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Film: Bernie (2011) Cast includes: Jack Black ( The School of Rock ), Matthew McConaughey ( The Lincoln Lawyer ), Shirley MacLaine ( Terms of Endearment ) Director: Richard Linklater ( Fast Food Nation , The School of Rock ) Genre: Dark Comedy | Crime (104 minutes) Bernie would settle for nothing less than perfection when it came to “cosmetizing, dressing and casketing” the deceased. But it wasn’t just his dedication to “final procedures” that made Bernie so popular…
Tough choice this weekend: You could go to the multiplex and catch such acclaimed new features as superhero epic “The Avengers,” romantic comedy “Think Like a Man” or stop-motion animation gem “The Pirates! Band of Misfits.” Or, you could stay home and watch new episodes of brainy period drama “Mad Men” or the sprawling fantasy “Game of Thrones.” But many people will probably wait until those movies come out on Netflix and stream them at home, or DVR those series and then watch them in blocks. At that point, with the viewing experience digitized, flattened, squeezed, shrunk, re-shaped, and rescheduled for our convenience, the distinction between whether the story began as a movie or TV show won’t matter anymore.
Film: Monsieur Lazhar (2011) Cast includes: Mohamed Fellag ( L’ennemi intime ), Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx ( C.R.A.Z.Y.
Film: Headhunters (2011) Cast includes: Aksel Hennie ( Max Manus: Man of War ), Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ( Black Hawk Down ) Director: Morten Tyldum ( Fallen Angels ) Genre: Crime, Action, Thriller (98 minutes) Norwegian with subtitles “Rules #1 through 4, leave nothing to chance. Rule #5… One of two things will happen
