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SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2006
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BROKEN TRAIL (dir: Walter Hill, Not Rated) – Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church saddle up for this Western in which they have to deliver a herd of horses while protecting an abandoned group of Chinese girls from their former captors. |
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*DISTRICT B13 (dir: Pierre Morel, R) – The most pulse-quickening action movie of the year is this French import that imagines a near future where the ghettos of Paris have been walled off to contain the criminals within. A member of an elite police squad, who specializes in creatively kicking people in the head, infiltrates one of the gangs to save the entire city from a neutron bomb. | |||
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GUYS & BALLS (dir: Sherry Hormann, R) – German comedies are like pan-seared tuna. Rare, but strangely delicious. Gay-themed German comedies about soccer were thought not to even exist until we came across this specimen. Move quietly, as not to startle it. |
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KINKY BOOTS (dir: Julian Jarrold, PG-13) – To save the family shoe business from bankruptcy, a young British man enlists the help of a sassy cross-dressing designer whose wild styles reinvigorate sales as well as, you know, spirits. | |||
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THE LEGEND OF LUCY KEYES (dir: John Stimpson. R) – Moving into an eerie Massachusetts farmhouse, Julie Delpy quickly discovers that in order to get a good night’s sleep she’ll need to solve a 250-year-old mystery. |
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OUR BRAND IS CRISIS (dir: Rachel Boynton, Not Rated) – This documentary examines the huge influence strategists-for-hire wield in important elections all around the world. With nearly unrestricted access, we witness what happens when James Carville and Jeremy Rossner head to down to Bolivia to help spread a little bit of democracy. | |||
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THE PLAGUE (dir: Hal Masonberg, R) – I was pretty excited for this horror flick about zombie children annihilating all the adults in the world until it turned out to be duller than watching paint dry. And I’m talking oil, not watercolor. |
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SAY UNCLE (dir: Peter Paige, R) – In this vicious satire of suburban paranoia, Peter Paige writes, directs and stars as Paul, an eccentric artist whose love of children nearly gets him burned at the stake by vigilante Mom Kathy Najimy. | |||
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SHARPE’S CHALLENGE (dir: Tom Clegg, Not Rated) – Sean Bean-o-philes rejoice. He gets his petticoat out of storage for another go-round as handsome swashbuckler Richard Sharpe, and this time he’s off to the subcontinent to defend Her Majesty’s empire from some pesky Indians. |
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SUMMER STORM (dir: Marco Kreuzpaintner, R) – Insert blurb from GUYS & BALLS here, but change soccer to rowing. | |||
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^UNITED 93 (dir: Paul Greengrass, R) – Want to wet yourself at the mere thought of ever going on a plane again? Bon Appetit. |
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UNKNOWN WHITE MALE (dir: Rupert Murray, PG-13) – This documentary follows Doug Bruce, the amnesiac found wandering around Coney Island a few years ago, as he struggles to remember a life that vanished instantly from his mind. | |||
| * = Greg's pick of the week ^ = Bart's pick of the week | ||||||