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NEW
MOVIES! NOVEMBER 24 - NOVEMBER 30, 2009
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ANGELS AND DEMONS (dir: Ron Howard, PG-13) - Everybody says that this is miles better than THE DA VINCI CODE but all I want to know is where did Tom Hanks' cool mullet go? |
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DAVID AND LAYLA (dir: Jay
Jonroy, R) - Here's a romantic comedy that won't automatically cause a gag reflex. In this fact-based film, a Muslim immigrant and an American Jew fall in love in New York and navigate an unsurprising number of difficulties. This has been kicking around the film festival circuit for a while now and is embraced wherever it's shown. |
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FAR CRY (dir: Uwe Boll, Not Rated) - Here's a shocker. German madman Uwe Boll has adapted another crummy video game into an even crummier movie. Props for letting Til
Schweiger, the German Brad Pitt, star in it. |
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FOOD BEWARE: THE FRENCH ORGANIC REVOLUTION (dir: Jean-Paul
Jaud, Not Rated) - This documentary follows a small mountain town in France that is taking radical measures about the food they eat. They've basically outlawed non-organic, non-locally grown food. |
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FOUR CHRISTMASES (dir: Seth Gordon, PG-13) - Oh, yeah. This Reese Witherspoon/Vince Vaughn comedy came out last year at the holidays and then disappeared. They've cleverly resurrected it just in time for this
year's festivities. |
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^FUNNY PEOPLE (dir: Judd
Apatow, R) - The latest Judd Apatow comedy isn't really a comedy at all. And, as with every semi-serious Adam Sandler movie, this flopped at the box office. The guy tries to branch out and gets punished for it. Try a double feature of this and SPANGLISH and you might be surprised by the little wiseacre. |
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GOMORRAH (dir: Matteo
Garrone, Not Rated) - In one of the most exciting films of the year, we take a sweeping journey into the underbelly of modern Italian crime. Think CITY OF GOD: NAPLES. |
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I CAN SEE YOU (dir: Graham
Reznick, Unrated) - A camping trip goes seriously wrong in this atypical horror film that goes for psychedelia over gore. |
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THE INDIAN (dir: James R.
Gorrie, PG-13) - A negligent Dad reenters his teenaged son's life and they bond while restoring an old motorcycle. But does Dad have an ulterior motive that will undermine all the progress they've made? |
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INTREPID DESCENT (dir: Erik Osterholm / Zander
Hartung, Not Rated) - Hey, cool! They made a short documentary about Tuckerman's Ravine on Mount Washington, which anyone around here who likes hiking knows is the birthplace of back country skiing and also
the place where a lot of people die when huge chunks of ice hit them in the head. |
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LIBERTY KID (dir: Ilya
Chaiken, Not Rated) - Several New Yorkers deal with 9/11 and its aftermath in varying ways in this tiny independent film with a broad scope. |
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LOS BASTARDOS (dir: Amat
Escalante, Not Rated) - Two Mexican day laborers do odd jobs for random sleazeballs until the days comes when they've been pushed too far. Then everything goes extremely loco. |
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LUXURY CAR (dir: Chao Wang, Not Rated) - Global Lens brings us this Chinese drama about a retired country schoolteacher who goes in search of his only son at the request of his dying wife. |
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THE MAIDEN HEIST (dir: Peter Hewitt, PG-13) - I'm not sure why nobody has ever heard of this art heist comedy with Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken and William H. Macy. But the few critics that have seen it had mostly favorable things to say. |
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SHORTS (dir: Robert Rodriguez, PG) - Here's Robert Rodriguez in kid-friendly mode. And like the SPY KIDS films, this is sort of fun with some okay special effects but also sloppy and pretty forgettable. In other words, it's perfect for 10-year-olds. |
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SWAY (YURERU) (dir: Miwa Nishikawa, Not Rated) - In this glacially paced Japanese film, two brothers return to their small country village to sort out their family affairs following their mother's death. |
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TAKING CHANCES (dir: Talmage Cooley, R) - Justin Long plays a small town guy determined to protect a historic battlefield from being bulldozed for an Indian Casino. Much to the chagrin of nearly everybody else in the cash strapped town. |
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TOI ET MOI (YOU AND ME) (dir: Julie
Lopes-Curval, Not Rated) - Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard plays a young cellist looking for love along with her flighty older sister, whose job as a romance writer often leads to elaborate fantasies. |
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TRAIN (dir: Gideon Raff, R) - Thora Birch, the train you boarded in Bulgaria is actually a slaughterhouse for organ harvesters. But you probably have figured that out now that all your friends are dead and their kidneys are jammed in some Black Sea mobsters. |
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*TROUBLED WATER (dir: Erik
Poppe, Not Rated) - A young Norwegian man gets released from prison and takes a position as a church organist. Since this is Norway, the priest at the church is a beautiful unmarried mother and they soon fall in love. It sure is going to be awkward when he gets around to telling her that he was in prison for killing a kid roughly the same age as her son. Film Movement, you've served up another winner! |
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A WINK AND A SMILE (dir: Deirdre Allen Timmons, Not Rated) - Get an inside look at the kinky and humorous world of burlesque dancers in this documentary that follows several women from very different backgrounds as they try to dip their toes in. |
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WRONG TURN AT TAHOE (dir: Franck
Khalfoun, R) - A small time crime boss kills a drug dealer not realizing he works for the biggest crime syndicate in the country. You're in trouble now, Cuba Gooding Jr. |
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