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Every week, Scott Davis and Austin Kennedy check out the latest, but not always the greatest films in the multiplexes. Everything from the biggest blockbusters, to the smallest indie films to the latest foreign films. Scott and Austin are film geeks by birth, keeping a critical eye on things, but bringing a lot of humor and energy to the proceedings as well. They don't always agree, but it's always entertaining.

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  Date / Time: 8/22/2009 9:01 AM UTC

  Inglourious Basterds, Shorts, Post Grad, Spread, The Cove, Lorna's Silence
  

  We're not in the tabloid business, we're in the film geeking business. And cousin, business is a-boomin'! Six more big films this week as Film Geek Central dissects everything from family fare to the first genuine period piece from Quentin Tarantino
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, has been simmering for a while. It's a World War II actioner, detailing the exploits of a group of Jewish-American military toughs who go throughout occupied France, torturing and killing the Nazis. But behind the scenes is another woman who has her own bone to pick with the Third Reich. This one features an international cast including Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz (who won Best Actor at Cannes for this film), Eli Roth (director of HOSTEL), Michael Fassbender (300), Diane Kruger (NATIONAL TREASURE, JOYEUX NOEL), Daniel Bruhl (2 DAYS IN PARIS, GOOD BYE LENIN), Til Schweiger and B.J. Novak (THE OFFICE). Quentin Tarantino has dabbled in a few genres, but this is the first geuine feature-length period film from him. How does Tarantino's newest hold up to his earlier films?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A GRINDHOUSE reunion of sorts as Robert Rodriguez brings us his newest, SHORTS. In this family film, a group of kids find a magical rock that gives them the power to make their wishes come true. Told in a series of "shorts," the film details what happens when different people in a state of the art neighborhood get their hands on the rock and misuse it. Unfortunately, no one mounts a machine gun on their severed leg and mows down a bunch of zombies, but maybe we can save that for the sequel. Jon Cryer, William H. Macy, Leslie Mann (FUNNY PEOPLE), Kat Dennings (NICK & NORA'S INFINITE PLAYLIST) and James Spader are the adult-sized members of this cast.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In POST GRAD, Alexis Bledel (GILMORE GIRLS, SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS) comes face to face with the cruel reality following college. Finding a job and emotional happiness is not nearly as easy or guaranteed as everyone has made it out to be. Further causing her frustration is her strange family, led by a goofy Michael Keaton. It's the debut live-action film from Vicky Jenson, who earlier co-helmed the Dreamworks family films SHREK and SHARK TALE.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Ashton Kutcher is still relevant, just ask him. In SPREAD, Kutcher is a lothario who enjoys being kept by older women as opposed to finding a job. He is thrown off his game when he meets a woman as good at emotional mind games as he is. Anne Heche and Margarita Levieva co-star in this Brett Easton Ellis-like film from director David Mackenzie (MISTER FOE, YOUNG ADAM).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE COVE is a documentary that begins to delve into the wonders of the undersea kingdom. It quickly turns into a modern crime story however as a group of activists expose horrible instances of animal abuse in a Japanese cove. Dolphins are being herded and slaughtered for entertainment and toxic meat in a region of Japan and the Japanese government does everything they can to suppress it. The team is led by Rick O'Barry who once trained Flipper and in the years since has become the world's most outspoken opponent of dolphin captivity.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Dardenne Brothers (THE SON, L'ENFANT) return with LORNA'S SILENCE. In this film, a woman helps a junkie in exchange for citizenship, only to grow ever more dependent on him. As her scams come to fruition, her guilt manifests itself in a surprising manner.
  
  
  
  
  As always, we'll also have a complete rundown on what's going on in the world of film. Plus quick reviews of the newest DVDs, including HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and SURVEILLANCE.
  
  The whole thing goes down Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central at Film Geek Central.
  
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  Anyway, looks like another big one for us this week. Hope to see you there, film geeks!
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