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Meet Dave

Eddie Murphy has struggled a little of late. Missing out on a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Dreamgirls, some say, because of the immense crudity of his characters in Norbit, Murphy has chosen a better vehicle in Meet Dave. This is entirely appropriate because “Dave,” a strangely dressed man who turns up in New York one day, is a vehicle, too — a spaceship, in fact, containing tiny aliens. This is a fun movie for all ages that makes much better use of Murphy’s prodigious talent and without the flatulent humor and rubber suits that have marked his films over the last decade or so.



The Violin

An unusual mixture of black-and-white photography, music and radicalism, The Violin stars a real-life violinist, the 81-year-old Don Angel Tavira, as a farmer and wandering musician who gets involved in the movement that attempted to oust a Mexican government 30 years ago. Scenes of brutality mix with a subtle tale of cunning as the old violinist and his family attempt to turn the tables on the military.



Memory

In this Thai thriller, an overworked psychiatrist at a Chiang Mai hospital is referred a case of a little girl who appears to have been abused. When he investigates, he discovers things are more sinister than even that, with something supernatural possibly preying on the child. There may be something even more sinister in store, too, given that the shrink fails to stop himself from getting it on with the little girl’s mother. Some viewers may sense The Sixth Sense in all of this, but at least Bruce Willis didn’t seduce anyone (even if he was a ghost).



The Room

A struggling family goes from bad to worse when a strange room appears in their house in this Belgian flick from 2006. With a failed composer father, his mistreated wife, a handicapped son and an unhappy pregnant daughter vying for the most-dysfunctional-family-member title, audiences will wonder if the mysterious room of the title is doing one victim a favor when he disappears through its door. This film made appearances at various genre film festivals but has failed to stir up much interest since then. Starts tomorrow.



Keroro the Movie 3

Keroro, better known to English-speaking manga/anime fans as “Sgt Frog,” is one of the more bizarre Japanese animated characters to gain a following. The slovenly leader of a failed invasion force from a faraway planet, Sergeant Keroro makes do with wasting his time in between errands for a nice, ordinary Japanese family, despite having a team of crack soldiers at his call. In Part 3, Keroro and the gang end up at the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu on holiday, only to encounter strange forces that produce an “evil” Keroro who also wants to conquer Earth and kidnaps the “good” Keroro’s hosts. Now there’s a dilemma for the “good” Keroro. Screens with a Keroro short entitled Warrior Kero’s Announcement! The Battle of the Warring State Pekopon.

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