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NEW MOVIES!
DECEMBER 25 - DECEMBER 31, 2007
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AMERICAN PIE PRESENTS BETA HOUSE (dir: Andrew Waller, Not Rated) – Much like herpes, the AMERICAN PIE franchise doesn’t ever really go away. It just waits until you’ve almost forgotten it ever existed to rear its ugly
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ARRANGED (dir: Diane Crespo / Stefan Schaefer, Not Rated) – This month’s Film Movement selection tells the story of two young ladies in Brooklyn from very different backgrounds who are both going through the process of having their marriages arranged for them by their families. |
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THE BROTHERS SOLOMON (dir: Bob
Odenkirk, R) – It stars Will Arnett from ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. It’s directed by Bob Odenkirk from MR. SHOW. So why do I have this creeping dread that there is nothing funny happening here? |
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*CZECH DREAM (dir: Vit Klusak / Filip
Remunda, Not Rated) – The good people of the Czech Republic are subjected to a hilarious prank involving a fake department store and the manipulative powers of consumerism. |
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^EASTERN PROMISES (dir: David
Cronenberg, R) – Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg follow A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE with this even better thriller set in the dangerous underworld of London. And after seeing his nude knife fight, I guarantee you’ll never look at Viggo quite the
same again. |
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THE HEARTBREAK KID (dir: Peter Farrelly / Bobby
Farrelly, R) – Like everyone else in America, I was prepared to dismiss this remake of the classic Charles Grodin comedy. However, if America and I had known we were in for an audaciously uncomfortable cinematic rebellion, we might have been a little more pumped. Seriously, you’ll cringe a lot. Sooo awkward. |
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INTIMATE AFFAIRS (dir: Alan Rudolph, R) – Dermot Mulroney, Nick Nolte and Terrence Howard star in this Alan Rudolph drama about scholars
in the Twenties researching the mysteries of sex. It was made in 2001 but for reasons we may not want to know is just surfacing now. |
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THE KINGDOM (dir: Peter Berg, R) – What better way to ring in 2008 than by watching Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper and Jennifer Garner shoot up Saudi Arabia. Seriously though, this movie is exciting and taut and right when the action needs to kick in, it does. |
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LIVING & DYING (dir: Jon
Keeyes, R) – Edward Furlong is alive! That’s exciting news to those of us who thought his one-two punch of AMERICAN HISTORY X and PECKER would lead to superstardom. And
then… didn’t. |
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RUSH HOUR 3 (dir: Brett
Ratner, PG-13) – Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, much like listless German businessman on yet another bender of conferences and hotel porn, sleepwalk through this cynical retread of something that was a cynical retread to start with. |
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SHATTERED (dir: Mike Barker, R) – Gerard Butler and Maria Bello play a
loving and happily bland couple whose world is thrown into chaos when madman Pierce Brosnan kidnaps their wee daughter. |
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| * = Greg's
pick of the week! ^ =
Bart's pick of the week! |
