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NEW MOVIES!
FEBRUARY 5 - FEBRUARY 11, 2008
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ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (dir: Julie
Taymor, PG-13) – The songs of The Beatles are lovingly worked into this ambitious drama from TITUS director Julie
Taymor. What it lacks in clarity and believability it makes up for in visual panache. |
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AMERICANIZING SHELLEY (dir: Lorraine
Senna, PG) – Like a Bollywood MY FAIR LADY, this comedy follows a young Hollywood wannabe who must teach an Indian film star how to behave less like a lady and more like a typical young American actress. |
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BLIND DATING (dir: James
Keach, PG-13) –
A young blind man, unlucky in love, thinks he’s finally found his
soulmate, but her traditional Indian family has already promised her to someone else. |
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BLONDE AND BLONDER (dir: Dean Hamilton, PG-13) – The less said about this mob themed “comedy” starring Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards the better. |
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THE BRAVE ONE (dir: Neil Jordan, R) – Jodie Foster stars in the latest in the recent spate of DEATH WISH retreads. She plays a radio host who goes on a spree of vengeance after her fiancée is killed by a savage gang of thugs. |
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DESCENT (dir: Talia
Lugacy, NC-17) – After being brutalized by a romantic acquaintance, Rosario Dawson shuts off the outside world and begins focusing on one thing: revenge. |
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ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE (dir: Shekhar
Kapur, PG-13) – More power to Cate Blanchett, but why did her reprisal of her Academy Award nominated performance have to be a bombastic action movie? |
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FEAST OF LOVE (dir: Robert Benton, R) – Veteran director Robert Benton won’t add to his legacy with this half-baked romance with Greg
Kinnear, Radha Mitchell and Morgan Freeman. |
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FIERCE PEOPLE (dir: Griffin Dunne, R) – Griffin Dunne directs this surprisingly funny and savage attack on the upper classes starring Donald Sutherland and the eternally foxy Diane Lane. |
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FIGHTING WORDS (dir: E. Paul Edwards, R) – I don’t know how anyone could possibly not be excited about a movie that has the audacity to cast C. Thomas Howell as a slam poet. |
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GHOST SON (dir: Lamberto
Bava, Not Rated) – After being raped by her husband’s ghost, Laura Harring is freaked out to discover she’s pregnant. Later, after birthing the supernatural tot, things quickly go further downhill. |
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*GREAT WORLD OF SOUND (dir: Craig
Zobel, R) – This deftly funny caper involves a couple of con artists bilking musicians out of their life savings under the assumption that they’ll be getting a record deal. This tiny indie barely got any play in the theaters but don’t let it escape your attention. It’s a very early contender to be one this year’s best releases. |
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THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB (dir: Robin
Swicord, PG-13) – I hate to live under assumptions of gender roles, but if you can find me a human male that would sit through this I will give you five dollars. (not really) |
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NIAGARA MOTEL (dir: Gary Yates, R) – Yet another vaguely comic ensemble indie about the “wacky” goings on at a low rent motel at the love capitol of the world. |
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SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE (dir: Ed Blum, R) – Here’s one of those movies with three dozen characters and eighteen interlocking storylines that never add up to much. Even Ewan McGregor won’t save this. |
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STORM WARNING (dir: Jamie Blanks, Not Rated) – After a fun-filled day of fishing, an Australian guy and his French girlfriend take refuge from a storm on a small island. A small island populated exclusively by sadistic killers. |
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SUBURBAN GIRL (dir: Mark Klein, PG-13) – Where’d they get that photo of Alec Baldwin? 1988? |
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2 DAYS IN PARIS (dir: Julie
Delpy, R) – Julie Delpy makes her directorial debut with this comedy about a hypochondriac New Yorker, played by Adam Goldberg, learning more than he wants to know about his French girlfriend
(Delpy) and her family when they hit her hometown on vacation. |
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WEIRDSVILLE (dir: Allan
Moyle, R) – Stolen drugs. Satanic worship. Midgets dressed as medieval knights. And if you need any more enticement, it’s from the director of PUMP UP THE VOLUME and EMPIRE RECORDS. |
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WHEN A MAN FALLS (dir: Ryan
Eslinger, R) – They’re selling this as a Sharon Stone vehicle, but it’s really a look at the inner lives of three men played by Timothy Hutton, Dylan Baker and Pruitt Taylor Vince. |
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