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Indie Spotlight: New Releases for April 3
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Welcome back to the Indie Spotlight, in which we list the new limited-release films being released today. Keep an eye out for when they come to your local art house or Netflix queue.
- Alien Trespass (pictured), opening on about 40 screens nationwide, is a loving, non-parody homage to the cheesy invaders-from-space B-movies of the 1950s. For me, the style wears thin too quickly; the fact that the '50s films were corny out of necessity while this one is doing it on purpose makes it feel insincere. Indeed, it has a low 31% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
- Bart Got a Room is a comedy about a nerdy Jewish teenager trying to find a date for the prom. Cinematical's Erik Davis loved it at Tribeca last year, and the 71% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes backs him up.
- C Me Dance combines the world of evangelical Christianity with the world of dancing. Sold! It's opening on about 150 screens nationwide. No reviews are up yet, but I would suspect it's a preaching-to-the-choir sort of thing, aimed at people who are already evangelical Christians.
- Sugar comes from the Half Nelson team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck and is finally hitting theaters after premiering at Sundance last year. It's about a young Dominican Republic baseball player who is recruited by scouts and brought to the U.S. to train for the majors. Cinematical's Kim Voynar liked it quite a bit, calling it a coming-of-age story more than a baseball movie, and as beautiful as "a painting brought to life" -- and hey, check out that 88% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes!
Watch This: 'C Me Dance' Trailer Will Leave You ... Um, Confused
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"Man, this is gonna tick off the devil."
There are movie trailers, there are epic movie trailers ... and then there's this new trailer for a movie called C Me Dance, which is brought to us by the folks behind Praise Band: The Movie. Yes, like Kirk Cameron's box office champ Fireproof, C Me Dance is another one of those Christian-themed blockbusters -- and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that -- except, well, you go ahead and try to explain what the hell (no pun intended) is going on in this flick. There's a pretty girl and she just wants to dance, but then the Devil shows up and fights this girl's overweight father out in front of the house. What in God's name is ... wait, let me stop there.
C Me Dance will apparently arrive in theaters this Friday in 14 states, and if it's not playing in your area then you can fill out a form to make sure it does. Oh, and this isn't an April Fool's joke either; C Me Dance has an official website and an IMDb page ... so there! 4 out of 5 Doves! And check out this marketing note from the website: "This movie is a chick flick with a manifested devil. This will attract a wide demo of men and women." Why, because women like the chick flick stuff and guys are the devil? I'm all for feel-good movies, except when the "good" is removed, thrown at a wall, burned and buried so no one can ever find it. But maybe I'm being a little too harsh -- check out the trailer below and see if you can figure out what's going on.
C Me Dance hits theaters on April 3rd.
[Thanks Patricia!]
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