Knocked Up
by Judd Apatow (2007-09-25)
Universal Studios (129 minutes)
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Unwanted pregnancy might sound like a risky subject for slapstick comedy, but Knocked Up is from writer-director Judd Apatow--so we are in the hands of a man who likes to push things. And like Apatow's predecessor, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up is a shaggy crowd-pleaser, a comedy strewn with vulgarity but with a sweet heart at its center.
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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 2:59 pm by Sylvhania
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Lust, Caution “Se, Jie”
by Ang Lee (2008-02-19)
Universal Studios (159 minutes)
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(162)
An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
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Posted: Friday, January 23, 2009 at 10:06 am by Sylvhania
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Chapter 27
by J.P. Schaefer (2008-09-30)
Peace Arch (84 minutes)
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A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.
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Posted: Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 11:09 pm by Sylvhania
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The Purple Rose of Cairo
by (2001-11-06)
MGM (Video & DVD) (82 minutes)
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(49)
In 1930s New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
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Posted: Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 10:15 pm by Sylvhania
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
by Thomas De Quincey (2003-04-29)
average customer review: (10)
In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London-and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey-under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum.
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Posted: Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 3:30 pm by Sylvhania
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The Teacher from the Black Lagoon and Other Back-to-School Stories
by Harry Allard, Mike Thaler, Trinka Hakes Noble, Miriam Cohen, Steven Kellogg ()
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Featuring a fire-breathing teacher and a class trip with a boa constrictor, these stories are sure to amuse and quell fears of new experiences at the same time.
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Posted: Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 5:09 am by Sylvhania
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The Edge of Heaven “Auf der Anderen Seite”
by Fatih Akin (2008-10-14)
Strand Releasing (116 minutes)
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Fatih Akin, the critically-acclaimed director of HEAD-ON, weaves overlapping tales of friendship and sexuality into a powerful narrative of universal love. Six characters are drawn together by circumstances-an old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
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Posted: Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 6:57 pm by Sylvhania
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Jellyfish “Meduzot”
by Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret (2008-09-30)
Zeitgeist Films (78 minutes)
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Twenty-first century Tel Aviv represents something different for each of the women in Jellyfish. Waitress Batya finds a strangely familiar lost child, Keren experiences an unusual honeymoon, and Joy looks after a lonely old lady to support her son in the Philippines.
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Posted: Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 4:00 pm by Sylvhania
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Leatherheads
by George Clooney (2008-09-23)
Universal Studios (114 minutes)
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A romantic comedy set in the world of 1920s football, where the owner of a professional team drafts a strait-laced college sensation, only to watch his new coach fall for his fiancée.
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Posted: Friday, January 16, 2009 at 8:57 pm by Sylvhania
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Murder Ahoy
by George Pollock ()
Warner Brothers ( minutes)
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(8)
After Miss Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.
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Posted: Friday, January 16, 2009 at 6:55 pm by Sylvhania
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