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NEW MOVIES!
APRIL 24 - APRIL 30, 2007
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THE AXIS OF EVIL COMEDY TOUR (dir: Maz
Jobrani, Not Rated) – It’s like Albert Brooks’ LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD in reverse when four Arab-American stand-up comics do some politically-charged bits for our entertainment. |
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BORN TO FIGHT (dir: Panna
Rittikrai, Not Rated) – It’s the new craze! Super-charged Thai action movies! It doesn’t have that guy from
ONG-BOK and THE PROTECTOR in it, but it’s the same thing! |
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CAFFEINE (dir: John Cosgrove, R) – Mena
Suvari. Katherine Heigl. Breckin Meyer. A coffee shop. That’s all anyone who’d be interested in this movie needs to know. |
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CODE NAME: THE CLEANER (dir: Les Mayfield, PG-13) – Eliza read the description on the back of this Cedric the Entertainer janitor/spy comedy and said, “This looks SOOOO stupid!” So will you. |
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*DEJA VU (dir: Tony Scott, PG-13) – This nutso time-gap action-thriller starring Denzel Washington is WAY more Bruckheimer than FREQUENCY and THE LAKE HOUSE combined. |
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EVERYTHING YOU WANT (dir: Ryan Little, PG) – Here’s an unambitious trifle of a romantic comedy with possibly two things going for it: 1) it’s based on a play and 2) it’s got nobody you’ve ever heard of in it and the studios decided to release it anyway. |
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.45 (dir: Gary Lennon, R) – Are you ready for a high-octane remake of Abel Ferrara’s MS. 45? It’s got Milla Jovovich as the wronged woman on a murderous rampage, so of course you are! |
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM (dir: Shawn Levy, PG) – We’re all in agreement here at the store that Ben Stiller doesn’t work enough. If there’s a movie made in 2007 without him in it, we’ll be really upset. |
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OPEN WATER 2: ADRIFT (dir: Hans Horn, R) – Some human shark-bait jumps off a boat into the middle of the ocean without dropping the ladder first and can’t get back into the boat. Bon
Appetit! |
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^THE QUEEN (dir: Stephen
Frears, PG-13) – I mean, it’s British and everybody loves it, so Bart should hate this movie, right? Wrong! And he really liked
VOLVER, too. I think he’s getting soft. |
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SLINGSHOT (dir: Jay
Alaimo, R) – Julianna Marguilies is a sexy soccer mom who is seduced by greasy con man David
Arquette. Good production values. |
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10 ITEMS OR LESS (dir: Brad
Silberling, R) – It’s LOST IN TRANSLATION, only set in an LA bodega with SEX AND LUCIA’s Paz Vega in the ScarJo role, and Morgan Freeman with earrings standing in for Bill Murray. |
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THREAT (dir: Matt
Pizzolo, Not Rated) – Take KIDS and add an edgy hardcore punk hip-hop soundtrack and lots of brutal violence and you’ve got this controversial cult sensation in the making. |
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THR3E (dir: Robby Henson, PG-13) – Evidently some Christians were offended by the producers of SE7EN making something so unwholesome out of their deadly sins, so they responded with this faith-filled PG-13 serial killer movie. |
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THE TROUBLE WITH MEN AND WOMEN (dir: Tony Fisher, Not Rated) – The Brits with their BRIDGET JONES’ DIARYs and LOVE ACTUALLYs make some of this town’s favorite romantic comedies. Here’s a more realistic variation on the formula which attempts to replace the clichés with equally sweet romantic truisms. |
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TSUNAMI: THE AFTERMATH (dir: Bharat
Nalluri, Not Rated) – Luckily HBO, with this two-part miniseries starring Toni Collette and Tim Roth, is here to remind us how our Gulf Coast disaster was small potatoes compared the devastation in Thailand. |
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UNREST (dir: Jason Todd
Ipson, R) – It’s rumored that this ghost story set in a Gross Anatomy classroom is the first US horror movie to use a real human cadaver. True or not, I don’t wanna see that! |
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UNTIL DEATH (dir: Simon Fellows, R) – I know, I know. You’re saying, “Who’s letting Jean-Claude Van Damme continue to make movies?” But this one, where he plays a smack-addict cop, is supposed to be a radical departure for him. |
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THE WEDDING PARTY (dir: Dominique
Deruddere, Not Rated) – Based on a comic book, this German satire is so bloody and over-the-top that we Americans might even enjoy it. |
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WICKED LITTLE THINGS (dir:
J.S. Cardone, Unrated) – What could be better than a gory little zombie movie? A gory little CHILD zombie movie! |
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