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*DRIVE (dir: Nicolas Winding Refn, R) – The only movies this director has made that I haven't liked
don't exist. Ryan
Gosling plays a stunt driver with a scary side - a criminal side.
But there are also tons of these other people called celebrities in
this movie. Don't be confused, this is not the prequel to DRIVE
ANGRY. |
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IN TIME (dir: Andrew Niccol, PG-13) –
Never has the word "time" been said so many times in a movie before,
but that's cool because this dude on Myspace got his quote on the
cover of this DVD. That dude said it was "daringly original," just
like the social networking site called Myspace. For more information
about Myspace watch the film THE SOCIAL NETWORK. |
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THE THING (dir: Matthijs van Heijningen
Jr., R) – If you have any bit of love for John Carpenter's version
of THE THING, then by all means watch this prequel, of sorts. It
won't be everything you want it to be, but by the end credits you'll
be happy you checked it out. In all honesty, Kurt Russell should
have just done this movie. I mean, why not? |
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THE BIG YEAR (dir: David Frankel, PG-13) – The only
thing I can think of that is more exciting then the dream team
comedy triple threat of Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson is
a movie about bird watching. No seriously, that's what this movie is
about. Those dudes are trying to watch as many birds as they can.
Doesn't sound good but it is totally awesome. |
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DREAM HOUSE (dir: Jim Sheridan, PG-13)
– Seems like Jim Sheridan, the formerly classy director of MY LEFT
FOOT and IN AMERICA, should stick to making movies about Irish
people since his last few, GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN', BROTHERS, and
this haunted house thriller have all been star-powered stink bombs.
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THE DOUBLE (dir: Michael Brandt, PG-13)
– At first I thought I had forgotten all about Richard Gere, but
then I realized I had forgotten about Topher Grace even more! What
show was he on again? FREAKS AND GEEKS? Whatever, because Richard Gere has been too busy being a Buddhist or something. But that's
cool because I saw that movie about it and it seems pretty sweet. |
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OUTRAGE: WAY OF THE YAKUZA (dir: Takeshi Kitano, R) –
Oh, those Japanese and their scary violent films. Nothing could
sound cooler than a bunch of Yakuza gangsters running around killing
people. Execution after execution, you'll be left wanting more
people to die... brutally. Or at least that's what those Japanese
folks want you to want. |
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TEXAS KILLING FIELDS (dir: Ami Canaan
Mann, R) – The public sure does love crime stories. And that's a
good thing because that's JUST what this movie is about. And to
cream the top of that cherry sundae, it's based on true events.
Hello!? Are you there public? That screams everything you love!
Avatar, Hit Girl, and the Comedian team up in this crime story about
true-life events! |
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QUEEN OF THE SUN: WHAT ARE THE BEES
TELLING US? (dir: Taggart Siegel, Not Rated) – The only question I
have ever wanted an answer to is definitely the very tagline of this
film. What ARE the bees telling us? In the world of print, it seems
like they are constantly just sleeping all the time ("Zzzzzzzz"),
but in the real world of bees they are all dying and not making
their sweet, sweet honey. Pooh Bear is super cheesed. |
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JANIE JONES (dir: David M. Rosenthal, Not Rated) – This
movie is supposed to be some heart-warming tale about a musician
father who is forced to reunite with his daughter after her mother
ditches her to go to rehab. It sounds like the moral of this story
is to stay away from rock and roll. |
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THE MILL AND THE CROSS (dir: Lech Majewski, Not Rated) – Get ready for action and excitement set in
the 16th century. Rutger Hauer has never looked older and more
confused, but Michael York looks almost dead! This DVD will
absolutely play in your DVD player. |
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ANOTHER HAPPY DAY (dir: Sam Levinson,
R) – There are so many words on the back of this box that I lost
interest before I could even finish reading it. Let's just put it
this way: there are so many celebrities in this movie that they make
up a whole cast! Ellen Barkin, Kate Bosworth (gross), Ellen Burstyn,
Thomas Haden Church (gross), George Kennedy, Ezra Miller and finally
Demi Moore. |
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CHALET GIRL (dir: Phil Traill, Not Rated) – Felicity
Jones is right on the verge of being the adorable British "It" girl
of the moment, so some smartypants decided to get a leg up and
release this mild skiing comedy, one of her first leading roles,
which also stars everybody's favorite octopus face, Bill Nighy,
and some dude from GOSSIP GIRL. |
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DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK (dir: Jen Soska
/ Sylvia Soska, Not Rated) – I mean, do you really need to know any
more about this movie than what its title tells you? I could maybe
mention it's a very minor cult sensation and its sister directors
have given it some kind of a "girl-power" angle. |
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^FISH STORY (dir: Yoshihiro Nakamura,
Not Rated) – Can a song save the world? This mind-bending Japanese
rock 'n' roll disaster comedy-drama takes that idea literally and
proceeds to demonstrate how, over the course of four decades, a
song can do exactly that. |
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FREE MEN (dir: Ismael Ferroukhi, Not Rated) – This
latest release from Film Movement uses WWII and the French
Resistance as an unexpected backdrop for a story of Arab-Jewish
relations. I guess the point of this movie is that pre-Israel, these
folks got along. |
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JANE'S JOURNEY (dir: Lorenz Knauer, Not
Rated) – We all know that Jane Goodall's least favorite primate is
the human, but did you know that she's spent every waking hour of
the past 20 years trying to get through to us naked apes about the
importance of saving endangered species? |
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THE NAMES OF LOVE (dir: Michel Leclerc,
R) – A beautiful and free-spirited French woman has great success
using her pudenda to convert conservatives to her liberal ways,
until she falls in love with a politically like-minded individual
who's not so crazy about her "missionary" techniques. |
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ROMEOS (dir: Sabine Bernardi, Not Rated) – Alright,
it's a German film about about an FTM transsexual that screened in
exactly one theater in the US, so clearly this movie won't be
renting out like crazy. But that means it'll probably be available
if all our copies of REAL STEEL are checked out, and you'll be able,
for once, to bring a movie home for family night that doesn't
involve robots punching each other. |
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SPECIAL TREATMENT (dir: Jeanne Labrune,
Not Rated) – There's no question that Isabelle Huppert can act
circles around just about anybody on the planet, but why does she
have to keep making "brave" choices and show up in movies like this
one, about S&M fantasies and sex therapy, that I will never ever
watch? |
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SPORK (dir: J.B. Ghuman Jr., Not Rated)
– Who doesn't love a good High School Hell movie about an outcast
who's preyed upon by the popular kids? Unfortunately, this one seems
a whole lot more like an R-rated GLEE episode than a NAPOLEON
DYNAMITE or a TERRI. |
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THUNDER SOUL (dir: Mark Landsman, PG) –
Jamie Foxx lends his narrative voice to this documentary/concert
movie about a bunch of jazz/funk musicians from Houston who reunite
after 35 years to celebrate the career of the music teacher who
taught them how to groove. |
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= KURT'S PICK OF THE WEEK!
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= BART'S PICK OF THE WEEK! |
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NEW (BUT NOT NEW) MOVIES THIS WEEK! |
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NEW FAMILY TIME THIS WEEK! |
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SEARCHABLES!
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FEATURED DIRECTORS (full list)
Chantal Akerman [e.g., Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)]
Kathryn Bigelow [e.g., The Hurt Locker (2008)]
Alex Cox [e.g., Repo Man (1984)]
James Foley [e.g., Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)]
Walter Hill [e.g., The Warriors (1979)]
John Landis [e.g., The Blues Brothers (1980)]
Takashi Miike [e.g., Audition (1999)]
Michael Powell [e.g., The Red Shoes (1948)]
Tony Scott [e.g., Top Gun (1986)]
Gus Van Sant [e.g., Good Will Hunting (1997)]
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FEATURED ACTRESSES (full
list)
Jenny Agutter [e.g., Walkabout (1971)]
Élodie Bouchez [e.g., The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)]
Carrie Fisher [e.g., Star Wars (1977)]
Katherine Heigl [e.g., Knocked Up (2007)]
Lisa Kudrow [e.g., Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)]
Mercedes McCambridge [e.g., Johnny Guitar (1954)]
Molly Parker [e.g., The Center of the World (2001)]
Susan Sarandon [e.g., Bull Durham (1988)]
Uma Thurman [e.g., Pulp Fiction (1994)]
Loretta Young [e.g., The Bishop's Wife (1947)]
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FEATURED ACTORS (full list)
Casey Affleck [e.g., Gone Baby Gone (2007)]
Peter Boyle [e.g., Young Frankenstein (1974)]
Tom Cruise [e.g., Rain Man (1988)]
Colin Firth [e.g., Pride and Prejudice (1995)]
Tom Hanks [e.g., Big (1988)]
Danny Kaye [e.g., The Court Jester (1956)]
James Marsden [e.g., X-Men (2000)]
Peter O'Toole [e.g., Lawrence of Arabia (1962)]
Seth Rogen [e.g., Pineapple Express (2008)]
Jeffrey Tambor [e.g., Arrested Development (2003)]
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FEATURED YEAR (full
list)
1894-1909 [e.g., A Trip to the Moon (1902)]
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FEATURED COUNTRY (full
list)
Israel [e.g., Waltz with Bashir (2008)]
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FEATURED GENRE
Wartime Comedies [e.g., The Great Dictator (1940)]
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