This Week in Foreign Film

Four friends (Negra Li, Cindy Mendes, Leliah Moreno, Jocqueline Simao) living in the poorest section of São Paulo decide to start their own hip-hop group, writting and performing about the violence in thier city and standing up for themselves.  Check out the official site.  The Brazillain film, presented in Portuguse with English subtitles opens exclusively in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.  Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.

Antônia
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This Week in Independent Film

Speaking of Terrence Howard, he stars as a cameraman approached by an old friend (Richard Gere) in Bosnia looking to break the biggest story of his career and find the region’s #1 war criminal (Ljubomir Kerekes).  Written and directed by Richard Shepard (The Matador) the strong supporting cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ivanir, Diane Kruger, James Brolin, Dylan Baker, Goran Kostic, and Kristina Krepela.  Currently in limited release, the film opens wide on Friday; check out our review!  Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.

The Hunting Party
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Dane Cook stars as a guy whose previous one-night liasons all find true love making all the women in the city want to sleep with him.  (Are you still reading, if so tell us why?)  He then falls a beautiful but clumsy girl (Jessica Alba) who he tries not to sleep with.  Dan Fogler, Simone Bailly, Georgia Craig, Carrie Fleming, Caroline Ford, Lindsay Maxwell, Tava Smiley,  and Annie Wood also star.  Check out the official site.  The film smirks itself into theaters everywhere on Friday.  Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.

 

Good Luck Chuck
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Jodie Foster’s Death Wish

  • Title: The Brave One
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The Brave One

After radio talk show host Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) and her fiancée (Naveen Andrews) are brutally attacked in the park by a gang she wakes up in the hospital beaten and frightened after weeks in a coma.  Her fiancée is dead, her dog is gone, and the men who are responsible are still free.

In an attempt to get control of her life Erica buys a gun and puts herself, sometimes purposefully sometimes by accident, into dangerous situations where violence will occur.  Though she is repulsed and frightened she also seeks out these situations and even begins to enjoy herself.  She becomes a vigilante and imposes her own brand of brutal justice on her victims.

She also meets and befriends NY Detective Mercer (Terrence Howard) who is struggling with the limitations of the system and also trying to help Erica come to grips with what happened to her.  As the clues to the vigilante’s identity begin to pile up Mercer begins to suspect his new friend might be responsible.

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