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703 6540 BURLINGTON Avenue, Burnaby South, British Columbia

August 27th, 2008
I just finished uploading this Condo for sale, 703 6540 BURLINGTON Avenue, Burnaby South, British Columbia

Breathtaking south east unobstructed vista of Deer Lake, Mount Baker, Patullo & Alex Fraser. Walk to Metrotown & skytrain. Elevators recently refurbished. Building re-roofed & re-piped. Low maintenance fee. Perfect to live in or invest. Sui te features insuite laundry & semi-ensuite & 2 large bdrms. Fantastic recreation facilities including racquetball courts & large swirlpool. Spectacular outlooks from every room & from the large balcony. Live-in caretaker. No pets. Rentals OK.

The House Bunny

August 22nd, 2008
The House Bunny is the brain child of Anna Faris who also plays Shelley a brainless Playboy bunny tossed to the wolves for the crime of reaching a certain un-Playboy-like age. She’s tragically turfed from the Playboy Mansion by Hef himself before she can fulfill her longstanding dream of making centrefold (but don’t worry, his octogenarian-ship isn’t really that nasty save for subjecting us to his ability at acting). Shelley’s pathetic and aimless wandering somehow leads her to a college campus and a group of sorority sisters with a lot of smarts but no fashion sense. Throw in a necessary call to action because of trouble from a snobby

Hamlet 2

August 22nd, 2008
Hamlet 2, also known as “Kiss Me Sexy Jesus” are titles that a purist could easily take offence to. Steve Coogan is Dana Marschz a mullet loving recovering alcoholic actor with crushed dreams. After only ever landing roles in bad infomercials (are there any other kind?) he winds up as a drama teacher in Tucson Oklahoma where it seems even big stars like Elisabeth Shue end up. She lampoons herself and her “former” industry having taken a nursing job in a fertility clinic which is frequented by Dana’s wife Brie (Catherine Keener) as it seems Hollywood glory isn’t his only misconception. That is just part of their woes as they’ve

Frozen River

August 22nd, 2008
Frozen River stars Melissa Leo and Misty Upham but almost as importantly stars the eastern winter as a backdrop for the bleak, chilling and inhospitable future facing a trailer park single mother. Ray Eddy (Leo) is abandoned by her gamblers anonymous husband who has fallen off the wagon and taken off with the deposit on their double wide dream home. She can barely afford the popcorn and tang she uses to sustain her two boys earning part time minimum wage, but she does have a lot of moxie. Oh yeah and a revolver. While T.J. (Charlie McDermott) her teenager finds a source of income in credit card fraud, Ray discovers a way to make easy cash via an uneasy association

The Longshots

August 22nd, 2008
The Longshots might play like a TV movie in search of a better writer if it were not based on true events. As it is maybe they were doing the best that they could with what they had which is a compelling story. Rapper Ice Cube is amassing an impressive filmography, possibly longer than his discography as he applies his clean cut edginess to Curtis Plummer a football never was in a has been Illinois quasi ghost town. His amazingly even more irresponsible older brother has abandoned his wife who presses Curtis into service of after school care of her teenage daughter Jasmine (Keke Palmer) while mom works overtime. Neither is too please with the arrangement at first

Tropic Thunder

August 15th, 2008
Tropic Thunder is the fictitious re-enactment of a non fiction book that turns out to be fiction and in the process fiction becomes reality. Huh? Never mind, all you need to know is that the laughs are non stop through this Ben Stiller directed comedy in which he also stars. The character development is brilliant as we get to know a lot about the movie stars within a movie by the opening scenes which look like a continuation of the preceding trailers. “Four Leaf” Tayback (Nick Nolte living up to his mug shots), a Vietnam vet penned the biographical adventure Tropic Thunder being filmed in Vietnam with a cast of actors playing actors. They include

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

August 15th, 2008
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is not as you might think the name of someone so pretentious they insist on using every one of their names – it’s just one of the three way relationships that drift in and out of this fresh Woody Allen gem. Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is as anal as Cristina (Scarlett Johannson) is loose and it’s a wonder that they’re friends at all. When Vicky’s studies take her to Barcelona where she’s billeted with her rich but bored aunt Judy (Patricia Clarkson), Cristina tags along. Judy takes them to a snobby art exhibit where the two are introduced to Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem) a bohemian artist who won’t be

Bottle Shock

August 15th, 2008
 Bottle Shock is the name given to the phenomenon when the character of wine is changed in transit over long distances. In 1976 the international character of wine was changed forever after a Parisian taste test that pitted French wine (the eternal standard of excellence) against the best from Napa Valley. Alan Rickman is Steven Spurrier, a British oenophile living in Paris but not financially successful at any of his wine enterprises. Looking for some self promotion and hearing rumblings of the California’s industry on the verge of blossoming he organizes a tasting competition and heads to the golden state to find contestants. He finds a hand full

Pineapple Express

August 7th, 2008
Pineapple Express is metaphor used by every west coast meteorologist in reference to the moisture laden winds that originate around the Hawaiian Islands and condense as sheets of winter rain across the lower mainland. The term is probably a flashback to Seth Rogan’s hazy days at Point Grey secondary but here he tags the name on a potent strain of marijuana allegedly cultured by the army in the 30’s but having no possible military use appears to literally have been kept underground for decades. Rogan as Dale Denton is a successful process server who dulls the tedium of his job by maintaining a constant herbal buzz. His dealer Saul Silver (James Franco

Amal

August 7th, 2008
Amal was an audience favourite at this year's Whistler Film Festival as well as Best Feature Film at the Victoria Film Festival. It was produced in part by Astral Media the parent company of 650 CISL. Amal Kumar (Rupinder Nagra) is an unorthodox auto rickshaw driver in New Delhi. While his fellow drivers do nothing to dispel their reputation as crooks Amal is courteous and fair to a fault with all of his customers particularly Sapna (Seema Biswas) a fetching regular client who runs a shop and grows increasingly fond of her part time chauffeur. His kindness and sense of duty lead to unselfish help for a hospitalized street urchin and an impressive encounter