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NEW MOVIES!
AUGUST 14 - AUGUST 20, 2007
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AIR GUITAR NATION (dir: Alexandra
Lipsitz, R) – Enter the comical world of air guitar enthusiasts with this documentary that follows some young dreamers from the early qualifying rounds in America all the way to the world Air Guitar Championship in Oulu, Finland. |
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AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE COLON MOVIE FILM FOR THEATERS FOR DVD (dir: Matt Maiellaro / Dave Willis, R) – Your understanding and/or enjoyment of this Cartoon Network show’s first theatrical release will probably relate directly to how many illegal substances are swimming through your bloodstream at the time of viewing. Like, if you take a bunch of peyote, this movie is CITIZEN KANE. |
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THE BLACK WIDOW (dir: Giada
Colagrande, PG-13) – When an Italian woman inherits a country house from her deceased lover, she quickly realizes it may be haunted. Her bad luck continues when Willem Dafoe shows up as the caretaker and turns out to be creepy in the way only Willem Dafoe can be. |
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BOY CULTURE (dir: Q. Allan
Brocka, Not Rated) – A young hustler faces romantic complications when he gets a little too attached to a client. |
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THE CONTRACTOR (dir: Josef
Rusnak, R) – Congratulations, Wesley Snipes. Only 30 or 40 more of these straight to video clunkers and you’ll probably have those back taxes totally paid off. |
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THE DARWIN AWARDS (dir: Finn Taylor, R) – Somehow they’ve managed to turn a bunch of true stories about really stupid people doing really stupid things into a feature-length narrative film starring Winona Ryder, Joseph Fiennes and David
Arquette. It’s kind of like FAST FOOD NATION, only way less important. |
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DOCTOR STRANGE (dir: Frank D.
Paur, PG-13) – While on a mountaintop in Tibet, Dr. Steven Strange learns the powers of magic from The Ancient One and sets forth saving the world from creatures that emerge from the dark realms. It’s all here in the latest Marvel Animated Features release. |
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ELVIS: THE MINISERIES (dir: James Steven
Sadwith, Not Rated) – Jonathan Rhys Meyers from MATCH POINT won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy for this electrifying portrait of The King. |
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51 BIRCH STREET (dir: Doug Block, Not Rated) – Documentarian Doug Block delves deep into his family’s history after puzzling questions arise following his mother’s sudden death. |
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FRACTURE (dir: Gregory
Hoblit, R) – Everyone’s favorite young actor Ryan Gosling plays an ambitious young prosecutor trying to nail Anthony Hopkins for killing his wife. What seems like a slam dunk case quickly unravels when it emerges that the sinister and brainy accused is playing a very high stakes game. |
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FRAULEIN
(dir:Andrea Staka, Not Rated) – Film Movement brings us this drama from Switzerland about two Yugoslavian immigrants who cross paths in Zurich and change each other’s lives forever. |
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GOD GREW TIRED OF US (dir: Christopher Quinn, PG) – Nicole Kidman narrates this wicked inspiring doc about three “Lost Boys” from Sudan and their struggle to make a new life in America while also trying to help family and friends back home. |
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^INLAND EMPIRE (dir: David Lynch, R) – You know you’re in for it when this is referred to as the “really weird” David Lynch movie. Laura Dern plays two, or maybe three, different characters, including an actress who just landed her big break and a small town prostitute. Figuring out how it all fits together is up to you. Good luck. |
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*THE LOOKOUT (dir: Scott Frank, R) – Joseph
Gordon-Levitt gets sucked into a con man’s scheme to rob the bank where he’s a janitor in this cracking heist thriller that features great supporting turns from Jeff Daniels, Isla Fisher and Matthew Goode. |
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THE METHOD (dir: Marcelo
Pineyro, Not Rated) – In this pitch black Spanish comedy, a group of corporate climbers are subjected to psychologically brutal testing that can leave only one candidate for the job standing. |
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MURDEROUS INTENT (dir: Gregory J. Read, Not Rated) – Always reliable Toni Collette stars as a police psychologist trying to piece together the murder of a teenage boy. The first obstacle is that the teenager accused of the crime is utterly unconcerned and indifferent to the charges against him. |
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PUZZLEHEAD (dir: James
Bai, Not Rated) – In this “witty mix of FRANKENSTEIN and ERASERHEAD” a reclusive scientist in a post apocalyptic world creates a self-aware android who quickly becomes his romantic rival for a young lady’s heart. |
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ROCK THE BELLS (dir: Denis Hennelly / Casey
Suchan, Not Rated) – R.I.P. O.D.B.! I’m glad those Wu-Tang guys’ egos aren’t too big to sing your songs for you now that you can’t. |
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U-CARMEN (dir: Mark
Dornford-May, Not Rated) – This ambitious film from South Africa takes Bizet’s Carmen and adapts it to the life of a poor cigarette factory worker. Acted and sung completely by the internationally acclaimed theater company Dimpho Di
Kopane. |
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VACANCY (dir: Nimrod
Antal, R) – Hungarian director Nimrod Antal follows up the nifty thriller KONTROLL with his first American movie, another nifty thriller with Luke Wilson and Kate
Beckinsale. They play a couple that get stuck at a motel run by a guy that makes Norman Bates seem like Santa Claus. |
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WILD HOGS (dir: Walt Becker, PG-13) – Okay, here’s how it works. If all of you out there keep spending $170 MILLION to see junk like this at the theater, the Hollywood goons in their ivory towers will continue to pump it out. It’s called supply and demand. Duh. |
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