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NEW MOVIES! MARCH 6 - MARCH 12, 2007
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AL OTRO LADO (TO THE OTHER SIDE) (dir: Gustavo
Loza, Not Rated) – Three stories unravel in Mexico, Cuba and Morocco in this
BABEL-ish drama. Yeah, I get it. We’re all connected or not connected or something. Next! |
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*BORAT (dir: Larry Charles, R) – Make sure you watch the bonus feetch where the rodeo incident is initially reported on the news in Virginia. Southern people can be so endearing after they’ve been viciously duped. |
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CONFETTI (dir: Debbie
Isitt, R) – Some adorable British people serve up some more of that adorable romantic comedy drivel that American audiences seem to love so much. I’m giving this a pass, though, because it stars Tim from THE OFFICE and Jez from PEEP SHOW. |
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FAST FOOD NATION (dir: Richard
Linklater, R) – Richard Linklater scores again with this ensemble takedown of America’s big-money meat industry. If you still want to shovel a Big Mac in your pie-hole after watching this, you have a stomach of great fortitude. |
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INTERSTATE 84 (dir: Ross Partridge, Not Rated) – Kevin Dillon plays a shady con man who is somehow connected to a murdered simpleton in this debut feature from actor Ross Partridge. |
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LET’S GO TO PRISON (dir: Bob
Odenkirk, R) – How do you get Bob Odenkirk from MR. SHOW and Will Arnett from ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT together and create something this spectacularly unfunny? I seriously don’t get it. |
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MARCUS (dir: Rich Robinson / Bob
Hardison, Not Rated) – When a young woman fails to show up for Christmas, her family becomes understandably concerned. When a creepy guy claiming to be the boyfriend they’ve never heard of shows up instead, things quickly unravel. |
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STRANGE CIRCUS (dir: Sion
Sono, Unrated) – A disturbed young woman drifts between reality and her bizarre fantasy life in Sion Sono’s follow-up to the legendarily upsetting SUICIDE CLUB. |
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TERRORSTORM (dir: Alex Jones, Not Rated) – This conspiracy theory documentary started off cool, giving level-headed analyses of such dubious historic events as the Reichstag fire, the Gulf of Tonkin and the 1953 Iranian coup. But then our narrator starts talking about remote control planes flying into the twin towers and you just go,
“Okaaayy.” |
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^TRAIN MAN: DENSHA OTOKO (dir: Shosuke Murakami, Not Rated) – In this uniquely Japanese romantic comedy, an inexperienced young man solicits advice from an internet message board after landing a date with a beautiful girl. |
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WALKOUT (dir: Edward James
Olmos, Not Rated) – Edward James Olmos directs this well-intentioned HBO film about true events in 1968 when young Mexican-American students staged a protest against the conditions of their schools. |
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