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NEW MOVIES!
JANUARY 8 - JANUARY 14, 2008
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BOOGEYMAN 2 (dir: Jeff Betancourt, Unrated) – Ah, yes. It’s going to be a really long winter, isn’t it? |
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DEATH SENTENCE (dir: James Wan, Unrated) – Kevin Bacon stars in this ultraviolent DEATH WISH rip-off. I’m holding out for THE BRAVE ONE, the ultraviolent Jodie Foster DEATH WISH rip-off. |
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DRAGON WARS (dir: Hyung Rae Shim, PG-13) – The highest grossing film in Korean history may lack decent special effects, but it has enough creature-feature verve for 10 Hollywood movies. |
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EAGLE VS. SHARK (dir: Taika
Waititi, R) – This winning comedy from New Zealand stars one of the dudes from FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS as a guy determined to get revenge against a bully from high school, but who instead finds himself sidetracked by love. |
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EYE OF THE DOLPHIN (dir: Michael D. Sellers, PG-13) – Troubled teen meets aquatic mammal. The healing begins. |
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FORGET ABOUT IT (dir: BJ Davis, PG-13) – Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Charles Durning and Robert Loggia. The budget for denture cream alone almost kept this movie from being made. |
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GOLDEN DOOR (dir: Emanuelle
Crialese, PG-13) – Charlotte Gainsbourg and Vincenzo Amato star in this classy drama about a romance that blooms between an Englishwoman and a Sicilian guy on the boat to Ellis Island. |
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JOSHUA (dir: George Ratliff, R) – This eerie thriller about a wealthy New York family slowly realizing their young son is totally creepy takes the high road and doesn’t resort to typical horror clichés. And it features nice performances from Sam Rockwell and Vera
Farmiga. |
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KLIMT (dir: Paul Ruiz, Not Rated) – Gustav Klimt was a pervy Austrian who really dug painting naked ladies. Who better to embody that spirit than John
Malkovich. |
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NOT FOR OR AGAINST…
(dir: Cedric Klapish, Not Rated) – A young French filmmaker gets caught up in the Parisian underworld when she agrees to make a film of a man robbing a bank in this thriller from L’ AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE director Cedric
Klapish. |
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SMILEY FACE (dir: Gregg Araki, R) – We love Anna
Faris. We love MYSTERIOUS SKIN director Gregg Araki. We do not love this lame drug comedy that wastes their talents, as well as those of Jim from THE OFFICE and Seth from THE
O.C. |
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^SUNSHINE (dir: Danny Boyle, R) – TRAINSPOTTING and 28 DAYS LATER director Danny Boyle tackles sci-fi with this exciting and slightly brainy adventure about a crew of astronauts trying to revive our dying sun. |
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*3:10 TO YUMA (dir: James
Mangold, R) – Russell Crowe and Christian Bale will do a lot to convince youngsters that watching a Western isn’t like doing homework with this taut and quite violent remake of the Glenn Ford classic. |
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WHITE NOISE 2 (dir: Patrick
Lussier, PG-13) – I’ll probably get to this as soon as I’m finished with BOOGEYMAN 2. Nathan
Fillion, what were you thinking? |
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YES, BUT…
(dir: Yves Lavandier, Not Rated) – This French movie about a precocious teenage girl acquainting herself with the adult world has gone virtually unnoticed outside of France, but the people lucky enough to see it have given it rapturous reviews. |
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Bart's pick of the week! |
