mr. fabulous
THE LIST
Mr. Fabulous's must-see movies of 2006. Accept no substitute!
January 2006:
• Bubble
• The New World
• Transamerica
• Why We Fight
February 2006:
• Factotum
• Manderlay
• Night Watch
• Running Scared
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Calendar: January-February 2006 |
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| January 6 | |
| BloodRayne: For the love of God-- Ben Kingsley?!? | |
| Grandma's Boy: Adam Sandler, your room in Hell awaits. | |
| Hostel: Gory follow-up from Cabin Fever's Eli Roth. | |
| The Matador (limited): Brosnan exorcizes his inner Bond. | |
| January 13 | |
April's Shower (NY/LA): Soft, flirtatious lesbianism! |
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| Glory Road: There's a new inspirational coach movie every year. | |
| Hoodwinked (wide): Lots of divorced dads in the audience. | |
| Last Holiday: What the hell happened to the director of Smoke? | |
| The New World (wide): Seeing a Malick film is your civic duty. | |
| Tristan & Isolde (limited): The original Romeo and Juliette. | |
| January 20 | |
| Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (limited): Good luck. | |
| Transamerica (wide): Huffman runs the Hillary Swank playbook. | |
| Underworld: Evolution: No movie with Bill Nighy can be all bad. | |
| Why We Fight (limited): Leftist documentaries are good for the soul. | |
| January 27 | |
| Annapolis: There's a new inspirational boxing movie every year. | |
| Big Momma's House 2: Scheduled a root canal that day. | |
| Bubble (limited): Soderbergh returns to serious filmmaking? | |
| Imagine Me & You (limited): Soft, flirtatious lesbianism! | |
| Nanny McPhee: Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay! | |
| Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (limited): He said cock. | |
| February 3 | |
| A Good Woman (limited): Raise your hand if you missed Helen Hunt. | |
| Something New: Like a less hackneyed title, perhaps? | |
| Tamara: Final Destination scribe channels Carrie. | |
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: From Tommy Lee Jones. | |
| When a Stranger Calls: The call is coming from inside the house! | |
| The World's Fastest Indian (limited): Motorcycle, that is. | |
| February 10 | |
| Curious George: Stay away from that Ether bottle, George. | |
| Final Destination 3: AKA Wait for the DVD 3. | |
| The Pink Panther: RIP, Steve Martin. | |
| Firewall: Harrison Ford is too old to rock 'n roll, too young to die. | |
| Failure to Launch: Matthew McConaughey needs pot money. | |
| Manderlay (LA/NY): Lars Von Trier really hates the U.S. | |
| Neil Young: Heart of Gold (limited): Demme + concert = gold. | |
| February 17 | |
| Date Movie: AKA Scary Movie 4. Avoid like the Asian bird flu. | |
| Eight Below: Paul Walker-- the most inexplicable movie career ever? | |
| Freedomland: Christmas with the Kranks director gets serious. | |
| Night Watch (limited): Russian horror flick gets great buzz. | |
| The Second Chance (limited): Red meat for red-state christians. | |
| Uknown White Male (limited): Hot documentary gets limited release. | |
| Winter Passing (limited): Always nice to see Zooey Deschanel. | |
| February 24 | |
| Alpha Dog (limited): Justin Timberlake, we hardly knew ye. | |
| Doogal: Weinsteins import French-English animated hit. | |
| Factotum (limited): Matt Dillon meets Charles Bukowski. | |
| Madea's Family Reunion: Tyler Perry's one-man show rolls on. | |
| Running Scared: Sophomore effort from The Cooler's Wayne Kramer. | |
| Ultraviolet: More sci-fi from Equlibrium director Kurt Wimmer. | |
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