You know I’d watch anything Tony Jaa starred in, especially a movie that involved him kicking ass and taking names, but the whole idea of Ong Bak 3 seems a little ridicu …. good lord are those zombies?

That’s rad.

Almost nothing new added this week, nothing that is, except for Harry Brown and The Kids are Alright. And while The Kids are Alright does little to inspire confidence in it being anything of particular note, Harry Brown does the exact opposite. Probably because Michael Caine as a vigilante is pitch perfect casting, even at his current age.

*** – Denotes recommended viewing
All dates subject to change

4/16 Sweetgrass Lagoon/Edina
4/16 Red Riding: 1974 Lagoon ***
4/16 Red Riding: 1980 Lagoon ***
4/16 Red Riding: 1983 Lagoon ***
4/16 The Joneses Lagoon

4/23 The Eclipse Uptown
4/23 The Square Lagoon ***
4/23 LBS. Lagoon
4/23 The Secret of the Kells Edina ***

4/30 Exit Through the Gift Shop Uptown
4/30 The Warlords Lagoon
4/30 The Cartel Lagoon
4/30 The Secrets in Their Eyes Edina

5/07 Mid-August Lunch Lagoon
5/07 Ajami Lagoon
5/07 The Good Heart Lagoon
5/07 Babies Edina ***

5/14 Please Give Uptown
5/14 Robin Hood Lagoon (tentative)
5/14 Little Traitor Edina (tentative)
5/14 The Good, The Bad, and The Weird Lagoon
5/14 Harry Brown Edina (NEW) ***

5/21 Casino Jack and the United States Uptown (tentative)
5/21 Dancing Across Borders Lagoon
5/21 Mother and Child Edina
5/21 Princess Kaiulani Edina (very tentative)

5/28 George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead Lagoon
5/28 Looking For Eric Lagoon (very tentative)

6/04 No One Knows About Persian Cats Lagoon
6/04 The Misfortunates Lagoon

6/11 Ondine Edina
6/11 The City of Your Final Destination Edina
6/11 Paper Man Lagoon ***

6/18 Micmacs Uptown ***
6/18 Holy Rollers Lagoon
6/18 Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Lagoon

6/25 Agora Uptown (very tent.)
6/25 Winter’s Bone Uptown / Edina
6/25 OSS 117: Lost in Rio Lagoon ***
6/25 Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky Edina

7/02 The Killer Inside Me Lagoon ***
7/02 I Am Love Edina

7/09 Stonewall Uprising Lagoon

7/16 The Kids Are Alright Uptown (NEW)
7/16 Wild Grass Lagoon
7/16 Cyrus Lagoon ***

7/23 Best Worst Movie Lagoon ***

7/30 Ran (new print) Lagoon

8/6 Great Directors Lagoon ***

8/13 Hipsters Lagoon
8/13 Get Low Lagoon / Edina

8/20 Patrik, Age 1.5 Lagoon

9/03 Lebanon Lagoon

If you haven’t had the chance yet to see the 2010 Oscar Award winner for best animated short film, you are going to get your chance now. Created by the French Animation studio H5, and directed by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain, Logorama follows the exploits of the residents of a sleep California town in which slowly but surely everything goes terribly wrong.

Logorama Official Site
H5 Web Site

Finally released on DVD tomorrow, this Hungarian fantasy horror film looks like it could be a real hidden gem in an otherwise lackluster release date. Oh sure Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is awesome, but nothing else looks to be worth your time of day. Nothing else that is, than Taxidermia.

Taxidermia contains three generational stories, about a grandfather, a father, and a son, linked together by recurring motifs. The dim grandfather, an orderly during World War Two, lives in his bizarre fantasies; he desires love. The huge father seeks success as a top athlete — a speed eater — in the post-war pro-Soviet era. The grandson, a meek, small-boned taxidermist, yearns for something greater: immortality. He wants to create the most perfect work of art of all time by stuffing his own torso.

Official Website

Jean-Pierre Jeunet is one of those directors that caught my eye from the first film of his I saw. Sure its easy to say it is because his style apes that of another one of my favorite directors, Terry Gilliam, but its more likely due to the fact that the man just makes damn good fantasy films. So when I heard that he was finally coming out with his first film since 2004 you could say I was more than just a little excited. Then I watched the trailer, and now I am not sure I can wait until this film is finally released.

Official Site
Title: Micmacs
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Release Date: May 28 2010 (USA limited)