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Thursday, November 04, 2010

JUST A GIRL, NORTH OF ENGLAND WAY



NEW IN THEATRES...

* 127 Hours, Danny Boyle and James Franco bring the pain in the most tense movie of the season.

* Due Date is one appointment you can postpone. (Bazinga!) Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis give it a good effort, but only about half the jokes land.

* Fair Game, has no backfield play, despite good performances by Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. The story before Valerie Plame's outing as a CIA agent is interesting, though.

* Tamara Drewe, 2010 gives us another great comic book adaptation; Stephen Frears brings Posy Simmonds to life.

And don't forget, Portlanders, Kuroneko hits Cinema 21 for a week!

THIS WEEK IN DVD/BD REVIEWS...

* Alien Anthology, the classic sci-fi franchise looks better than ever on Blu-Ray.

* Theater of War, an uneven documentary about the 2006 staging of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage starring Meryl Streep. It's best when it's just about Brecht himself.

* William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Baz Luhrmann's innovative modern adaptation of the classic doomed romance.



Current Soundtrack: Antichrist director's commentary



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