RECOMMENDED: A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop is acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou‘s adaptation of Blood Simple, the directorial debut by the Coen Brothers. Yimou, however, takes the film’s basic gist — a screwball noir about a cuckolded husband who engages a bounty hunter to rub out his wife and her lover — and sets it sometime in the past, moving the action from small-town Texas to a noodle shop in a small desert town in Gansu province. I don’t know what more you could possibly want.

ALSO NEW IN THE THEATERS: Easy A, starring Emma Stone, who plays one of those 40-year-old-acting teenagers who goes all meta with The Scarlett Letter; Alpha and Omega, some animated dreck that weirdly might be Dennis Hopper‘s last movie to come out; Devil or, as we like to call it, Trapped In An Elevator With Motherfucking Satan Oh Fuck; The Virginity Hit, some Funny Or Die bullshit that ought to get sued by the makers of High School Record; and The Town, which bills itself as a cross between Heat and Point Break but is really just an excuse for Ben Affleck to don a Boston accent while Jon Hamm stares on helplessly.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 4:02 pm.