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The Invention of Lying

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews April 30th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.
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Humpday

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews April 30th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
Its been a decade since Ben and Andrew were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up, unannounced, on Bens doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of heterosexual one-upmanship. After a night of perfunctory carousing, the two find themselves locked in a mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

by Cinema Blend Movie Reviews April 30th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
We all say that we go into summer movies for the explosions, the fight scenes, and the chance to turn our brains off while gazing at chiseled biceps. But IX-Men Origins: WolverineI is proof that we dont really mean it. For a summer movie to achieve that popcorn-munching high, theres got to be some level of attention to narrative coherence, character arcs, and all that hoity-toity stuff that you think just comes in the Oscar bait movies.
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Paper Heart

by Cinema Blend Movie Previews April 30th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
Charlyne Yi does not believe in love. Or so she says. Well, at the very least, she doesnt believe in fairy-tale love or the Hollywood mythology of love, and her own experiences have turned her into yet another modern-day skeptic. PAPER HEART follows Charlyne as she embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesnt fully understand.
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Limits of Control

by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews April 30th, 2009 | Movie Reviews








Starring:

Isaach de Bankole, Alex Descas, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Luis
Tosa...

Review:

Even the great ones hit snags. With The Limits of
Control, Jim Jarmsuch gets tangled up in his own deadpan. I'd
explain a little of the plot, but there isn't any. Just the stoic
visage of Isaach De Bankolé as a nameless hitman who wanders
through non-touristy Spain (shot with a poet's eye by the masterful
Christopher Doye) doing meet-and-greets with terrific actors, such
as Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Gael Garcia Bernal and John Hurt.
They don't act, really. They strike poses. But it's Read More
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