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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 ...
Get Low
August 8th, 2010
Get Low is a backwoods colloquialism for putting ones affairs in
order before casting off this mortal coil. Here the backwoods is in
1930's Tennessee and feeing it's time to get low is Felix Bush (an
almost unrecognizable Robert Duvall) a recluse with a reputed short
fuse. The film is based on a true event of a hillbilly hermit
buying himself a fancy funeral that he wants to attend while stil ...
Dinner for Schmucks
August 1st, 2010
Dinner for Schmucks is based on the 1998 French film The Dinner
Game. Tim (Paul Rudd) is making impressive jumps up the corporate
ladder despite backstabbing by jealous co workers. He learns that
he can really cinch that corner office by landing one perfect
client - the most outstanding idiot as designated by his boss Lance
Fender (Vancouver's Bruce Greenwood) when brought as a guest to one
o ...
Charlie St. Cloud
August 1st, 2010
Charlie St. Cloud is a teen romance flick starring Zac Efron. As a
high school senior he's poised to escape from his cloistered home
town thanks to a sailing scholarship (say what?) when his life gets
put on hold with the untimely death of his eleven year old brother
Sam (sparky but believable Charlie Tahan). Instead of college he
takes a job as groundskeeper at a local cemetery so that he ca ...
Salt
July 25th, 2010
Salt stars Angelina Jolie as CIA operative Evelyn Salt who is
accused by a Russian defector of being a mole for the former Soviet
Union. She takes off using all of her spy chops to elude former
colleagues, not the least of which is Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber)
the one person who speaks out on her behalf. While she's not only
on the lam but also trying to rescue her kidnapped husband we learn
t ...
Solitary Man
July 25th, 2010
Solitary Man stars Michael Douglas as Ben Kalmen an almost
sexagenarian skirt chasing scoundrel with a spotty EKG - which at
least proves that he does have a heart. While bedding a litany of
females who are at most half his age he spends his life emotionally
sabotaging the relationships he has with those who refuse to stop
loving him. That includes his friend of 35 years Jimmy Merino
(Danny ...
I Am Love
July 25th, 2010
I Am Love is a gorgeous and gastronomic journey into the lifestyles
of the rich and Milano. Tilda Swinton does justice to her Italian
lines as Emma, a Russian émigré married into the old
money of the Recchi's whose patriarch Edoardo Sr. (Gabriele
Ferzetti) is about to pass down the reins of power in the families
lucrative factory. However in a family already showing signs of
strain this will ...