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The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 19, 2008

BE KIND REWIND **

The latest low-fi whimsy from director Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") traces the shifting fortunes of a New Jersey video store. Beset by gentrification on one side and the accidental erasure of its entire stock of VHS tapes on the other, clerks Mos Def and Jack Black re-film the store's entire collection - from "Ghostbusters" on - themselves.

PG-13; 101 minutes

FOOL'S GOLD *

Romantic comedy completists and undemanding fans of Kate Hudson or Mathew McConaughey may enjoy watching the sun-kissed pair play bickering spouses who find themselves thrown together by various plot contrivances, along with some skimpy outfits, picture-perfect locales and the flimsiest of treasure-hunting plots.

PG-13; 113 minutes

WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS *½

When a stuck-up talk show host (Martin Lawrence) returns to his backwoods roots with a snooty new wife for his parents' 50{+t}{+h} wedding anniversary, the regular-folk relatives take turns knocking his ego down to size - most often literally, in this slapstick-heavy comedy from director Malcolm D. Lee ("Undercover Brother").

PG-13; 114 minutes

UNDER THE SAME MOON

Four years after his mother (Kate del Castillo) left him behind in Mexico to work as a maid in L.A., her now 9-year-old son (Adrian Alonso) is tired of waiting for mom to make enough money to send for him. So he sets out on his own, encountering a number of heartstring-tugging cliches on the way, from mariachi players to a grumpy old man with a soft heart.

PG-13; 109 minutes

CARAMEL

Unlike most films submitted for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award, which tend to feature big issues, this 2007 entry from Lebanon is basically a chick flick, minus the bubble-gum pink perkiness, about a group of characters linked by a hair salon who grapple in a subtle, somewhat realistic fashion with various issues, mostly of the relationship variety.

PG; 95 minutes

MY MOM'S NEW BOYFRIEND

Meg Ryan plays the mother of Colin Hanks (real-life son of her frequent on-screen partner, Tom), a young FBI agent who is assigned to spy on his mom - whom we are to believe was formerly a heavy-set loser - when her newly svelte self takes up with a handsome man (Antonio Banderas) who may dabble in international art thievery.

PG-13; 97 minutes

Synopses by Amanda Henry; ratings from The Associated Press

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