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NEW
MOVIES! SEPTEMBER 15 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
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CAMILLE (dir: Gregory Mackenzie, PG-13) – James Franco, who’s looking a lot like Rafael Nadal these days, plays an incorrigible bad boy whose plan to honeymoon at Niagara Falls is really just a front to escape to Canada. Sienna Miller plays the unlucky bride along for the trip. And she might be a ghost. Speaking of ghosts, David Carradine makes his zillionth film appearance since dying. |
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DEADGIRL (dir: Marcel
Sarmiento, Unrated) – Two teen friends experience a gruesome yet poignant coming of age when they explore the moral ramifications of keeping a zombie woman as their imprisoned girlfriend. |
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EASY VIRTUE (dir: Stephan Elliott, PG-13) – Jessica Biel continues her bid for legitimacy with this Noel Coward adaptation about a brassy American flapper freaking out her stuffy British in-laws, Colin Firth and Kristen Scott Thomas. |
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GRACE (dir: Paul
Solet, R) – It’s pretty bold for a movie to put a blood-covered baby bottle on its cover. Way to eliminate essentially all of humanity from watching your film. Who’s going to rent this? Albert Fish? |
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NERDCORE RISING (dir: Negin
Farsad, Not Rated) – You guys didn’t know about the huge nerd rap movement?
Jeesh, it’s been blowing up for a while now. Nobody raps about cars and mansions anymore. It’s all about sci-fi conventions and computer jargon now. |
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*NEXT DAY AIR (dir: Benny Boom, R) –
The always entertaining Mos Def stars in this surprising crime caper
that's a nice throwback to the films of the 1970s. He and Donald
Faison play shipping company employees who think they've struck it
rich when they discover enough cocaine to keep Lindsay Lohan
bouncing off the walls for a month. The rightful owners of the drugs
obviously take issue with this. |
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NIGHTWATCHING (dir: Peter
Greenaway, R) – Since this is a Peter Greenaway film, expect several things. Ornate set design. Heaps of nudity. A healthy serving of pretentiousness. Stuff like that. |
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PVC-1 (dir: Spiros
Stathoulopoulos, Not Rated) – The true story of a Colombian woman
who was forced to wear a bomb around her neck and told it would
explode in 85 minutes gets an intense, documentary-style treatment
in this real-time, single take, zero budget thriller. By all
accounts it's intense and well-made but how could it possibly be
entertaining to watch? |
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RUMBA (dir: Dominique Abel / Fiona Gordon / Bruno
Romy, Not Rated) – Two Belgian schoolteachers obsessed with Latin
dancing face a series of increasingly dire obstacles including but
not limited to car crashes, fires and amputated legs. But does it
slow down their all-consuming need to dance? No way. This deadpan
comedy, which wears its Jacques Tati influence very proudly, is from
the people that gave us L'ICEBERG. |
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SEVERED WAYS: THE NORSE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA (dir: Tony Stone, Not Rated) – If you only watch one Viking movie this year, it should probably be the one with all of the dialogue spoken in Old Norse and a
“throbbing black-metal soundtrack.” |
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SICK GIRL (dir: Eben
McGarr, Unrated) – This low budget shocker about a high school
girl on a bloody revenge spree is a must-rent for you six-or-so
extreme cinema enthusiasts out there. |
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STELLA: LIVE IN BOSTON (dir: David
Wain, Not Rated) – Michael Ian Black, David Wain and Michael Showalter bring their uniquely silly yet smart brand of humor to
Beantown. Maybe you were there. Man, I bet it was fun. I wish I could’ve seen it. Oh, wait. That’s what this DVD is for.
Supercool! |
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TRIANGLE (dir: Ringo Lam / Johnnie To / Hark
Tsui, R) – Legendary Hong Kong directors Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark and
Johnnie To collaborate on this crime thriller, each directing a 30
minute segment. Highly anticipated, this was considered a
disappointment upon its theatrical release but has since established
a devoted, and vocal, fanbase. |
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^WHITE NIGHT WEDDING (dir: Baltasar
Kormakur, Not Rated) – On a remote island off the coast of
Iceland, a middle-aged professor plans to marry a woman half his
age. Everyone from the girl's mother to the priest, as well as the
bride and groom, think it's a terrible idea, yet nobody seems able
to pull the plug. This subtle comedy is from Baltasar Kormakur, the
director of 101 REYKJAVIK and THE SEA. |
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X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (dir: Gavin Hood, PG-13) – Wow. Hugh Jackman’s really been hitting the gym. But since he has that fancy adamantium exoskeleton, why does he need to work out? |
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