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NEW
MOVIES! DECEMBER 28, 2010 - JANUARY 3, 2011
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*THE AMERICAN (dir: Anton
Corbijn, R) –
Who doesn't love sexy hit man assassins on their last mission for
blood? Follow George Clooney through this 'thinker' of a sexy
thriller. Clooney is like a fine wine, that just gets more delicious
with age. |
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AND SOON THE DARKNESS (dir: Marcos
Efron, R) – Hollywood
bad girl Amber Heard and her friend fail to use the buddy system on
a trip to Argentina with disastrous results. |
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HANDSOME HARRY (dir: Bette Gordon, R) – A
Navy vet must honor the wish of his dying friend and open up some
old wounds to find out what really happened on that night thirty
years ago. |
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HELENA FROM THE WEDDING (dir: Joseph
Infantolino, Not Rated) – A
newlywed couple host a New Year's party at a mountain cabin that
goes all wrong when an uninvited guest shows up. No, it's not a
horror film. It's just a drama full of awkward moments from Film
Movement. |
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THE HORDE (dir: Yannick Dahan / Benjamin
Rocher, Not Rated) –
What’s worse than a horde of zombies? A horde of French zombies.
Insert racist joke here. Finally a movie about zombies! The undead
don’t care if you’re good or you’re bad, they just want to eat
you. |
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IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS (dir: Alex
Holdridge, Not Rated) – A
lonely, broke young man just wants to spend New Year's Eve alone but
his pesky friends have some matchmaking in mind. This indie has been
kicking around the film festival circuit for a couple of years but
finally makes its debut on DVD just in time for the big night. |
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^LET IT RAIN (dir: Agnes
Jaoui, Not Rated) –
What’s worse than French zombies? French feminists! I kid, but
seriously, there is nothing worse than French feminist zombies.
Quick witted and well written, this may be your foreign film of the
year. |
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MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO (dir: Isabel
Coixet, Not Rated) – Every
review I read about this Tokyo-set drama went out of its way to
point out that it is nothing like LOST IN TRANSLATION. So even
though it's set in Tokyo and about a foreign man romancing a much
younger woman, that's the end of any similarities. |
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THE MILK OF SORROW (dir: Claudia
Llosa, Not Rated) – It's
too depressing to tell you what the "milk of sorrow"
actually is, so let's just pretend that this Peruvian film is a
romantic comedy. |
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RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (dir: Paul
W.S. Anderson, R) – While
the majority of moviegoers still don't appreciate the talents of
Milla Jovovich, she has the zombie fan demographic on lockdown. She
can keep making these things forever. |
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SKIRT DAY (dir: Jean-Paul
Lilienfeld, Not Rated) – Isabelle
Adjani returns to the screen after five years for this thriller in
which she plays a fed-up high school teacher who holds her class
hostage until they learn to appreciate Moliere. |
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SPIN (dir: Henry
Pincus, R) – Six
Los Angelenos have differing memories of one wild night in this
indie drama that owes a great debt to BODY SHOTS. Although instead
of Tara Reid we get Bijou Phillips, which is sort of an upgrade. |
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TWELVE (dir: Joel Schumacher, R) –
Pop Culture Icon 50-Cent lost some amount of weight for this
feature, forcing his crew to refer to him as 25-Cent. It's all about
the truth bombs that can only be found on the street. |
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= GREG's PICK OF THE week!
^ = Bart's pick of the week! |