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RUSH HOUR 3 (PG-13) Rush Hour
3 is a pleasant enough diversion that
never achieves the giddy tun ot the
lirst two installments AM? displaces
Chris Tucker's Detective James Carter
and Jackie Chan's Chiet Inspector Lee
in the City ot Lights, where they must
bring the Chinese Triad to its knees.
Tired and repetitive, it's still an enter
taining hour and a half (Beechwood,
Carmike)
SHOOT ‘EM UP (R) A shotgun blast
that never takes itself seriously, Shoot
Em Up is the exact sort of inventive,
comic-inspired, video game-sired
bloodbath I thought Smokin'Aces
should be Nimble, nihilistic, balletic
ballistics highlight writer-director
Michael Davis' first major feature Clive
Owen is Smith, a mysterious loner who
rips through the lackeys ot hitman Mr
Hertz (Paul Giamatti), like a Double-0
gone oft the reservation to protect
a newborn Assisted by a prostitute
(Monica Bellucci) who specializes in
breast-feeding fantasies - a character
quirk and a time-saving plot device -
Smith survives wave upon wave of bad
dies, often armed with nothing more
than a carrot Davis' characters are a bit
quippy for my tastes, but that's what the
action crowds dig Rather than acting
bored as many "rear thespians do in
such throwaway, paycheck fare, Owen
and Giamatti sink their teeth into their
roles; Giamatti gets downright nasty as
the sinister Mr Hertz. Cartoomsh and
buffoonish (the baby retains no more
importance than any other prop), Shoot
Em Up is riddled with bullets and fun
(Beechwood, Carmike)
THE SHORT FILMS OF ROGER
BEEBE (NR) The experimental films -
varying in medium, tone and form - of
Roger Beebe, a professor of Film and
Media Studies at the University ot
Florida, comes to Athens as part of the
Southern Circuit - Tour of Independent
Filmmakers, a sextet of independent
films to be shown at the Georgia
Museum of Art in 2007 and 2008
Shows Wednesday, 9/12 (GMOA)
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE (PG-13) I
can't help but greet the feature version
of this cultural institution with a single.
‘D'oh!* As 'South Park" presciently de
clared. “Simpsons did it.' They've done
it so much that most every surreal plot
turn and nonsensical gag are recycled
Ends Thursday (Carmike)
STARDUST (PG-13) Director Matthew
Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman
ably streamline Tristran's (Charlie Cox)
quest for fallen star Yvaine (Claire
Danes), while expanding his crusade
to save his true love from the evil witch
(Michelle Pfeiffer). Too bad the film
lacks the star power or the cohesive
marketing campaign to connect with its
audience Ends Thursday (Carmike)
STREAMS OF GOLD (NR) 2004
Directors Beret Strong and John
Tweedy tourney back to 1916 Ecuador
and the mining town of Portovelo
where Tweedy's grandfather started a
business whose course reflected one
of the major ideological battles of the
20th century Shows Monday, 9/17
(ACC Library)
SUPERBAD (R) The super-raunchy
all-night adventures of best buds and
lovable losers Seth (Michael Cera) and
Evan (Jonah Hill) as they seek beer
and sex was waiting for the ribald,
heartfelt guidance of producer Judd
Apatow, the writer-director of The 40-
Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up Less
carloomsh, more real, and megatons
more nastily funny than American Pie,
Superbadcaptures the life and travails
of the geeky - read normal - high-
school male. (Beechwood. Carmike)
SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY
(NR) 2006 Award-winning filmmaker
Apichatpong Weerasethakul follows his
acclaimed Blissfully Yours and Tropical
Malady (a Palme d’Or nominee) with
Golden Lion nominee Syndromes and
a Century Split in two, Syndromes and
a Century, inspired by his parent's slow
romance, traces the life of a female
doctor circa Weerasethakulls birth and
retraces that world with the contempo
rary tale of a male doctor. Starts Friday
(Cin6)
THE TEN (R) Former member of “The
State' and 'Stella' David Wain, who also
directed the summer camp satire Wfe/
Hot American Summer, sets his sights
on the Bible with this send-up of the Ten
Commandments (the actual legal docu
ment as dictated to Moses by God. not
the Charlton Heston-Cecil B. OeMille
epic). Both trailers are laugh out loud
hilarious. With everyone you'd expect -
Michael lan Black. Michael Showalter,
Ken Marino. Thomas Lennon, Paul
Rudd - and many you wouldn't - Liev
Schreiber. Oliver Platt, Winona Ryder
and Jessica Alba Starts Friday (Cin6)
WAR (R) FBI agent Jack Crawford
(Jason Statham) has been tracking a
hitman, known only as Rogue (Jet Li),
for three years Now, in the midst ot
an all-out war between the Japanese
Yakuza and the Chinese Triads,
Crawford draws a bead on the elusive
Rogue War has little to offer, especially
to its core constituency of action junk
ies. Ends Thursday (Carmike)
YELLOW BRICK ROAD (NR) 2005
Alter four months of preparation and
rehearsals, a troupe of extraordinary ac
tors from the drama arm ot Long Island's
ANCHOR Organization (Answering
the Needs of Citizens with Handicaps
Through Organized Recreation) put on
a lavish, one-night-only performance
of The Wizard otOz. Directed by Keith
Rondinelli and Matthew Makar, Yellow
Brick Road won the Festival Prize for
Best Documentary from the Long Island
International Film Expo Part of the ACC
Library's iFilms series Shows Thursday.
9/13 (ACC Library)
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