March 12th, 2010 | 1:49 pm | Alaina O'Connor

The sluggish thriller Stolen tells the story of one man's guilt over the disappearance of his son and his search for redemption. Detective Thomas Adkins (Jon Hamm) is a workaholic cop tortured by his son’s disappearance. His guilt and despair over the tragedy drive a wedge between Tom and his wife, Barbara (Rhona Mitra), who wants to put the murder behind her and move forward with their lives. After the discovery of a young boy's body buried at a construction site, Tom's investigation leads him to a man named Matthew Wakefield (Josh Lucas), whose mentally disabled son, John, disappeared 50 years prior. What develops are two parallel stories linked by one man, Bert Roggiani (James Van Der Beek), who may hold the key to solving both murders. At times the film is haunting and, at others, mundane and predictable. With a lack of character development and with plot twists that go nowhere, freshman director Anders Anderson struggles to intertwine the two stories, and as a result the film plays out like a clunky murder mystery where the big reveal comes prematurely.
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March 10th, 2010 | 4:33 pm | Cammila Alberston

Actor Corey Haim died recently at the age of 38. Known almost universally to children of the 80’s, Haim became ingrained in the cinematic memories of his peers with the title role in the 1986 movie Lucas. The young actor was just 15, but his portrayal of the high-school football team underdog earned him instant affection from audiences. He’d soon follow this up with 1987’s classic vampire flick The Lost Boys, which would cast him alongside frequent collaborator Corey Feldman. The so-called “Two Coreys” would appear on screen together for many other extremely popular teen oriented films, like 1988’s License to Drive, and 1989’s Dream a Little Dream. Haim would struggle in adulthood, grappling with addiction and financial problems, and took an interesting, post-modern approach to his public image with the 2007 TV series The Two Coreys, in which he and Feldman played scripted versions of themselves in a series presented as a reality show. He would also continue to act in movies in the late 2000’s, appearing in films like New Terminal Hotel and Crank: High Voltage.
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