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MAY 2 - MAY 8, 2006
BTK KILLER (dir: Ulli Lommel, R) – Thirty years is a pretty impressive amount of time to elude the police. But ten victims? Seriously, Ted Bundy killed ten people in his sleep. Weak.
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BTK KILLER (dir: Ulli Lommel, R) – Thirty years is a pretty impressive amount of time to elude the police. But ten victims? Seriously, Ted Bundy killed ten people in his sleep. Weak. |
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CONVERSATIONS WITH MOM (dir: Santiago Carlos Oves, Not Rated) – A middle aged man gets closer than he wants to his aging mother when he loses his job and is forced to move in with her. Reviewers assure me that this Argentinean comedy steers clear of sentimentality. | |||
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*THE FAMILY STONE (dir: Thomas Bezucha, PG-13) – When frosty New Yorker Sarah Jessica Parker goes home with beau Dermot Mulrooney to meet his quirky New England family, it’s a real clash of cultures. Well, in an everybody’s rich, white and dull kind of way. |
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HOODWINKED (dir: Cory Edwards, PG) – Glenn Close, Anne Hathaway, Putty from SEINFELD and Xzibit lend their voices to this CGI updating of Little Red Riding Hood which promises more laughs than SHREK. | |||
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING (dir: Christian Duguay, Not Rated) – Being sold into sexual slavery is a wicked bummer, as this Mira Sorvino/Donald Sutherland miniseries proves. |
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^HYBRID (dir: Monteith McCollum, Not Rated) – This week’s most exciting documentary about corn is, without a doubt, HYBRID - the crazy story of Milford Beeghly and his mission to genetically engineer the perfect ear. | |||
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JARGO (dir: Maria Solrun, Not Rated) – A teenage boy accustomed to a life of privilege in Saudi Arabia is sent home to Germany after his father dies and must adjust to life in a housing project. He soon gets involved in petty crime with the understanding that it will make him a man. |
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LAST HOLIDAY (dir: Wayne Wang, PG-13) – Queen Latifah has less than a month to live. What’s a sassy and spirited slice of woman like her gonna do? Sit around and mope? No way. She jets off to Europe to rock out for all she’s worth before she meets her date with destiny. | |||
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NATHALIE… (dir: Anne Fontaine, Not Rated) – Fanny Ardant plays a jealous wife who suspects that Gerard Depardieu has been cheating. She then, with logic that only exists in French movies, hires a beautiful prostitute, played by Emmanuelle Beart, to seduce him. |
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POPAGANDA: THE ART AND CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH (dir: Pedro Carvajal, Not Rated) – Billboard bandit, post-punk prankster, counter-cultural cartoonist. These are some of the titles bestowed on Ron English, whose portraits of an obese Ronald McDonald you may remember from SUPER SIZE ME. His career as an art school terrorist is explored with a nice dollop of humor in this irreverent documentary. | |||
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RITUAL (dir: Avi Nesher, R) – Jennifer Grey and Craig Sheffer, a casting coup if ever there was one, star in this horror flick set in Jamaica. Craig Sheffer is probably the bad guy because he’s Craig Sheffer and he’s incapable of playing anything but a jerk. Although one time I read this hippy-dippy poem he had published in Interview magazine and I felt sort of sympathetic toward him for a minute… But then I remembered it was Craig Sheffer. |
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STEVE HARVEY: DON’T TRIP…HE AIN’T THROUGH WITH ME YET! (dir: Leslie Small, PG) – Cleaning up his language may not have been easy for one of the Original Kings of Comedy but he had to do it since this set was performed in a church. | |||
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THE WARRIOR (dir: Asif Kapadia, R) – Not to be confused with the Korean new release also called THE WARRIOR, this Indian film follows a swordsman as he is chased by violence while searching for peace. Wait, what? | |||||
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