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NEW MOVIES!
MAY 22 - MAY 28, 2007
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AFRO SAMURAI (dir: Fuminori Kizaki, Not Rated) – Obviously this is just rip-off of the original “samurais ‘n tha hood” anime SAMURAI
CHAMPLOO, but with one important difference: Samuel L. Jackson voices the title character! |
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ALONE WITH HER (dir: Eric Nicholas, Unrated) – Colin Hanks, son of Tom, stars as a disturbed young man who doesn’t quite know where to draw the line when it comes to stalking girls. |
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AMERICAN PASTIME (dir: Desmond Nakano, Not Rated) – This fact-based drama shows how Japanese-Americans held in internment camps during WWII turned to baseball to get them through the dark days. Gary “Lumbergh” Cole co-stars as a sympathetic guard. |
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*APOCALYPTO (dir: Mel Gibson, R) – This movie is further proof of Mel Gibson’s craziness, but in a good way. It’s similar to a
Herzog/Kinski jungle picture, but with the bloodlust of a Paul Verhoeven film. At the very least, it has the best use of a waterfall in a movie ever. |
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CONSTELLATION (dir: Jordan Walker-Pearlman, PG-13) – Hill Harper, Zoë Saldana and Lesley Anne Warren star as members of a family with a tumultuous past who gather for the funeral of the one person who kept them together. |
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DARK CORNERS (dir: Ray Gower, Not Rated) – Scarlett Johansson is one of the top actresses in the world while Thora Birch, her co-star in GHOST WORLD, is reduced to straight-to-video horror films. Doesn’t quite seem fair. |
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DISAPPEARED (dir: Adrian
Shergold, R) – Ray Winstone is extremely flabbergasted to discover his daughter hasn’t been doing humanitarian work in Turkey, she’s been a go-go dancer. And now she’s missing! |
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EPIC MOVIE (dir: Jason Friedberg / Aaron Seltzer, Not Rated) – The death of laughter. Actually makes the world a less funny place. |
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FAY GRIM (dir: Hal Hartley, R) – It’s nice to see Parker Posey with a leading role, even if it’s in this ill-fated follow up to the superior HENRY FOOL. |
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THE GOOD GERMAN (dir: Steven
Soderbergh, R) – George Clooney, Toby McGuire and Cate Blanchett all star in this highly stylized ode to THE THIRD MAN from Steven
Soderbergh. It’s great looking, but is there any substance beyond the homage? |
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THE HARD EASY (dir: Ari Ryan, R) – Henry Thomas and David Boreanaz star as small time criminals who team up to try and pay off their debts. Bruce Dern and Peter Weller co-star as the guys you don’t want to owe money to. |
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THE ITALIAN (dir: Andrei
Kravchuk, PG-13) – An adorable Russian moppet gets adopted by a nice Italian couple, but uses the opportunity to run off and find the mother who abandoned him at birth. |
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LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (dir: Clint Eastwood, R) – This follow up to FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS got even better reviews and it’s entirely in Japanese. All this from the man who brought us PINK CADILLAC. |
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THE MAD (dir: Johnny
Kalangis, Unrated) – Are you ready for your Billy Zane double feature? Here he stars as a doctor trying to help out a town overrun by zombies while keeping an eye on his rebellious teenage daughter. |
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MEMORY (dir: Bennett Joshua
Davlin, R) – And here he plays a different doctor trying to solve some mysterious disappearances in Brazil. Maybe we should all just rent his best film, DEAD CALM. It’s one of the best films of the 1980s, is set entirely on a boat, and features a very young Nicole Kidman being terrorized by our beloved Zane. |
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THE MISTRESS OF SPICES (dir: Paul Mayeda
Berges, PG-13) – Aishwarya Rai, Bollywood superstar and reputed most beautiful woman on Earth, stars as a young mystic-type sent to San Francisco to run a spice store. It’s there she meets Dylan “Poor Man’s Billy Zane” McDermott with whom she sparks a romance. From the creators of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM. |
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MR. LEATHER (dir: Jason Garrett, Not Rated) – Or, “Everything you wanted to know about the Mr. Los Angeles Leather competition but were afraid to ask.” |
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^REGULAR LOVERS (dir: Philippe
Garrel, Not Rated) – This stunningly filmed ode to the French New Wave follows a group of young people during the near-revolution of May ’68 and through the aftermath, which was inevitably a letdown. Bitter nostalgia combined with a restrained romanticism perfectly encapsulate the moment a revolution splintered into wasted idealism. |
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VENUS (dir: Roger
Michell, R) – Peter O’Toole plays a cantankerous retired actor whose spirits are rejuvenated by the feminine powers of the grandniece of his closest friend. Along the way he picked up his 8th Academy Award nomination. |
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