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Thursday, July 22, 2010

SALT, PEPPA AND SPINDERELLA



NEW IN THEATRES...

* The Killer Inside of Me, Michael Winterbottom's strange adaptation of Jim Thompson maybe plays it too straight, but Casey Affleck is riveting.

* Salt was the movie, I was the snail. Angelina Jolie is highly watchable, but the movie slips off a rung on its evolutionary ladder and falls down fast.

* Wild Grass, the latest from master director Alain Resnais is pretty goddamn terrible. As I say in my review, it's like a parody of foreign films by someone whose never seen a foreign film.

THIS WEEK IN DVD REVIEWS...

* Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 5, the Warner Bros. series returns, but with its weakest entry. A few good choices out of the eight movies here, but mostly middling.

* Saturday Night Live: Best of Will Ferrell - Volume 3, a new compilation of skits from the funnyman's time as a cast member and also as a guest host of the long-running comedy show.

* Vincere, Marco Bellocchio's bizarre love story of Mussolini and his mistress, with a knock-out performance from Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Mama mia, she's gorgeous!



Current Soundtrack: RPA & the United Nations of Sound, self-titled




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