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NEW
MOVIES! FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 1, 2010
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THE BAND (dir: Anna Brownfield, Unrated) – This Australian rock and roll exploitation picture got terrible reviews, but it might just be bad enough to end up with cult classic immortality. |
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THE BOX (dir: Richard Kelly, PG-13) – Cameron Diaz looks great with feathered 70s hair and that's about the only nice thing you can say about this dud from the director of DONNIE
DARKO. |
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THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI (dir: Linda
Hattendorf, Not Rated) – Whoa, the Japanese artist at the center of this documentary survived WWII internment camps, Hiroshima and 9/11. And all the dude wants to do is paint some cats. Well, pictures of cats. Not actually to paint on cats. |
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CRUDE (dir: Joe
Berlinger, Not Rated) – Joe Berlinger makes some of the best
documentaries out there, like BROTHER'S KEEPER, PARADISE LOST and that
cool Metallica documentary. This one, about an intense legal battle between indigenous peoples of the Amazon and Chevron
oil, is no exception. And guaranteed to get your righteous dander
up. |
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^THE DAMNED UNITED (dir: Tom Hooper, R) – If you're a massive fan of British football history, you'll love this true story about manager Brian Clough and his very short tenure at Leeds United in 1974. And if you're not, you'll be entertained by the bad suits and the swearing. |
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DEAD SNOW (dir: Tommy
Wirkola, Unrated) – Poor Norwegian medical students. Seems they can't even go on a simple skiing holiday without running into Nazi zombies. |
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THE END OF THE LINE (dir: Rupert Murray, Not Rated) – Apparently the ocean is going to run out of fish for us to eat some day. Next! |
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EVERYBODY'S FINE (dir: Kirk Jones, PG-13) – Robert DeNiro steps into Marcello Mastroianni's shoes for a remake of a movie few people remember and fewer still care to remember.
The bad news: this time it's even worse. One of the worst blights on a career that already includes a bunch of misfires. DeNiro's certainly great, but for every RAGING BULL there's a SHOWTIME to balance it out. |
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FLAME AND CITRON (dir: Ole Christian Madsen, Not Rated) – This Danish drama centers around two resistance fighters during WWII. If you didn't get your fill of Nazi killing with INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, try this one. |
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FREE STYLE (dir: William Dear, PG) – In this sports movie the whole family can tolerate, Corbin Bleu from HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL just has to become a motocross champion. |
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THE INFORMANT! (dir: Steven
Soderbergh, R) – Matt Damon has loads of fun playing a pudgy FBI informant who takes his mission a little too seriously in this semi-wacky trifle from Steven
Soderbergh. |
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JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS ON TWO EARTHS (dir: Sam Liu / Lauren Montgomery, PG-13) – Why does Wonder Woman dress so provocatively? Is she one of those girls who never got attention from
her dad? |
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LUCKY BASTARD (dir: Everett Lewis, Not Rated) – A successful gay architect in Los Angeles tries to decide between a practical boyfriend and the seedy hustlers he prefers in this indie from the director of LUSTER and
FAQS. |
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MOTHERHOOD (dir: Katherine
Dieckmann, PG-13) – Uma Thurman stars. Should I continue? |
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THE PEOPLE SPEAK (dir: Chris Moore, Not Rated) – Man, so many people narrated this interpretation of the Howard Zinn tome A People’s History of the United States that I’m just going to list a bunch of them. Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Don
Cheadle, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Rosario Dawson, Marisa
Tomei, Viggo Mortensen and Eddie Vedder. There’s no denying they’re all commie pinkos, but it’s still quite a distinguished group. |
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PETER AND VANDY (dir: Jay DiPietro, Not Rated) – Jason Ritter, son of the late, great John, stars as half of a young couple going through the expected amount of relationship turbulence in this Sundance favorite. |
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THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE (dir: R.J. Cutler, PG-13) – Wow. These fashion documentaries lately are great. Hilariously clueless people talking about scarves in ways people should never talk about scarves. This one's all about Anna Wintour, the head goblin at Vogue. Seriously, she's had so much botox she looks like King Tut. You're a mummy, Anna. You can't even move your face at all, can you? |
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SORORITY ROW (dir: Stewart Hendler, R) – I told you there were a lot of crummy 80s remakes coming out this year. |
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TRAILER PARK BOYS: COUNTDOWN TO LIQUOR DAY (dir: Mike Clattenburg, R) – Now here's something worth getting excited about. If you're still not familiar with Nova Scotia's greatest, and only, contribution to world culture, here's a good excuse to catch up. The boys are all out of jail and ready to rain vengeance down upon Mr. Jim
Lahey. |
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20TH CENTURY BOYS 2: THE LAST HOPE (dir: Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Not Rated) – Like most Japanese movies, you'll have no idea what's going on but it seems to be about some childhood
friends battling a demonic cult set on taking over and/or destroying the world. |
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THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT: CIRQUE DU FREAK (dir: Paul Weitz, PG-13) – John C. Reilly plays a vampire looking for a young protégé in this sort of funny, sort of scary adaptation of the popular kids' book. |
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*WELCOME (dir: Philippe Lioret, Not Rated) – Film Movement is so reliable that I’m going to ignore that this story of a young Kurdish refugee trying to swim the English Channel to freedom seems a little bit TV
movie-ish. |
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