LIZARD BOY

The military hires “renowned geneticist” Gino Conti to develop top-secret animal-hybrids but when his fiancee leaves him for being infertile he instead decides to cook up a half-lizard child to raise secretly in his remote mountain trailer.  Lizard Boy grows up fast and develops a taste for human flesh (bummer) but Gino and his best pal Frankie are able to keep the beast calm with healthy doses of anti-depressants and bong hits.  Can they prevent the inevitable Lizard Boy rampage?

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AMERICAN PICKERS

Two dudes drive around the Midwest in a van, but instead of solving mysteries, they root through piles of junk looking for antique pretty-much-anything.

It grows on you.  Read more at CHUD.

IN TIME

Imagine a world where you stop aging at 25.  That sounds great, but you also get a big green countdown clock in your arm and you have to use time as money; Poor people live day to day, and a single mistake could cost them their lives, whilst rich people luxuriate in gated communities and lavish casinos.  That sounds less great.  But alas, an evocative metaphor does not an entertaining feature make.

MAYOR CUPCAKE

First she made cupcakes, now she’s mayor.  Oh snap!  If you want to see how far Lea Thompson has fallen since the Back To The Future series, look no further.

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MONEYBALL

This is an atypical baseball movie.  For one thing, there's not very much baseball in it.  It's about using superior statistical analysis to build a better team.  But there's actually not a whole lot of statistics in the movie either.  It's more about the riskiness and culture clash that comes from attempting to reinvent the game.  One of the best scenes is just Brad Pitt and some old dude arguing 'politely' in a hallway, with unbearable and hateful tension bubbling to the surface so palpably that the viewer is almost certain that the two will tear into each other at any moment.  But they don't.  This isn't that kind of movie.  Sure, Brad Pitt throws lots of chairs when he's mad, but this movie isn't about the triumph of violence; it's about the triumph of numbers.