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New releases for October 11th

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane: Completed in 2006, the non-release of All the Boys Love Mandy Lane has reached a mini cult status. The horror film created a buzz at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival and was picked up for distribution, but due to a series of convolutions is just now being released. Director Jonathan Levine has had three movies (The Wackness, 50/50, and Warm Bodies) in the meantime. The film is pretty standard teen horror movie fare. Mandy Lane is a pure, virginal teenager who is desired by the high school boys who all want to be the one to make her not so pure and virginal. When one of the boys has a party at his family’s isolated ranch he invites her along. Of course, a bunch of teens in an isolated location is not complete without a crazed killer on the loose, and the party ends in a night of bloodshed.

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Broadway Idiot: When you think of punk rock, your mind doesn’t normally follow the natural progression to Broadway. The documentary Broadway Idiot follows the evolution of the Green Day album American Idiot into a successful Broadway musical.

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Escape from Tomorrow: Thought to be un-releasable when it premiered at Sundance, Escape from Tomorrow opens this weekend. Filmed without permission almost completely at Disney theme parks, the film contrasts the “happiest place on Earth” with a sinister tale. A husband and father of two learns that he has lost his job on the day of a family trip of amusement park hopping. Not wanting to spoil the vacation, he keeps the news to himself, but the supposed to be fun-filled day soon turns into a surreal nightmare of paranoid visions.

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God Loves Uganda: Oscar winning director Roger Ross Williams (you may remember him as the Documentary Short Film Oscar winner whose speech got Kanyed by a former producer) returns with the feature documentary, God Loves Uganda. The film traces the influence of the American Evangelical movement in Uganda’s adoption of Biblical law including the death penalty for homosexuality.

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete: Fourteen-year-old Mister and nine-year-old Pete are left to fend for themselves in the Brooklyn projects during the hot summer when their mothers are taken into custody by authorities. Dodging child protective services, they are determined to make it on their own amidst the violence and shady characters who inhabit their neighborhood.

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