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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><STRONG>Hey Fans!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><STRONG>Our new movie starting Friday, THE LOOKOUT,
really needs a boost in awareness. It is an "overlooked" film, and thus flies
way below the radar! Below is the respected film critic Leonard Maltin's brief
review of it. I hope you will take the time to read this and consider attending
this movie that is the perfect antidote to "McTheater"
burn-out!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia>In other words, if you are sick of the same ol',
same ol', get thee to <U>The Avon</U> to restore your faith in
cinema!!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>THE LOOKOUT — What a
treat to discover a modest-scale movie that clicks in every way. <EM>The
Lookout</EM> marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Scott Frank (<EM>Get
Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report</EM>), who first wrote this piece ten
years ago, then reworked it for several directors who were attached to the
project. When David Fincher bowed out (to direct <EM>Zodiac</EM> instead) Frank
decided that, having lived with the material so long, he would be the right
person to bring it to life on screen. What’s more, his backers at Spyglass
Entertainment allowed him to cast the actors he wanted without regard to
box-office clout.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<P class=style6><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>That explains why every part is
so well played, beginning with the gifted Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a one-time
high-school hero whose life changed in a tragic accident. But it’s a credit to
Frank that every character in the film, major or minor—even the wife of a local
cop, who appears in just one shot, <EM>sans</EM> dialogue—is so well defined
that he or she makes an impression on us. </STRONG></FONT></P>
<P class=style6><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>On the surface, <EM>The
Lookout</EM> is a crime thriller, and it works quite well as such...but in truth
it’s a character study of a young man who has had to rebuild his life. Jeff
Daniels is terrific, as usual, as Gordon-Levitt’s roommate, a self-reliant blind
man with a sardonic sense of humor. Sexy Isla Fisher plays a woman who leads on
our hero and helps draw him into a gang, led by Matthew Goode, that’s planning
to use him in a bank- robbery scheme. (Fisher is an Aussie, Goode is a Brit, and
they’re both playing American, which is par for the course these days.) Carla
Gugino, Bruce McGill, and Alberta Watson make the most of their small but
significant supporting roles.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P class=style6><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><EM>The Lookout</EM> is
smart and original, the best movie I’ve seen so far this year. <BR>-Leonard
Maltin</STRONG></FONT></FONT></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>ZODIAC — As one can plainly see from the
current listings, this is not the time of year one can expect to find
exceptional movies being released. All the more reason to cheer for
<EM>Zodiac</EM>, the first great film of 2007.</STRONG></FONT>
<P class=style6><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>I approached this film with
great trepidation, recalling the almost unbearable tension of David Fincher’s
<EM>Se7en.</EM>..but <EM>Zodiac</EM> isn’t so much about a serial killer as the
hunt for a serial killer. There are still some potent scenes of violence in the
early part of the story, but the lion’s share of the story is about the
reporters and detectives who doggedly pursue every avenue to find their man.
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<P class=style6><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Here again I lucked out, as I
didn’t have clear memories of the real-life case that plagued the San Francisco
area in the late 1960s, and I’d read nothing about this film before screening
it. </STRONG></FONT></P>
<P class=style6><FONT size=2><STRONG><FONT face=Arial><EM>Zodiac</EM> presents
the most unusual—and riveting—movie manhunt in recent memory, even more amazing
because it’s true. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Robert Graysmith, the <EM>San Francisco
Chronicle</EM> cartoonist who becomes obsessed with the killer, and whose books
about the case inspired James Vanderbilt’s screenplay. His fine performance is
matched by costars Robert Downey, Jr., Mark Ruffalo, and Anthony Edwards, each
one completely inhabiting his character. The technical aspects of the film are
flawless, capturing the look and feel of the period as well as its major
settings—a newspaper city room, police departments, file morgues, and the like.
<EM>Zodiac </EM>is long but gripping, from start to finish. <BR>-Leonard
Maltin</FONT></STRONG></FONT></P>
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