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NEW MOVIES!
APRIL 17 - APRIL 23, 2007
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FREEDOM WRITERS (dir: Richard
Lagravenese, PG-13) – Hilary Swank stars in this inspiring-ish drama about a teacher who refuses to give up on her class of inner city kids. Virtually indistinguishable from DANGEROUS MINDS. But no Coolio theme song. |
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THE HISTORY BOYS (dir: Nicholas
Hytner, R) – Adapted from the Tony Award winning play and featuring the entire original cast, THE HISTORY BOYS is a wildly funny comedy that follows eight young men as they try to gain acceptance to England’s top universities. |
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^THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (dir: Kevin Macdonald, R) – Forest Whitaker gives the performance of his career as brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the film that won him the Oscar. |
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MOTHER OF MINE (dir: Klaus
Haro, Not Rated) – Film Movement presents a Finnish/Swedish co-production about a 9-year-old during WWII who’s got a mom on each side of the border. |
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NATIONAL LAMPOON’S PUCKED (dir: Arthur Hiller, R) – Jon Bon Jovi steals a bunch of money to finance his dream of starting a women’s ice hockey league. Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the pitch meeting for this atrocity of cinema. |
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*NOTES ON A SCANDAL (dir: Richard Eyre, R) – Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett face off in this claustrophobic thriller that explores themes of jealousy and betrayal in a way that only the British can. Both actresses were rewarded with Oscar nominations for their efforts. |
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OFF THE BLACK (dir: James
Ponsoldt, R) – Nick Nolte plays a sad sack high school umpire who forges an unlikely bond with the rebellious teenager he catches vandalizing his home. The probability of this film warming your heart is dangerously high. |
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PENNY DREADFUL (dir: Richard
Brandes, R) – BULLY star and Macaulay Culkin’s ex-wife Rachel Miner stars as a traumatized young woman who meets the worst possible hitchhiker in this After Dark Horrorfest installment. |
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REINCARNATION (dir: Takashi Shimizu, R) – The director of THE GRUDGE sets his newest horror flick in a haunted hotel where a film crew have convened to recreate some gruesome killings on their 35th anniversary. |
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ROMANTICO (dir: Mark Becker, Not Rated) – Critics praised this documentary which follows Carmelo, an illegal Mexican immigrant in San Francisco who’s a low-paid laborer by day, but El Mariachi Mas Bueno by night. |
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SMOKIN’ ACES (dir: Joe Carnahan, R) – This PULP
FICTION-esque crime caper is utterly unconcerned with acknowledging how unoriginal it is and that’s part of its charm. NARC director Joe Carnahan seems to think he’s inventing a new genre here and the results are enthusiastic, if uneven. Worth the price of admission alone for Jeremy Piven’s turn as a coked-up magician/gangster on a slow spiral of doom. |
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WILDERNESS SURVIVAL FOR GIRLS (dir: Eli Despres / Kim Roberts, R) – Three teenage girls on a weekend camping trip take a menacing stranger captive and over the course of one night learn each others secret fears and desires. |
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