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NEW MOVIES!  JULY 14 - JULY 20, 2009

BLACK IRISH (dir: Brad Gann, R) – Two brothers from South Boston take remarkably different paths through life in this gritty indie.

BREAK (dir: Marc Clebanoff, Not Rated) – A terminally ill crime boss hires a hitman to put him out of his misery in this offbeat noir. This was one of five films David Carradine had finished before his death.

THE EDGE OF LOVE (dir: John Maybury, PG-13) – Things are rough for Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley. Not only are they fighting over doomed poet Dylan Thomas, but the blitz just started as well.
^EXPLICIT ILLS (dir: Mark Webber, R) – Rising stars Rosario Dawson, Paul Dano and Lou Taylor Pucci star in actor pal Mark Webber's debut film - a series of interlocking stories set in Philadephia.

FRONTRUNNERS (dir: Caroline Suh, Not Rated) – High school politics get the documentary treatment with this whimsical look at the race to be student body president of Stuyvesant High School.

*GREY GARDENS (dir: Michael Sucsy, PG) – The eccentric dilapidated mansion-dwelling cousins of Jackie O get their story retold with great vigor from Jessica Lange and an impressive Drew Barrymore.
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT (dir: Peter Cornwell, R) – People get really freaked out by the artwork for this movie where the boy appears to be vomiting ghosts. Sadly, there's not much more to this AMITYVILLE HORROR retread.

HORSEMEN (dir: Jonas Akerlund, R) – Dennis Quaid tries to find the party responsible for a series of grisly deaths, but all the signs point toward a biblical prophecy. Sounds dopey, but Jonas Akerlund's last movie was SPUN which was surprisingly good.

THE MINORITY (dir: Dwayne Buckle, Not Rated) – A young African-American man who repeatedly runs into bad luck single-handedly catches a serial killer and sees things finally turn around for him.
ONE WAY (dir: Reto Salimbeni, Not Rated) – Til Schweiger plays a dirtball who, to cover up his own infidelities, helps a criminal cover his tracks. Hopefully somewhere along the way he'll learn to do the right thing.

12 (dir: Nikita Mikhalkov, PG-13) – It's a Russian TWELVE ANGRY MEN when a bunch of grumps decide the fate of a Chechen teenager accused of murdering his stepfather. 

VAN WILDER: FRESHMAN YEAR (dir: Harvey Glazer, Unrated) – Kristen Cavalarri, one of those evil girls from LAGUNA BEACH and THE HILLS, heads up this needless quickie prequel.
* = GREG's pick of the week!         ^ = Bart's pick of the week!

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