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Director: Paul Weiland
Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia PicturesThe Plot: Tom (Dempsey) is a consummate ladies' man. Hannah (Monaghan) is his best friend and the one constant in his life. But when Hannah leaves town for a six-week business trip, allowing Tom to realize his love for her runs deeper than he ever knew, how does he deal with conveying his feelings -- especially when she returns with an engagement ring on her finger, and a request for him to be in her wedding? THE BUZZ: Patrick Dempsey is getting the roles that Hugh Grant will no longer consider and for which Hugh Jackman has become too spendy. And we guess this makes Michelle Monaghan the new Sandra Bullock? Anyway, will MoH revive the rom-com genre's failing heart? It's hard to say, especially when the movie will battle Iron Man, which we hear is tracking well with the ladies (not hard to imagine, given the presence of the Gwyneth and RDJ's beefed-up frame). P.S. Whoever first called this 27 Dresses for Guys is clever. Message Boards: america's next top model.... | dvd? Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Jon Favreau
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount PicturesThe Plot: While in captivity, industralist Tony Stark (Downey) creates a high-tech suit of armor which he first uses to fight his way to freedom, and then to prevent a dark-minded scientific genius from carrying out his nefarious plot against humankind. THE BUZZ: After 15+ years in development, the comic hero first based on Howard Hughes is refashioned as a contemporary industrialist whose technology is being used in the Middle Eastern war effort. (Funny, we can't compare him to any present-day eccentrics, just a list of bad guys come to mind.) Director Jon Favreau was the first name talent associated with project, and any doubt as to his ability to bring in a polished, smart-looking film should have been erased by not only the principal cast he got to sign on, but also his plan for the first film of a proposed trilogy (we hear Downey, Paltrow, and Howard signed 3-picture deals). Here's what we know: Stark is taken prisoner is Afghanistan, and that's where he builds the suit; both the grey suit and the red and gold suit will appear; Stark's alcoholism won't be addressed during the first go-round. And a note to old-school comics fans: It's kind of cool that Stark's old split book counterpart, Steve Rogers (a.k.a Captain America) was greenlighted soon after IM began pre-production. While that project seems to be languishing in development-heck, we imagine IM's initial returns might help get the red, white, and blue balls rolling. Message Boards: Why MARVEL movies are far superior than recent DC´s ? (My thoughts) | Dont deserve to be top 250... Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: David Mamet
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen, Emily Mortimer (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures ClassicsThe Plot: A fateful event serves as the first chapter in a new story for top Jiu-Jitsu instructor Mike Terry (Ejiofor). Though he has shied away from the professional side of the medium -- opting instead to run his own struggling self-defense studio -- circumstances conspire to force him to step into the ring for money for the first time. THE BUZZ: We really are curious as to what David Mamet is up to with Redbelt, a more grown-up version of the spring release Never Back Down. The two movies are both looking to cash in on the mixed-martial arts craze that dominates pay-per-view ratings, and in this head-to-head movie battle, it's the latter film that looks to emerge victorious what with its hotter bods (a fact) and focus on action over character development (a guess).
Can you see Mamet's regulars queuing up for this?
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Director: Garth Jennings
Stars: Bill Milner (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount VantageThe Plot: A shy boy growing up in a sheltered British community makes an unlikely collaborative partnered in his rough-and-tough schoolmate in his attempt to film his own shot-by-shot version of Rambo: First Blood. THE BUZZ: After winning over the crowds at Sundance and nestling in the deep pockets of Paramount's indie lable, Jennings latest opus proves to be much less ambitious than his last project and is poised to be this year's Little Miss Sunshine -- although it looks more like this year's Billy Elliot on Human Growth Hormone. Really though, we saw this at the Seattle Film Festival (last year, ahem) and were pulled into a nostalgic haze by the film and the performances of its two young leads. Then again, it could have been all that opening-night champagne ... Message Boards: DVD release??? | Lee Carter is The Tits. Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Harmony Korine
Stars: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant (Full Cast)
Studio: The Plot: A Michael Jackson impersonator (Luna) ekeing out a life in Paris joins a Marilyn Monroe look-alike (Morton) on a trip back to her commune in the Scottish Highlands -- a seaside castle at which Michael discovers an alternate family of impersonators all in preparation for their first-ever gala. THE BUZZ: The tastemakers of cool haven't been kind to Harmony Korine's long-overdue third picture (but have they really ever embraced him? has he ever been embraceable?), a surprising push toward something resembling a mainstream effort that we hear lacks any sort of commentary on the themes it artfully depicts: isolation, romantic triangles, celebrity culture, alterna-societies and their struggle for survival ... Still, few popular filmmakers can create the type of visual memories Korine brings to the screen, and we imagine he and his accessible cast (which includes another role for documentarian Werner Herzog, here playing a priest running a missionary aid organization in an unnamed Latin American jungle) will make for a good late-spring day spent indoors. Korine has also pulled off a few creative coups here: Getting Marcel Zyskind (Michael Winterbottom's go-to cinematographer) to shoot the film, outsiders extraordinaire Jason Spaceman and the Sun City Girls to contribute music, and Performance duo Anita Pallenberg and Richard Fox to pad his cast. So there should be enough there to keep even his harshest detractors (who are probably, let's face it, totally jealous of HK) in their chairs for the two-hour runtime. We say zip your lip and look at pretty pictures. Message Boards: On Demand right now | Is it me or has this guy's schtick run it's course? Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Andy Wachowski Larry Wachowski
Stars: Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox, Christina Ricci (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. PicturesThe Plot: Speed Racer (Hirsch), a skilled young car driver who belongs to a family of gearheads, is blackmailed by the head of the nefarious corporation Royalton Industries to participate in The Crucible -- the annual cross-country rally that claimed his brother's life years ago. Behind the wheel of the Mach 5, his father's greatest invention, Speed goes head-to-head with his chief rival, the mysterious-yet-familiar Racer X (Fox). THE BUZZ: In an earlier iteration of this project, Vince Vaughn was attached; in another Alfonso Cuarón was set to direct Johnny Depp as the man behind the wheel of the Mach 5 ... The main question mark here is whether Andy Wachowski and his still-a-man brother Larry can make a family film that they themselves would go see? (Our answer: of course, since there's no pressure for the plot to make a shred of sense.) We're definitely not worried about cool visuals, but there a lot of writers present here. Message Boards: SR merch on clearance | painfully underrated!! but people will learn... Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Tom Vaughan
Stars: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film CorporationThe Plot: Joy (Diaz) and Jack (Kutcher) meet while on a Las Vegas bender, where their drunken nuptials are only part of a larger problem: What to do when Jack wins $3 million with Joy's quarter, and they are forced to spend six months as wife and husband if they are to see a penny of their winnings. THE BUZZ: Let's just skip over Ashton (I mean, really) and address the real sad story here: Ms. Diaz, who used to be a movie star and not just someone you see in magazines and print ads, has been absent from the top of the box office in quite some time. Unlucky in work and love, we guess. (Whoa, she's like America's own Nicole Kidman!) And now she and Ashton have to star in a by-the-numbers romantic comedy, the kind that reveals its entire hand in its trailer. Was this even filmed in Las Vegas?
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Director: Xavier Gens
Stars: Karina Testa, Aurélien Wiik, Patrick Ligardes (Full Cast)
Studio: After Dark FilmsThe Plot: A band of criminals find refuge in a secluded country inn, fully unaware of the nightmare that will greet them this evening. THE BUZZ: French director Xavier Gens is having a tough time with his movies in the States; first he was kind of fired from his last offering and then Frontière(s) was quietly dropped from the roster of the second HorrorFest because of MPAA-related issues (the ratings board wasn't keen on the movie's level of violence). But now After Dark Films is giving the movie a tiny theatrical release before it hits the DVD market of May 13, so you have two chances to see some Hostel-like sadism complete with a pregnant felon as a lead character, a gnarly troupe of Nazis ensconced inside the primary set piece, and, from what we hear, plenty of unnecessary, ill-handled political commentary about the collapse of the French government and its ideology. Maybe we'll stay home and read some more of The Stranger this week... Message Boards: Why did they let Yasmine live? | Derivative but entertaining...Not great. Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Tarsem Singh
Stars: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru (Full Cast)
Studio: Roadside AttractionsThe Plot: In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman (Pace) begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm (Untaru), a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances. THE BUZZ: Boasting the trailer of the year thus far has helped turn director Tarsem's second film (remember The Cell?) from a festival circuit has-been into an art-house curiosity. Nearly every review has praised Tarsem's style but ultimately dismissed the movie for its "manufactured" feel. Whatever. It's not like you went to see Pan's Labyrinth because you wanted to see Franco-era Spain expressed visually. I say go experience some abstract art. Message Boards: How do you add the MPAA rating reason for this? | Help! Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Andrew Adamson
Stars: Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley (Full Cast)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesThe Plot: The Pevensie children return to Narnia one year after their first adventure in the magical land. Soon after entering the kingdom, however, they learn that 1,300 years has passed here, and all is not well since an evil king ascended to the throne. The children and allies both old and new band together to help restore the kingdom to its rightful heir, Prince Caspian (Barnes). THE BUZZ: Remember how popular The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was -- how it literally was twice as successful as the Golden Compass worldwide and, of course, how the "Lazy Sunday" video reignited "Saturday Night Live"'s creative streak? How exactly Prince Caspian has failed to generate much advance hype is a question for marketing types to research and blogger types to get snarky about, but I will assert that Wardrobe was a slow, unmemorable movie, and that might be part of the reason there's a general lack of excitement for Caspian. That said, the second chapter's ratcheted-up action might help reignite the franchise, even if Disney's thinking of ending the story after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ... I have to imagine there'll be lots of talk about future Narnia adventures soon after Caspian's opening-weekend numbers are announced. Message Boards: “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” Rome Photocall - Arrivals | Cussing in the Chronicles of Narnia Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Joachim Trier
Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner, Viktoria Winge (Full Cast)
Studio: Miramax FilmsThe Plot: A look at what happens -- and also what could have happened -- after best friends Phillip (Lie) and Erik (Klouman-Høiner) drop their respective manuscripts into the same mailbox, both of them hoping their first novels will be picked up for publication. THE BUZZ: Norwegian Joachim Trier's first film has impressed the harshest critics and has been called one of the best movies about making art in some time. Twitch Film says: "... Trier proves himself remarkably adept at moving between moods, flitting easily between comedy, romance and tragedy - simply refusing to delineate these different elements into neat little compartments because this is simply not how life happens." Read the rest of their review here and watch the trailer over here
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Director: Georgina Riedel
Stars: Elizabeth Peña, America Ferrera, Lucy Gallardo (Full Cast)
Studio: Maya EntertainmentThe Plot: Residents of a sleepy Arizona town find plenty to gossip about when three generations of women from a local family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer. THE BUZZ: Short-film director Georgina Riedel finds her 2005 debut feature picked up by fledgling distributor Maya Releasing (who has the Independent Spirit Award-winning August Evening on deck for later this summer). Why? America Ferrara's one of the leads, and Garcia Girls has been compared to the young star's first film, Real Women Have Curves in terms of its themes and overall good cheer. Message Boards: Novel | Finally! Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Christopher Zalla
Stars: Jesús Ochoa, Armando Hernández (Full Cast)
Studio: IFC FilmsThe Plot: Juan (Hernandez), while on the run from Mexican mobsters, encounters Pedro (Ochoa), a young boy who is heading to New York City in a van full of other illegal aliens. Pedro's hope to reunite with his long-lost father is derailed when Juan, looking to distance himself from his pursuers, makes off with Pedro's ID and belongings. THE BUZZ: Earlier this year, Christopher Zalla's first film was awarded Sundance's Grand Jury Prize for best dramatic feature. IFC picked it up in one of the festival's lower-profile buys, but something tells me this immigrant drama, with its raft of good reviews, could distance itself from the crowded slate of indie summer films. I just wish the person narrating the trailer didn't sound like a Will Arnett imitation. Message Boards: Airing on Cinemax on 1/8? Where is the theatrical release? | Great Reception at Sundance! Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Home EntertainmentThe Plot: Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones (Ford) is called back into action to stop a Soviet plot to uncover and use ancient artifacts in order to take over the world. THE BUZZ: Remember how big May was last year with the third installments of Spider-Man, Pirates, and Shrek all coming out within weeks of one another? While we don't think Tony Stark, Aslan, and Indy will ultimately generate the same box office sensation worldwide, they have a bit more to offer in terms of surprise, delight, and most of all, mystery (barring Prince Caspian?). IJ4 is perhaps the most enigmatic of the trio, what with its official site (launched, it seems, before production even began), formerly-well-hidden plot details, spoiler-spilling extras, and splashy world premiere at Cannes. Now that we essentially know these details, we're marinating on the idea of Shia "Mutt" LaBeouf inheriting the franchise for a rumored fifth chapter. Don't chuff, Spielberg wants it!
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Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures ClassicsThe Plot: An account of the true story of a British reporter (Rhys Meyers) who spearheads the effort to lead 60 war orphans on a thousand-mile journey to safety during Japan's invasion of China in 1937. THE BUZZ: A historical drama in which co-stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh do not engage in any action sequences is a tough sell -- even to art-house types, to which the latest from the still-working director Roger Spottiswoode is being marketed. Distributor Sony Pictures Classics seems to have let this one go unsupported while they work on getting The Wackness into theaters, and we support them and their priorities. Message Boards: Why does the character of 'the Westerner in a foreign land' ultimately b | song? Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Joshua Seftel
Stars: John Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff (Full Cast)
Studio: First Look InternationalThe Plot: Hit man Brand Hauser (Cusack) is deployed to the nation of Turaqistan to off an oil minister who is interfering in U.S. interests in the region. Keeping his eyes on his target proves difficult for Hauser since he has to work undercover planning the nuptials of an Turaqi pop star (Duff) and contending with the affections of a left-wing journalist (Tomei). THE BUZZ: Few reviewers have anything polite to say about this John Cusack pet project that finds the star taking his first screenplay credit since High Fidelity. I have to admit I'm surprised at the story's apparent lack of subtlety in its attempt to satirize U.S. interests in the Middle East (Dan Aykroyd riffs on the Vice President) and celebrity obsession (Ms. Duff's character's name is the cringe inducing "Yonica Babyyeah"). Didn't someone suggest a less hammy approach here? Try to endure the trailer while keeping in mind the nearly two-hour run time. Distributor First Look, which recently went through an exec shuffle, just fumbled Bill several weeks ago, and their luck probably won't turn around this time; maybe they should rush an Aqua Teen Hunger Force sequel into production. Message Boards: Grosse Pointe Blank sequel? | (spoiler) question about end of movie Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Uwe Boll
Stars: , Dave Foley, Verne Troyer (Full Cast)
Studio: Vivendi Visual EntertainmentThe Plot: In the ironically named city of Paradise, a recently laid-off loser (Ward) teams up with his cult-leading uncle (Foley) to steal a peculiar bounty of riches from their local amusement park; somehow, the recently arrived Taliban have a similar focus, but a far more sinister intent. THE BUZZ: You almost have to hand it to Uwe Boll for his ability to withstand petitions to get him to stop making movies while somehow raising the funds to shoot 2-3 films a year. While we think the surprising 3-picture deal he made with indie distributor Freestyle Releasing quietly vaporized after In the Name of the King's dismal performance back in January, the people who take a perverse pleasure in screening Mr. Boll's works should know he has no fewer than four movies in production at this time, with an unending slate of projects -- including a third BloodRayne installment and an Alone in the Dark sequel -- in development. But will he get up off of the mat after being pummeled early this week? For readers in or near New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and Tucson: You'll be able to see a fully nude Dave Foley this Friday. Message Boards: UWE BOLL RETIRES | Dr. Strangelove Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Michael Patrick King
Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon (Full Cast)
Studio: New Line CinemaThe Plot: Set four years after we last saw the ladies, Carrie (Parker), Samantha (Cattrall), Miranda (Nixon), and Charlotte (Davis) negotiate their friendships, romances, and careers in New York City. At the center of it all is Carrie's pending nuptials to Mr. Big (Noth) ... THE BUZZ: Sorry if this is obscure (or annoying) but if there's one thing Strangers with Candy the movie taught me, it's this: Don't watch the big-screen versions of your favorite television shows in theaters; experience them at home on DVD, either alone or with your pals ... essentially, however you watched the show when it was on TV. There's something in a transfer such as this that numbs the overall experience. Yes, we're excited for Carrie & Co. to strut the streets of NYC again (and we're glad that SJP and KC are BFFs, or at least acting like it), but we see no reason to pick out a cute theater-going outfit when you can relax at home in your matched separates by Bitten, surrounded by your own personal Stanford Blatches and/or Steve Bradys, sipping on a Fanta Orange and cough syrup cocktail, waiting to see how the gals look in close-ups. Speaking of close-ups, we didn't think that Cynthia Nixon would be the one to appear as though she had the most work done since 2004 ... Message Boards: wow | The 'Aidan' Chair - did Carrie still have it in the movie? Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Bryan Bertino
Stars: Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler, Gemma Ward (Full Cast)
Studio: Rogue PicturesThe Plot: A couple (Speedman and Tyler) cozied up in a vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants. THE BUZZ: The problem here, aside from the lack-of-confidence-instilling release date shuffles? Supermodel Gemma Ward playing one of three "masked assailants". Gemma Ward: Sexy, not scary. Unless Naomi Campbell trained her. Also, no one went to see Funny Games, so it's easy to see why this one is getting slipped into theaters after a lengthy delay. Message Boards: Did anyone notice? [Spoilers] | i know what would be the smartest thing to do!!!(spoiler) Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Jody Hill
Stars: Danny R. McBride, Ben Best (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount VantageThe Plot: A down-and-out Tae Kwon Do instructor looks to turn his life around by going on a pilgrimage with his buddy (Hill) and two of his students to see his hero, the martial arts legend Chuck "The Truck" Wallace (Best), at a kung-fu convention. THE BUZZ: It looks like Judd Apatow and his crew might have some competition this year in the form of dynamic writing/acting duo Danny McBride and Ben Best, and their director pal Jody Hill. The trio is being nursed by Will Ferrell and his development partner Adam McKay; their Gary Sanchez Productions is behind the team's HBO pilot East Bound and Down, a sports comedy (Will Ferrel? Sports? Comedy? Go figure.) that should hit the air later this year. Back to Foot Fist ... the indie was shot in 19 days and reportedly has a home-video feel at times, and taste-making reviewers dug it at last year's Sundance Film Festival, though we're unsure why the marketing plan for this one is slow to roll out. It should have been on FunnyOrDie months ago. All reviewers question whether audiences will embrace McBride's caustic, in-your-face performance as a Tae Kwon Do instructor who isn't afraid to attack a 7-year-old kid. Message Boards: best low budget no star comedy ever | is it a shaky camera film? Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Tom Kalin
Stars: Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Stephen Dillane (Full Cast)
Studio: IFC FilmsThe Plot: An account of the life of Barbara Daly (Moore), from her marriage to
the heir of the Bakelite plastics fortune, the too-close relationship she formed with her son Tony (Redmayne), and her shocking death in 1972. THE BUZZ: Director Tom Kalin's first feature since 1992's Swoon, looks as though it plays a similar kind of psychosexual game, with decidely mixed critical results. (My go-to reviewer rips it.) Meanwhile, I find it either (a) shocking or (b) indicative of the lack of interest in the film that no one is talking about its wicked-racy trailer. Earmuffs if you are under 18. Message Boards: Chinese takeaway | How old was the real Barbara when Antony was born? Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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Director: Chris Bell
Stars: Chris Bell, Mike Bell, Mark Bell (Full Cast)
Studio: HD NetThe Plot: A documentary filmmaker examines the popularity of steroids in American culture by focusing on his two brothers and their experiences with different performance-enhancing drugs. THE BUZZ: First-time filmmaker Chris Bell had one of the strongest films at Sundance this year, and now BSF is shaping up (all these fitness references!) to be a blockbuster antidote this summer. Guided by producers Kurt Engfehr and Jim Czarnecki -- both associates of Michael Moore -- and employing some Morgan Spurlock-style techniques, the doc has engaged reviewers at SXSW, Tribeca, the aforementioned Sundance, etc. Head on over to the film's official site for the trailer, playdates, reviews, and curiously sexy photos. Message Boards: The Movie's Message | This is a really good movie / directors message? Showtimes | Trailers | Photos | Message Boards | User Comments | Reviews |
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