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Crazy Heart

January 17th, 2010
Crazy Heart features Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal doing some of their finest work which is saying something as their work is usually exemplary especially Bridges. Think Jennings-Kristopherson-Haggard and you’ve got Bad Blake (Bridges), a has-been country music legend who long ago succumbed to a hedonistic lifestyle of alcohol and loose women so that at 57 he’s broke and playing every di ...

The Lovely Bones

January 17th, 2010
The Lovely Bones stars Saoirse Ronan (so far very impressive in her young career) as Susie Salmon who is just about to come to terms with the awkwardness of her 14 short years when she is raped and murdered by a neighbour, George Harvey (a hard to recognize Stanley Tucci). As month after month passes Susie watches the effect that her passing has on her family from a beautiful limbo, unable to ...

The Spy Next Door

January 17th, 2010
The Spy Next Door has all of the cool choreography that Jackie Chan fans have come to expect. That’s the good news. All of it. The neighbours should have been tipped off to espionage in their community right out of the chute as Chan clearly goes by an alias with the name of “Bob” Ho. He’ a suburban dweller whose main squeeze Gillian (Amber Valletta) conveniently lives next door. She’s cliché ...

Leap Year

January 10th, 2010
Leap Year is the story of Anna (Amy Adams) and Jeremy (Adam Scott) a New York power couple although Anna, rather than a Blackberry would prefer a ring for her left hand. After four years however Jeremy who is a brilliant surgeon is a little thick on this point. When he heads to Ireland for a medical convention an exasperated Anna, going on the outcome of a family fable told by her father Jack ...

Youth in Revolt

January 10th, 2010
Youth in Revolt is the first outing of the new decade for Canada’s affable Michael Cera. Within the past 10 years he’s established himself as Hollywood’s go to guy for the nebbish, virginal but erudite teen and here we go again – sort of. He plays Nick Twisp the 16 year old son of Estelle (a trailer trashy hot Jean Smart) and George Twisp (Steve Buscemi). Nick can’t stay with his father and h ...

The Yes Men Fix the World

January 3rd, 2010
The Yes Men Fix the World features Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno – yes men for some of the world’s largest corporations who speak on behalf of businesses to millions around the world on matters of urgency to mankind. This is no mean feat since they’re not affiliated with any corporate entity whatsoever. They’re just a couple of pranksters extrapolating the theory of corporations as psychopa ...

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