FREAKS OF THE INDUSTRY

NEW IN THEATRES...

* 13 Assassins, samurai slaughter from Takashi Miike.

Playing Portland at Cinema 21 starting this weekend.

* Midnight in Paris, everything old is new again in Woody Allen's delightful return to form.

* X-Men: First Class: Hey, man, that's a groovy mutation, but the movie's kind of a piece of crap.

THIS WEEK IN DVD/BD REVIEWS...

* The Cocoanuts, yuck it up with Los Bros. Marx in their 1929 debut.

* Man from Del Rio, starring Antony Quinn as a Mexican sheriff in a racially progressive 1950s western.

* Never Apologize, Malcolm McDowell's one-man show in remembrence of director Lindsay Anderson.

* Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, a trio of themed stories from director Vittorio De Sica and actors Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren.

Current Soundtrack: Depeche Mode, "Personal Jesus 2011" remix EP; Bar-Kays, Soul Finger




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