Make that a sacrilegious twist. And as with the also new-to-DVD “Dead Hooker in a Trunk,” you need not proceed beyond reading the title. On a smack trip after being beaten up within an inch of her life, nun Sister Sarah (Asun Ortega) awakens with new purpose: doing the Lord’s work. She already does, but […]
The Lincoln Lawyer
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Daydream Nation
Now it shares the moniker with a Canadian film that wishes it were as hip and influential. Mind you, the drama isn’t bad — just a well-shot narrative mess. Kat Dennings (the Norah of the cooler-than-thou “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”) fronts and narrates the proceedings as Caroline Wexler, a high school student who’s moved with […]
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The Lincoln Lawyer
In “The Lincoln Lawyer,” Mick Haller (Matthew McConaughey, “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past”) skates along with one foot on the ethical side and the other, not so much. Haller has no office, but operates out of his car’s backseat, hence the title. His clients tend to be on the lowlife side: bikers, hookers, dealers. A few […]