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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.
Art School Confidential - The makers of Ghost World team up again for another movie based on a comic. This time it's a satire of the art world, as seen through the eyes of aspiring artist and student Jerome (Max Minghella). John Malkovich plays a professor, and Jim Broadbent and Anjelica Huston also appear. According to the IMDB, there's also an uncredited cameo from Steve Buscemi, so watch out for that. Anyway, this one sounds like it might be good, snooty fun.
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Showing at: Ritz at the Bourse
Keeping Up with the Steins - We had the Passover family comedy last month; now it's time for the bar mitzvah family comedy. Young Benjamin is having the usual coming-of-age pangs involving self-consciousness, dissatisfaction with himself and his family, and a crush on the hot blonde in Hebrew school. But his oblivious father (played by the highly under-valued Jeremy Piven) just wants to out-do Benjamin's friend's father by throwing Benjamin the biggest bar mitzvah ever, in Dodger Stadium. Benjamin decides to sabotage his Dad's plans by inviting his estranged grandfather (Garry Marshall - the director's dad). But of course all of this is bound to dissolve into heartwarming family togetherness. If you're into that kind of thing, give this one a shot; who knows, it might even be good. Oh, and Daryl Hannah's in it, too; that's always cool.
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Showing at: Ritz Five
Poseidon - Apparently it's time to start remaking the big disaster movies now. This is a retread of the '70s "classic" The Poseidon Adventure, which for our money is a terrible, melodramatic mess of a movie. So, since they're setting the bar so low, maybe they'll actually be able to one-up the original for once! They've got a pretty talented director, anyway (that being Wolfgang Petersen). And the story is exciting - it's about a big new cruise ship getting knocked upside down by a huge wave, and how the celebrities inside try to survive and escape. In this case, the celebrities are Josh Lucas, Jacinda Barrett, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Dillon, and Andre Braugher. The trailer actually makes the movie look halfway decent, too, though it does bring back memories of Titanic for obvious reasons. And certain scenes have got to be pretty breathtaking (if not vomit-inducing!) in IMAX, at least.
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Showing at: the Franklin Institute (in IMAX), the Riverview, the Bridge
Most Likely to Suck: Just My Luck - It's a Lindsay Lohan movie. Must we say more? Sigh. All right...story is, she's the luckiest woman in the world, but after smooching a handsome stranger at a costume party, she somehow ends up swapping her great luck for his terrible luck. She starts experiencing misfortune after misfortune (all no doubt hilarious), and decides desperately to track down the mysterious man in an attempt to get her luck back. It's sort of a weird reimagining of Cinderella, it seems to us, and we expect it will end in similar fashion - with plenty of love and happiness. Uck.
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Showing at: the Riverview
Most Likely to Rule: Blow Out - See our article about this special screening, presented by the Friends of the Boyd, here.
Showing at: the International House, Fri @ 7:30PM ONLY
Killers on the Loose! - Another wonderful Exhumed Films double feature at the International House, this time featuring House on the Edge of the Park and Rituals. As usual with Exhumed Films, neither movie is for the weak or the squeamish; the former is an Italian film directed by the guy responsible for the infamous Cannibal Holocaust, and starring the star of the even more infamous Last House on the Left. According to the I House page about the show, House on the Edge of the Park is a "sadistic psycho-thriller about two degenerate scumbags who terrorize a group of snobbish party-goers." Meanwhile, the latter film, Rituals, is a Canadian "stalk-and-slash thriller" about five men on a fishing trip (one played by Hal Holbrook) who hike into a remote area of Northern Ontario and are there attacked by "a mercilessly savage killer." Sounds like bloody good stuff to us.
Showing at: the International House, Sat @ 8PM ONLY
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