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NEW
MOVIES! APRIL 21 - APRIL 27, 2009
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CAPRICA (dir: Jeffrey
Reiner, Not Rated) – The creators of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA offer up the pilot of their highly anticipated new series about a peaceful planet that develops some serious problems after a breakthrough in artificial intelligence is discovered. |
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DANTE 01 (dir: Marc
Caro, R) – You’d think life on a French space station would be ideal. You’d sit around drinking expensive coffee and munching baguettes while having leisurely conversations about how bourgeois life on Earth is. But no, it’s actually more about super-evil organisms with alien powers killing you. |
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FOREST OF DEATH (dir: Danny Pang, R) – The Pang Brothers sure know how to fill movies with vivid imagery. Here’s hoping FOREST OF DEATH will pick up the slack in the story department. Other than THE EYE films, that’s where their previous films have been big let-downs. |
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^FROST/NIXON (dir: Ron Howard, R) – I thought this was a documentary about the avant-garde graffiti artist team from Belgium in the early 80s, but it turns out it’s about some historic TV interview.
Booorrrring. |
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GLASS: A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP IN TWELVE PARTS (dir: Scott Hicks, Not Rated) – I love Philip Glass. Probably more than most people. I don’t even care that most of the music he makes closely resembles other music he’s also made. Interviews with frequent collaborators Martin Scorsese and Errol Morris help shed some light on this fascinating character. |
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HOLDING TREVOR (dir: Rosser Goodman, R) – A young, successful gay man must choose between his wild but immature boyfriend and a more serious relationship with an ambitious medical student. |
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HOUSE (dir: Robby Henson, R) – Like many dumb couples in horror films, the young lovers in this straight-to-DVD schlock-fest seem to think when experiencing car trouble that it makes a lot of sense to find the nearest terrifying, dilapidated mansion available and allow whomever is inside to slaughter them. |
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THE LAST WORD (dir: Geoffrey Haley, R) – Wes Bentley plays a creepy young man who makes his living as a suicide note writer for hire. Winona Ryder plays the quirky sister of one of his former clients and, predictably, these two goofballs fall in love. |
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NO REGRET (dir: Hee-il
Leesong, R) – In this Korean drama, the big problem for our protagonists is not the fact that they’re gay. It’s that they’re from different social classes. |
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NOTORIOUS (dir: George Tillman Jr., R) – Big Poppa aka The Notorious
B.I.G. gets the bio-pic treatment a decade after falling victim to the rap wars of the
90s. The Tupac bio-pic would have happened by now but everybody knows he faked his death and is living in Cuba. |
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*THE WRESTLER (dir: Darren
Aronofsky, R) – Mickey Rourke’s year of ultimate redemption would have been neatly capped with that Oscar but Sean Penn snuck away with it. Regardless, the baddest dude in Hollywood is back on top and even haters will not be able to deny his heartbreaking turn as the faded superstar Randy “The Ram” Robinson. |
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