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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 02, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba C m y k Page info Winnipeg repress. Com Winnipeg free press thursday october 22008 21 movies with Randall King whats on this week starting tomorrow Appaloosa Globe Polo Park. 14a de Harris directed and stars in this eccentric Western As a newly appointed Marshall who with his fast gunned Friend Everett Viggo Mortense brings Law to a new Mexico Community while tangling with a newly arrived woman Renee Zellweger with a fatal attraction to Alpha males. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Kildonan place Polo Park St. Vital Towne. G a Disney comedy in which a pampered Chihuahua voiced by Drew Barrymore is lost on the streets in Mexico and must make her Way Back to her Home with the help of a Streetwise German Shepard voiced by Andy Garcia. Blindness Grant Park Polo Park. 14a Julianne Moore is a woman who alone retains her sight while the rest of the world is subject to an apocalyptic plague of blindness in this parable like film from director Fernando Meirelles the constant Gardener. Flash of Genius Polo Park. Pm based on a True Story this drama follows the fortunes of the inventor Greg Kinnear of the intermittent Windshield wiper and his lifelong Legal Battle to be paid for his work by soulless corporate Auto manufacturers. How to lose friends and alienate people Polo Park Towne. 14a Simon Pegg is an upstart writer who throws a traditional new York Magazine for a Loop with his wild behaviour and his ill advised Romance with a colleague Kirsten Dunst. A jihad for love cinematheque. Pm a documentary about practising muslims who choose to be openly Gay from the producer of trembling before g a 2001 Doc about orthodox jews facing the same Challenge. Nick and Nora has infinite playlist Grant Park Kildonan place Polo Park St. Vital Towne. Pm set in new Yorkus indie music scene this Romance pairs the heartbroken Bass player Nick Michael Cera with a smart Young Norah Kat Dennings As they participate in an Al night trek to find a legendary bands secret show. Reli Ulous Grant Park Polo Park. 14a Bill Maher and director Larry Charles boat team up for a rude examination of world religions with particular emphasis on christianity Judaism and islam from the perspective of emphatic non believers. To yams marriage cinematheque. Pm a chinese film with English subtitles set in the grasslands of inner Mongolia where the Long suffering wife of a crippled Herdsman agrees to a divorce so she can try for a better life. Now playing the following movies have been previously reviewed by free press movie critic Randall King unless otherwise noted. Burn after Reading Globe Grant Park Polo Park St. Vital. 14a after the grim tidings of no country for old me write directors Joel and Ethan Coen return to the realm of the eccentric Oft quotable comedy with this convoluted tale of Middle aged dolts including George Clooney Brad Pitt Frances Mcdormand and John Malkovich enmeshed in adultery blackmail and murder. Its often very funny but Given that there Isnit a single character deserving of sympathy the laughs fall hollow and dyspeptic. A a a � choke Polo Park. 18a by Day sex addicted med school dropout Victor Mancini Sam Rockwell works As a historical re Enactor at a colonial Williamsburg theme Park. By night he scams wealthy restaurant patrons by pretending to choke on his food. Its no fight club also based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk but its Low budget production values Are More in sync with Palahna Iukes grungy vibe and Rockwell is Sublime. A a a � Eagle Eye Garden City Grant Park Kildonan place Polo Park St. Vital Towne. 14a shia Labeouf and Michelle Monaghan Are a pair of strangers compelled to do the bidding of a mysterious seemingly omniscient woman who uses scarily smart technologies to drive them into one devastating scenario after another. As with disturb director do Caruso is basically enabling exec producer Steven Spielberg Gas b movie ideas. Fortunately thatus More fun that most producers a material. A a a elegy Globe. 14a while it is too tasteful to be boastful there is a repellent Smirk Ness that undermines this Story of a womanizing College professor Ben Kingsley who meets his match when he Falls for a Beautiful self possessed student Penelope Cruz. A a a reviewed by Stephen Hunter above Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo in blindness right Michael Cera Ari Graynor and Kat Dennings l r Star in Nick and Nora has infinite playlist. 9 / 30/ 08 4 57 34 pm ;