Wednesday, July 25, 2007

New Quick Flick Releases for the Week of 7/23/07



















Host by Joon-ho Bong.

In Seoul, an American army doctor forces his assistant to dump bottle after bottle of formaldehyde into the drain. The drain runs into the Han River, the major river running through the middle of Seoul. Six years later, a food cart operator, Gang-du falls asleep every time his dad, Hie-bong, is away from the stand for more than a few minutes. Soon, his daughter, Hyun-Seo returns from school. Then a monster appears in the river and starts to attack the people lounging at its banks. Gang-du and Hyun-Seo are chased by the beast. Hie-bong tries valiantly to save his daughter, but the beast soon captures her and drags her away. They receive a call from the daughter's cell phone and try to rescue her from the large monster.






Longford By Tom Hooper.

Based on a true story of the devout Catholic British Lord Frank Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, and his controversial,colorful, headline-making friendship with one of Britain's most notorious criminals, child murderess Myra Hindley.








When Walter Sparrow begins reading the novel The Number 23, he notices strange parallels between it and his life. Now, he's worried that a murder that occurs in the book might just cross over into the world of nonfiction.






The Prisoner; Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair By Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker.


In September 2003, freelance Iraqi cameraman Yunis Khatayer Abbas was arrested and accused of planning to kill Tony Blair. This documentary is a fascinating portrait of an ordinary man trying to make sense of an absurd and nightmarish situation.






Wide Awake by Alan Berliner.


Berliner once again uses his own life as a laboratory in his lifelong obsession with insomnia. A brilliant blend of the hilarious and the personal, this gives behind the scenes footage of a brutally honest self-portrait of a sleep-deprived man.






Zodiac By Fincher, David
View Windows Media-formatted PreviewIn the 1960s and '70s, a cryptic killer clad in an executioner's hood stalked the streets of San Francisco and left clues about his crimes in the newspaper.