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AUGUST 22 - AUGUST 28, 2006
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ELIZABETH I (dir: Tom Hooper, Not Rated) – You love Helen Mirren, England, and period dramas. Therefore, it’s statistically impossible for you not to love this period drama in which Helen Mirren plays the Queen of England. |
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FILM GEEK (dir: James Westby, Not Rated) – This documentary-style look at the life of an obsessive video store worker hit a little too close to home for us here at B&G’s. It’s probably like when an alcoholic watches DAYS OF WINE & ROSES. Or when a cannibalistic serial killer watches SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. It makes you take a long, hard look in the mirror. | |||
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JUST MY LUCK (dir: Donald Petrie, PG-13) – Lindsey Lohan, please quit your day job. |
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KISSES & CAROMS (dir: Vince Rocca, R) – This no-budget sex comedy set in a billiards store received a big shout out from has-been loserface Kevin Smith and that’s enough to ensure that I’m never going to watch it. | |||
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PHAT GIRLZ (dir: Nnegest Likke, PG-13) – Comedienne Mo’Nique plays a fashion designer trying to launch a line of clothes for plus-sized women. As she struggles unsuccessfully to get her business and her love life off the ground, she wins a trip to Palm Springs. Has her luck changed? |
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POSEIDON (dir: Wolfgang Petersen, PG-13) – No Gene Hackman in a turtleneck sweater? No Shelly Winters swimming to martyrdom? No Ernest Freakin’ Borgnine? What’s the point? | |||
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SCARED SACRED (dir: Velcrow Ripper, Not Rated) – Do humans use religion to avoid being freaked out by all the horrors of life? The opiate of the masses, per se? Documentarian Velcrow Ripper travels to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Bhopal, Hiroshima and other places ravaged by misery to uncover how the human spirit protects itself from a lifetime of agony. |
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SILENT HILL (dir: Christophe Gans, R) – When has a movie based on a video game ever been anything less than genius? | |||
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SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY (dir: Sydney Pollack, PG-13) – You know the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain? The one that looks like a melting pile of tin cans. That’s the work of pioneering architect Frank Gehry, a longtime friend of director Sydney Pollack, who helmed this documentary about him. |
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THE UNINVITED GUEST (dir: Guillem Morales, R) – When a young Spanish architect lets a stranger use his phone, it begins a night of terror which may or may not be all in his mind. | |||
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WHEN DO WE EAT?: MY BIG FAT JEWISH SEDAR (dir: Salvador Litvak, R) – Wow. That’s a pretty lame title even if it were topical. But four years after the fact? Making fun of that movie is like slapping a puppy when it’s sleeping. |
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^WHO’S CAMUS ANYWAY? (dir: Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Not Rated) – University students in Tokyo, while shooting a movie, struggle to find meaning in their art. You should watch this not only because it’s the latest title put out by Film Movement, but also because I think there’s a need to support any movie from Japan that doesn’t involve ghosts in the internet or dead girls reincarnated into cell phones. | |||
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*WHOLE NEW THING (dir: Amnon Buchbinder, Not Rated) – Who says Nova Scotia is utterly useless? After all, it gave us this winning coming-of-age comedy about a kid raised in an environment of extreme openness by his hippie parents. After being home-schooled for years, he’s enrolled at a public high school and quickly develops his first crush… on his male English teacher. | |||||
| * = Greg's pick of the week ^ = Bart's pick of the week | ||||||