New Releases, 22 February 2011!

Some fantastic films this week to make up for a few missed updates...

GET LOW

Sleeper hit of last year, Bill Murraqy, Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek do some weird things in the American past.

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LAST TRAIN HOME

From last T/F, a wonderful and massively popular doc from last year, a real stunner about human migration in China.

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DUE DATE

Robert Downey Jr & Zach Galifianakis are mismatched passengers in this road comedy

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MESRINE Part 1: KILLER INSTINCT

Acclaimed gangster film from France, filmed all over le monde

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FISH TANK

This one is about the girl who invented the hoodie

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WEEDS Season 6

What will they think of next???

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NURSE JACKIE Season 2

Doctors and nurses!

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Have a great week everybody!

New Releases, 18 January 2011

New films man! Nothing better to do in this weather than curl up and watch...



THE SOCIAL NETWORK

(released 1/11)

The story of Facebook, in all its epic glory. See it! You more or less have to at this point.

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ANIMAL KINGDOM

Acclaimed thriller, played at Ragtag

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STONE

That's right, white boy corn rows. He did it. Reason enough to see the film

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JACK GOES BOATING

Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in the adaptation of the well-reviewed play, looks fantastic

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LEBANON

From Israel, a fine film about the whole war thing. Rave reviews

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FREAKONOMICS

From the massive hit of a book comes a somewhat hit of a documentary about all kinds of neat stuff

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Have a great week everybody!

New Releases, 4 January 2011

That's right--2011! In honor of our amazing new year, we bring you a billion new great films, of which seven are listed here.

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS

New comedy (based on the French film THE DINNER GAME, which is hilarious and on our shelves), starring Paul Rudd and the boss from The Office

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CATFISH

Like I'M STILL HERE, a documentary that plays with ideas of real and fake: man meets girl on the internet--or did he?...

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MACHETE

Action flick directed by Robert Rodriguez and with a legendary leading fella. Looks promising

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HOWL

James Franco plays a young Allen Ginsberg in this acclaimed film

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BIG LOVE Season 4

Hey--why is that guy with those three ladies? Weird. I wonder if they talk about that in the show.

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RICKY GERVAIS SHOW Season 1

An animated version of Gervais' hilarious podcast, very very funny

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THE EDGE OF DREAMING

An intriguing documentary about a woman and her dreams of horses...

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Have a wonderful new year everyone, why not do a little something for yourself today? Couldn't hurt.

New Releases, 21 & 28 December 2010

It's the last list of 2010 everybody! That is rather wistful. If you're crying, don't do it on the keyboard because salt calcifies under the keys and that's where computer viruses come from.

DECEMBER 21

EASY A

The charming Emma Stone stars in this delightful comedy about a girl who deceives everyone by slutting it up for a while.

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WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

Gordon Gekko is back, but in the era of Madoff does he still have teeth? Find out soonish...

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SALT

Angelina Jolie kicks some butt--or at least, I assume that's her under that brilliant wig. Way to go Hollywood!

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DEVIL

A bunch of people get stuck in an elevator...Not too scary, you say? Well, what if it was a SATANIC ELEVATOR?? Muuhuhahahaaaaa

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SOUL KITCHEN (Germany)

A deeply enjoyable comedy about a pair of brothers and a failing restaurant that sudeenly becomes successful

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DECEMBER 28

THE AMERICAN

George Clooney has to fight to prove he wasn't born in Kenya so that he can be president

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RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE

Zombies, guns, more zombies I'm pretty sure

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TWELVE

A well-reviewed film about a young man getting into drugs who is helped by his dealer, Fitty Cent!

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THE UNITED STATES OF TARA Season 2

Another season of the hit TV show

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Have a great holidays everybody!

New Releases, 14 December 2010

Once in a blue moon a week like this week comes along...It's the New Movie Tuesday to end ALL New Movie Tuesdays! We're talking about good things here people!

MICMACS

From Jeunet (CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, AMELIE) comes a slapstick comedy about warring arms dealers and a group of junkyard dweelers out to foil them...

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EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

From mysterious graffitti artist Banksy comes the doc sensation of the, a fantastic piece of art provocation. Played Ragtag, and absolutely marvelous.

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THE TOWN

Ben Affleck's latest film about Bahstin, and some wicked hahd bank robbahs

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CYRUS

Comedic hit of the summer, John C Reilly has his eye on Jonah Hill's mom

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DESPICABLE ME

Animated hit of the Summer, or Fall, or whenever it was when it came out

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GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOOOOLE

Animated owl epic, and let me be the first to say there are some real angry looking owls after those really sweet looking owls

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THE A TEAM

Hannibal and the boys are back, in an action-packed action packer

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THE OTHER GUYS

Will Ferrel and Marky Mark star in a copmedy. That's a comedy about cops, and if you want to use that phrase you owe us big time royalties

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JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK

From T/F, a wonderful doc looking at the career of Joan Rivers. Highly recommended

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GASLAND

Also from T/F, the hit doc exposing the bad practices of the natural gas industry

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Have a great week everybody!

New Releases, 30 November 2010

So it hasn't been a great week, what with Leslie Nielsen dying and all. We couldn't possibly begin to make up for that, but here's a small step forward: 

CAIRO TIME

From Ragtag, an acclaimed film about the wife of a diplomat finding unexpected romance in some country...one of the desert ones...which one is that again?

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KNIGHT AND DAY

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz find unexpected romance and numerous assassins all over the world.

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GOING THE DISTANCE

Drew Barrymore and the Mac kid from the commercials find unexpected romance in a boat.

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WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY

From last year's T/F, the story of the rejuvenation of Disney Studios in the 90s, filled with tons of great stuff.

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THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE

Nic Cage is BACK! This time he's an ancient wizard in modern New York, and he has to fight another ancient wizard with the help of a young schlub or...surprise, the world ends.

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PARKS AND RECREATION Season 2

Second season of the hit show. Who knew city government could be this fun?...

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and, coming out December 4th:

TWILIGHT ECLIPSE

Hot vampire or hot werewolf, vampire or werewolf...how's a modern gal to decide?!

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RIP Frank Drebin and we'll see everyone next week!

New Releases, 16 November 2010

It's a very, very good week people, unless you wanted something other than awesome movies. If that was the case, prepare to be disappointed.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD

Based on the graphic novels and starring Michael Cera, the feel-good ex-boyfriend-defeating film of the summer

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GROWN UPS

Look at that lineup! Will such a lineup ever been seen again in the history of laffs?

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THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT

From Ragtag, an acclaimed family-drama-comedy starring some great folks

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BEST WORST MOVIE

A documentary about the making of Troll 2, widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made. Played Ragtag and this summer's True/False Boone Dawgle. Doggle? Dawdle?

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THE EXTRA MAN

John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline and that creepy kid from There Will Be Blood! What could go wrong?

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THE LAST AIRBENDER

Look out for that kid with the arrow on his head, I hear he's pretty tough.

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NIGHT OF THE HUNTER & MODERN TIMES

Criterion Editions

Two absolute masterpieces in great new editions, highly recommend them!

Have a great week! And to help you do so, here is a quote of inspiration from John Tesh:

"I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio."