{"id":10095,"date":"2010-09-30T23:34:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T04:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=10095"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:40:24","slug":"new-releases-october-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/30\/new-releases-october-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: October 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>1. The Social Network (Sony\/Columbia, 2,771 Theaters, 121 Minutes, Rated PG-13): <\/strong>If you asked me several years ago if there would be a movie about Facebook, let alone one written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, I’d say you had to be crazy. But here we are.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how to take this film. I read some where that it will be a Rashomon-<\/strong>like approach to the subject. This is hard to portray in a trailer, but the way all the ads for this film has been cut, it makes the film out to be about a swaggering as–er…yahoo who gains fame and fortune then immediately gets sued. Which might not be far from the truth, whatever that is, but not a really balanced report.<\/p>\n

Jesse Eisenberg seems to be playing Mark Zuckerberg as a cross between the Big Lebowski, Ted Grant and Charles Foster Kane. Which I’ll admit is a tough combo to pull off but doesn’t really add up to an intriguing character to me.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>2. Case 39 (Paramount Vantage, 2,211 Theaters, 109 Minutes, Rated R): <\/strong>It’s strange to see Renee Zellweger in a role like this. It seems almost inevitable that every actress of a certain age will turn to horror sooner or later, but Zellweger’s squeaky innocence doesn’t seem to meld well with the angst and pathos you need as a scream siren.<\/p>\n

At least this film has a unique twist. Zellweger plays a social services agent who is called into investigate a case of child abuse. When she gets there, she finds the situation to be different than expected. The child might actually be possessed, or a demon itself.<\/p>\n

Which, if that is the case, it is a unique spin on the whole “possessed child” genre that is so common. And kudos for the filmmakers from not shying away from the R rating. It is my opinion that all horror films should be an R if they are to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3. Let Me In (Overture Films, 2,020 Theaters, 115 Minutes, Rated R): <\/strong>Two R rated horror films opening in the same week? I know Halloween is at the end of the month, but odds are both of these films will be out of theaters by the time the holiday rolls around.<\/p>\n

And since I’m on a rant, can we have at least a ten year moratorium before foreign films are remade into English-language versions? This films is a remake of the 2008 Swedish film, Let the Right One In<\/strong>. Maybe it’s a Swedish thing, because they started making the American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/strong> while the Swedish version was just reaching our shores.<\/p>\n

This version appears to be exactly the same as the original, too. A young, bullied boy finds an unlikely protector in a girl next door. Turns out his protector is a vampire, and the protection comes with a price the boy might not want to pay.<\/p>\n

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