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APRIL 2012
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Tough Acts to Follow
This month will see a slate of movies featuring pugnacious
protagonists who are happy to save the day, so long as they get
to talk some trash in the bargain
GARBAGE, THERE ARE NO HALF-
UTHS, NO SPIN, NO POLITICS.
NQUERORS MAY PLUNDER THE
HES AND THEREFORE THE HISTORICAL
CORD, BUT NO ONE PLUNDERS TRASH.”
Cook Islands
Chefs hone their
knife, spear and
slingshot skills
on awild new
cooking show
Anthony Bourdain
and Andrew
Zimmern may be the
kings of adventure
eating, but adventure
cooking
? Soon that’ll
be the domain of
restaurateur Michael
Psilakis and chefs
Madison Cowan and
Kayne Raymond. In
the new BBC America
series “No Kitchen
Required,” they’re
dropped into remote
locations to hunt and
gather ingredients
and incorporate them
into meals that are
then judged by the
local community.
It’s a bit like “Iron
Chef”—except the
contestants on that
show never had to
pick off an iguana
from a canoe using
a slingshot. Cowan
admits, however,
that his most bizarre
challenge was
something he didn’t
actually have to travel
halfway around the
world to do: catch a
live chicken. “We were
running around like
chickens without
heads ourselves,” he
says. “But we had a
good time.”
premieres april 3
From
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash
, by
Pulitzer-winning journalist Edward Humes.
out april 19
ACTOR:
MOVIE:
ROLE:
TOUGH
TALK:
Lockout
(Opens April 20)
Snow, an ex–
government
agent whose
only shot at
freedom is
to rescue the
president’s
daughter
from a prison
spaceship
during
a riot.
“Oh yeah,
I thought I
could smell
you coming.”
The Hunter
(Opens April 6)
Martin David,
a mercenary
hired by a
biotech
company to
hunt the
last Tasma-
nian tiger.
“Thank you,
Mr. Mindy.
I’d like to go
on alone.”
Safe
(Opens April 27)
Luke Wright, a
former mixed
martial arts
cage fighter
who finds
himself on the
Russian mob’s
bad side.
“I said I
wouldn’t kill
you. I didn’t
say I was
gonna put
you up at
the Ritz.”
The Three
Stooges
(Opens April 13)
Moe, the eye-
pokin’, noggin-
knockin’
stooge with
anger manage-
ment issues
and a bowl cut.
“Wise
guy, eh?”
CHRIS
DIAMANTOPOULOS
Bad Ass
(Opens April 13)
Frank Vega,
a decorated
Vietnamvet
who becomes a
local hero when
he’s videotaped
defending
an elderly
blackman
froma pair of
skinheads
on a bus.
“I
told
you I
didn’t want
to fight.”
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TREJO
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WILLEM
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