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NEW MOVIES!
FEBRUARY 6 - FEBRUARY 12, 2007
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AFTER INNOCENCE (dir: Jessica Sanders, Not Rated) – One of last year’s best reviewed documentaries, AFTER INNOCENCE tells the gripping stories of seven men released from prison after being exonerated by DNA evidence. |
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BOYNTON BEACH CLUB (dir: Susan
Seidelman, R) – Dyan Cannon, Sally Kellerman and Joseph Bologna star in this lively comedy about a group of greytops who befriend each other through a bereavement club after losing their spouses. |
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THE CIRCLE (dir: Yuri
Zelster, Not Rated) – A woman tries to get a hitman to spare her husband’s life in this thriller starring Angela
Bettis. The only notable thing here is that the entire movie is one uninterrupted take, with no edits. |
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COASTLINES (dir: Victor Nunez, R) – ULEE’S GOLD director Victor Nunez returns from hibernation for this drama about a recently freed prisoner trying to turn his life around. When his former partners show up, he learns that he can’t freely walk away. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Josh Brolin and Josh Lucas. |
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DISASTER! THE MOVIE (dir: Roy T. Wood, Not Rated) – I’m really confused as to why after TEAM AMERICA we’d need another dirty puppet movie and why it would have to be voiced by the members of Motley
Crue. |
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FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (dir: Clint Eastwood, R) – Although lacking the praise that LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA got, most critics found this first part of Clint Eastwood’s WWII double feature moving and respectful. |
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FLICKA (dir: Michael Mayer, PG) – Alison
Lohman, Tim McGraw and Maria Bello star in this update of the classic horse story. And Allison Lohman plays a teenager again even though she’s really about thirty-five. |
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THE GREAT MATCH (dir: Gerardo
Olivares, Not Rated) – Until the world-wide hit THE CUP gets released on DVD, we’ll keep ourselves entertained with this humorous look at soccer fandom amongst the most unlikely peoples in the most remote locations: nomads in Mongolia, Tuareg tribespeople in the Sahara, and Amazonian
Indios. From your friends at Film Movement. |
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THE GRUDGE 2 (dir: Takashi Shimizu,
Unrated) – Didn’t anyone tell Sarah Michelle Gellar and friends that Japanese horror remakes are totally over? |
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HARVEST TIME (dir: Marina
Razbezhkina, Not Rated) – A Russian woman must support her family after her husband returns from war with no legs. She goes to work as a tractor operator and is eventually awarded the prestigious Red Flag for her efforts. This depiction of rural Soviet life in the 1950s has been honored at the Telluride and Moscow Film Festivals. |
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HEADING SOUTH (dir: Laurent
Cantet, Not Rated) – In TIME OUT director Laurent Cantet’s new film, Charlotte
Rampling, Karen Young and Louise Portal play dissatisfied women who head to 1970s Haiti in search of love. They soon find they can’t insulate themselves from the island’s poverty and corruption with mere hedonism. |
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HELLBOY: SWORD OF STORMS (dir: Phil Weinstein, Not Rated) – Apparently there is a real HELLBOY sequel coming, but for now we get this animated one. Ron Perlman and Selma Blair reprise their characters’ voices. |
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HOLLYWOODLAND (dir: Allen Coulter, R) – Adrien Brody, Diane Lane and Ben Affleck star in this well-received thriller about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of original Superman actor George Reeves. Ben Affleck even won an acting prize at the Venice Film Festival. |
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INCUBUS (dir: Anya
Camilleri, Unrated) – When not being the drunken floozy beloved by tabloid editors, Tara Reid occasionally gives atrocious performances in terrible movies. In this straight-to-DVD garbage, she in no way rises above her lot in life. |
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LOS LONELY BOYS: CORNFIELDS AND CROSSROADS (dir: Hector
Galan, PG) – Working their way up from playing bars in Texan border towns to selling millions of records, the three brothers of Los Lonely Boys triumph again with this inspiring documentary that proves the importance of never giving up on your dreams. |
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NATIONAL LAMPOON’S TV: THE MOVIE (dir: Sam
Maccarone, Unrated) – Steve O and a bunch of other idiots from JACKASS appear in this “outrageous” spoof of reality
tv. |
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PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS (dir: Bret Wood, Not Rated) – Based on the notorious turn-of-the-century medical text by Richard von
Krafft-Ebing, this film shows that underneath their corsets, those Victorians were getting freaky. |
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RUNNING WITH SCISSORS (dir: Ryan Murphy, R) – Hmmm…how could we find a way to ruin a popular book and waste the talents of a bunch of cool actors at the same time? |
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*THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (dir: Michel
Gondry, R) – Crazy French genius Michel Gondry follows up ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND with another phantasmagoric feast for the soul. And it stars two of the coolest actors on earth, Gael Garcia Bernal and Charlotte
Gainsbourg. |
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SOAP (dir: Pernille Fischer Christensen, Not Rated) – A promiscuous young woman and her transsexual neighbor become unlikely friends in this warmly funny Danish comedy. |
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TRUST THE MAN (dir: Bart
Freundlich, R) – A great ensemble including Billy Crudup, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore and David Duchovny star in this romantic comedy about the parallel struggles of two couples in New York City. |
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^VIBRATOR (dir: Ryuichi Hiroki, Not Rated) – Rising Japanese director Ryuichi Hiroki scores again with this emotionally raw yet uplifting story of a psychologically unstable writer and the handsome truck driver who helps her loosen up. |
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pick of the week! ^ = Bart'S
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