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The title is something of a misnomer. "Disaster Movie," from the people who helped to concoct "Scary Movie," "Date Movie" and "Meet the Spartans," sounds as if it is going to send up such opuses as "The Poseidon Adventure" and "Earthquake."
It's a slight, gentle, sweet-natured comedy shot in black and white, and blessed with a lovely performance from Meadows' great find, Thomas Turgoose (pictured left), the teenage star of his previous film This Is England.
Mel Brooks' ancient 1960s TV show Get Smart was a spy spoof, starring a dopey special agent whose shoe was a walkie-talkie - notable for being not particularly funny.

As Hollywood’s summer movie season draws to a close — only two weekends to go — box office watchers are expecting slightly more than $4 billion in total revenue largely because of superhero blockbusters “The Dark Knight,” “Iron Man” and “Hancock”

Big-screen Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. scored his second No. 1 movie of the summer on Sunday as Hollywood spoof "Tropic Thunder" ended the month-long reign of "The Dark Knight" atop the North American box office.

By Hollywood profit standards, the cast and producers of the sequel to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" admit they were surprised another film based on the hit book series was even made.

Yes, the pants still exist, but now they're covered in patches and jewels and etched with the memories and dreams of the four young women who've been wearing them.

Ten years after the first "X-Files" movie -- and six since the conclusion of the iconic TV series -- FBI agents Mulder and Scully return to theaters on Friday with "The X-Files: I Want to Believe."

With Chinese box office totals of more than 135 million Yuan in only three weeks, "Kung Fu Panda" has broken the 100 million Yuan record at the animated film box office in China.
It's a tale of two movies, with an oddly similar ending.

A Will Smith movie packs in millions of people over Fourth of July weekend. No surprises there.
Families and fans of the CS Lewis books can consider themselves in safe hands, though in my view some of the magic has gone.

Wanted, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, is starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp.

A lonely little robot made millions of friends during the weekend-and even outgunned Angelina Jolie.
Mariah Carey’s erratic behavior bar is set high.