Burrell usually plays the menacing bad guy, threatening the good folk with all kinds of devious ploys.

I am - " Hercules!! "In Treatment" star Hope Davis has replaced Julianne Moore in the role of Hilary Clinton in "That Special Relationship," the last in the Tony Blair trilogy written by Peter Morgan and starring Michael Sheen as the former British prime minister.

Derivative and undemanding and slightly diverting s-f spoof to do with a single-cell alien species that touches down in Arizona and evolves at an accelerated rate into computer-animated worms, bugs, lizards, and ultimately, thanks to a massive intake of napalm calories, into a humongous amorphous chewing-gum blob.

What: "This year's market will feature the distinctive works of over 250 of the nation's finest artists, ranging from intricate jewelry, unique glassware and ceramics to hand-painted textiles, custom furniture, mixed-media creations and much more." When: Friday, June 5th @ 10 am Where: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium [ Get Directions ] Cost: $7. ROCK ...