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BELLA (dir: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, PG-13) - If your inspirational pap-o-meter is running on empty, check out this ridiculously heartwarming junk about a soccer player and a struggling waitress whose future together is written in the stars. Did you know that love conquers all? |
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THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN (dir: Abby Epstein, Not Rated) - Who better than Ricki Lake, former tabloid talk show hostess and pal of John Waters to make a doc about
child-bearing? |
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CRAZY SEXY CANCER (dir: Kris Carr, Not Rated) - Since nobody would make a documentary about somebody’s cowardly battle with cancer, here’s a documentary about a brave young lady’s tremendously courageous battle with cancer. |
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DANS PARIS (dir: Christophe Honore, Not Rated) - A young French guy, depressed about his recent relationship troubles, heads home
to let his family get him drunk and play matchmaker for him. |
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^DELIRIOUS
(dir: Tom DiCillo, Not Rated) - Steve Buscemi stars as a small-time
paparazzi looking for his big shot in Tom DiCillo’s witty
take-down of our celebrity saturated culture. |
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FIRST SUNDAY (dir: David E. Talbert, PG-13) - Ice Cube and Tracey Morgan star as two
ne'er-do-wells who try and solve their financial woes by robbing a church. Katt Williams co-stars as the eccentric choir director. |
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GAMERS (dir: Christopher Folino, Unrated) - Four slacker friends try and set a world record for consecutive hours playing an RPG in this witless comedy featuring a special appearance from William Katt. |
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THE HOTTIE & THE NOTTIE (dir: Tom Putnam, PG-13) - Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Mahatma Gandhi. All of those people were assassinated and yet Paris Hilton continues to consume oxygen. |
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*I'M NOT THERE (dir: Todd Haynes, R) - Todd Haynes, the exciting young director often described as
“rad,” makes his long-awaited follow-up to FAR FROM HEAVEN with this unorthodox bio-pic of Bob Dylan. Dylan is portrayed by multiple actors of various genders and races, including Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett and Heath “R.I.P.” Ledger. |
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NEO NED (dir: Van Fischer, Not Rated) - Ooh, it’s my favorite plot in months. A young Neo-Nazi member of the Aryan Brotherhood gets confined to a mental hospital where he falls in love with a beautiful African-American woman who believes she is the reincarnation of Hitler. Who said romance is dead? |
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A NEW DAY IN OLD SANA'A (dir: Bader Ben Hirsi, Not Rated) - Who’s excited that B& G’s now has THE FIRST FEATURE FILM EVER TO BE MADE IN YEMEN??? |
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OVER HER DEAD BODY (dir: Jeff Lowell, PG-13) - Someone should tell Paul Rudd he deserves better than playing second fiddle to a desperate housewife in a thinly veiled rip-off of Shelley Long’s HELLO AGAIN. I’d tell him, but there’s that whole “restraining order” issue. |
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P.S. I LOVE YOU (dir: Richard LaGravenese, PG-13) - Hilary Swank stars in this surprisingly not awful romance about a woman with a dead husband who keeps sending her love letters. |
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SAAWARIYA (dir: Sanjay Leela Bhansali, PG) - This Bollywood smash broke records with
its exuberant combination of magic and music. And it’s loosely based on the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky! |
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SENIOR SKIP DAY (dir: Nick Weiss, Unrated) - Tara Reid takes a brief lull from binge-drinking and having unprotected sex to star in this staright-to-DVD monstrosity. Whatever it takes to feed your meth addiction! Godspeed, Tara Reid! |
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STRANGE CULTURE (dir: Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Not Rated) - Tilda Swinton takes part in this unusual documentary which surmises that maybe our government has used the September 11th tragedy as an excuse to erode our personal freedoms. Maybe that’s true. But maybe we don’t need some Oscar winning Brit telling us what to do. Love it or leave it,
Tilda! |
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TEETH
(dir: Mitchell Lichtenstein, R) - Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s son directs a movie! And it’s about a girl with vagina
dentata! |
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= GREG's
pick of the week! ^ =
Bart's pick of the week! |
