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NEW MOVIES!
JANUARY 15 - JANUARY 21, 2008
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CASTING ABOUT (dir: Barry J. Hershey, Not Rated) – It takes a special blend of self-absorption and delusion to become an actor. Find out all about
it in this documentary about the dramatic arts. |
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*CROSSING THE LINE (dir: Daniel Gordon, Not Rated) – This documentary about Joseph
Dresnok, America’s most famous defector, was granted a surprising amount of freedom by the North Korean government. It includes the first interviews with Dresnok since 1962 when he walked across the DMZ. |
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DIAMETER OF THE BOMB (dir: Steven Silver / Andrew Quigley, Not Rated) – This documentary about the aftermath of a suicide bomb in Jerusalem uses Israeli forensic footage, Hamas training videos and home movies of the victims to create a startling and unique portrait of tragedy. |
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GOOD LUCK CHUCK (dir: Mark
Helfrich, Unrated) – Dane Cook, when not guffawing loudly to FAMILY GUY reruns, likes to make really awful movies. In his latest, he plays a horny dentist fornicating with as many ladies as possible because of a plot device so bewildering I can neither repeat it here nor even understand it. |
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HE WAS A QUIET MAN (dir: Frank
Cappello, Not Rated) – Christian Slater turns in the performance of his career as a stressed out office drone on the verge of going nuts who inadvertently becomes a hero after saving a woman’s life. |
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JACKASS 2.5 (dir: Jeff
Tremaine, Unrated) – This selection of unused tidbits will satiate nearly every need you have to see grown man playing in each other’s bodily fluids. |
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KILLER DILLER (dir: Tricia Brock, PG-13) – A guitar playing car thief is sent to reform school where he is lucky enough to meet a piano playing autistic savant
to start a band with. |
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MR. WOODCOCK (dir: Craig Gillespie, PG-13) – Billy Bob Thornton stars as a sadistic
phys-ed teacher in this dreary comedy that has been sitting in New Line Cinemas vault since about 2004. |
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OPERATION HOMECOMING (dir: Richard E. Robbins, Not Rated) – Robert Duvall, Beau Bridges, Aaron Eckhart and others read letters from the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan in this quiet and unbiased documentary. |
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OSWALD’S GHOST (dir: Robert Stone, Not Rated) – A conspiracy theory doc about Lee Harvey Oswald and directed by “Robert” Stone. Come on,
Olly. We know it’s you. |
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THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN (dir: Taggart Siegel, Not Rated) – Here’s another documentary. This one’s about a radical farmer ostracized by his conservative community. |
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^THE TEN (dir: David
Wain, R) – The cool people who brought us WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER strike comedy gold again with this takedown of the ten commandments. |
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WEDDING DAZE (dir: Michael Ian Black, R) – Jason Biggs will never escape that AMERICAN PIE font. Nor should he. |
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