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NEW MOVIES!
OCTOBER 23 - OCTOBER 29, 2007
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^ADAM'S APPLES (dir: Anders Thomas Jensen, Not Rated) – A Danish Neo-Nazi is taken under the wing of a blindly devotional priest in this Film Movement release starring Mads
Mikkelsen, the baddie from CASINO ROYALE. |
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ALIVE DAY MEMORIES: HOME FROM IRAQ (dir: Jon Alpert / Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Not Rated) – James Gandolfini produced this documentary for HBO that interviews 10 Iraq war veterans about their struggle to acclimate back into society. |
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BURIED ALIVE (dir: Robert
Kurtzman, Not Rated) – College pranksters accidentally awaken a vicious ghost in this straight-to-DVD horror flick from legendary makeup artist Robert
Kurtzman. |
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THE COMPANY (dir: Mikael Salomon, Not Rated) – If you thought that THE GOOD SHEPHERD was okay but think that Chris O’Donnell is twice the actor Matt Damon is, check out this alternate history of the
C.I.A. |
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DOG BITE DOG (dir: Pou-Soi
Cheang, Not Rated) – A Cambodian assassin finds himself stuck in Hong Kong after completing an assignment and, rather than soaking up the sights of one of the world’s most beautiful cities, kicks a bunch of people in the head. |
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FIDO (dir: Andrew Currie, R) – SHAUN OF THE DEAD meets FRANKENWEENIE in this good natured spoof of
1950s Americana in which a family struggles to keep their family pet, a six foot zombie played by Billy Connolly, from eating the neighbors. |
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FLOCK OF DODOS (dir: Randy Olson, Not Rated) – The debate over evolution vs. intelligent design gets its own whimsical documentary, and self-described evolutionary ecologist/surfer/director Randy Olson seems to be having the last laugh. |
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FORECAST FOR TOMORROW (dir: Jerzy
Stuhr, Not Rated) – After 17 years of self-imposed exile in a monastery, a Polish man returns to society to find a world he hardly recognizes. |
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HOME OF THE BRAVE (dir: Irwin Winkler, R) – Nobody seems too psyched to deal with Hollywood movies about the Iraq war just yet. Which may explain why this drama starring Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Biel, despite getting decent reviews, barely got released. |
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*HOSTEL PART II (dir: Eli Roth, Unrated) – Eli Roth is one of the most exciting young filmmakers around. His films CABIN FEVER, HOSTEL and now HOSTEL PART II are each witty, subversive and undoubtedly anti-violence. He’s the next Quentin Tarantino but is continually dismissed as simply a provocateur with a mean streak. Not the case at all. And he even had the decency to cast Bijou Phillips in this. |
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INTERKOSMOS (dir: Jim Finn, Not Rated) – Experimental director Jim Finn constructs a loving ode to the Communist space programs of yesteryear with this fake set of training videos shot on authentically grainy 8 and 16 millimeter film. |
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INTO GREAT SILENCE (dir: Philip
Groning, Not Rated) – Who’s got the guts to watch a nearly three hour documentary about French monks who don’t speak? |
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KARAS: THE REVELATION (dir: Keiichi Sato, Not Rated) – The most concrete thing I could ascertain about this anime is that it’s about the
"spiritual protector of humanity from demonic spirits." And Matthew Lillard does voice-over work on it. |
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MEET THE ROBINSONS (dir: Stephen J. Anderson, G) – Kids won’t care but critics described this as “surely one of the worst theatrically released animated features issued under the Disney label in quite some time.” |
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MOUTH TO MOUTH (dir: Alison Murray, Not Rated) – Swell young actress Ellen Page from HARD CANDY plays a restless teen wandering around Europe until she hooks up with a militant activist group that may turn out to be more realistically described as a cult. |
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MR. BROOKS (dir: Bruce A. Evans, R) – Kevin Costner tries to win back our love by playing his first bad guy, a serial killer struggling to control his bloodlust. And Demi Moore takes a break from being Mrs. Ashton Kutcher to remind us what made her the worst actress of her generation. |
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SHERIFF (dir: Daniel Kraus, Not Rated) – Made in the verite tradition of Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries, utilizing only natural light and sounds, Daniel Kraus follows Sheriff Ronald E. Hewett through his rural North Carolina community as he hunts for escaped bank robbers and stolen ceramic bunnies. |
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THE SOPRANOS: SEASON 6, PART 2 (dir: David Chase, Not Rated) – See for yourself the controversial ending to one of television’s greatest achievements. |
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STREET THIEF (dir: Malik Bader, Not Rated) – The most compelling thing about this “documentary” seems to be trying to figure out if it’s an expose of a real thief and his methodology or if it’s all a hoax. |
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THE TRIPPER (dir: David
Arquette, Unrated) – David Arquette enlists wife Courtney Cox and pals Balthazar Getty, Lukas Haas and Thomas Jane for this comic horror movie about a Ronald Reagan obsessed serial killer offing hippies at a weekend-long concert. |
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