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NEW
MOVIES! JUNE 29 - JULY 5, 2010
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ANTARCTICA (dir: Yair
Hochner, Unrated) – Nope, it's not another nature documentary. It's just a run of the mill indie drama about a bunch of sexually promiscuous urbanites. |
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BEAUTIFUL (dir: Dean
O'Flaherty, R) – Teenage girls are disappearing from an upscale suburban neighborhood and it's up to a beautiful woman and her 14-year-old admirer to figure out what's going on. |
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THE CRAZIES (dir: Breck Eisner, R) – Nobody's particularly fond of George A. Romero's original, so this is actually a horror remake that might serve a purpose. Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell play a young couple trying to figure out what's turning everybody into violent zombies. |
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CREATION (dir: Jon
Amiel, PG-13) – Ooh, a Charles Darwin bio-pic. Don't try to rent this one south of the Mason-Dixon line. |
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DON MCKAY (dir: Jake
Goldberger, R) – Thomas Haden Church plays a man returning to his
hometown 25 years after a horrendous tragedy only to find things even more sinister than when he left. |
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^THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS (dir: Jacques
Rivette, Not Rated) – Veteren French director Jacques Rivette oversees this Balzac adaptation about an evil seductress and the men she torments. Bulle Ogier and Michel Piccoli put in appearances. |
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THE ECLIPSE (dir: Conor McPherson, R) – An Irish teacher who's been experiencing strange phenomena since the death of his wife gets involved with a visiting author of books about ghosts and the supernatural. |
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EVERLASTING MOMENTS (dir: Jan
Troell, Not Rated) – Jan Troell, Swedish
veteran director of THE EMIGRANTS and THE NEW LAND returns with this Criterion approved
bio-pic of Maria Larsson, a poor and abused woman who found solace in photography at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (dir: Steve Pink,
Unrated) – Look, you're either part of the irony generation or you aren't. If you don't get why a movie like SNAKES ON A PLANE or HOT TUB TIME MACHINE is brilliant it's not your fault. It simply means you're very, very old. Us younger folks are simply so disillusioned by all the lies, disappointments and corruption we've inherited that we want something tangible, some truth in advertising. If the movie is called HOT TUB TIME MACHINE it better have a hot tub in it that is also a time machine. Get it? |
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MIDGETS VS. MASCOTS (dir: Ron Carlson,
Unrated) – And this is how long it took people to exploit the death of Gary Coleman. |
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PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF (dir: Chris Columbus, PG) – I'd recommend just bashing yourself about the head with your Harry Potter books rather than watching this grade-Z fantasy trash. Actually, you fantasy nerds should probably just hit yourselves with your Harry Potter books anyway. |
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PRETTY BIRD (dir: Paul Schneider, R) – Here's a promising trifle of indie whimsy written and directed by B&G's beloved ALL THE REAL GIRLS star Paul Schneider. Billy Crudup and Paul Giamatti star as buddies trying to get their jet-pack business off the ground. |
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STOLEN (dir: Anders Anderson, R) – Josh Lucas and Jon Hamm play guys trying to solve the same
crime... 50 years apart. It sounds a little like LONE STAR, but director Anders Anderson is, despite his awesome name, no John Sayles. |
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SUICIDE GIRLS MUST DIE! (dir: Sawa Suicide,
Unrated) – Why do Goth strippers from the internet need a movie? Oh, they don't.
But... this is set at a remote cabin in the great state of Maine! |
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TONY MANERO (dir: Pablo
Larrain, Not Rated) – This Chilean study of a sociopath in 1970s Santiago obsessed with John Travolta's character in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER is just what we needed in these summer doldrums. This "marvelously unhinged" study of pop culture obsession will get under your skin with its portrayal of a man who will stop at nothing to be famous. |
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THE WARLORDS (dir: Peter Chan, R) – Jet Li and Andy Lau star as warriors in 1860s China who must team up to defend a helpless village from an evil warlord. Sounds great, but hasn't this movie already been
made a hundred times? |
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*THE WHITE RIBBON (dir: Michael
Haneke, R) – Nobody does creeping menace better than Michael
Haneke. He's like Hitchcock with a mean streak. So when this brutally beautiful tale of small town nastiness in pre-WWI Germany was robbed at the Oscars this year by some Argentinean LAW & ORDER episode, it was certainly the greatest injustice of the ceremony. |
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= GREG's PICK OF THE week!
^ = Bart's pick of the week! |