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NEW MOVIES!
JANUARY 1 - JANUARY 7, 2008
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COCALERO (dir: Alejandro
Landes, Not Rated) – This documentary gets up close and personal with Eva Morales as he travels through the Amazon and the Andes, in sneakers and jeans, campaigning to be Bolivia’s first indigenous president. It’s not a big surprise that our government wasn’t too keen on a coca leaf farmer getting into office. |
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HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE ME? (dir: Bertrand
Blier, Not Rated) – You may remember French director Bertrand Blier from his landmark 70’s films GOING PLACES and GET OUT YOUR HANKERCHIEFS before he got bogged down in the 80’s with Skinemax trash like BEAU
PERE. Let’s see if he can redeem himself with this bawdy sex comedy starring Monica Bellucci and old pal Gerard Depardieu. |
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*INDIE SEX (dir: Lesli
Klainberg, Not Rated) – The Independent Film Channel assembled this exhaustive documentary about the history of sex in film and rounded up talking heads like Peter
Sarsgaard, John Cameron Mitchell and John Waters to provide witty anecdotes. |
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JIMMY AND JUDY (dir: Randall Rubin / Jon
Schroder, R) – Edward Furlong stars as a nihilistic teenage outcast who, with his girlfriend, goes on a road trip/killing spree and videotapes the entire thing. Mostly it’s just exciting that Edward Furlong, at age 30, is still playing teenagers. |
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RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (dir: Russell
Mulcahy, R) – It’s pretty awesome that Milla Jovovich is now our reigning action queen. From THE FIFTH ELEMENT to THE MESSENGER to the RESIDENT EVIL films she has repeatedly proven her utter ability to destroy zombies, take down aliens, and listen to the voice of God as portrayed by Dustin Hoffman. |
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SEPTEMBER DAWN (dir: Christopher Cain, R) – Just because Mitt Romney won’t be watching this account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which radical Mormons slaughtered 120 settlers in 1857 and blamed it on Indians, doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy it. When is somebody gonna ask that guy about
Kolob? |
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SHOOT 'EM UP (dir: Michael Davis, R) – This hyper-violent, hyper-comic action farce drew a lot of nasty reviews, including Bart’s, but I thought it was so over-the-top it was beyond reproach. And you’ve got Clive Owen and Monica Belucci to look at. And Paul
Giamatti. |
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SOLSTICE (dir: Daniel Myrick, PG-13) – Another horror movie set in the Louisiana bayou. That’s about the fourth in the last year. |
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A VERY SERIOUS PERSON (dir: Charles Busch, Not Rated) – Cross-dresser extraordinaire Charles Busch, of PSYCHO BEACH PARTY and DIE, MOMMY, DIE! fame, turns his hand to directing, and unfortunately it’s a sappy coming-of-age story about a boy living with his ill grandmother and her eccentric Danish male nurse. |
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WAR (dir: Philip G. Atwell, R) – Jet Li and Jason Statham kick each other repeatedly. |
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| * = Greg's
pick of the week! ^ =
Bart's ALREADY SICK oF 2008! |
