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NEW MOVIES!  JULY 20 - JULY 26, 2010

ALAMAR (dir: Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, Not Rated) – A Mexican fisherman bonds with his young son on the ocean before he's to be sent off to Italy to live with his mother in this delightful import courtesy of Film Movement.

COP OUT (dir: Kevin Smith, R) – Not even the genius that is Tracy Morgan can get me to break my vow of never watching another Kevin Smith movie. But according to the reviews I'm not missing out on much.

^HARMONY AND ME (dir: Bob Byington, Not Rated) – A guy wanders around Austin, Texas doing mumblecore things in this indie that features Kevin Corrigan. It's like WAKING LIFE with less interesting characters and no cool animation.
HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO A WOMAN (dir: Scott Culver, R) – I think the first step is to own a lot of cheap sex comedies with the patented AMERICAN PIE font.

THE LOSERS (dir: Sylvain White, PG-13) – A CIA black-ops team is betrayed and left for dead and, rather than sitting around feeling sorry for themselves, go on a hell-bent mission to kill everyone that double crossed them.

*MOTHER (dir: Joon-ho Bong, R) – The director of THE HOST returns with another brilliant comic horror film but this time there are no CGI monsters. In a small Korean town, the village idiot is arrested for the murder of a young woman and his overbearing mother, who has secrets of her own, will stop at nothing to prove him innocent.
PORNOGRAPHY: A THRILLER (dir: David Kittredge, Not Rated) – A missing porn star becomes an obsession for one of his co-stars and a writer that leads them into a supernatural realm in this provocative indie.

THE RUNAWAYS (dir: Floria Sigismondi, R) – I thought it would be a few more years before we'd see Dakota Fanning lying around in lingerie blowing huge quantities of illegal powders up her nose but apparently that time has come. Luckily, it's only for a movie. She and Kristen Stewart play Cherie Curry and Joan Jett, leaders of the 1970s all-girl-all-jailbait punk band of the title. And man, could they have taught Lindsey Lohan a thing or two about excess.

SIXTY SIX (dir: Paul Weiland, PG-13) – Helena Bonham Carter stars in this comedy as the mother of a boy who is non-plussed to learn that his Bar Mitzvah is scheduled for the same day as the World Cup final.

A TOWN CALLED PANIC (dir: Stephane Aubier / Vincent Patar, Not Rated) – From Belgium comes this animated film based on a popular series that is shown all over the world. Using paper mache sets and "puppetoon" technology, this charmed the WALLACE & GROMIT folks so much that they released it.

* = GREG's PICK OF THE week!         ^ = Bart's pick of the week!

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