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NEW
MOVIES! MARCH 30 - APRIL 5, 2010
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AFGHAN STAR (dir: Havana Marking, Not Rated) – While it's probably true that the average AMERICAN IDOL fan can't find Afghanistan on a map unless one of their children got blown up there, that doesn't mean they won't enjoy this documentary about a singing competition with real consequences. If The Taliban find out you're a contestant, you die. |
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*THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (dir: Uli
Edel, R) – If West Germany in the 1970s wasn't the sexiest, most exciting place to be a member of a radical paramilitary terrorist organization, I don't know what was. You got to wear huge aviators, carry
uzis, and sometimes, while robbing a capitalist pig bank, you even got to rock a balaclava. There's a reason it's called terrorism chic, people. |
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^COLOSSAL YOUTH (dir: Pedro Costa, Not Rated) – The third installment of Pedro Costa's trilogy about the hardships of Cape Verdean immigrants in the slums of Lisbon is either the equivalent of watching Portuguese paint dry or art film heaven, depending on you. |
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AN EDUCATION (dir: Lone
Scherfig, PG-13) – All I want to know about this charming tale of statutory rape is how'd they get that banana scene into a PG-13 movie? |
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THE FINAL (dir: Joey Stewart, R) – A group of school bullies get their comeuppance in this selection from the After Dark film series. |
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THE GRAVES (dir: Brian
Pulido, R) – Two sisters on a road trip through Arizona manage to get lost in an abandoned mine filled with bloodthirsty killers. It wouldn't be a cheap-o horror film if they didn't. |
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HIDDEN (dir: Pal
Oie, R) – A young Norwegian man heads home to a small country town when his mother dies. But he's not going for mourning, he's going to make sure that she's really dead. |
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I SELL THE DEAD (dir: Glenn
McQuaid, Unrated) – Ron Perlman and a Hobbit star in this horror/comedy hybrid that tells the tale of a 19th century grave robber. |
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PHANTOM PUNCH (dir: Robert Townsend, R) – Sonny Liston gets the
bio-pic treatment with Ving Rhames as the legendary boxer. And with his controversial history of prison sentences, mob connections and a mysterious death, it shouldn't be boring. |
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THE REEDS (dir: Nick Cohen, R) – A group of despicable British youth go on a drunken boating trip only to be ritualistically, and deservedly, slaughtered by something nasty. |
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SHERLOCK HOLMES (dir: Guy Ritchie, PG-13) – Although I think Jude Law would've been the better choice for the lead role, this seems like a pretty satisfactory big Hollywood movie. Did they need to add the martial arts though? It also would've been cool to give Robert Downey Jr. some opium scenes or something, just to tempt him. |
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= GREG's pick of the week! ^ = Bart's
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