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NEW
MOVIES! JUNE 15 - JUNE 21, 2010
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ADOPTED (dir: Pauly Shore, R) –
What's that scamp Pauly Shore up to now? Being funny? Nope. Being tasteful? Nope. Just being his usual irredeemable self in this lame fake documentary about Pauly getting an African kid to boost his career. |
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THE BOOK OF ELI (dir: Albert Hughes / Allen Hughes, R) – Denzel Washington plays this cool guy in a post-apocalyptic wasteland who walks around a lot and has a magic book. Gary Oldman plays a guy who wants the magic book too. |
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THE CARTEL (dir: Brian J. Bagley,
Unrated) – I
guess making an actual documentary about the inner workings of a
Mexican drug cartel was too dangerous, so the filmmakers made a
fictional film about an American journalist invited to do just that. |
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*COLLAPSE (dir: Chris Smith, Not Rated) – The director of
AMERICAN MOVIE returns with another portrait of a loveable oddball -
this time Michael Ruppert, a former L.A. cop who totally called the 2008 global economic meltdown. And that's just the tip of the catastrophe iceberg. Enjoy electricity while it lasts. Enjoy not guarding a loaf of moldy bread against a pack of feral atomic bomb runaways. |
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DEFAMATION (dir: Yoav
Shamir, Not Rated) – Israeli director Yoav Shamir talks to many notable Jews to ask them what
anti-semitism means today. |
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HAPPY TEARS (dir: Mitchell
Lichtenstein, R) – Demi Moore and Parker Posey star as sisters who head home to check in with their Dad, Rip Torn. Once they meet sultry Ellen
Barkin, they suspect things are worse than they thought. |
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JACK SMITH AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS (dir: Mary Jordan, Not Rated)
– Since you're absolutely nobody in the art world until there's a documentary made about your life, congratulations Jack Smith. Consider yourself on the map. Oh. It says here you died
in 1989. That's cool too. Dead is even better. |
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JAFFA (dir: Keren
Yedaya, Not Rated) – Ooh, that Palistinean mechanic better not let his Israeli boss find out about his secret romance with his daughter. |
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MARY AND MAX (dir: Adam Elliot, Not Rated) – The unlikely pen-pal friendship between an awkward little girl in Australia and an obese shut-in in New York unfolds over 20 years. But will they ever meet face to face? |
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SEX POSITIVE (dir: Daryl
Wein, R) – One of the guys that originally identified the AIDS problem in New York has a few words for younger gays who think the danger is in the past. |
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UNTHINKABLE (dir: Gregor Jordan, R) – There are some bombs that will blow up unless black ops specialist Samuel L. Jackson can get the bomber to disclose the location. I guess I'm basing this entirely on his
acting techniques but I sincerely believe that Samuel L. Jackson will lose his temper badly
on several occasions during the course of this film. |
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VISUAL ACOUSTICS (dir: Eric Bricker, Not Rated) – Let
Dustin Hoffman talk to you about the world of Julius Shulman, the architectural
photographer who's responsible for introducing most Americans to all
the great Modernist architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank
Gehry. |
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WAITING FOR ARMAGEDDON (dir: Kate Davis / David
Heilbroner, Not Rated) –
There are millions of Christians who believe that all the end of the
world business foretold in the bible will happen exactly as
described - and soon. This documentary explores what they're
doing to prepare. |
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WHEN IN ROME (dir: Mark Steven Johnson, PG-13) – Hey, we all
thought you were cool and cute in the first season of VERONICA MARS but now you're really annoying. We don't like you anymore. Get it? |
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^YOUTH IN REVOLT (dir: Miguel
Arteta, R) – Hey, Michael Cera is pretty cool in this whimsical coming of age comedy. His French alter-ego Francois-something was especially memorable. |
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= GREG's PICK OF THE week!
^ = Bart's pick of the week! |