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15 July 2008 4:59 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

This week finds the U.S. Army bringing war games to a whole other level, a '60s sex icon getting an exposé, Ron Perlman returning as the defender of small fluffy kittens everywhere and Eddie Murphy taking cinema egotism to new heights.

"August"

After the warm reception his first feature "Xx/Xy" received at Sundance in 2002, director Austin Chick returned to the snowy slopes of Park City to debut his sophomore effort, which seemed to impress our own Matt Singer when he saw it in January. Assembling an noteworthy ensemble that includes the likes of Robin Tunney, Naomie Harris, Rip Torn and David Bowie, Chick follows Tom and Josh Sterling (Josh Hartnett and Adam Scott, respectively), two brothers desperately trying to right the sinking ship of their failing dot-com company in the weeks leading up to the devastating September 11th attacks.

Opens in New York.

"Days

Neil Pedley

10 July 2008 10:27 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Despite a terrific lead performance by Ellen Burstyn, Kari Skogland's epic "The Stone Angel" is a lesson in the perils of trying to cram a hefty Canadian novel that spans decades into a movie running just under two hours.

Burstyn plays a 90-year-old Manitoba widow who flees to her former farm when her long-suffering son (an excellent Dylan Baker) is forced to put her in a nursing home. A long series of flashbacks details her unhappy marriage to his father, a drunken

By LOU LUMENICK

2 articles from 2008