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The Visitor

April 25th, 2008
The Visitor is written and directed by Thomas McCarthy who ironically also has a bit part in Baby Mama. With wry wit he shuffles the largely unknown cast through this heart warming story. Richard Jenkins of Six Feet Under snags a plum role here for a mature actor as Walter Vale, a detached Connecticut professor reluctantly sent to New York to deliver a paper he’s co-authored at a globalizat ...

Then She Found Me

April 25th, 2008
Then She Found Me stars academy award winner Helen as April a devoutly Jewish 39 year old NYC teacher with a hyperactive biological clock. She shuns the idea of adoption having been adopted herself but times are getting desperate for her and her nebbish husband Ben (Matthew Broderick). April’s stress level is compounded by her mother’s death and Ben’s decision to divorce. Just as things are a ...

Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

April 25th, 2008
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay takes up almost immediately where Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle left off. John Cho and Kal Penn are reunited as our Korean/Indian stoner duo off to Amsterdam the land of de facto legal marijuana in search of no-hassle highs but most importantly Harold’s true love. On the plane Kumar’s smokeless bong is mistaken for a different type of incend ...

Baby Mama

April 25th, 2008
Baby Mama ironically refers to the immaturity of Angie Ostrowiski who is hired to be a surrogate mother while barely able to take care of herself. Angie is played by Amy Poehler and her fellow Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchor Tina Fey stars in the movie as Kate Holbrook. At the expense of her uterus, Kate has clawed her way up the touchy feely ladder of a Philadelphia organic food ...

Ben X

April 18th, 2008
Ben X is the online moniker of a Belgian teen who is a master at playing “Archlord” over the internet where he most often teams up with the also anonymous Scarlite. In the game he is strong, powerful – everything that he is not in real life. Ben is autistic yet does very well in school where he is bullied unmercifully and is helpless to stop the persecution. Greg Timmermans is the impressiv ...

Emotional Arithmetic

April 18th, 2008
Emotional Arithmetic is a terrific venue for its cast of veteran actors. Set in rural Quebec Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne and Max von Sydow are Nazi death camp survivors finally reunited after 38 years. Sarandon is Melanie who lives on a hobby farm with David her retired professor husband played by Christopher Plummer displaying his trademark sophistication. They share the farmhouse with the ...

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

April 18th, 2008
Forgetting Sarah Marshall was written by and stars Jason Segel who we know from How I Met Your Mother and Knocked Up. This is another retelling of an unkempt geek who ends up with a smokin’ lady – in this case two of TV’s hottest females Kristin Bell and Mila Kunis. Segal is Peter, a reclusive slob with a dream job – doing the sound track for a CSI-like TV show. He’s also dating the star of ...

The Forbidden Kingdom

April 18th, 2008
The Forbidden Kingdom is an Americanized take on the high flying action tradition of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon which they amazingly managed to avoid screwing up.Michael Angarano is Jason a Boston teen with a jones for Hong Kong marshal arts movies which he purchases at a discount from a local Chinese pawnbroker. When some punks force him into robbing the pawn shop he takes possession of a ...

88 minutes

April 18th, 2008
88 Minutes actually runs for 108 minutes and the believability goes downhill from there. Al Pacino stars as Dr Jack Gramm a forensic psychiatrist with the FBI who also teaches at the University of Washington (played by UBC). He lives a lavish lifestyle that appears beyond that of any cop or college professor for that matter and even though acting only as an advisor for the Bureau seems to h ...

Street Kings

April 11th, 2008
Street Kings refers to a band of can-do LA cops who get grizzly jobs done by operating outside of accepted and legal rules of engagement. They are given license by Forest Whitaker who puts all of his Oscar winning chops behind Jack Wander their politically ambitious Captain who knows how to pull strings. Most of the cops are played by TV recognizable actors like Jay Mohr and Amaury Nolasco ...
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