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NEW
MOVIES! DECEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 14, 2009
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CARRIERS (dir: Alex Pastor / David Pastor, PG-13) – That guy that plays the new Captain Kirk heads up the cast for this
riveting-ish thriller about a deadly plague sweeping across America. Like swine flu only not a government conspiracy. |
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*THE COVE (dir: Louie
Psihoyos, PG-13) – This documentary about an annual dolphin slaughter in a small Japanese village unfolds like a high intensity thriller. Using hidden cameras and risking imprisonment, the filmmakers secretly captured the heartless fisherman butchering our aquatic friends. Under mounting international criticism,
Taiji, Japan is now completely devoid of dolphin slaughtering! |
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DEADLINE (dir: Sean
McConville, R) – Brittany Murphy plays an artist recovering from a psychological breakdown. That haunted Victorian mansion probably isn’t the best place to do it though. |
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DOG EAT DOG (dir: Carlos Moreno, Not Rated) – A couple of Colombian gangsters get fed up with their agoraphobic crime-lord boss and decide to rip him off. Inevitably, this leads
their boss to dispatch every gun-toting thug in Cali, not to mention a voodoo priestess, to riddle them with bullets. |
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FREEDOM'S FURY (dir: Colin K. Gray / Megan Raney, Not Rated) – Without question, this is the most exciting documentary about water polo ever made. In 1956, shortly after the Hungarian Revolution got crushed by Soviet tanks, those two countries were scheduled to do battle in an Olympic swimming pool in Melbourne. What followed was infamously known as the “Blood in the Water Match” and changed water polo history forever. |
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HOME MOVIE (dir: Christopher Denham, R) – Using the same set-up as THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, HOME MOVIE documents the descent into madness of one Connecticut family’s children. |
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HUMBLE PIE (dir: Chris Bowman, Not Rated) – The producer of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE serves up another interesting oddball in Tracy
Orbison, a Midwestern stockboy with a very active imagination. Excellent use of William Baldwin as a pompous small time actor. |
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JULIE & JULIA (dir: Nora
Ephron, PG-13) – Every time I see Amy Adams I have the same reaction a lot of people seem to have when they see a cute bunny or something. She’s so frickin’ adorable. Anyway, in this hit film she cooks some food and Meryl Streep cooks some food too. |
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LOST: SEASON 5 (dir:
J.J. Abrams, Not Rated) – I’m still mired down in season 3 somewhere but season 3 may actually be season 17 or some other trickery. I’m not afraid to admit I have absolutely no idea what this show is, was or will be about. Doesn’t anyone ever wonder what happened to that polar bear? |
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MOONLIGHT SERENADE (dir: Giancarlo
Tallarico, PG-13) – Every time I see Amy Adams I have the same reaction a lot of people seem to have when they see a cute bunny or something. She’s so frickin’ adorable. Anyway, in this little-seen indie she plays a coat check girl with a song in her heart. |
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PUBLIC ENEMIES (dir: Michael Mann, R) – Johnny Depp teams up with Michael Mann for this John Dillinger
bio-pic. Along for the ride are Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and grumpypants Christian Bale. |
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RUN FOR YOUR LIFE (dir: Judd Ehrlich, Not Rated) – The history of the New York City Marathon is recounted in this ode to its founder, Transylvanian transplant Fred
Lebow. The idea of a race that snaked its way through all five boroughs was greeted with skepticism and in 1970, the inaugural year, only 55 people finished. It’s now the largest spectator sport on Earth with two million people lining the route and in 2008 nearly 40,000 people competed. |
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RUNAWAY (dir: Tim McCann, Not Rated) – Aaron Stanford stars in this long shelved indie about a young man
and his little brother on the run from their nutso parents. It received positive reviews at film festivals but has been collecting dust since 2005. |
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THE SKEPTIC (dir: Tennyson Bardwell, Not Rated) – Zoe Saldana, who nobody has yet proven to me is not Thandie Newton, has a lot going on in her career like STAR TREK and that James Cameron AVATAR thingy, so what on Earth is she doing in a straight-to-DVD Tom Arnold haunted house movie? |
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THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY (dir: Ed
Gass-Donnelly, Not Rated) – Following a woman’s deadly plunge from her balcony, the denizens of a Toronto apartment building cope by releasing
“geysers of long suppressed sexuality and aggression.” |
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THREE MONKEYS (dir: Nuri Bilge
Ceylan, Not Rated) – Noted young Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan takes a radical left turn after DISTANT and CLIMATES with this
noir-ish thriller about a devil’s bargain between a politician and his chauffeur. |
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UNMISTAKEN CHILD (dir: Nati
Baratz, Not Rated) – Man, that kid sure has a fat face. Luckily, he’s the reincarnation of Lama Konchog and if you’re a chubby Tibetan kid that’s a big deal! |
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^WORLD'S GREATEST DAD (dir: Bobcat
Goldthwait, R) – If it were possible to make a touching comedy about auto-erotic asphyxiation, I think director Bobcat Goldthwait and star Robin Williams have done it. Great job, guys! |
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