New to the Store: Week of 9 December 2008

The Dark Knight: Best film EVAR!!!!!1!!!!!11!



Lost: Season 4



Man on Wire - The acclaimed documentary, winner of the New York Critics prize for best doc of 2008.



Mister Foe - Jamie Bell is Hallam Foe, a troubled young man whose knack for voyeurism paradoxically reveals his darkest fears, and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother’s death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city of Edinburgh for love. Featuring a lively soundtrack with Franz Ferdinand, Sons and Daughters and Orange Juice among others, MISTER FOE is a darkly twisted, entertaining work of magical realism from one of the leading lights of the new Scottish cinema.



Nina's Heavenly Delights - NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS is a surprising love story where Scottish humor meets Bollywood spectacle! It follows the mixed fortunes of a Glaswegian family, THE SHAHS and their award winning Indian restaurant, THE NEW TAJ.



Teenage Angst - On the shores of a deceptively peaceful mountain lake, inside a picturesque castle-cum-boarding school, four bored young men from über-wealthy families create a clique, replete with sexually charged rites and rituals. Desiring to break free from the gilded cage in which their parents have deposited them, they sneak off campus at night to party, skinny dip and play increasingly dangerous games. The stronger-willed guys lord it over the weaker ones, until inevitably, bad things start to happen.



3 Day Weekend - the latest comic romance from Rob Williams, director of Long-Term Relationship & Back Soon.



Horton Hears a Who! - The rape of Seuss continues unabated.



Metalocalypse: Season 2 - The Adult Swim favourite returns.



Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews - Before you watch it re-enacted in cinemas, watch it as it actually took place!



Europa (Zentropa) - Criterion release of Lars von Trier's stunning 1991 feature. In widescreen, finally.



Where the Fuck Is Santa? - Christmas with Bam and some other guys from Jackass.



The Wild, Wild West: Season 2 - The second, craziest season of TV's greatest western/sci-fi/horror/whatever-genre-they're-trying-this-week.



And also:

Beautiful, the Bloody and the Bare / Behind Locked Doors
Cotton Club, The
Desert Hearts
Erotic Ghost Story III
Faust
Flatliners
Get Smart: Season 2
Heavy Metal
Herzog Shorts (Dark Glow of the Mountains / Ballad of the Little Soldier / Precautions Against Fanatics)
Lady Snowblood
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance
Last Supper, The
Long Way Down
Love Girls, The
More
Natural, The
Night Sun
Quare Fellow, The
Red Dawn
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Samurai Banners
Sugar Cane Alley
Swinging in the 70s Triple Feature (Your Wife or Mine / Harvey Swings / Keep Them Happy)

GENXINE ISSUE 15 deadline countdown

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New to the Store: Week of 2 December 2008

NEW MOVIES

The Book of Revelation - Australian. A man is abducted by women who sexually torture him. Upon release, he becomes obsessed with them. It can only end well. Stars Greta Scacchi.



Chronicles of Narnia 2: Prince Caspian - The second in a series of blockbusters based on C.S. Lewis' family favourites.



Fly Me to the Moon - 3-D family animation.



How About You - Ellie (Hayley Atwell), a free-spirited and headstrong young woman, is left in charge of a retirement home over the Christmas holidays. With Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Fricker, Joss Ackland, Imelda Staunton.



Mad Detective - Johnnie To has been making some of the most delightfully quirky action pictures to come out of Hong Kong for 20+ years. The cultists would have been wise to hitch their carts to his train than say... oh, we won't name names. Anyway, it's not too late.



My Father My Lord - A respected rabbi is forced to come to terms with the demands of his faith and the welfare of his own family.



Peter and the Wolf - Oscar-nominated animation set to Prokofiev's brilliant music.



Rise of the Footsoldier - Follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties.



Step Brothers - Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are stepbrothers, grown up in body, emotionally stunted in mind. Spazzy hijinks ensue.



The X-Files: I Want to Believe - It's another X-Files movie. With Billy Connolly.



OLDER STUFF AND TV:

24: Redemption
Arabesque
Captain Newman, M.D.
Dante's Cove: Season 2
Man with the Gun
Memphis Belle
Mirage
Mists of Avalon, The
Perfect World, A
Prizzi's Honor
Reversal of Fortune
Villa Rides!
Wanted
White Dog
World in His Arms, The

GENX website = DONE

That's right folks, the GENX website is all done and ready for you to use! Aaaaaah, the sweet, sweet simplicity of a straight-up HTML website. It's nothing fancy, but now you can easily search our inventory, figure out where in the store something is located, and then get in touch with us to put that film on hold!

Oh the internet. It'll never fly.

DEATH NOTE 2 Tickets at Gen X

Gen X has a limited number of tickets available for a screening of the much-anticipated DEATH NOTE II, playing one night only in town: Wednesday, Dec 3, at 9:45 pm at the Galaxy Cinemas Waterloo. First come first serve, so come on in and claim them now!

In the meantime, enjoy this professionally subtitled trailer.

New to the Store: Week of 25 November 2008

HIGH-QUALITY HOLLYWOOD PRODUCT!

Hancock - Will Smith is a superhero... with attitude! But don't worry, not so much attitude as to alienate his white fanbase! with Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron.



Fred Claus - Vince Vaughn is the black sheep of the Claus family in this wild 'n wooly yet heartwarming Christmas tale. Paul Giamatti (as Santa), Kevin Spacey, and Miranda Richardson show up for the paycheques.



Meet Dave - Eddie Murphy in a challenging dual role: as a miniature alien invader and the lookalike robot he commandeers from inside its head. Eddie Murphy + sci-fi comedy = gold. Just ask the makers of Pluto Nash.



Space Chimps - One of the only 2008 kids movies whose existence I actively kept my 4-year-old from discovering.



MOVIES YOU PROBABLY HADN'T HEARD OF TIL THEY HIT VIDEO

Butch Jamie - Aspiring actress & butch lesbian accidentally lands a leading role... as a man!



Cruising Bar 2 - Sequel to the much-loved 1989 Quebecois comedy. Michel Côté returns in all of his hilarious roles.



Diminished Capacity - Matthew Broderick suffers memory loss, so he returns home to commiserate with alzheimers-sufferer grandpa Alan Alda and old girlfriend Virginia Madsen.



River Queen - Film set in 1860's New Zealand about a young Irish woman & her family who find themselves caught in the middle of the conflict between British & the indigenous Maori. Starring Samantha Morton (TV's Max and Ruby) and Kiefer Sutherland.



TELEVISION & MISC. NEW TITLE

Bones: Season 3 - Angel and the weird-looking chick are back for more forensic hijinks!



A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All - If you only watch 44 minutes of holiday-themed television this year, make it this 44 minutes. Stephen is joined by Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, Feist, John Legend, Toby Keith, and a killer bear.



George Carlin: It's Bad for Ya! - The great comic's final standup special.



OLD! YET NEW!

Bottle Rocket - New 2-disc Criterion edition of Wes Anderson's debut feature. Also includes the short film version used to acquire financing.



Chungking Express - Still Wong Kar-Wai's most popular film, this 1994 classic has lost none of its luster. New Criterion edition.



Irma Vep - Finally, a remastered edition of Olivier Assayas' 1996 cinematic valentine to the medium, to French cinema, and especially his leading lady Maggie Cheung. Also with Jean-Pierre Leaud.



Little Shop of Horrors - Rick Moranis, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, John Candy, Christopher Guest and a host of others in Frank Oz's delightful horror-musical.



Looney Tunes Golden Collection 6 - With dozens, maybe hundreds of great cartoons still unreleased on DVD, Warners has announced that this will be the last set. At least on this one they are acknowledging their un-PC history.



Ludwig - Luchino Visconti's grand, epic portrait of the mad monarch. With Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, and Trevor Howard.



One of Our Aircraft Is Missing! - A Powell & Pressburger WW2 adventure.



Provocation - Vintage Joe D'Amato Eurosleaze. One for the pervs. Strangely, youtube has no videos for this one.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Criterion 2-disc edition of the cold war classic, starring Richard Burton.



The Virgo, the Taurus, and the Capricorn - Eurosmut icon Edwige Fenech displays her many charms. Brings back fond memories of late Saturday nights watching Channel 47 (Cable 4) in the 80s.



X-Men Evolution 2.2: Powers Revealed - More X-Men cartoons.

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