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THE LIST
Mr. Fabulous's must-see movies of 2006. Accept no substitute!
March 2006:
• Don't Come Knocking
• Inside Man
• Lonesome Jim
• A Scanner Darkly
• V for Vendetta
April 2006:
• Art School Confidential
• Ask the Dust
• Flight 93
• Lucky You
• The Notorious Bettie Page
The Calendar: March-April 2006 |
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| March 3 | |
| 16 Blocks: Bruce Willis keeps the box office slump alive. | |
| Aquamarine: Splash for kids. | |
| Block Party: Michel Gondry meets Dave Chapelle. | |
| Pulse: The Ring via the web. | |
| March 10 | |
Duck Season (NY/LA): Mexican import arrives with strong buzz. |
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| The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (NY/LA): True dat. | |
| The Hills Have Eyes: Remake of the Wes Craven classic. | |
| Idlewild: In which Andre and Big Boi pretend to like each other. | |
| Lonesome Jim (limited): Steve Buscemi back in the director's chair. | |
| The Shaggy Dog: Dean Jones is rolling in his grave. | |
| March 17 | |
| Don't Come Knocking (LA/NY): Wim Wenders and Sam Shepherd! | |
| Find Me Guilty (limited): I'll always root for Sidney Lumet. | |
| She's the Man: Shakespeare's 12th Night for the attention-deprived. | |
| Thank You For Smoking (limited): Black comedies rule. | |
| V for Vendetta: The reason Natalie Portman sports a chrome dome. | |
| March 24 | |
| Brick: Good buzz for this high school mystery. | |
| Inside Man: Spike Lee and Denzel Washington together again. | |
| R.V.: Forgot all about Robin Williams... | |
| Stay Alive: You'll be lucky just to stay awake. | |
| Take the Lead: Antonio Banderas meets Mad Hot Ballroom. | |
| March 31 | |
| ATL: What's with all the roller-skating movies all of a sudden? | |
| Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That! (limited): Shot by Beastie Boys fans. | |
| Basic Instinct 2: Too little, too late. | |
| Ice Age 2: The Meltdown: AKA Netflix Rental: The Sequel. | |
| Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector: Thought he was a cable guy. | |
| Lucky Number Slevin: Josh Hartnett, anyone? | |
| A Scanner Darkly (limited): Linklater animates Philip K. Dick. | |
| Slither: Zombies and mutants from the writer of Scooby Doo 2. | |
| April 7 | |
| The Benchwarmers: The least talented SNL veterans together again. | |
| Friends With Money (limited): Lovely and Amazing redux. | |
| Lucky You: Curtis Hanson directs the first of many poker movies. | |
| Phat Girlz: Looking to snag the middle-aged white guy audience. | |
| On a Clear Day (limited): Bloke swims the English Channel. | |
| April 14 | |
| American Dreamz: American Idol satire from director of American Pie. | |
| Ask the Dust (limited): The legendary Robert Towne returns. | |
| Fierce People (limited): Diane Lane goes native. | |
| Freedomland: Christmas with the Kranks director gets serious. | |
| Hard Candy (limited): Statutory rape, anyone? | |
| Kinky Boots (limited): U.K. comedy seeks a Stateside audience. | |
| The Notorious Bettie Page (limited): Gretchen Mol gets spanked. | |
| Scary Movie 4: AKA Date Movie 2. | |
| Somersault (limited): Aussies are high on this homegrown product. | |
| The Wild: More computer-animated zoo animals-- yippee! | |
| April 21 | |
| Accepted: College-age comedy from ambitious C-listers. | |
| The Cleaner: Still don't get the Cedric the Entertainer thing. | |
| Hoot: Luke Wilson in March of the Owls. | |
| Silent Hill: Radha Mitchell returns to sci-fi/horror. | |
| The Sentinal: Michael Douglas returns fully-healed from latest face lift. | |
| April 28 | |
| Akeelah and the Bee: Isn't there a new spelling bee movie every year? | |
| Art School Confidential (LA/NY): Terry Zwigoff strikes again. | |
| Catch and Release: Jennifer Garner's post-partum film. | |
| Flight 93: Are the wounds still too raw? Are we ready for this? | |
| Waist Deep: The Game hopes for a better return than 50 Cent. | |
| Water: Third in Indian-Canadian director Mehta's "elemental" series. | |
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