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NEW
MOVIES! JANUARY 27 - FEBRUARY 2, 2009
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ABEL RAISES CAIN (dir: Jenny Abel / Jeff
Hockett, Not Rated) – Alan Abel, the infamous media prankster, gets the documentary treatment from his daughter Jenny. |
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CLOSING THE RING (dir: Richard
Attenborough, R) – Sir Richard Attenborough gets behind the camera for the first time in a decade for this epic romance set in Ireland and spanning fifty years. Making appearances are Shirley
MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton and Neve Campbell. |
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COLLEGE (dir: Deb Hagan,
Unrated) – Three prospective freshman spend what should be a wonderful weekend of promiscuous sex and binge drinking being bullied by the meanest frat brothers on campus. How will they manage to seek revenge and still contract Hep C by Monday morning? |
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FIREPROOF (dir: Alex Kendrick, PG) – If shoddy production values, Kirk Cameron’s terrible acting and Christian values are your cup of tea, you’ll love this movie that proudly hails itself as “the #1 inspirational movie in America!”. |
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GIRLS ROCK! (dir: Arne Johnson / Shane King, PG) – In this little gem of a documentary, a bunch of girls aged 8-18 learn to unleash their inner hellion at The Rock ‘N’ Roll Camp for Girls. Featuring the music of girl-centric bands like The Gossip, Le Tigre and
Sleater-Kinney. |
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HOLLY (dir: Guy Moshe, R) – Ron Livingston plays a card shark hustling his way around Cambodia who, against his better judgment, helps a young girl escape from sexual slavery. |
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HULK VS. (dir: Frank
Paur, PG-13) – In this exciting double feature, The Hulk first battles Wolverine in the Canadian wilderness and then faces off against Thor in a battle for the ages. More importantly, the lenticular box art for this dvd is awesome. |
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IN LOVE WE TRUST (dir: Xiaoshuai Wang, Not Rated) – A divorced couple learns that the only way to save their daughter from a rare blood disease is to have another baby. This intense drama from China is this month’s Film Movement selection. |
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LAKEVIEW TERRACE (dir: Neil
LaBute, PG-13) – Samuel L. Jackson plays a Los Angeles cop who takes a very disapproving stance on his new neighbors, an inter-racial couple. He was the man that gave us SNAKES ON A PLANE and of course he’s the guy to bring us this high-concept thriller which I wish had been called REVERSE-RACIST COP NEIGHBOR. |
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LAST STOP FOR PAUL (dir: Neil
Mandt, PG-13) – Two mild mannered guys decide to travel around the world scattering their dead friend’s ashes along the way. Filmed on location in Jamaica, Chile, Greece, Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand with the two stars also serving as cinematographer, director, cameraman and writer. |
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THE LUCKY ONES (dir: Neil Burger, R) – Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Michael Pena star as three Iraq
War vets who end up on an unlikely road trip across the country after a blackout in New York. |
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OUR OWN (dir: Dmitri
Meskhiyev, Not Rated) – This Russian film has been piling up awards from around the globe for its intense depiction of a war-torn village infested by German scum in 1941. |
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POISONED BY POLONIUM: THE LITVINENKO FILE (dir: Andrei
Nekrasov, Not Rated) – Former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko had some Polonium slipped in his tea during a visit to England in 2006. You may remember the pictures of him in a hospital bed looking very grey before dying of radiation poisoning. This muckraking documentary aims to find out who’s responsible. Guys, Vladimir Putin is a black-belt in Judo. Is this really a path you wish to proceed on? |
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PRIDE AND GLORY (dir: Gavin O'Connor, R) – Edward Norton and Colin Farrell play brothers/cops who find their family bonds tested after an ambush leaves two cops dead. Similar to last year’s WE OWN THE NIGHT but
suckier. |
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REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA (dir: Darren Lynn
Bousman, R) – What do you get when you add the creator of the SAW films, Paris Hilton and opera diva Sarah
Brightman? One of 2008’s absolute cinematic atrocities, of course. |
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THE ROCKER (dir: Peter
Cattaneo, PG-13) – Rainn Wilson from THE OFFICE makes a bid for big-screen stardom and, just like David Spade and Shelley Long before him, fails. |
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ROCKNROLLA (dir: Guy Ritchie, R) – Guy Ritchie rebounds from recent flops like REVOLVER and being married to Madonna with an energetic and funny caper that recalls his LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS and SNATCH heyday. |
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*ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED (dir: Marina
Zenovich, Not Rated) – Roman Polanski may have some improper ideas about what to do with a bunch of Quaaludes, a 13-year-old girl and Jack Nicholson’s
jacuzzi, but the man did live through his folks being gassed in The Holocaust and his very pregnant wife being butchered by
the Manson Family so, you know, cut him some slack. |
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SAVE ME (dir: Robert Cary, Not Rated) – Chad Allen/Judith Light OUR HOUSE reunion! Where’s Shannen Doherty? |
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TOKYO GORE POLICE (dir: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Not Rated) – In the Tokyo of the future criminals will actually amputate limbs and then bio-fuse weapons onto their stumps. You can imagine the problem this presents for Tokyo’s future police. |
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^VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (dir: Woody Allen, PG-13) – Woody Allen’s having a pretty good run lately. His latest comedy stars current muse Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall as young Americans spending the summer in Spain and getting caught up in the romantic entanglements of Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. |
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