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NEW YORK (CNS) -- The original fans of the long-lived "Star Trek" franchise may be getting older; the TV series that started everything off, after all, first hit antennas (remember them?) nearly 50 years ago.

The Great Gatsby
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A great American novel doesn't always, it seems, translate into a sure-fire film property. A case in point: F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 tale, "The Great Gatsby."

Peeples

NEW YORK (CNS) -- People are funny. So at least an old saw -- and the title of a once-popular radio and television series -- inform us. "Peeples" (Lionsgate), on the other hand, not so much.

Iron Man 3
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Given that his first appearance in print dates back to 1963, the comics-based superhero of "Iron Man 3" (Disney) may be said to be turning 50 this year. Perhaps a midlife crisis is to blame for the lack of freshness and charm that mark the latest addition to this blockbuster screen franchise -- or perhaps other factors are at fault.

The Big Wedding

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Ah, Hollywood! It's a place where the RMS Titanic can be reconstructed down to the last detail and where audiences can be shown the unusual gait with which Abe Lincoln is said to have made his wise and melancholy way through the world. But, when it comes to a religion subscribed to by more than a billion people worldwide ... well, why sweat the small stuff?

The Place Beyond the Pines

NEW YORK (CNS) -- We have the assurance of the Old Testament that the iniquity of a father will be visited upon his children (Nm 14:18). That happens more than once in "The Place Beyond the Pines" (Focus).

Pain and Gain

NEW YORK (CNS) -- The fact-based crime chronicle "Pain and Gain" (Paramount) presents itself as a merry riff on the theme of a gang too comically inept to shoot straight. Yet the vicious antics of its central characters -- acted out within a lowlife milieu of strippers and porn pushers -- are too repellant to be amusing. Snarky swipes at religion throughout Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's screenplay, moreover, culminate in blasphemous humor and the character of a pervert priest.