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MAY 30 - JUNE 5, 2006
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THE BIG BUY: TOM DELAY’S STOLEN CONGRESS (dir: Mark Birnbaum / Jim Schermbeck, Not Rated) – Hey, just because a guy lets Jack Abramoff take him on an all-expenses paid golf trip to Scotland doesn’t mean he’s shady. |
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BUSTIN’ BONAPARTE (dir: David Lister, PG) – Richard E. Grant from WITHNAIL & I plays a scheming fraud trying to swindle an elderly lady out of her African farm. The two orphans who live on the farm with her set out to expose him in this Masterpiece Theatre-paced kids film. | |||
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CLARA ET MOI (dir: Arnaud Viard, Not Rated) – A commitment-phobic man in his early 30s finally meets a woman he thinks he can settle with only to learn she has HIV. |
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DATE MOVIE (dir: Aaron Seltzer, Unrated) – DATE MOVIE continues what the SCARY MOVIE franchise started for the spoof genre. That is, to cheapen it and make you wish that someone could make a movie as funny as AIRPLANE! | |||
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^FAMILIA (dir: Louise Archambault, Not Rated) – In this Film Movement selection from Quebec, a mother bottoming out on gambling and general hopelessness tries not to drag her teenage daughter into the abyss with her. |
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FREEDOMLAND (dir: Joe Roth, R) – 2006’s worst reviewed film thus far is this schlocky Samuel L. Jackson/Julianne Moore thriller that lays waste to the acclaimed Richard Price novel it’s based on. More importantly, when does SNAKES ON A PLANE come out? | |||
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GLAMOUR (dir: Frigyes Godros, Not Rated) – This Hungarian film takes in the entire 20th Century as we observe three generations of a family through their various hardships. |
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HARD PILL (dir: John Baumgartner, Not Rated) – This provocative film asks what would happen if there were a “cure” for being gay. Which gives it exactly the same plot as the new X-MEN movie if you swap mutant-ism with homosexuality. And what about poor Ian McKellen? He’s dealing with both issues. | |||
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IRISH JAM (dir: John Eyres, PG-13) – After blessing us with his work in HOUSE PARTY 3, SCARY MOVIE 3, DEUCE BIGELOW: MALE GIGOLO and UNDERCOVER BROTHER, Eddie Griffin brings us his most radical and challenging work yet. He plays a guy on the run from bill collectors and a jilted lover who ends up in Ireland. Get it? A black guy in Ireland! Hilarious. Imagine the possibilities. |
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LOVESICK (dir: Lewis Cohen, Unrated) – This documentary goes behind the scenes of Cirque du Soleil’s erotic Las Vegas cabaret Zumanity and into the lives of its eclectic group of performers. | |||
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LURKING IN SUBURBIA (dir: Mitchell Altieri, Not Rated) – On the night of his 30th birthday, an aimless and irresponsible writer decides it’s time to face his greatest fear… growing up. |
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SCHOOL OF LIFE (dir: William Dear, PG) – Ryan Reynolds and David Paymer play rivals battling for a teacher of the year award in this made-for-cable dramedy. | |||
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TOUCH THE SOUND (dir: Thomas Riedelsheimer, Not Rated) – Thomas Riedelsheimer, the director of your favorite movie RIVERS & TIDES, now turns his camera on another eccentric artist: deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie. |
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THE UNINVITED (dir: Su-Yeon Lee, Not Rated) – This latest Korean horror film actually has more in common with the eerie, character-driven fright-fests ROSEMARY’S BABY and DON’T LOOK NOW than modern Asian films like THE GRUDGE or THE RING. After witnessing the death of two girls, a young man sees his life thrown into disarray as he starts experiencing troubling visions that threaten his work, love-life and, ultimately, his sanity. | |||
| * = Greg's pick of the week ^ = Bart's pick of the week | ||||||