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NEW MOVIES!
MARCH 13 - MARCH 19, 2007
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AMERICAN COUSINS (dir: Donald Coutts, Not Rated) – Two New Jersey gangsters need to get out of town quickly, so they go shack up with some distant relatives. Did I mention that the distant relatives run a chip shop in Scotland? Funny accents abound. |
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BLOODY REUNION (dir: Lim
Dae-Wong, Not Rated) – Since this is a Korean horror film, the title refers to a class reunion that indeed turns bloody as old grievances are aired and revenge is brutally sought. |
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CASINO ROYALE (dir: Martin Campbell, PG-13) – At his villa on a Greek island, Roger Moore takes a break from being hand-fed grapes to absorb the news that this is the best James Bond film since the days of Connery. A single tear slides down his cheek until his hermaphroditic servant flicks it away. |
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THE DUKES OF HAZZARD: THE BEGINNING (dir: Robert
Berlinger, Unrated) – I don’t remember much that happened after I learned of this movie’s existence. Something about a nihilistic howl of rage and then darkness… darkness. |
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FAVELA RISING (dir: Jeff Zimbalist / Matt
Mochary, Not Rated) – Okay, the favelas might be dangerous, with the constant police slaughters and the drugs and whatnot. But you get to listen to
AfroReggae, go to Copacabana, run strapped, wear balaclavas on occasion, eat barbeque and hang out with your friends. Sooooooo much better than the suburbs. |
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HARSH TIMES (dir: David Ayer, R) – As an Iraq vet who’s having problems leaving the killing behind, Christian Bale gives a performance so unhinged it made Colin Farrell’s performance in MIAMI VICE pee its pants. |
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THE HOLIDAY (dir: Nancy Meyers, PG-13) – Cameron Diaz, Kate
Winslet, Jack Black and Jude Law star in this pleasant rom-com from the director of SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE. Cam and Kate play ladies with love problems who switch homes for a vacation but end up switching boyfriends too. |
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HORROR BUSINESS (dir: Christopher P.
Garetano, Not Rated) – This documentary delves deeply into the world of ultra low budget horror movies. Sort of like AMERICAN MOVIE. In fact, Mark Borchardt from AMERICAN MOVIE makes an appearance. |
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KETTLE OF FISH (dir: Claudia Myers, R) – Gina Gershon playing Cristal Conners in SHOWGIRLS earned her a lifetime of goodwill from me, but I still can’t bring myself to watch this romance in which she plays platonic roommate to Matthew
Modine. I’m going to just go ahead and assume they fall in love by the end. |
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A LITTLE TRIP TO HEAVEN (dir: Baltasar
Kormakur, R) – Without a doubt the first film set in Minnesota but filmed in Iceland, A LITTLE TRIP TO HEAVEN stars Forest Whitaker as an insurance agent investigating a suspicious car crash in a small town. |
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THE MAN WHO SUED GOD (dir: Mark
Joffe, Not Rated) – When his fishing boat is destroyed by lightning, Billy Connolly’s insurance company won’t pay up, citing the incident as an “act of God.” So get this, he decides to sue God! With the help of Judy Davis’s spunky reporter, they rally the public to his cause. |
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MATANDO CABOS (dir: Alejandro Lozano, R) – The only thing I can ascertain about this Mexican comedy is that it has something to do with midget cannibals and professional wrestling. |
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MRS. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT (dir: Dan Ireland, Not Rated) – Joan Plowright plays a Scottish widow who moves to London to immerse herself in art and culture, as well as to be close to her only grandson. |
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PAPER DOLLS (dir: Tomer
Heymann, Not Rated) – This documentary takes a look at a small community of Filipino sex workers who have come to Israel to fill the gap left by the banned Palestinians. They also act as caregivers to the elderly and start a popular cabaret show in a Tel Aviv nightclub. Strangely moving. |
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THE PERFECT CRIME (dir: Alex De La
Iglesia, Not Rated) – Almodovar cohort Alex De La Iglesia directs this energetic comedy about rivalries and possible murder in a Madrid department store. Nominated for 6 Spanish Academy Awards. |
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REQUIEM (dir: Hans-Christian
Schmid, Not Rated) – This unsettling German drama about a young woman who may or may not be possessed received some of the most glowing reviews of the year, even though it’s based on the same true story that inspired the lackluster THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE. |
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^SHORTBUS (dir: John Cameron Mitchell, Unrated) – This joyous look at the sexual lives of a bunch of New Yorkers is everything Middle America fears about the big city. And if it were just trying to bait conservatives, it wouldn’t amount to much. But HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH director John Cameron Mitchell creates a fantasia of the possibilities of life and love. Seriously though, this movie is not going to sit well with the squeamish, the homophobic or the unadventurous. |
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SUBLIME (dir: Tony
Krantz, Unrated) – This horror film set in a hospital promises to be sexy, surreal and horrifyingly graphic. And I promise to not watch it. |
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*THEY (ILS) (dir: David Moreau / Xavier
Palud, Not Rated) – More chilling than HIGH TENSION (and without all the gore), this unnerving French horror/thriller inspired by real events is a minor masterpiece in sustained terror. Hollywood was so impressed that the directors have been hired to remake THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT as a follow-up. |
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