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Antibodies
Though burdened by some predictable plot
twists and excruciatingly obvious biblical symbol
ism, this slick thriller by young German director
Christian Alvart is a worthy homage to serial killer
classics like The Silence of the Lambs and Fritz
Lang’s M. When a sex offender and child killer
finally winds up in prison, he gradually corrupts
the morals of an upright farmer who interrogates
him about an unsolved murder. The film’s critical
and commercial success in Europe earned Alvart
a Hollywood gig directing Renée Zellweger in
Case 39, a horror movie due this summer. Opens
April 1 3 at Hollywood Theatre. B
—Stephen Blair
Avenue Montaigne
Spring Barrel Tatting
Wine makers Renee Neely and Laurie Lewis will take you on a guided
tasting tour of Hip Chicks barrels. This is your last chance to taste these
delectable wines right from the barrel. We will even have some new blends
of the Wine Bunny Rouge available for you to try. Because this event is so
popular, reservations are recommended. Tours will begin at 4pm and run
approximately every half hour from 4:3opm-8:3opnv- event ends at 9pm.
Admission is $8 for one or two for $15. Admission includes wine tasting
flight plus barrel tasting flight and appetizers paired with the wines.
This year’s French submission for the Best Foreign
Language Film Oscar is about a woman who comes to
Paris to find fame and gets a job as a server at an old-
fashioned cafe on the chic Avenue Montaigne.
While working there, she meets a popular television
actress who will soon debut on stage, a millionaire
auctioning off his entire life collection of art and
a pianist having a recital. Opens April 13. A
—Yvonne P. Behrens
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Blades of Glory
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Will Ferrell is hound-dog skater Chazz and Jon
Heder is virginal pretty-boy skater Jimmy in this
nongay men’s skating movie. While playing with
the conceit that most male skaters are gay, the film
flirts with some homophobic concepts, but mostly
refuses to cross over into crass territory, opting
instead to show the general “guy to guy” discomfort
that happens when the pair is forced to skate
together for a shot at Olympic gold. With a killer
cast, Blades of Glory is funny in spots but wildly
uneven. If you decide not to wait for the DVD, stay
for the closing credits for the conclusion of the
humorous gay stalker romance subplot. B-
—Andy Mangels
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Self-centered New Mexico salesman Jimmy
Starks (Guy Pearce) visits a trailer park psychic (J.K.
Simmons) on a whim and receives some exciting,
then frightening news about his future. At first he
shrugs it off as hucksterism, but as the psychic’s
predictions start to come true, Starks becomes
increasingly desperate and paranoid. This seeming
ly promising thriller, reminiscent of Pearce’s starring
vehicle Memento, suffers from predictability
masquerading as inevitability, padding and
completely unsympathetic characters. Boring. C-
—Jemiah Jefferson
The Hoax
Lasse Hallstrom (What's Eating Gilbert Grape)
tries his hand at the con artist genre and falls miles
short of recent gems like Catch Me if You Can and
Shattered Glass. Based on real events that tixik place
in the early 1970s, The Hoax depicts an outrageous
literary scam in which writer Clifford Irving (Richard
Gere) nearly pawned oft a fabricated Howard
Hughes autobiography on Life magazine and a major
publishing company. Gere, Hope Davis, Alfred
Molina and Marcia Gay Harden give it the old
college try, but they ultimately flounder because
Hallstrom and screenwriter William Wheeler provide
few reasons for us to care about the characters. C +
—SB
In Search of Mozart
This documentary on the life and music of the
classical composer brings together a detailed histor
ical study anil explanations of some of his most
popular pieces. Unfortunately, it’s not much for the
visuals; with only a handful of painted portraits, but
a plethora of Mozart scholars, prepare for a lot of
stock footage of Salzburg and Paris and a lot of
talking heads. Still, it’s an illuminating portrait of
a bona fide musical genius who also seemed like a
pretty cool guy. Opens April 7 at Hollywood
Theatre. B
-JJ
The Lookout
The Lookout leaves a few loose ends dangling
and isn't a classic film, but it’s surprisingly excellent
for a genre film by a first-time director. Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, who shed his Third Rock from the
Sun innocence a couple of years ago in Gregg
Araki’s disturbing but beautiful Mysterious Skin,
adds another solid performance to a resume of
impressive length and scope for an actor of his age.
He plays Chris Pratt, a young man whose life was
forever changed by a car accident that killed two of
his friends and left him permanently scarred. He
calls lemons “tomatoes,” blurts out whatever’s
on his mind and lives with an older blind man
(a superb Jeff Daniels, who steals scenes left and
right) with whom he plans to open a restaurant.
Things get tricky when Chris is enticed to take part
in a bank robbery, which goes predictably awry. B
—Tony Le Tigre
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Will Ferrell (left) and Jon Heder flirt with some homophobic concepts in Blades of Glory.