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	The Orphanage This multi-award-winning Spanish production has been earning brilliant reviews, further evidence that a horror film can deliver the goods by tapping into complex emotions instead of just smacking audiences with a blunt, bloody object every few minutes. In this case, a woman returns with her family to the orphanage where she lived as a child to help other unfortunates, only for her son to disappear and her grip on reality to weaken as the past comes back to haunt her. Contains disturbing images, ideas and real shocks. Produced by the director of Pan's Labyrinth.
	Untraceable The wonderful Diane Lane stars as an Oregon policewoman specializing in Internet crime who stumbles on a Web site that offers Saw-like snuff set pieces — but only if there are enough hits. Lane and her loved ones end up in peril, but for many critics this predictable plot point was more than offset by the film's sobriety and Lane's performance. Technology skeptics may also be impressed by this film's trenchant depiction of the Internet as a cyber-cesspit instead of a revolutionary medium.
	Goodbye Bafana Acclaimed Danish director Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror) presents this story of Nelson Mandela and his Afrikaner prison guard, based on the latter's disputed memoir. This won the peace award at the Berlin Film Festival, but sterner critics were disappointed by its pacing and inability to tap into the personal depth of Mandela and the drama of his long captivity. Stars Dennis Haysbert (President David Palmer in the TV series 24) as Mandela and Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) as the guard.
	Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour Here's a concert film in 3D featuring Miley Ray Cyrus, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, live in concert both as herself and her Disney Channel character Hannah Montana. The Montana/Cyrus creation is a smash in the US with Generation Tween, and will probably appeal to younger Taiwanese audiences, too, given all the energetic purity on show and the arrival of a boy band in the second half. However, critics have said this film doesn't hold a candle to the new U2 concert filmed in 3D, which is yet to secure a release date here. Note: The film is 75 minutes long. Muoi
	Muoi The poster for this very restrained horror film combines the long-haired demon-woman cliche with a gorgeous color palette; the film likewise mixes familiar elements in an unfamiliar setting, starting with the Vietnamese locale. A Korean author with writer's block makes her way to Vietnam to look into reports of a ghostly presence in a painting in a picture-perfect town — and ends up in danger from more than one direction.
	The Hairy Tooth Fairy Not quite the best movie title of the year (that honor will probably go to Sick Nurses, which opens here next month), this Argentina/Spain co-production is a mixture of live action and animation for family audiences. The “tooth fairy” of the title is a rat who collects loose teeth from children; things get complicated when he is abducted and a young girl and her cousin set off to rescue him. Showing at the Caesar grindhouse in Ximending and the Hsingfu second-run theater in Sanchong in an English-dubbed version.
	Make It Big Another DVD release warm-up at Ximending's Baixue theater, this is a jolt of South Korean testosterone from 2002. Three raucous, devil-may-care high school friends literally run into a corpse and a fortune in cash but, sure enough, the crooks and the cops are hot on their tails after they start spending. The trailer on YouTube, which makes good use of the Green Day song Basket Case, is worth a look; it also includes a weird Claymation sequence..

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