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NEW MOVIES!
DECEMBER 11 - DECEMBER 17, 2007
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: RAZOR (dir: Felix Enriquez Alcala / Wayne Rose, Not Rated) – If you’re jonesing for season 4 of the hit sci-fi channel series, let this self-contained movie keep you from freaking out until next year, when it returns to television. |
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BORDER CAFÉ (dir: Kambuzia
Partovi, Not Rated) – In the spirit of TAMPOPO and BIG NIGHT, this delightful Iranian film follows a widow who secretly keeps running her husband’s truck stop but must hide in the kitchen to avoid controversy. |
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*THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (dir: Paul
Greengrass, PG-13) – Apparently, the makers of this missed the memo from the
SHREK, DIE HARD and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN franchises that sequels are supposed to suck. |
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DECEMBER BOYS (dir: Rod Hardy, PG-13) – That Harry Potter kid is still playing an orphan, but now he’s stuck in Australia without any parents OR magical powers. |
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ESCAPE TO CANADA (dir: Albert
Nerenberg, Not Rated) – Sure, Canada may have legal, mindblowingly potent weed and guilt-free gay marriage but we’ve still got Larry The Cable Guy and no health care. They’re laughing at us, aren’t they? |
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EXILED (dir: Johnny To, R) – A bunch of unsavory criminals reluctantly work together to pull off a huge heist in the latest Hong Kong action extravaganza from Johnnie To. |
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THE FEVER (dir: Carlo Gabriel Nero, Not Rated) – Vanessa Redgrave stars alongside her daughter Joely Richardson in this adaptation of Wallace Shawn’s play about the widening gap between those who have and those who have not. |
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HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (dir: David Yates, PG-13) – I know these Harry Potter movies aren’t terrible, but did Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael
Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson and Julie Walters really take up acting to play 13th fiddle to a zitty teenager? |
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HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 (dir: Kenny Ortega, Not Rated) – When experiencing a “Zac Attack,” just breathe in and out in a paper bag for a while. I assure you, it will pass. |
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HULA GIRLS (dir:
Sang-il Lee, Not Rated) – Some nice young ladies in Japan try to save their depressing mining town by becoming dancing girls. |
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IN BETWEEN DAYS (dir: So Yong Kim, Not Rated) – A couple of teenaged Korean kids try to adapt to life in Canada in this well reviewed debut film from So Yong Kim which was screened at the Sundance, Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals. |
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INTERVIEW (dir: Steve
Buscemi, R) – Steve Buscemi stars in and directs this adaptation of dead Dutch director Theo Van Gogh’s claustrophobic story of a self-destructive journalist sent to write a story about a seemingly vapid starlet. |
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^LADY CHATTERLEY (dir: Pascale
Ferran, Not Rated) – Kenneth Turan from The Los Angeles Times called this
D.H. Lawrence adaptation “the most frankly sensual movie in memory.” It’s so hot you won’t even miss Sylvia
Kristel. |
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NAKED BOYS SINGING! (dir: Robert Schrock, Not Rated) – It’s nice when a movie gets right to the point, you know? |
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THE RITCHIE BOYS (dir: Christian Bauer, Not Rated) – This acclaimed documentary tells the heroic story of a group of German Jews who, after heading to America following Hitler’s rise to power, returned to their homeland to fight as U.S. soldiers. |
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SIGUR ROS: HEIMA (dir: Dean
DeBlois, Not Rated) – Unusual Icelandic band Sigur Ros played a series of offbeat shows around their island home a couple of summers ago at abandoned lighthouses and volcanoes and places like that. And very thoughtfully made a film of it all. |
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WANDERLUST (dir: Shari Springer Berman / Robert
Pulcini, Not Rated) – Filmmakers Wim Wenders, Gus Van Sant, Barry Levinson and loads more weigh in on the appeal of the American road movie. |
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