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NEW MOVIES!
JULY 24 - JULY 30, 2007
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THE BIG BAD SWIM (dir: Ishai
Setton, Not Rated) – Paget Brewster heads up an ensemble cast for this quirky romance set at an adult swimming class. |
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CASHBACK (dir: Sean Ellis, R) – To make the most of his insomnia, an art student takes a job working the overnight shift at a supermarket. He, as you would imagine, meets an assortment of colorful characters. |
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CINEMA, ASPIRINS AND VULTURES (dir: Marcelo Gomes, Not Rated) – A young German man avoiding Hitler’s war travels around Brazil in 1942 selling aspirin to peasants in this humorous road movie from Global Lens. |
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THE CONTRACT (dir: Bruce Beresford, R) – Morgan Freeman + John Cusack – theatrical release = bad news. |
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DANCING IN TWILIGHT (dir: Bob Roe, PG-13) – I never imagined the possibility of a Mimi
Rogers/Kal Penn movie and I don’t think I should have to deal with it now. They really better not make out. |
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DYNAMITE WARRIOR (dir: Chalerm
Wongpim, Not Rated) – In the world of kicking movies, there is nowhere hotter than Thailand right now. With this follow-up to BORN TO FIGHT, Muay Thai superstar Dan Chupong is threatening to challenge the supremacy of ONG BAK’s Tony
Jaa. |
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EVER SINCE THE WORLD ENDED (dir: Calum Grant / Joshua Atesh
Litle, Not Rated) – This fake documentary follows a film crew as they traverse their way across a post-apocalyptic San Francisco. |
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*THE HOST (dir:
Joon-ho Bong, R) – Who knew a South Korean monster movie would be in the running for the best movie of the year? With a hearty dose of satire and genuine emotion, this movie has something for everyone. And if you don’t like it, don’t worry. It’s you, not the movie. |
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JOHNNY BERLIN (dir: Dominic
DeJoseph, Not Rated) – We have no idea why but this documentary about 1930 Pullman cars is brought to us by Michael
Stipe. |
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LIVE FREE OR DIE (dir: Gregg Kavet / Andy Robin, R) – No Bruce Willis or explosions here. Just a bunch of cool indie actors like Paul Schneider, Aaron Stanford and Zooey Deschanel in a whimsical comedy set in our lovely neighbor, Cow Hampshire. |
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THE LONG WEEKEND (dir: Pat Holden, R) – I freely admit I ingest at least my portion of junk culture. But there is no way anyone is pinning the continued acting employment of Chris Klein on me. And stop using that stupid AMERICAN PIE type font! |
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THE NUMBER 23 (dir: Joel Schumacher, Unrated) – Watch out. Jim Carrey’s in serious mode. |
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PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (dir: Tom
Tykwer, R) – RUN LOLA RUN director Tom Tykwer takes on the arduous task of trying to adapt Patrick Suskind’s creepy novel about a serial killer with an exaggerated sense of smell into a coherent movie. And fails. |
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POISON FRIENDS (dir: Emmanuel
Bourdieu, Not Rated) – A dangerously charismatic university student lulls two classmates into submission in this philosophical French thriller. |
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PRINCESS RACCOON (dir: Seijun Suzuki, Not Rated) – There are two types of people in this world. Those that totally dug THE GREAT YOKAI WAR and everybody else. But anyone feeling adventurous enough to be completely bewildered by wacky Japanese veteran director Seijun Suzuki, good luck. |
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RENAISSANCE (dir: Christian
Volckman, R) – They did some kind of SIN CITY-ish thing to this movie set in Paris, 2054, and while it looks striking, it’s difficult to tell what’s going on. And why is Paris full of Brits like Daniel Craig, Jonathan Pryce and Ian Holm? |
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SLOW BURN (dir: Wayne Beach, R) – Anytime Ray Liotta and LL Cool J make a movie together, you know it’ll be a good time. And super-cool KINKY BOOTS dude Chiwetel Ejiofor is in it too. |
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THE TASTE OF TEA (dir: Katsuhito Ishii, Not Rated) – An eccentric family living in the Japanese countryside is the focus of this comedy that scooped up awards at film festivals from Hawaii to Belfort. |
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UNCONSCIOUS (dir: Joaquín
Oristrell, R) – I would not mind it one bit if every filmmaker from Spain who is not Pedro Almodovar would stop trying to out-quirky him. |
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THE WAY I SPENT THE END OF THE WORLD (dir: Catalin
Mitulescu, Not Rated) – Ahh, the rare treat of a film from Romania. We can thank our buddies at Film Movement for this drama that follows a family trying to stick together during the waning days of Ceausescu’s reign of nastiness. |
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^ZODIAC (dir: David Fincher, R) – Like THE HOST is a monster movie where the monster is not really the point, ZODIAC is a serial killer movie where the killer takes a backseat to some really decent soul-searching performances by Mark
Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal and a never-better Robert Downey Jr. |
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