Tuesday, August 31, 2010

New Releases, 31 August 2010

Get ready, because you'll want to watch every minute of each of these, including trailers and anti-piracy videos. They're that good.
Three films, each taking a look at unsolved killings in the UK's rough north. Great stuff, played at Ragtag

Michael Caine has to take the law into his own hands, in a different, even rougher part of the UK
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J. Lo sets out to solve the mystery of who stole that guy's underwear.
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Great new thriller from down under--that's right, the rough part of Australia
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Spoiler Alert! The whole thing was just a TV executive's dream...
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Spoiler Alert! In the season finale, it's finally Lupus!
Don Cornelius is back, and he's brought a ton of great performances and delightful ads for Afro Sheen! Seriously, check it out

Have a great week everybody!

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

New Releases, 17 August 2010

New flicks! Don't be fooled by the size of the list people, it's a massive week...

New season of the lethally popular© show. Get it while it's hot!
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Hilarious and action-packed "oriental western", played at Ragtag
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From the minds behind UK's THE OFFICE and EXTRAS, a funny new film
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TEMPLE GRANDIN
Claire Danes and a cow star in this emotional biopic, about a woman who thought her cow was a dog.
Review (a little way down the page) 

That's right. MASSIVE. Have a great week everybody!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

New Releases, 10 August 2010

Too many films for chit chat people (not that we all don't enjoy it), so let's get to business:

DATE NIGHT
A comedy-powerhouse-team-up of this magnitude hasn't occurred since 1975, when Richard Pryor was joined onstage at Radio City Music Hall by the ghost of Charlie Chaplin. Wouldn't want to miss this one too, would you?
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DEATH AT A FUNERAL
The Americanized remake of the hilarious British original, which apparently had too many crumpets in it for our audiences.
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LOUIE BLUIE
Terry Zwigoff's (CRUMB, GHOST WORLD, both great & both on our shelves) first film, years in the making, about an aging blues musician.
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THORN IN THE HEART
Michel Gondry's documentary about his grandmother, in which she turns into a giant yarn monster and chases Bjork around a retirement home.
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THE BEACHES OF AGNES
Agnes Varda's great new film, which we've already pimped in this venue but still can't recommend enough
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MULTIPLE SARCASMS
Oh look, they made their poster look like a New Yorker cover. That's clever. Oh, I do so hope there's a New Yorker cartoon about it in next week's New Yorkerrrr, that would be darling
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MY NAME IS KHAN
Shah Rukh Khan (basically India's Brad Pitt) made a documentary about one of our favorite American pasttimes: racial profiling in airports.
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THE JONESES
Biting satire of our way of life! Starring the X-Files guy!
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SEA OF DUST
This looks kind of creepy

TAPPED
This hard-hitting documentary promises to do for bottled water what FOOD, INC did for...people not changing their behaviors much.

Have a great week!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

New Releases, 3 August 2010

This week's movies are so incredible, so breathtakingly entertaining, that we couldn't even get the post out on time! Oh man!

GHOST WRITER
Roman Polanski's latest, edited while he was in jail (street cred!) and starring Ewan MacGregor as a reluctant biographer...
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KICK ASS
Hot new hero flick, with an cast of greats including Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moritz and Nic Cage!
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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID
From the popular young-adult novels comes a well-reviewed and entertaining film adaptation
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MY WINNIPEG
Guy Maddin cannot make a poor film, and this is one of his greats. Bizarre, dream-like autobiography from a master.
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A PROPHET
From Ragtag, a critically acclaimed film about a young inmate coping with the system...
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AFTER LIFE
Liam Neeson tells Cristina Ricci some serious stuff in this new thrilla

HEROES Season 4
Rent the dvds, save the show!...Oh wait, it was already cancelled. Might as well rent them anyway.

Have a great week everybody!