New Releases, 27 October 2009

OOOoooooOOOOooOoooOoOooohhh...it's a spooky halloween list, full of comedies and children's movies and period pics.  

WHATEVER WORKS

New Woody Allen, with Curb Your Enthusiasms' Larry David in a rare age-appropriate Woody-surrogate role

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1905522,00.html

ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS

Those wacky glacier buddies are at it again, see if that squirrel thing finally gets his nut!

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090629/REVIEWS/906299995

TRANSFORMERS 2

Those wacky car-robot-aliens are at it again, in Egypt and under the ocean.  Plus a li'l Megan Fox for the guys, and a li'l Shia "the beef" LaBoeuf for the ladies...

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20286964,00.html

CHERI

Sharon Stone is up to some Victorian high-jinks, seducing gentlemen and setting heads a-turning and spats a-spatting

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/25/MVNT18CL7S.DTL&type=movies

ORPHAN

The lone horror film to come out this week, about a young girl who seems plagued by tragic "accidents"...

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090722/REVIEWS/907229993

IL DIVO

Critically lauded, "Fellini-esque" film about a shifty and corrupt Italian politician, if you can imagine such a thing

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937270.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=Il+divo

NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS

Debra Messing is celebrating the holidays with her man's crazy Latino family.  Not that being crazy has anything to do with being Latino.  Forget I said anything. 

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2008-12-11-nothing-like-the-holidays_N.htm?csp=IMDBreviews

BUNUEL: DEATH IN THE GARDEN

Seldom-seen Bunuel classic from 1956, about gold-diggers.  Literal gold-diggers.  Miners.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=120

FOOD MATTERS

New documentary that covers the question of what we should eat.  Please please please be Hardee's...

http://www.sunfood.com/buy/4/58/DVD-Food-Matters-by-James-Colquhoun.aspx

DR. BRONNER'S MAGIC SOAPBOX

Doc about a crazy huckster who peddled soap and put his crazy rants on the bottle.  Looks pretty entertaining

http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/movies/29bron.html

INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (1977)

The movie that Tarantino's wasn't really based on.  Pulp war classic.

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/08/13/inglorious/index.html?CP=IMD&DN=110

SCANNERS (1981)

Cronenberg's thriller about powerful psychics trying to take over the world, and the powerful psychic trying to stop them

http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/classic/scanners.shtml

http://www.horrorreview.com/old/egscanners1981.html

Have a happy holiday, and remember--don't eat anything that's not in a bag that says 3 Musketeers on it.