Out this week (08/08/08)

It's a significantly better week than last, however there's still little to make me want to go to the cinema. Catherine Zeta-Jones is trying to point to a cinema where Death Defying Acts is showing, maybe if I find it I'll see it.

Death Defying Acts

The film of the week has to be this Houdini biopic, of sorts. Concentrating on a fictional relationship between a con-artist medium and the famous escapologist the film delves into the tricks that psychics do to fool their punters.

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Elegy

More from Sir Ben Kingsley, that bastion of quality control, although this time he's backed up by an interesting supporting cast including Penelope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard. Still the films from a book by Philip Roth and he's responsible of The Human Stain, one of the worst film experiences of my life so it loses a point there.

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Elite Squad

Brazilian Police Drama involving two friends vying for the top job in a ultra tough anti-drug squad. Apparently there's corruption and needless bureaucracy in the Brazillian Police - I expect that would be the same in any contry only without the favellas

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The Fox and the Child

Part natural history documentary, part kiddie drama, part pants looking. The reviews say the fox is the better actor.

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Make it Happen

Jumping on the dance movie craze this middling effort from Darren Grant (I don't know why I put that I don't know any of his previous films). If you were excited as a kid by Flashdance and Footloose avoid this dull retread.

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Empire

Or The Proof: Law of Dimishing Returns. Not even the thought of seeing Bredan Fraser running around makes me want to see this. Am I getting old or is he?

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