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What do Donnie Darko and Me & You & Everyone We Know have in common, other than being rad cult movies? Composer Michael Andrews. You can hear him on KCRW this morning at the usual 11:00 a.m. MBE live band slot. You can also see him live at Amoeba Records on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. Keep an eye on Andrews as he's working on more film projects (Cohen Bros., etc) and a performance installment at MOMA.

    Decapitated antiheroes, suicide bombers and 12-year-old soldiers round out
    this weekend's indie and limited release picks.

  • A
    History of Violence
    - Drama starring Viggo Mortensen,
    directed by David Cronenberg.
    In this screen adaptation of a graphic
    novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, Cronenberg explores how an act
    of heroism unexpectedly changes a man's life. [trailer | local
    showtimes
    ]

  • Capote - Drama
    starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, directed by Bennett Miller.
    Truman
    Capote believed fact could be as fascinating as fiction. While researching
    his book In Cold Blood, the author becomes friends with one
    of the killers. [trailer | local
    showtimes
    ]

  • The Chumscrubber - Dark
    comedy starring Jamie Bell and Glenn Close,
    directed by Arie
    Posin
    . Dean (Jamie Bell) is a quiet teenager living in a beautiful (but emotionally
    vacant) suburb of California. The death of a troubled teen throws a suburban neighborhood
    into chaos, causing the adults to implode emotionally. Similar to the
    demonic-looking rabbit in Donnie Darko, the "Chumscrubber"
    is a post-apocalyptic icon that pops up when things take a turn for the
    worse. [trailer | local
    showtimes
    ]

In a city with nicknames such as "Hollyweird" and "La-La Land," strange occurrences are pretty much par for the course. Nonetheless, this story about a large chunk of ice that crashed through the roof of a Fontana house and into a chair where minutes earlier a man had been sitting was spooky. Who would worry about getting crushed by ice while sitting in a pink chair watching television indoors in the middle of summer?

Sometimes we hate Hollywood endings. We knew nothing of Domino Harvey before we saw the very cool trailer (the best trailer we've seen this year) for Domino before Kung Fu Hustle in the spring. Kiera Knightley, who impressed us in The Jacket, was intoxicating as this former model now bounty hunter dominating what appeared to be this darkly comic true story flick written by Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly.

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