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NEW
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AMERICAN SWING (dir: Jon Hart / Matthew Kaufman, Not Rated) – Discover how sleazy the
1970s truly were with this rollicking documentary about Plato’s Retreat, the infamous New York sex club. Just pray you don’t see any old footage of your parents. |
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THE CALLER (dir: Richard
Ledes, PG-13) – Elliot Gould plays a shady corporate executive who fears for his life after unwittingly releasing some very troubling documents. He hires private eye Frank Langella to protect him, but it’s a distinct possibility that he’s also working for the people that want to rub him out. |
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^THE COUNTRY TEACHER (dir: Bohdan
Slama, Not Rated) – Film Movement brings us the latest film from Czech director Bodhan
Slama, whose last film SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS was a big
success for them. In this, a middle-aged closeted gay teacher moves onto a farm with a lonely woman and her problematic teenage son and the expected romantic entanglements unfold. |
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CTHULHU (dir: Dan
Gildark, R) – Gesundheit! For H.P. Lovecraft fans, this title needs no
translation. But for everyone else it means: "Yay! It's the new
Tori Spelling movie!" |
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DARK MATTER (dir:
Shi-Zheng Chen, R) – Meryl Streep plays an elite college patron who brings in a brilliant Chinese student with the expectation that he’ll win a Nobel prize or something. But when cultural differences and school politics threaten his efforts, he goes way over the edge. |
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LOST IN AUSTEN (dir: Dan
Zeff, Not Rated) – I though the British couldn’t make a movie more deranged than last week’s DONKEY PUNCH. I was wrong. In this work sprung from the mind of someone very mentally ill, a young lady teleports through her bathroom into the world of PRIDE & PREJUDICE. |
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*THE READER (dir: Stephen
Daldry, R) – Kate Winslet has really made quite a career for herself out of disrobing on screen. In this, she finally bags her Oscar by playing a sexy Nazi who bags a teenage boy. |
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THE SPIRIT (dir: Frank Miller, PG-13) – Frank Miller probably should have stuck to having works like SIN CITY and 300 adapted into big hits with the help of other people. He strikes out pretty badly with this adaptation of the classic D.C. comic despite the best efforts of Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes. |
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SPLINTER (dir: Toby Wilkins, R) – At the prestigious Screamfest Awards last year, this icky feature about some folks trapped in a gas station by a vicious parasite took home six awards. Although I guess how prestigious you’d consider the Screamfest Awards is directly proportional to how likely you’d be to watch an icky horror film about a vicious parasite. |
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