Short Cuts

Do me a favour, okay? If you stumble across a dead body on your way to the Mayfair to see Altmans sublimely, sprawlingly life-sized adaptation of nine Raymond Carver stories (and one of his poems), dont wait until after the film to report it.

Dr. Giggles

The NY Times said it best: Dr. Giggles is a horror film about a pudgy, mad, very general practitioner (Larry Drake) who is inclined to giggle in moments of stress, which are frequent. And if you think the murderousness bad, wait til you get his bill!

Mother and Child

Three mothers in need of a child. Three children, one not yet born. Three lives, obscurely linked. Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington create three distinct characters with three distinct lives who don’t all share the same problem but believe they share the same solution.

Flooding with Love For the Kid

Remember First Blood? The first Rambo film? Its been remade. But this version is a bit different, insofar as its directed, filmed, acted and edited entirely in a 220-square-foot studio apartment in Manhattan, with a total budget of $96 by one man. An outsider-cinema masterpiece. Oberzans mania knows

Dillinger

If you think John Dillinger looked like Johnny Depp, Saturday Night Sinema wants you to think again. The great Warren Oates, who plays him here, was a lot closer to reality, and gives another memorable, definitive performance in the title role. (Channel 4 Film).

Cropsey

OTTAWA PREMIERE Realizing that the boogeyman stories of their youth have come true, two filmmakers investigate the mystery behind five missing children and uncover a reality more terrifying than any urban legend. Sounds like a pretty standard horror film, doesnt it? And it would be, except for one thing:

Ghost World

SUNDAY NIGHT GEEK NIGHT I understand theres another movie based on a comic book playing now and featuring Scarlett Johansson. But Ill stick with this Oscar-nominated tale of teen alienation from master misanthropologists Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, thanks.

Square, The

When an adulterous couple concocts a plan to steal a satchel full of illegal money, what could possibly go wrong? Quite a bit, it turns out, in this outstanding Aussie neo-noir tour of moral squalor that is suspenseful, invigorating and sometimes harshly funny. (NY Times)

Mother and Child

Three mothers in need of a child. Three children, one not yet born. Three lives, obscurely linked. Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington create three distinct characters with three distinct lives who don’t who don’t all share the same problem-but believe they share the same solution.