Show CO 8 CM o 5 a El “Matchstlck Men” Continued from p 6 are filthy rich from their swash- “Freaky Friday" Rated PQ A remake of the 1976 Disney movie that starred Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris as a mother and daughter who wake up one morning and find they've Rated PQ-1-3 Roy (Nicolas Cage) is a con artist suffering from obsessive-compulsiv- e disorder agoraphobia and a mild case of Touretje’s syndrome When Roy gets in touch with his estranged teenaged daughter (Alison Lohman) his already complicated life gets even more compli- buckling adventures in Africa can probably guess already movie is that this sticky-swe- et a about what every boy needs to know about being a man even S u-without hearing Hub's speech O about what every boy needs to know about being a man Actu-all- y o we only get to hear part of Hub's speech but believe me it's plenty: Not even the great i Duvall can deliver more than a z few lines of dialogue this corny o- without gagging One star out of tour V T" — Brian McCuskey 2 for The Herald Journal 0) o V anp You Indian cinema viill rule film India’s Bombay produces nearly 800 films a year is discussed as part of Utah State switched bodies This is someUniversity’s Department of thing it seemed the world did English Speakers Series on not need But the new "Freaky Oct 15 at 12:30 pm in the Friday” is surprisingly funny Haight Alumni Center cated "Matchstick Men" aspires and charming and that has The lecture “Behind the to but cannot reach the level of everything to do with its stare and Dance: Cinema as Song Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay David Mamef s brilliant "House is provided by Spectacle” Lohan have a great gift for of Games” or The Spanish Rastogi an associate Prisoner” films in which the physical comedy and are so at Utah State professor audience gets conned without convincing— this is going to will talk about the far--' Rastogi — actualsound ridiculous they feeling cheated An in all a Him-- " and reaching expanding audi- ly make you believe they've sy flimflam film Two out of four Indian film and will ence of stars s swapped bodies for the day 'X behind die die Even explore politics mother when ' and : Brian daugh- y : McCuskey ' D ' "Underworld” h staging of spectacle in Indian for The Herald Journal : ter reach an understanding of £ Rated R cinema each others’ lives the moment 'V - This film succeeds at being a "Once Upon has emotional resonance vy "The Bombay film industry co supernatural version of The because you've come to care' will soon rival Hollywood in a Time In Mexico” u Matrix" films — sort of Underabout the characters so much ''J? trams of audience reach” said fffllftrf " fl CD ' PG for mild thematic elements : as In the third film of Robert O world" Is everything you hated Rastogi "It makes as many ' about The Matrix Reloaded" -- ' Rodriguez's “El MariachT trilogy V and some language 95 min 800 films a year while Three stare out of four a droning endless barrage of -- our hero (Antonio —The Associated Press '! humorless people in blade in is living quietly a Banderas) remote village — at least until a dusters moving in ?:" ' while firing big guns Into tile Cy crooked Cl A operative called walls The story involves wereSands (Johnny Depp) forcibly recruits him to kill a rogue gen-'- k wolves and vampires trying to ' ' Xsettle an ancient war by killing V eral who is launching a coup V: each other Kate Beckinsale v against the current Mexican Continue from p7 president who is waging a war ("Pearl Harbor") stare as Selene a vampire soldier — $4 on drugs against one kingpin in play superhero versions of apparently dipped to the neck in' particular Barillo (Willem ourselves just to make it to — Dafoe) who is bankrolling the latex— who belongs to a gang and then through — the weekof tragically hip general who also happens to end v’?' be the man who killed El Mari- - v bloodsuckers Everyone in the v The movie itself however achi’s family Can you follow all film is too busy acting like almost didn’t make it to this that? 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If ifs trying to be a family "Dickie Roberts: drama It fails there too Cinema as often as you can Former Child Star” Let’s fill the house: ft’s nice to because ifs hard to feel emoPG-1 Rated 3 have tionally attached to characters company Comedian David Spade we know virtually nothing about “American Splendor” is a kindly eye on Hollypasts Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) rated R for language Running wood's modem pariahs in this and his wife Leah u ' 2 : : - : 'ky hr ' r - - h ’ Jh : Kliafs playing at local cinemas - Hollywood makes only 200” Rastogi also said that India is one of only two countries in die world where die indige- - ' nous cinema is more popular than Hollywood film produc-dons v The only other country is China whore it is largely because of government restrictions on foreign film imports "It is only in India then that the local film industry dominated Hollywood on its own terms” said Rastogi Unlike Hollywood’s “real- - V world” themes Ristogi said : that "Bollywood” films pro- vide a place of fantasy for’: Indians rich arid poor alike In the United Kingdom thine are giant multiplexes that screen only Indian films':!' ' - -- guitar-slingi- slow-moti- j- lens ? ‘ ' - mtl v'-r- : pistol-wieldi- ’ v Mexi-caI Mexi-ca- I 1 box-offi- ce first-rat- : -- (Sharon Stone) pack up their kids and leave the chaos of Manhattan after their son is hit by a car on the way to school They move upstate to the sprawling decaying Cold Creek Manor a foreclosed sheep farm and start getting scared soon after the arrival of an obviously menacing former resident (Stephen Dorff) R for violence language and some sexuality 119 min One and a half stars out of four —The Associated Press d ' goofy but warmhearted movie Spade dishes out plenty of slapstick along with insider TVfilm jokes and a morality tale: Beware of what you want The willingness of real child stars to let it all hang out gives the movie a gritty poignancy (hat partly counteracts its saccharine plot Only partly PG-- 1 3 for erode and humor language and drug references 99 min Two stare out of four —The Associated Press sex-relat- time: 101 minutes Brian McCuskey is an associate professor of English at Utah State University where he teaches courses on film and ' jnmss rtniftifirm - - JOJsussitQiRl li- terature He is among a number of freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices He is not an employee of the newspaper Feedback at i4: ctrgiTTT ifir iSESSS1!’1 W E (JSZSSS C eiiMMCEr (CJLSiSS |