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Volume 3, Issue 7
March 29 - April 11, 2001


PICKUP SHOTS

Quickie Movie Reviews

15 Minutes [R 2h] Will cops and serial killers ever learn to get along? Starring: Robert DeNiro, Edward Burns. Directed by: John Herzfeld.

3,000 Miles to Graceland [R] Elvis impersonators hold up a casino. Starring: Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Christian Slater. Directed by: Demian Lichtenstein.

Before Night Falls [R 2h 5m] A cuban shows up in America without using a raft. Starring: Javier Bardem, Oliver Martinez, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn. Directed by: Julian Schnabel.

Billy Elliot [R 1h 40m] Coal miner's son takes ballet lessons. Starring: Jamie Bell. Directed by: Stephen Daldry.

Blow Dry [R 1h 45m] Who will win the National Hairdressing Championship? Starring: Alan Rickman. Directed by: Simon Beaufoy.

The Brothers [R] Maybe should have been called The Best Man 2. Starring: Bill Bellamy, Morris Chestnut, D. L. Hughley. Directed by: Gary Hardwick.

Cast Away [PG-13 2h 23m] Tom Hanks gets left on an island by himself without $1 million. Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy. Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

The Caveman's Valentine [R 1h 45m] Will crazy piano players and serial killers ever learn to get along? Starring: Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by: Kasi Lemmons.

Chocolat [PG-13 2h 1m] Sweet candy drives the French people wild. Starring: Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench. Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom.

Company Man [PG-13 1h 35m] An English teacher is hired to overthrow Castro. Starring: Douglas McGrath, John Turturro, Sigourney Weaver. Directed by: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [PG-13 2h] The real star is choreographer Yuen Wo Ping. Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen. Directed by: Ang Lee.

Down to Earth [PG-13 1h 35m] Chris Rock comes back to life as a rich white guy. Starring: Chris Rock, Regina King, Mark Addy. Directed by: Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz.

Emperor's New Groove [G] An animated buddy comedy in South America? Again? Starring: David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton. Directed by: Mark Dindal.

Enemy at the Gates [R] A good marksman is the hope of Russia-- a country that needs a whole lot of hope. Starring: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes. Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud.

Exit Wounds [R] The title refers to the dam-age Steven Seagal's done to his own career. Starring: Steven Seagal, DMX Directed by: Andrzej Bartkowiak.

The Family Man [PG-13 2h 10m] Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you married your high school sweetheart? Me neither. Starring: Nicholas Cage, Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle. Directed by: Brett Ratner.

Finding Forrester [PG-13 2h 16m] Good Will Hunting, only this time with a much older teacher and a much blacker student. Starring: Sean Connery, Robert Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin. Directed by: Gus Van Sant.

Get Over It [PG-13 1h 30m] Get over Kirsten Dunst? Never! Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Sisqo. Directed by: Tommy O'Haver.

Hannibal [R] Will cops and serial killers ever learn to get along? Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman. Directed by: Ridley Scott.

Heartbreakers [PG-13] Same plot as every JLH movie ... she almost gets naked, but doesn't. Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sigouney Weaver, Gene Hackman. Directed by: David Mirkin.

In the Mood for Love [PG 1h 30m] A newspaper editor beds his neighbor in Hong Kong. Starring: Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung. Directed by: Wong Kar-wai.

The Mexican [R 2h 3m] Julia Roberts ... Brad Pitt ... which one's Mexican again? Starring: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts. Directed by: Gore Verbinski.

Monkeybone [PG-13] Stop-motion ani-mation meets Brendan Fraser. Stop-motion animation wins. Starring: Brendan Fraser, Dave Foley, Whoopi Goldberg (as Death), Rose McGowan. Directed by: Henry Selick.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? [PG-13 1h 45m] Homer's Odyssey gets re-told in the depression-era south? Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Holly Hunter. Directed by: Joel Coen.

Pollock [R 1h 59m] Splatter punk painting! Starring: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden. Directed by: Ed Harris.

Recess: School's Out [G] For those who like their stupid Saturday morning car-toons better in a dark theatre at night. Starring: Jason Davis, Ashley Johnson, Katey Sagal. Directed by: Chuck Sheetz.

Save the Last Dance [PG-13] Hey, teens, when life gets you down, just dance, dance, dance! Starring: Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas. Directed by: Thomas Carter.

Say It Isn't So [R] Ha ha ha incest. Starring: Heather Graham, Chris Klein, Sally Field. Directed by: J. B. Rogers

See Spot Run [PG 1h 33m] See Spot kill David Arquette's career. Starring: David Arquette, Spot, Michael Clarke Duncan. Directed by: John Whitesell.

Shadow of the Vampire [R] Never cast an actual vampire as the lead in a vampire movie. Starring: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes. Directed by: E. Elias Merhige.

Snatch [R] Relax Shane Company, people only steal diamonds in the movies. Starring: Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Farina. Directed by: Guy "Madonna" Ritchie.

Sweet November [PG-13] See Keanu put the moves on girl. See girl respond. Wonder, exactly, how this works. Starring: Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Frank Langella. Directed by: Pat O'Connor.

Traffic [R 2h 27m] The nature of the drug deal, as explained by beautiful peo-ple. Starring: Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Benicio Del Toro. Directed by: Steven Soderbergh.

Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 [R 1h 49m] The title is the scariest part. Starring: Gerard Butler, Justine Waddell, Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Jeri Ryan. Directed by: Patrick Lussier.

What Women Want [PG-13 2h 6m] Women want Mel Gibson? And all this time men thought it was Brad Pitt. Starring: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Mark Feuerstein. Directed by: Nancy Meyers.


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