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NEW
MOVIES! JULY 27 - AUGUST 2, 2010
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ALL MY FRIENDS ARE FUNERAL SINGERS (dir: Tim
Rutili, Not Rated) Angela Bettis plays a fortune teller who utilizes the ghosts that live in her house for her work in this debut feature from Tim Rutili of the band
Califone. |
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AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (dir: Darryl Roberts, PG-13) This hapless documentary is so naive it's kind of adorable. Among the non-shocking revelations included here is that the fashion industry makes women and young girls feel bad about themselves and that advertising uses sex to sell stuff. |
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THE ART OF THE STEAL (dir: Don
Argott, Not Rated) Proving that legal tussles over valuable works of art can be as nasty as any court drama, this documentary follows the struggle between the city of Philadelphia and The Barnes Foundation, one of the greatest private collections of art in the world. The city wants to relocate the collection downtown and turn it into a tourist
mecca, directly against the wishes of Albert C. Barnes, who died in 1951. |
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BATMAN: UNDER THE RED HOOD (dir: Brandon
Vietti, PG-13) It's still going to be
a while until the live action follow up to THE DARK KNIGHT. Just chew on this feature-length anime until then. |
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CLASH OF THE TITANS (dir: Louis
Leterrier, PG-13) America, your appetite for lame remakes will not abate, will it? Lacking all of the goofy charm of the early 80s classic, this is just a wet pile of half-baked CGI wrapped up with a ribbon of horrendous dialogue and a bow of bad acting. |
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DONT LOOK UP (dir: Fruit Chan, R) It sounds like a typical horror film where some dummies accidentally open a portal of evil but it stars Kevin Corrigan and Eli Roth and was directed by Fruit Chan. Is there something cool going on here? |
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*8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION (dir: Reed Cowan, R) I refuse to say anything negative about Mormons in this newsletter because they're absolutely the most terrifying people on Earth. I am frightened of them and readily admit it. I'd rather roast weenies in Osama Bin Laden's cave than cross into Salt Lake City limits. Therefore, I have absolutely no comment about this documentary that chronicles their blatant, and illegal, political manipulations in the California same sex marriage vote. |
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EYEBORGS (dir: Richard
Clabaugh, R) In a future where privacy is non-existent, a rogue federal agent starts to believe the roving camera-bots everywhere are up to no good. |
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HERE AND THERE (dir: Darko
Lungulov, Not Rated) A jaded New Yorker travels to Serbia to make some quick cash by marrying a young woman who needs U.S. immigration papers. The only two problems are that there isn't any money and he falls in love with the girl.
Doh! |
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JESSE STONE: NO REMORSE (dir: Robert Harmon, Not Rated) Tom Selleck returns in another delightfully boring Jesse Stone mystery. I mean that as a compliment. They're sort of comfortingly slow-paced, you know? |
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MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX (dir: Sarah Watt, Not Rated) In this typically quirky Australian comedy, a woman is forced, because of illness, to give up all strenuous activity for a year. And that includes the horizontal mambo. |
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OPERATION: ENDGAME (dir: Fouad
Mikati, R) Lots of funny people like Zach Galifianakis, Rob
Corddry, Adam Scott and Bob Odenkirk star in this action comedy about rival groups of assassins. Sounds promising, so why have we never heard of it? |
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REPO MEN (dir: Miguel
Sapochnik, Unrated) What does it say about your sci-fi action film
when the best special effects are Jude Law's hair plugs? |
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SAVING MARRIAGE (dir: John Henning / Mike Roth, PG-13) In our second documentary this week about gay marriage, the focus is on Massachusetts or, as I like to refer to it,
Gomorrahchusetts. The Bay State think they can shove their immorality down our throats like some delicious piece of Kobe beef but I, and other true patriots, will not rest until blood runs down the cobblestones of Beacon Hill and these sodomites and their sympathizers hang from The Lord's private gallows. (Don't tell the Mormons I'm being facetious) |
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^THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN (dir: Abdel
Kechiche, Not Rated) Despite winning 4 Cesar Awards in 2007, this French drama didn't get much of an American release. Apparently, the powers that be think Americans don't want to watch two and a half hour movies about French-Arab families cooking
cous-cous. Let's prove them wrong, people! |
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VINCERE (dir: Marco
Bellocchio, Not Rated) Someone finally had the guts to make a movie about Mussolini's saucy love life. And the Italian provocateur behind DEVIL IN THE FLESH was just the guy to do it. |
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VIVERE (dir: Angelina
Maccarone, R) A young German woman hits the road for Rotterdam to find her younger sister and stop her from making a terrible romance mistake in this mopey drama. |
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= GREG's PICK OF THE week!
^ = Bart's pick of the week! |