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NEW
MOVIES! SEPTEMBER 22 - SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
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ADAM RESURRECTED (dir: Paul Schrader, R) – Jeff Goldblum kicks out one of his most powerful performances as a Holocaust survivor struggling with bad memories. Granted, the closest competition in his arsenal of powerful performances are JURASSIC PARK and INDEPENDENCE DAY. |
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BATTLE FOR TERRA (dir: Aristomenis
Tsirbas, PG) – Evan Rachel Wood, James Garner and Danny Glover lend their voices to this animated interplanetary adventure. A rebellious young alien hottie falls in love with an injured human pilot and her entire planet might have to deal with the
repercussions. |
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BLOOD AND BONE (dir: Ben Ramsey, R) –
Spurting and crunching, I suspect. |
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Clive Barker's
BOOK OF BLOOD (dir: John Harrison, R) – A paranormal researcher suspects that the college student she’s been fornicating with is a link between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Which is potentially a problem. |
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BYE-BYE, BIN LADEN!
(dir: Scott Sublett, Not Rated) – Everything from the media to George W. Bush to terrorism gets a vicious raking over the coals courtesy of this animated satire. In it, Osama Bin Laden decides to raise his profile by hosting a game show. Not to be outdone, George and daughter Jenna attempt to revive the variety show format. |
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GENERIC THRILLER (dir: Scott
Sublett, Not Rated) - Taking cues from Fellini and John Waters, a delightful combination if ever there was one, this post-modern comedy follows the attempts of a theatre professor to write a straightforward thriller, only to see it hijacked by an overzealous cast as well as his personal demons. |
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GHOST CAT (dir: Don
McBrearty, PG) – Well, I guess Ellen Page figured out how to avoid forever being thought of only as Juno. Now she’ll be remembered as the girl from GHOST CAT. Which, by the way, is a movie that is literally about a cat that is also a ghost. |
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GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST (dir: Mark Waters, PG-13) – Don’t get it twisted. Hanging out at the beach all day, every day is not free. McConaughey’s just doing what a brother’s gotta do to get his chill on. Ain’t nothing wrong with earning a few greenbacks, haters. |
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GIGANTE (dir: Adrian
Biniez, Not Rated) – Perhaps the most charming movie ever made about stalking, GIGANTE follows a lonely security guard at a Montevideo, Uruguay supermarket as he slowly falls in love with the night cleaning lady. He watches her on the security cameras night after night but can he ever summon the nards to approach her in the real world? From our buddies at Film Movement. |
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THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO (dir: Rob Zombie, R) – Oh, no. My brain hurts with the possibilities that are afforded Rob Zombie in the world of animation. This will not end well. |
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LANDSCAPE NO.2 (dir: Vinko
Moderndorfer, Not Rated) – Two Slovenian burglars think they’re swiping a famous painting but inadvertently also snag some important WWII documents. This nerve-jangler has been repeatedly called the Balkan answer to NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. |
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*LYMELIFE (dir: Derick Martini, R) – Whoa. Nobody’s seen this much Culkin since that private modeling session at Neverland Valley Ranch in 1992. For the price of one rental, you get not only Keiran Culkin but his lil’ bro Rory. Bargain! And, holy Toledo, Alec Baldwin seals the deal. Seriously though, this “violently funny” coming of age film set in Long Island in the 1970’s hits all the right notes. |
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OBSERVE AND REPORT (dir: Jody Hill, R) – Let me be as clear as I can possibly be. If you in any way thought that PAUL
BLART: MALL COP was a good movie or even marginally entertaining, I beseech you to NOT watch this. You can’t handle it. Nobody can handle it. |
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^O'HORTEN
(dir: Bent Hamer, PG-13) – Do you like adorable old Norwegian men?
Of course you do. Everybody does. On the eve of his forced
retirement, a train engineer tries to figure out to do with the rest
of his life. From Bent Hamer, director of not only KITCHEN STORIES
but also FACTOTUM. Prepare to have your socks charmed off. |
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OPERATION FILMMAKER (dir: Nina Davenport, Not Rated) – Okay, Liev Shreiber is a good dude. Not only does he put babies in Naomi Watts' stomach for her, he took the time to get a young Iraqi film student a job on EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED. This fascinating documentary chronicles how the best intentions can possibly lead to jerky Iraqi guys screwing up your life. |
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THE SINKING OF SANTA ISABEL (dir: Jacob Hamblin / Michael
Hamblin, Not Rated) – A disillusioned young man returns to his childhood home and sets out to build and live in the ultimate
treehouse. Friends worry he may be suffering from Peter Pan syndrome, which is just a nice way of saying “Grow up, loser.” |
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30 ROCK: SEASON 3 (dir: Tina Fey, Not Rated) – Has there ever been a funnier television program? Ever? Stew on that for a while. Although the Salma Hayak guest stint this season could have been truncated a bit. |
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TREELESS MOUNTAIN (dir: So Yong Kim, Not Rated) –
Who can resist the charms of a couple of cute little Korean girls?
Their alcoholic aunt they've been left with while their mother finds
their deadbeat father, that's who. |
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TRUMBO (dir: Peter
Askin, PG-13) – This cool documentary features Hollywood heavyweights Liam
Neeson, Michael Douglas and Joan Allen all weighing in on Dalton
Trumbo, a screenwriter blacklisted in the
1940s. Rather than retiring to a communist beach resort on the Black Sea, he wrote under pseudonyms, winning two Academy Awards in the
1950s for THE BRAVE ONE and ROMAN HOLIDAY. Take that, The Man! |
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