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NEW MOVIES!  JUNE 8 - JUNE 14, 2010
AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN (dir: David Ridgen / Nicolas Rossier, Not Rated) – This documentary about the noted scholar explores his legendary fights with university administrators and, most notably, Alan Dershowitz. And anybody who ticks off Alan Dershowitz has got to be worthy of a documentary.

AND THEN CAME LOLA (dir: Ellen Seidler / Megan Siler, Not Rated) – This is sort of like RUN, LOLA, RUN except it's not German, it doesn't have weird time signatures and it's about lesbians. But it's a race against time and her name is Lola.
ANIMATION EXPRESS (dir: Various, Not Rated) – Here're two mind-blowing discs of the best short animation from around the world, appropriate for fans of all ages.
THE CRY OF THE OWL (dir: Jamie Thraves, R) – Patricia Highsmith. Claude Chabrol. Julia Stiles. Which of these things is not like the others? This does remind me that I want to watch that new David Attenborough series LIFE though.

THE 41-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN WHO KNOCKED UP SARAH MARSHALL AND FELT SUPERBAD ABOUT IT (dir: Craig Moss, Unrated) – Do you see what they did with the title there?
FROM PARIS WITH LOVE (dir: Pierre Morel, R) – You know, it's really hard to make fun of that old chunky-pumpkinhead John Travolta since he's had recent personal tragedy in his life. It's like hitting a home-run off Jim Abbott. It just doesn't feel quite right. But in the last six months he's released this, THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1,2,3 and OLD DOGS so dude deserves what he gets.
NOT THE MESSIAH: HE'S A VERY NAUGHTY BOY (dir: Aubrey Powell, PG) – Remember those guys that used to be kind of funny on PBS on Saturday nights? Yeah, they're not really up to much.

180 DEGREES SOUTH (dir: Chris Malloy, Not Rated) – Jeff Johnson is a cool adventurer type of guy who decides to retrace his heroes journey through Patagonia.
OUT IN THE SILENCE (dir: Dean Hamer, Not Rated) – When filmmaker Joe Wilson ran a wedding announcement in his small Pennsylvania hometown newspaper, the town was outraged. You see, dude was marrying another dude. Apparently, a big no-no in rural Pennsylvania. So Joe then takes a tour across rural America to suss out why everyone's so anti. Dude should have made a documentary about why gay people even want to be involved in an antiquated act of conservatism that is simply meant to control your primal instincts. What are we, swans?
SHINJUKU INCIDENT (dir: Tung-Shing Yee, R) – Not, as I initially thought, a light-hearted film about Jackie Chan trying to solve a Japanese word puzzle. This is actually a rare turn at drama for Mr. Chan. In it he plays a guy looking for his lost sweetheart in Japan who ends up exposing the really crummy lives of Chinese immigrant laborers instead. So violent Chinese censors refused to release it!

*SHUTTER ISLAND (dir: Martin Scorsese, R) – I know this movie's supposed to be pretty swell and I'm excited to see it but will somebody please tell Leo to cool it with the accents a bit? BLOOD DIAMOND, people. Never forget. (I still really want to see this though)
^TOE TO TOE (dir: Emily Abt, Not Rated) – Oh, great. It's the BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM of lacrosse. Just so everybody knows, because I think there's been some misinformation put out about it, lacrosse is gross. It's like finally, FINALLY, there's an outlet for murderous rich kids.

THE WORLD UNSEEN (dir: Shamim Sarif, PG-13) – Some nice lesbians get it on... under the tyranny of South African apartheid. Now that's what I call adversity!
* = GREG's PICK OF THE week!         ^ = Bart's pick of the week!

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