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NEW MOVIES!
AUGUST 21 - AUGUST 27, 2007
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BAM BAM & CELESTE (dir: Lorene Machado, Not Rated) – Margaret Cho and Bruce Daniels play best friends who set off on a road trip to New York to confront their high school nemeses, now running a famous salon. Jane Lynch, John Cho and Alan Cumming also star in this camp-fest. |
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BICKFORD SHMECKLER’S COOL IDEAS (dir: Scott
Lew, R) – Patrick Fugit from ALMOST FAMOUS plays a troubled but brilliant college student out to thwart a hottie co-ed who has stolen all of his ideas. And as an added bonus, more John Cho! |
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^BROKEN ENGLISH (dir: Zoe
Cassavetes, PG-13) – Perennial Bart & Greg’s fave Parker Posey plays a thirtysomething Manhattanite looking for love in all the wrong places. Also starring Justin Theroux as well as Gena
Rowlands, whose appearance may be explained by the fact that the director is her daughter, Zoe
Cassavetes. |
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CARVED (dir: Kakesu Shuichi, Not Rated) – A suburban Japanese town is thrown into chaos when children start disappearing. Could the brutally disfigured woman/ghost wandering around with a huge pair of scissors be involved? |
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EVERYTHING’S GONE GREEN (dir: Paul Fox, R) – After being dumped and fired on the same day, an aimless young man stumbles onto a scam that could set him up nicely in this comedy based on the book by Douglas
Coupland. |
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THE EX (dir: Jesse
Peretz, Not Rated) – It’s directed by the guy who did the criminally underrated THE CHATEAU, and it has cool people like Jason Bateman, Charles
Grodin, Amy Poehler and Amy Adams in it. So why isn’t this revenge comedy funnier? |
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FALLING (dir: Barbara Albert, Not Rated) – In this downer from Austrian director Barbara Albert, five female schoolmates are reunited at a funeral and discover that everyone’s lives are going really, really badly. |
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THE FAR SIDE OF JERICHO (dir: Tim Hunter, R) – It may look like a made for TNT cheap-o – and it probably is – but this gritty western is directed by Tim Hunter who made one of the absolute best films of the 1980s: RIVER’S EDGE. |
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*THE LIVES OF OTHERS (dir: Florian Henckel Von
Donnersmarck, R) – Everybody, I mean everybody, loves this German thriller about the strange relationship between a playwright and the secret policeman assigned to spy on him. It won an astounding 43 awards around the world and was the best reviewed film of last year. |
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A NEW WAVE (dir: Jason
Carvey, R) – A bunch of young aimless guys plan a heist with comical results. It sounds a little BOTTLE
ROCKET-ish to me, but it features John Krasinski (aka Jim Halpert from THE OFFICE) and we just love him. |
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PERFECT STRANGER (dir: James Foley, R) – Halle Berry should fire her agent, take a long vacation and pretend this never happened. I know it’s only August, but it’s very possible this is the worst movie of 2007. |
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REDLINE (dir: Andy Cheng, PG-13) – This is the movie that Eddie Griffin was promoting when he destroyed a Ferrari Enzo worth several million dollars. And I’m positive that’s far more interesting than anything that happens in this lame FAST & THE FURIOUS knock-off. |
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THE ULTIMATE GIFT (dir: Michael O.
Sajbel, PG) – Oh great. More pseudo-spiritual hogwash to uplift the crowd that loves THE SECRET and THE CELESTINE PROPHECY. When’s HOSTEL 2 coming out? |
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Bart's pick of the week! |
