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Severance (Magnolia Pictures) - Christopher (Creep) Smith's horror-comedy about a company team-building outing in the Balkan woodlands that's plagued by murderous war criminals who terrorize and kill the members of a British office opens in select cities.
INTERVIEW with director Christopher Smith by Ryan Rotten
REVIEW (Coming Soon!)

Memories of Tomorrow (Eleven Arts) - Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai) plays a high-powered businessman who starts showing the early signs of Alzheimer's as he nears his 50th birthday. Within a few months, he's no longer able to function, causing problems at work and home. It opens at New York's ImaginAsian theatre on Friday with runs in L.A. and San Francisco to follow.
INTERVIEW (with Ken Watanabe)

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Brooklyn Rules (City Lights Pictures) - Alec Baldwin, Freddie Prinze Jr., Scott Caan and Jerry "Entourage" Ferrara star in this coming-of-age crime drama set in 1985 Brooklyn about three friends who are put in danger when one of them decides to become involved with organized criminals. Written by Terence Winter of "The Sopranos" fame, it opens in select cities on Friday.

Even Money (Yari Film Group) - Opening in New York and L.A., this drama directed by Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond, The River) stars Forest Whitaker, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Ray Liotta, Jay Mohr, Nick Cannon and Tim Roth as people whose involvement in Vegas gambling causes serious consequences in their lives.
Mini-Review: Starting out as if it were a noir crime thriller and ending a bit like "Magnolia," this well-intentioned drama about the ill effects of gambling never really rises above the quality of a typical TV drama. None of the characters or stories are particularly interesting on their own, and the movie is edited in a way that it jumps around rather erratically between them in hopes of creating some sort of tapestry. Otherwise, most of this strong cast is wasted with performances and roles that are far below most them. Whitaker is way too enthusiastic as the brother of an up 'n' coming basketball player who has a gambling problem, and Tim Roth plays the ruthless bookie antagonist in a simplistic way that doesn't require a lot of thought or effort. The scenes between Kim Basinger and Danny DeVito as a housewife with a gambling addiction and the stage magician who nurtures it are the weakest parts of the movie, and sadly, it spends a lot more time on them than with the other characters. There's also the case of Kelsey Grammer, playing a hard-boiled gumshoe who shows up once near the beginning and then doesn't turn up until the very end to give a "meaningful voiceover" to try to tie everything together, which reminds one even more of "Desperate Housewives" or "Grey's Anatomy" (in a bad way). Yeah, we know that gambling is bad, but that doesn't mean that one needs to make, let alone sit through, a poorly conceptualized movie like this to realize it. Rating: 4/10

Fay Grim (Magnolia ) - Ten years after making his indie comedy Henry Fool, Hal Hartley returns with a follow-up that focuses on Parker Posey's title character, a single mother living in Queens who's sent by the CIA to Paris to retrieve Henry's possessions, with no one having seen him in seven years. Part of Magnolia and HDNet's day-and-date program, Hartley's latest opens in select cities and airs on the HDNet Channel on Friday before being released on DVD on Tuesday, May 22.
Note: I can't really review this movie because I only made it through the first 40 minutes, but as a fan of Hal Hartley's previous work, particularly Henry Fool, the movie was so poorly-made with such awful production values that it was almost unwatchable, even with the promise of Parker Posey delivering more of Hartley's typical bantery dialogue. Not that it mattered, since the plot was very silly and convoluted, almost entering Ed Wood territory at times. Maybe someday I'll have a chance to watch the rest of the movie, but it would have to be on DVD where I can watch in smaller doses.
Flanders (International Film Circuit) - Bruno Dumont's drama about a young farmer whose love for his childhood friend helps him get through his years as a soldier at war far from home opens at the Cinema Village in New York on Friday.

Hollywood Dreams (A Rainbow Film) - Henry Jaglom's latest is the story of Margie Chizek (Tanna Frederick), a young woman from Iowa who comes to the town in hopes of finding fame and love. After being taken under the wing of a manager/producer who hopes to turn things around for her, Margie falls for a good-looking actor (Justin Kirk) who is pretending to be gay. It opens in L.A. on Friday and in New York on May 25.
Mini-Review: Another boring dialogue-heavy comedy from Jaglom, full of uninteresting characters and a plot that meanders around with very little focus or direction, as if it's improvised or the actors are making it up as they go along with characters bantering inanely with very little happening to move things forward. Not that it matters, since the main character played by Tanna Frederick is so annoyingly perky and whiny at times--basically acting like a typical drama queen actress--that it's hard to sit through her scenery-chewing performance, not that we're ever given much of a reason to want to. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't seen a much better performance from Naomi Watts doing the exact same thing in the similar "Ellie Parker." To make matters worse, the movie shoehorns in a flimsy plot about Margie's actor boyfriend who pretends to be gay, which only gets worse when he learns about Margie's difficult past and why she acts the way she does. Things do get a little more interesting at that point, but it quickly falls apart afterwards and none of the characters are ever given the type of arc that could have made this character dramedy more interesting. Surely, Henry Jaglom's movies may be an acquired taste, not that I'll ever understand the appeal or feel like I need to pal around with anyone who does. "Hollywood Dreams" is similar to Jaglom's previous efforts in that it makes late night infomercials seem exciting by comparison. Rating: 3/10

Private Property (New Yorker Films) - The ever-present Isabelle Huppert stars in this Belgian/French film by Joachim Lafosse as the mother of twin sons who's still shaken up from a turbulent divorce, but tries to get her life together as she leaves the family home to the two squabbling brothers.

The Wendell Baker Story (THINKFilm) - Luke Wilson stars, co-directed/co-wrote this comedy with his brother Andrew about a man who tries to make up for his shady past by working at a retirement hotel where he befriends a trio of crotchety men sick of how they're treated by the head nurse (played by Luke's brother Owen). The movie also stars Eva Mendes as Wendell's girlfriend and Will Ferrell as the man she turns to when Wendell winds up in jail. The Wilson family project is finally released in New York and L.A. over two years since it debuted at South by Southwest in Austin.
Mini-Review: Much like Wes Anderson's early movies, this quirky indie starts out well enough creating another great role that plays to Luke Wilson's strengths, which is essentially his nice guy charm, but there's something rather off with the way the movie, which starts out like a quirky indie comedy, then gets far too serious and reflexive. Things take a sharp downturn when brother Owen and Eddie Griffin show up and the focus shifts to Wendell's days at the retirement hotel, a ludicrous change in tone that relies on old age jokes, but when it runs out of them, it starts getting a bit too sentimental for its own good. The last half hour tries way too hard to get laughs before ending on a sappy Hollywood type ending, but as a whole, the movie never really delivers on the opening set-up. Essentially, it's another erratic indie that doesn't know whether to be a comedy or a drama, and it's a shame it didn't come out when it was completed two years ago, as it may have then been seen as something original rather than just as a knock-off of "My Name is Earl." Rating: 6/10