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My Best Friend’s Girl

Jason Biggs (American Pie) is back, but he’s not the main character in this, the latest rude and sexually aggressive comedy to come from the US. Dustin (Biggs) adores Alexis (Kate Hudson), but the feeling isn’t mutual, so he calls on his buddy Tank (Dane Cook) to weave his manly magic and disgust her so grievously on a date that she will flee back to our Jason. But — you guessed it — the two hit it off instead. Wicked, politically incorrect humor abounds, but Variety warns of a possible altered ending to pacify preview audiences, which suggests that director Terry Zwigoff (Bad Santa) might have been the man to stand up to the studio and keep the mayhem real instead of Howard Deutch.



Passengers

Peter Weir’s Fearless from 1993 has been on cable TV lately, and fans of that fine film might be interested in a similarly themed offering in Passengers. As with Fearless, this film focuses on plane crash survivors and their debilitating traumas, but unlike Weir’s film, this one is just as interested in thriller elements in the form of mysterious characters, twists and revelations. Case in point: Attendees at a counseling session start disappearing. Stars Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson and David Morse.



Finishing the Game

The “game” is Game of Death, the film that Bruce Lee didn’t finish shooting before his tragically premature death. In this “mockumentary,” a bunch of luckless Asian American actors, including Dustin Nguyen (21 Jump Street), vie to be the one to replace Lee in the completion of the kung fu classic. M.C. Hammer, George Takei and Ron Jeremy appear in cameos. It’s taken a little while to get released here, which is a little surprising given that director Justin Lin (林詣彬), who directed the third Fast and the Furious entry, has Taiwanese heritage.



Seraphine

Fittingly released here in the week of the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, this is a French film based on the relationship between famed painter Seraphine Louis and art enthusiast Wilhelm Uhde. Uhde spies the struggling Seraphine’s art while visiting her village on the eve of the war and their patron-client relationship blossoms, but bloody conflict and personal vulnerability take a heavy toll. Yolande Moreau (Amelie) stars as the troubled artist in a film that is receiving warm reviews.



One Piece The Movie: Episode of Chopper — Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura

Those crazy anime pirates are back in action in this perennial series, this time revisiting the story of Chopper — the crew’s adolescent medic and transformable blue-nosed reindeer —for the first time since 2002. A search by the Straw Hat pirates for a doctor brings them to an island kingdom where danger and evil characters lurk and preparations for battle are made, but also where a horned hero waits in the wings.

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