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NEW
MOVIES! APRIL 8 - APRIL 14, 2008
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DAY OF THE DEAD (dir: Steve Miner, R) – George Romero may not have been hands-on with this zombie update, but horror legend director Steve Miner was and he's the man
who gave us FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 and III. |
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DEAD FISH (dir: Charley
Stadler, R) – Gary Oldman and Robert Carlyle star in this British crime thriller that's part Quentin Tarentino rip-off and part Guy Ritchie rip-off. Bonus points for featuring small turns
from Terence Stamp and Billy Zane, though. |
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ELEVEN MEN OUT (dir: Robert I. Douglas, R) – When one of Iceland's star soccer players gets the boot for being gay, he turns the tables by starting the first all-gay squad in the country. |
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THE ELEVENTH HOUR (dir: Nadia Conners / Leila Conners Petersen, PG) – When Al Gore runs around like Chicken Little saying the sky is falling, it's easy to laugh and ignore our environmental crisis. But when Leonardo DiCaprio does the same,
it's time to stand up and take action. |
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FOG CITY MAVERICKS (dir: Gary
Leva, Not Rated) – Find out if there's something in the water in San Francisco that helps churn out great directors like Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas in this doc that focuses on these and other rebels. |
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INNOCENT VOICES (dir: Luis
Mandoki, Not Rated) – A young boy tries to keep his family together, as well as avoid being recruited for the army, during El Salvador's civil
war. You'd never guess this memorable Spanish-language drama was from the
director of such forgettable Hollywood junk as TRAPPED and ANGEL EYES. |
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^LIONS FOR LAMBS (dir: Robert Redford, R) – Robet Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise talk and talk about some political stuff. |
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LOOKING FOR CHEYENNE (dir: Valerie
Minetto, R) – A French woman ditches Paris after being laid off and sets out to discover herself. And by that, I mean she fornicates a lot. |
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THE MONASTERY: MR. VIG AND THE NUN (dir: Pernille Rose
Gronkjaer, Not Rated) – This Danish documentary about an 82-year-old loner guy who's been building a monastery for 40 years in the woods has wowed just about everyone who has been lucky enough to get a chance to see it. |
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MUSIC WITHIN (dir: Steven
Sawalich, R) – Ron Livingston stars as a real-life dude who came back from Vietnam with damaged hearing and then devoted his life to helping people with disabilities. I smell Oscar, or at least a Cable ACE Award. |
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P2 (dir: Franck
Khalfoun, R) – There are three obvious reactions to this film. 1) I'm not watching some crappy horror movie set in a parking garage! 2) Oh, man. Poor Wes Bentley. What happened to him? or 3) Man! This parking garage-set horror film is not nearly as bad as I'd thought it'd be! |
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PARTITION (dir: Vic
Sarin, R) – Jimi Mistry and Neve Campbell star in this epic love story set against the separation of India into Pakistan. |
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RESERVATION ROAD (dir: Terry George, R) – It would be easy to get excited about a high-pedigree indie starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly and Mark
Ruffalo. It's also based a tense and dramatically potent book by John Burnham Schwartz. And Terry George, the guy that directed HOTEL RWANDA, helmed it. So why is it so bad? |
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RESURRECTING THE CHAMP (dir: Rod
Lurie, PG-13) – Josh Hartnett aims to get Samuel L. Jackson off the streets and back in the boxing ring where
he belongs. |
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SHARKWATER (dir: Rob Stewart, PG) – Did you enjoy your eco-vacation in Costa Rica? Well, I hope you didn't since you were by proxy supporting a corrupt government involved in the billion dollar illegal
shark-finning industry. Learn this and other fun facts in this documentary headed up by an ego-maniacal dwarf. No, really. It's good. |
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THE SILLY AGE (dir: Pavel
Giroud, Not Rated) – Cuba's official Oscar entry for last year sees a youngster head to Havana to live with a
grandmother he's never known. And it's set during the revolution. |
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*THERE WILL BE BLOOD (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson, R) – It may have been cheated out of Best Picture by those crafty Coen Brothers, but at least Double-D Lewis bagged his Best Actor trophy for the performance of the century (so far).
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WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY (dir: Jake
Kasdan, R) – I'm mostly just excited that John C. Reilly finally gets to be the headliner in a movie. Otherwise, this lampoon of music
bio-pics is a bit hit or miss. Plenty of gratuitous nudity though. |
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THE WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP (dir: Jay Russell, PG) – Some kids with goofy accents find the Loch Ness monster. Or something that looks a lot like the Loch Ness Monster. Not that anyone really knows what it looks like. Or if it even exists, really. I kind of hope it does, you know? |
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ZEBRAMAN (dir: Takashi
Miike, Not Rated) – Takashi Miike is at it again. And by "it" I mean terrifying the viewing public with his patented brand of crazy Japanese genre-blending. This one has been described as "VISITOR Q for kids" and the fact that a statement like that has been rendered possible is enough to get me reaching for the remote. |
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Bart's pick of the week! |
