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NEW
MOVIES! OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 2, 2009
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AFTERWARDS (dir: Gilles
Bourdos, R) – John Malkovich plays a doctor who claims to be able to predict when people will die. Probably due to
the fact that his patients keep pulling their own plugs when they see Dr. John Malkovich loping threateningly across the room toward them. Seriously, can you imagine? (tiny shiver) |
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE PLAN (dir: Edward James
Olmos, Not Rated) – Didn't this show end? Did someone not nail the coffin shut correctly? I thought I was through with people telling me that this is the greatest thing that's ever been on television and how even if you don't like sci-fi it doesn't matter because it's not really sci-fi. I'm still not falling for it. I assure you, I will never, ever watch this program. |
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THE BUTCHER (dir: Jin-won Kim,
Unrated) – If you see only one Korean film about a guy in a blood soaked apron wearing a pig mask this year... |
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^FEAR(S) OF THE DARK (dir: Blutch / Charles Burns / et. al, Not Rated) – This anthology of scary French cartoons is long on style, low on chills. |
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I AM BECAUSE WE ARE (dir: Nathan
Rissman, Not Rated) – Finally someone had the courage to document Madonna's selfless and poetic struggle to adopt every African baby available. And that someone was Madonna! |
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ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (dir: Carlos
Saldanha, PG) – This was the biggest moneymaker globally this year so you better get used to Ray Romano and Queen Latifah voicing pterodactyls every couple of years. Kids love it because they think it's funny. Ray Romano loves it because he can record his dialogue at home in his bathrobe while getting stoned. |
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IL DIVO (dir: Paolo
Sorrentino, Not Rated) – This chilling bio-pic of Giulio Andreotti, the most powerful man in Italian politics, has been hailed around the world for its fearlessness. Expect the director to have a very deadly accident any day now. |
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INTO TEMPTATION (dir: Patrick Coyle, R) – Kristen Chenoweth plays a drug-addled hooker planning to kill herself on her birthday unless her priest can convince her she has too much to live for. He's probably wrong, seeing as how she has sex with people in order to pay for her drug
habit - but she still shouldn't do it. |
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LIONESS (dir: Meg McLagan / Daria
Sommers, Not Rated) – This documentary follows five female soldiers over the course of a year in Iraq. Does gender have to be a dividing line in military service? Do the ladies belong in combat situations? These and other vaguely interesting questions may or may not be answered within. |
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LOVE OF SIAM (dir: Chukiat
Sakveerakul, Not Rated) – A Thai boy band member must decide if his best friend is just a friend or something more. Judging from the cover of the DVD, things seem all sorted out. |
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MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY (dir: Barry Jenkins, Not Rated) – Two young San Franciscans wake up in bed together with no recollection of how they got there. As they whimsically unravel the mystery of the night before, they start to fall for one another even though they're, of course, polar opposites. |
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NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS (dir: Alfredo De Villa, PG-13) – In case you missed HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, THIS CHRISTMAS, THE PERFECT HOLIDAY, THE FAMILY STONE and a hundred other movies I can't even think of. |
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OBJECTIFIED (dir: Gary
Hustwit, Not Rated) – The director of HELVETICA temporarily abandons his love of font for this documentary about our complex relationship with the objects we surround ourselves with. Sounds boring as hell but so
did a documentary about a font and that was pretty cool. |
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ORPHAN (dir: Jaume
Collet-Serra, R) – Although it steals openly and lovingly from evil kid movies like THE BAD SEED and THE GOOD SON, ORPHAN rises above mediocrity with the classy casting of Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga and a plot twist loony enough to secure a place in cult movie heaven. |
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*SAUNA (dir: Antti-Jussi
Annila, Not Rated) – Although a Finnish movie about a haunted sauna is sort of like a Swiss movie about haunted chocolate, it's very easy to get past the silliness of the premise and be terrified by the guy with a black hole where his face should be. |
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THE TOURNAMENT (dir: Scott Mann, R) – There is so much happening on the cover of this DVD. No less than five people are pointing guns at stuff, there's a bunch of fire, I think that helicopter is going to crash and Robert Carlyle is dressed as a priest. |
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TULPAN (dir: Sergei
Dvortsevoy, Not Rated) – In the rugged solitude of Kazakhstan, a young man yearns for a bride so he can finally move out of his sister's yurt and get his own goats. |
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WHATEVER WORKS (dir: Woody Allen, PG-13) – Larry David and Woody Allen seems like a no-brainer. Throw in Evan Rachel Wood as a suitable Soon-Yi stand-in and it should be smooth sailing. So why the mediocrity? |
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pick of the week! ^ = Bart's
pick of the week! |
