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NEW
MOVIES! MARCH 18 - MARCH 24, 2008
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ALPHA MALE (dir: Dan Wilde, R) – A rich English family is thrown into turmoil after the patriarch dies in this classy drama starring Danny Huston. |
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APPLESEED EX MACHINA (dir: Shinji
Aramaki, PG-13) – The classic anime gets an update with the help of John Woo and Shinji
Aramaki. |
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ATONEMENT
(dir: Joe Wright, R) – Maybe if this movie had won some Oscars Keira Knightly could've
gotten that underbite fixed. |
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AUGUST THE FIRST (dir: Lanre
Olabisi, Not Rated) – A young man’s graduation party is thrown into disarray with, among other things, the surprise arrival of his father from Nigeria in this Film Movement offering that unfolds over the course of one day. |
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BORDERLAND (dir: Zev Berman,
Unrated) – Three college students from Texas decide to spend a wild night across the border. Watch out for that Mexican death cult though. |
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CRAZY EIGHTS (dir: James Koya Jones, R) – Childhood friends meet up at a funeral and discover they’ve all been suffering from the same psychological episodes. Will digging up a time capsule buried during their youth reveal the cause of their troubles or just create new ones? |
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THE DEATHS OF IAN STONE (dir: Dario
Piana, R) – A young man discovers he is being haunted by a demonic force that will kill him over and over until he can unravel the mystery of its origin. |
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ENCHANTED
(dir: Kevin Lima, PG) – Amy Adams from JUNEBUG charms everybody in sight in this Disney comedy that has appeal beyond the tween set. A supporting cast including Patrick Dempsey, Susan Sarandon and Timothy Spall doesn’t hurt. |
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HOUSEWIFE, 49 (dir: Gavin Millar, Not Rated) – A nice British lady fills her time doing volunteer work for the war effort in 1939 to escape her overbearing husband and to distract herself from the fact that her beloved son is off fighting the Germans. |
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AM LEGEND (dir: Francis Lawrence, PG-13) – Will Smith, who may or may not be the last man on Earth, hunts down zombies in an eerily empty New York with his faithful German Shepherd in this remake of THE OMEGA MAN. |
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LAKE DEAD (dir: George
Bessudo, Unrated) – Three beautiful sisters head to a remote lake to find out what happened to their long lost Grandfather. My money is on him having been brutally murdered by the inbred psychopaths that also reside at the remote lake. |
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LOVE
IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (dir: Mike Newell, R) – Javier Bardem heads up Mike Newell’s adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s beloved novel which got universally mediocre reviews. |
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MULBERRY ST. (dir: Jim
Mickle, R) – Horror abounds in this variation on the standard Zombie Movie formula. |
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NIGHTMARE MAN (dir: Rolfe
Kanefsky, R) – This horror extravaganza promises sexy ladies and scary masks, though it’s not stated what the lady-to-mask ratio might be. |
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REVOLVER
(dir: Guy Ritchie, R) – Guy Ritchie, of SNATCH and marrying-Madonna fame, returns to directing hyper-kinetic British crime movies with this Jason Statham vs. Ray Liotta gangster
actioner. |
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THE
SASQUATCH GANG (dir: Tim Skousen, PG-13) – It’s been twenty years since HARRY AND THE
HENDERSONS. It’s about time they made a Big Foot comedy for the Jackass Generation. |
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THE
SEEKER (dir: David L. Cunningham, PG) – You know if the film HARRY POTTER AND THE
SORCERER'S STONE had been a flop and no sequels were made we would be referring to it as just HARRY POTTER. That’s what has happened to this Harry Potter clone actually called THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS RISING. |
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^SOUTHLAND
TALES (dir: Richard Kelly, R) – In his long awaited follow-up to DONNIE
DARKO,
Richard Kelly places The Rock, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and various pop stars and former Saturday Night Live alums into
a hopelessly convoluted end-of-the-world saga. Smoke up and enjoy. |
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STEEP
(dir: Mark Obenhaus, PG) – Some people get a thrill out of watching extreme skiers risk their lives tackling impossible slopes. I don’t. |
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13: GAME OF DEATH (dir: Chukiat
Sakveerakul, Not Rated) – Thailand is quickly joining the ranks of Japan and South Korea as an Asian nation whose high-quality film output is almost completely overshadowed by
its proliferation of crazy horror movies. |
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TOOTH AND NAIL (dir: Mark Young, R) – Getcha some post-apocalyptic horror with Rachel Miner, Rider Strong, Robert
Carradine, Vinnie Jones, and Michael Madsen. |
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UNEARTHED (dir: Matthew
Leutwyler, R) – Remember THE RELIC? Neither did the makers of this horror film with the same plot. |
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| * = Greg's
pick of the week! ^ =
Bart's pick of the week! |
