Out this week (08/05/09)

After last weeks dreadful showing there's a little more quality circulating this weeks releases. With probably the best looking blockbuster for 2009 in Star Trek. Of course I'm a sucker for costume pictures so my recommendation is for Michelle Pfeiffer in Cheri.



Blue Eyelids

Mexican film about a girl who wins a dream holiday and then picks a stranger off the street to go with her. Won the Special Jury Prize for World Cinema - Dramatic at last years Sundance festival.

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Chéri

Michelle Pfeiffer, Stephen Frears and writer Christopher Hampton reunite 21 years after their successful collaboration on Dangerous Liaisons. Reviews are mixed, saying this productions fails to hit those dizzy heights, but the look of the trailer is terrific and Michelle is still absolutely stunning in period garb.

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Coraline

Coraline resents her "eat your greens" surburban parents, so when she finds a secret door to an alternative universe with loving and less strict other parents she is overjoyed. The glee turns to chills in this otherworldly stop-motion adaptation for less excitable children.

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Delta

Incest and murder rub shoulders in this Hungarian artfilm, inspired by and mixing the elements of Hamlet and Electra.

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Little Ashes

Can Robert (Twilight, famous hair) Pattinson deliver in a real film? See this recreation of the love affair between surrealist Salvadore Dali and famed Spanish writer Lorca to find out.

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Momma's Man

Exploring the need to escape from lifes responsibilities this New York set drama concerns a young man who goes for an extended stay at his parents Manhattan loft whilst avoiding his wife and child.

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Munde uk De

Colourful but informationless poster, no real plot description, a cast that seemed to appear from nowhere. Bollywood once again makes no effort to engage my interest.

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O'Horten

A rare film aimed at the older crowd. Odd Horten (Baard Owe) finds that life only really starts when he retires from the railways. A meditative and insightful look at a man discovering himself for the first time

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Star Trek

J.J. Abrams reinvents the 60's sci-fi for the 21st century by focusing on the early life and first mission of the original crew. It's funky, funny and winning over the critics. Will this be the best blockbuster of 2009? (By all means say whatn you think in the comments)

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