Friday roundup
The movie weekend after Thanksgiving is traditionally as dead as that turkey carcass you're still picking over - and this year is no exception.
The studios only bothered to release one movie this week, the medical thriller "Awake" starring Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba. But the studio couldn't be bothered to show the movie to critics.
A couple of Utah filmmakers - director-writer Tim Skousen and producer Jeremy Coon ("Napoleon Dynamite") - are trotting out their comedy "The Sasquatch Gang," in a few markets, including Salt Lake City. (Skousen and Coon will be doing a Q-and-A after tonight's 7:30 p.m. show at the Cinemark 24 at Jordan Landing.) Alas, the movie is a stinker, amateurish and not at all funny.
The art-house fare is somewhat better. "Vanaja" is a lush drama set in India, about a poor teen who discovers the consequences of crossing class and gender barriers. The documentary "Terror's Advocate" has an interesting subject - lawyer Jacques Verges, whose client list includes some of history's most notorious figures - but director Barbet Schroeder's treatment is infuriatingly opaque.
The studios only bothered to release one movie this week, the medical thriller "Awake" starring Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba. But the studio couldn't be bothered to show the movie to critics.
A couple of Utah filmmakers - director-writer Tim Skousen and producer Jeremy Coon ("Napoleon Dynamite") - are trotting out their comedy "The Sasquatch Gang," in a few markets, including Salt Lake City. (Skousen and Coon will be doing a Q-and-A after tonight's 7:30 p.m. show at the Cinemark 24 at Jordan Landing.) Alas, the movie is a stinker, amateurish and not at all funny.
The art-house fare is somewhat better. "Vanaja" is a lush drama set in India, about a poor teen who discovers the consequences of crossing class and gender barriers. The documentary "Terror's Advocate" has an interesting subject - lawyer Jacques Verges, whose client list includes some of history's most notorious figures - but director Barbet Schroeder's treatment is infuriatingly opaque.
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