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The Last Exorcism

August 29th, 2010
The Last Exorcism has a cast of  barely knows including star Patrick Fabian as Cotton Marcus, a charlatan evangelist taking over the family ministry from a long line of bible thumpers many of whom claim to have exorcised demons. Cotton was a child preaching prodigy and although his faith is waning he continues for pragmatic reasons which he justifies on camera in documentary style. Although n ...

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, and Rebel

August 29th, 2010
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, and Rebel on the surface might almost be mistaken for a somewhat self serving legacy piece somehow funded by the iconic octogenarian but when you follow the money it leads nowhere near Hef. This documentary is funded by Canadian dollars some of which originates from Astral Media. This helps to objectify this well made film with the objectifier of women at its c ...

Lebanon

August 29th, 2010
Lebanon doesn’t have much in the way of anything Lebanese – language or gentry. It’s 1982 and the start of “First Lebanon War” routinely glimpsed claustrophobically through the periscope of an army tank manned by four reluctant Jewish conscripts. This vehicle is stencilled with the Hebrew phrase “men are made of steel, tanks are just junk”. Maybe not so much in this armoured personnel carrier ...

Nanny McPhee Returns

August 22nd, 2010
Nanny McPhee Returns bring back that stern but kind hearted governess with the startlingly bad dental work even by British standards. She left last time when she was wanted and not needed and here comes to stay when needed but not wanted by Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal issuing a spot on Brit accent) a weary shop keeper and farmer’s wife whose husband is off to war. At her wits end trying t ...

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

August 22nd, 2010
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work had a reality show like inception and ended up as a documentary of a TV reality show star. Not that she wasn’t a star already but through the footage captured during fourteen months of the 76th year of her life interspersed with file footage we get a revealing look at some dramatic points in television history. There’s her departure as permanent guest host as anoi ...

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

August 15th, 2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World stars Canada’s Michael Cera who does a subtle stretch in acting style to inch past the terminally virginal alter ego he’s constantly cast to play. Scott Pilgrim is a 23 year old slacker who at least appears to have had some success with women even if the relationships all ended badly. Cera must have been thrilled to be set in his actual home town of Toronto where h ...

Eat Pray Love

August 15th, 2010
Eat Pray Love would be an enthralling but a little far fetched romantic novel - if it were fiction. However it’s actually the memoirs based on a year in the life of author Elizabeth Gilbert which dominated the New York Times best seller list for years. At 32 New York starts to feel surprisingly small with her ex husband Stephen (Billy Crudup) and fading boy-toy David Piccolo (James Franco) st ...

Animal Kingdom

August 15th, 2010
Animal Kingdom is a tense Aussie underworld flick that takes place on the mean streets of Melbourne (why does that just sound odd?). Joshua 'J' Cody (James Frecheville) at eighteen is a bit slow so when his junkie mother OD’s he’s really at a loss. Although estranged he calls the only help he can think of - his grandmother Janine (Jacki Weaver) who is affectionately called Smurf and looks eve ...

The Other Guys

August 8th, 2010
The Other Guys are what they call third string paper pushers in the NYPD, diametrically opposed to the precinct heroes. In the New York precinct where P.K. Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) and Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) are kingpins, Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) are very much the other guys and they get zero respect. In the case of Hoitz who was an up and ...

Step Up 3D

August 8th, 2010
Step Up 3D has dynamic narrative but third rate choreography – NOT! No longer centered in Baltimore this unnecessary outing in even more unnecessary 3D has the action moves to New York City. Moose (Adam G. Sevani) from Step Up 2: The Streets and Camille (Alyson Stoner) from the original Step Up movie are the only vaguely familiar principles but who knew they were an item (albeit platonic) thr ...
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