Reviews and compilation by John Ginn
Once Upon a Time, I tried to provide synopses of all movies released in a week. In the end, it was far too time-consuming to continue doing so. Besides which, I am most interested in supporting the work of independent theater owners, so that is where I have put my efforts. Sometimes, I will just run the studio synopsis, but most of the synopses will have been reworked by me into something less studio-hypey. Yes, that’s a word now. Support your local independent theater owner! Look for the red star ✭ for movies playing at an independent movie theater.

Opening This Week - October 10
✭ City of Ember — Pix Theater

✭ I Served the King of England — Darkside Cinema

✭ Igor — Star Cinema and Kuhn Cinema

✭ Eagle Eye — Fox Theater

✭ Slap Shot — The Darkside’s month-long tribute to Paul Newman continues with this hilarious, and profanity laden, look at professional sports. When a backwater hockey team sees its attendance dropping due to economic hard times, their crafty, grizzled coach (Paul Newman) is faced with management’s decision to hire the psychotic Hansen brothers, whose violent antics on the ice begin to draw the crowds back, but at the risk of destroying the team. Darkside Cinema

✭✭ At the Motor Vu Drive-in: Igor with Lakeview Terrace (Double Feature, Weekend only) Motor Vue Drive-in

Continuing
✭ Encounters at the End of the World — Werner Herzog, documentarian extraordinaire, travels to Antarctica to find out what drives the men and women living and working at the bottom of the world do what they do. Salem Cinema

✭ The Singing Revolution — The Singing Revolution tells the story of a dark time in Estonian history. Beginning in 1939 with an invasion by the Soviet Union, then by Nazi Germany in 1941, and again by The Soviets at the close of World War II, for more than 50 years the Estonian people lived through mass executions, deportation, banishment to the Siberian Gulags, and absolute control of all forms of self-expression. Yet the national identity of Estonians somehow survived largely, the film contends, through the Estonian peoples' love of singing. (FULL REVIEW) Darkside Cinema

✭ Tell No One — Take a large dollop of standard Hollywood fare — murder mystery, chase thriller and romantic tragedy — mix with a generous dash of Hitchcock’s favorite “wrong man” scenario and mellow it with a modest budget and a more “real-worldly” European sensibility and you have Tell No One, an entertaining, if occasionally overly convoluted, night at the movies. (FULL REVIEW) Darkside Cinema and Salem Cinema

Movie Reviews
Listed Alphabetically
A
• After Life
• Anchorman
B
• Bad Education
• Beauty and the Bus
• Black Mama, White Mama
C
• Cabin Fever
• Constantine
D
• Dog Soldiers
E
• Eastern Promises
G
• The 40 Year Old Virgin
• The Ghost of Slumber Mountain
• Go Further
• The Grand Dame
• Gunner Palace
H
• Hercules (TV 2005)
• Halloween (2007)
• Home is Where the Heart Is
• Hostage
• Hotel Rwanda
• Hustle & Flow
J
• The Invisible Boy
• Invisible Invaders
• Just Married
K
• King Corn
• Kung Fu Hustle
L
• London After Midnight
M
• M. Hulot's Holiday
• The Machinist
• Missile to the Moon
• Mortuary
N
• 'Neath Arizona Skies
• Neil Young: Heart of Gold
O
• Off The Map
• Oldboy
• Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
• The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan
P
• Python
R
• Red Eye
• Room 6
• The Royal Rodeo
S
• The Sea Inside
• The Singing Revolution
• Shadow of Afghanistan
• Sky Blue
• Soigne Ton Gauche
• Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival (2005)
• Supergator
T
• Tell No One
• 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
• Travellers and Magicians
V
• The Valet
W
• Webs
• What's Up, Tiger Lily?
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
• The World, The Flesh, and The Devil