Published: January 11, 2007
Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun
by Kam Williams
For movies opening January 19, 2007
Big Budget Films
The Hitcher (R for profanity, terror, and gory violence) Grisly horror flick about a couple of college kids (Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton) whose Spring Break is ruined by the increasingly menacing hitchhiker (Sean Bean) they repeatedly encounter on their road trip across New Mexico.
The Dead Girl (R for sex, expletives, nudity and grisly images) Gritty, female empowerment flick examines the psyches of several women whose lives have been serendipitously interlocked by their connection to a victim (Brittany Murphy) of a serial killer still on the loose. Cast includes Toni Collette, Kerry Washington, Marcia Gay Harden, Mary Steenburgen, Mary Beth Hurt, Piper Laurie, James Brolin, James Franco and Giovanni Ribisi.
Independent & Foreign Films
Alone with Her (Unrated) Colin Hanks stars in this psychological thriller as a voyeuristic stalker who plants hidden cameras around the apartment of the beautiful stranger (Ana Claudia Talancon) he's secretly obsessed with.
TheGoodTimesKid (Unrated) Stolen love/stolen identity comedy about two strangers who share the same name (Gerardo Naranjo and Azazel Jacobs) and later the same girl after their lives intersect when they coincidentally cross paths at an Army recruiting office.
The Italian (Unrated) Road flick about an abandoned, six year-old Russian boy (Kolya Spiridonov), adopted by an Italian family, who opts to embark on a perilous trek back to his native country to search for his long-lost mother (In Russian with subtitles)
Regular Lovers (Unrated) B&W period piece, set in Paris during the turbulent summer of '68, revolves around a rabble-rousing bohemian (Louis Garrel) who finds himself falling in love with a sculptor (Clotilde Hesme) as his anti-establishment fervor cools. (In French with subtitles)
Shockproof (Unrated) B&W neo-noir revolving around a recently-paroled femme fatale (Patricia Knight) embroiled in a love triangle with her parole officer (Cornel Wilde) and a very shady character (John Baragrey).
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