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July 2006
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 Too humid to kick it outside? Grab a cold one and chill indoors with Once in a Lifetime, a soccer doc about media mogul Steve Ross and his decision to buy not only the New York Cosmos in the 1970s but a collection of star players (Pelé, anyone?) to fill its ranks. George Steinbrenner would be so proud (July 7)....Writer-director Ed Burns once again questions life, the universe, and everything to do with men (like Donal Logue, John Leguizamo, Jay Mohr, and Matthew Lillard) and women in The Groomsmen (July 14)...
The definition of heaven? For Wondrous Oblivion's 11-year-old hero David Wiseman (Sam Smith), it's Jamaican neighbor Dennis Samuels' (Delroy Lindo) '60s-era, makeshift cricket court (July 14)....
Activist Anthony is tempted to use his romance with a senator's son as political ammo in Poster Boy (July 21), but pesky things like love and his conscience get in the way....
A trio of Podunk religious fanatics + a gay recluse with a closeted police-detective lover = absolutely, positively no good in Jorge Ameer's The House of Adam (July 21)....
French director François Ozon takes on '50s hankie-master Douglas Sirk in Time to Leave (Le Temps Qui Reste). One teeny-tiny alteration? The Swimming Pool helmer subs out the classic Sirk oppressed housewife for a fatally ill gay man (July 21)....
Just try to look away: In an adaptation of Brian Aldiss' 1977 novel Brothers of the Head, British conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe are plucked from obscurity and transformed into freakish (but successful!) punk rockers (July 28)....
As the titular The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'Honneur) of director Claude Chabrol's Fatal Attraction-meets-Strangers on a Train thriller, Senta (Laura Smet) forces her lovers to plant a tree, write a poem, sleep with a member of their own sex, and kill someone (July 28)....
Brazilian grande dame Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station) and real-life offspring Fernanda Torres play multiple generations of women sick of dune living in House of Sand (Casa de Areia) (July 28)....
What's missing from your local community theater's production of William Shakespeare's most famous love story? If you said animated seals and a happy ending, then don't miss the ''family-friendly'' Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With a Kiss (July 28)....
Meanwhile, C. Thomas Howell finds his true calling as a vengeful urban rapper (yes, you read that right) who gets mixed up with a crazy woman in Street Poet. Say it ain't so, Ponyboy! (moved to August 18)
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