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	<title>Don Kennedy (www.donkennedyrealtor.com): HomeBlog</title>
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		<title>703 6540 BURLINGTON Avenue, Burnaby South, British Columbia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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						I just finished uploading this Condo for sale, 703 6540 BURLINGTON Avenue, Burnaby South, British Columbia<br />
						Breathtaking south east unobstructed vista of Deer Lake, Mount Baker, Patullo &amp; Alex Fraser. Walk to Metrotown &amp; skytrain. Elevators recently refurbished. Building re-roofed &amp; re-piped. Low maintenance fee. Perfect to live in or invest. Sui te features insuite laundry &amp; semi-ensuite &amp; 2 large bdrms. Fantastic recreation facilities including racquetball courts &amp; large swirlpool. Spectacular outlooks from every room &amp; from the large balcony. Live-in caretaker. No pets. Rentals OK. <a href = "http://donkennedyrealtor.com/ViewBlog/308/">Read More</a>]]></description>

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						I just finished uploading this Condo for sale, 703 6540 BURLINGTON Avenue, Burnaby South, British Columbia<br />
						Breathtaking south east unobstructed vista of Deer Lake, Mount Baker, Patullo &amp; Alex Fraser. Walk to Metrotown &amp; skytrain. Elevators recently refurbished. Building re-roofed &amp; re-piped. Low maintenance fee. Perfect to live in or invest. Sui te features insuite laundry &amp; semi-ensuite &amp; 2 large bdrms. Fantastic recreation facilities including racquetball courts &amp; large swirlpool. Spectacular outlooks from every room &amp; from the large balcony. Live-in caretaker. No pets. Rentals OK. <a href = "http://donkennedyrealtor.com/ViewBlog/308/">Read More</a>
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		<title>The House Bunny</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category domain="Personal">Movie Review</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s tragically turfed from the Playboy Mansion by Hef himself before she can fulfill her longstanding dream of making centrefold (but don&rsquo;t worry, his octogenarian-ship isn&rsquo;t really that nasty save for subjecting us to his ability at acting). Shelley&rsquo;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 rival sorority and this scenario is ripe to plop into the Hollywood formula which has already been done successfully in movies like Accepted and unsuccessfully in movies like Van Wilder 2. This one falls somewhere in between but leaning a lot towards successful. Although Faris came up with the idea some pretty clever writers (Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith) fleshed out the screenplay while Faris delightfully fleshes out the screen. So even though some of the set ups are eye rolling clich&eacute;s the movie is saved by the supporting cast that includes Kat Dennings (a newcomer to watch) Rumer Willis and the continually impressive Emma Stone not the mention the on screen charm (and charms) of Faris herself. <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	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&rsquo;s tragically turfed from the Playboy Mansion by Hef himself before she can fulfill her longstanding dream of making centrefold (but don&rsquo;t worry, his octogenarian-ship isn&rsquo;t really that nasty save for subjecting us to his ability at acting). Shelley&rsquo;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 rival sorority and this scenario is ripe to plop into the Hollywood formula which has already been done successfully in movies like Accepted and unsuccessfully in movies like Van Wilder 2. This one falls somewhere in between but leaning a lot towards successful. Although Faris came up with the idea some pretty clever writers (Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith) fleshed out the screenplay while Faris delightfully fleshes out the screen. So even though some of the set ups are eye rolling clich&eacute;s the movie is saved by the supporting cast that includes Kat Dennings (a newcomer to watch) Rumer Willis and the continually impressive Emma Stone not the mention the on screen charm (and charms) of Faris herself. <br />
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		<title>Hamlet 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamlet 2, also known as &ldquo;Kiss Me Sexy Jesus&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;former&rdquo; industry having taken a nursing job in a fertility clinic which is frequented by Dana&rsquo;s wife Brie (Catherine Keener) as it seems Hollywood glory isn&rsquo;t his only misconception. That is just part of their woes as they&rsquo;ve had to take in the insufferable Gary (David Arquette) as a room mate just to make ends meet. Dana is also constantly raked over the coals by a pre teen critic whose reviews of student staging of box office hits are scathing and merciless. School budget cuts cause a needed infusion of drama students who unfortunately are less than enthusiastic. When the drama program falls under the axe drastic measures are called for prompting the staging of Dana&rsquo;s long simmering idea to Hamlet 2 &ndash; a musical which involves the Danish prince and Jesus hooking up via a time machine and affecting the survival of all the characters who die Before the curtain rises the first amendment is upheld thanks to the always hysterical Amy Pohler. Also stereotypes are rightly skewered and Brie does get pregnant but not in a good way and by the time the curtain falls Hamlet fans finally have something to laugh about. <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Hamlet 2, also known as &ldquo;Kiss Me Sexy Jesus&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;former&rdquo; industry having taken a nursing job in a fertility clinic which is frequented by Dana&rsquo;s wife Brie (Catherine Keener) as it seems Hollywood glory isn&rsquo;t his only misconception. That is just part of their woes as they&rsquo;ve had to take in the insufferable Gary (David Arquette) as a room mate just to make ends meet. Dana is also constantly raked over the coals by a pre teen critic whose reviews of student staging of box office hits are scathing and merciless. School budget cuts cause a needed infusion of drama students who unfortunately are less than enthusiastic. When the drama program falls under the axe drastic measures are called for prompting the staging of Dana&rsquo;s long simmering idea to Hamlet 2 &ndash; a musical which involves the Danish prince and Jesus hooking up via a time machine and affecting the survival of all the characters who die Before the curtain rises the first amendment is upheld thanks to the always hysterical Amy Pohler. Also stereotypes are rightly skewered and Brie does get pregnant but not in a good way and by the time the curtain falls Hamlet fans finally have something to laugh about. <br />
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		<title>Frozen River</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 with a first nations woman named Lila (Upham). Together they traffic human cargo across the St Lawrence River where it&rsquo;s bounded on both the US and Canadian sides by the Mohawk reserve. Frozen River was originally a short film by Courtney Hunt also starring Leo who her perfectly personifies the desperation and determination of her character who soon discovers what Lila already knows, that the money is only easy at first. The danger involved actually forces the two women to make difficult but possibly unselfish choices. <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	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 with a first nations woman named Lila (Upham). Together they traffic human cargo across the St Lawrence River where it&rsquo;s bounded on both the US and Canadian sides by the Mohawk reserve. Frozen River was originally a short film by Courtney Hunt also starring Leo who her perfectly personifies the desperation and determination of her character who soon discovers what Lila already knows, that the money is only easy at first. The danger involved actually forces the two women to make difficult but possibly unselfish choices. <br />
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		<title>The Longshots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 but the exercise proves cathartic for both parties especially when Jasmine shows definite prowess throwing a football. With encouragement from Curtis she joins the local boys rag tag football team where she rides the pine game after game until her one shot at quarterback starts the team on the road to the Pop Warner Superbowl. Clumsy dialogue aside this biopic with a lot of excitement associated with football flicks draws you in emotionally as Curtis seems to get his life back on track and Jasmine resolves issues of self esteem and abandonment. <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	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 but the exercise proves cathartic for both parties especially when Jasmine shows definite prowess throwing a football. With encouragement from Curtis she joins the local boys rag tag football team where she rides the pine game after game until her one shot at quarterback starts the team on the road to the Pop Warner Superbowl. Clumsy dialogue aside this biopic with a lot of excitement associated with football flicks draws you in emotionally as Curtis seems to get his life back on track and Jasmine resolves issues of self esteem and abandonment. <br />
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		<title>Tropic Thunder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &ldquo;Four Leaf&rdquo; 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 Stiller as Tug Speedman an action star on the wane, Jack Black in a shocking blonde buzz cut and Robert Downey, Jr as a fair haired Aussie playing an inner city black man (he nails both parts). In a departure, as Speedman&rsquo;s manager Matthew McConaughey playing Rick Peck is about the only one who doesn&rsquo;t go topless and that includes Tom Cruise although in his case it&rsquo;s because he&rsquo;s got a bald pate. Cruise plays Les Grossman, a flabby four eyed producer with a temper as short as Cruise himself. His apoplectic tirade over mismanagement causes the dressed down director (Steve Cogan) to try extreme method acting on his cast in a drastic attempt to pull up the quality of the production. He leaves his stars alone in the jungle where like their characters they have to fend for themselves. The jungle is teeming with drug lords armed to the teeth and every bit as dangerous as the Viet Cong. When Tug is captured his band of actor brothers comes to his rescue a la Tropic Thunder the book. <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	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. &ldquo;Four Leaf&rdquo; 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 Stiller as Tug Speedman an action star on the wane, Jack Black in a shocking blonde buzz cut and Robert Downey, Jr as a fair haired Aussie playing an inner city black man (he nails both parts). In a departure, as Speedman&rsquo;s manager Matthew McConaughey playing Rick Peck is about the only one who doesn&rsquo;t go topless and that includes Tom Cruise although in his case it&rsquo;s because he&rsquo;s got a bald pate. Cruise plays Les Grossman, a flabby four eyed producer with a temper as short as Cruise himself. His apoplectic tirade over mismanagement causes the dressed down director (Steve Cogan) to try extreme method acting on his cast in a drastic attempt to pull up the quality of the production. He leaves his stars alone in the jungle where like their characters they have to fend for themselves. The jungle is teeming with drug lords armed to the teeth and every bit as dangerous as the Viet Cong. When Tug is captured his band of actor brothers comes to his rescue a la Tropic Thunder the book. <br />
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		<title>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vicky Cristina Barcelona is not as you might think the name of someone so pretentious they insist on using every one of their names &ndash; it&rsquo;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&rsquo;s a wonder that they&rsquo;re friends at all. When Vicky&rsquo;s studies take her to Barcelona where she&rsquo;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&rsquo;t be stopped until he seduces both Vicky and Cristina. Much is made of Johannson (Woody Allen&rsquo;s new Diane Keaton) co starring with Pen&eacute;lope Cruz even though Cruz doesn&rsquo;t put in an appearance until about half way through the film. She plays Juan&rsquo;s hot blooded ex wife Maria Elena who he just can&rsquo;t let got of. She shows up just as things are getting cozy with Juan and Cristina which causes all of the friction that you might expect but unexpected is the relationship that blossoms while all three are under one roof. In Vicky Cristina Barcelona the actors don&rsquo;t seem to improvise as much which is a bit of a departure for Woody Allen. Either that or However Javier Bardem deserves another Oscar if they are improvising because that would make him the smoothest male seducer on the face of the planet. <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Vicky Cristina Barcelona is not as you might think the name of someone so pretentious they insist on using every one of their names &ndash; it&rsquo;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&rsquo;s a wonder that they&rsquo;re friends at all. When Vicky&rsquo;s studies take her to Barcelona where she&rsquo;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&rsquo;t be stopped until he seduces both Vicky and Cristina. Much is made of Johannson (Woody Allen&rsquo;s new Diane Keaton) co starring with Pen&eacute;lope Cruz even though Cruz doesn&rsquo;t put in an appearance until about half way through the film. She plays Juan&rsquo;s hot blooded ex wife Maria Elena who he just can&rsquo;t let got of. She shows up just as things are getting cozy with Juan and Cristina which causes all of the friction that you might expect but unexpected is the relationship that blossoms while all three are under one roof. In Vicky Cristina Barcelona the actors don&rsquo;t seem to improvise as much which is a bit of a departure for Woody Allen. Either that or However Javier Bardem deserves another Oscar if they are improvising because that would make him the smoothest male seducer on the face of the planet. <br />
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		<title>Bottle Shock </title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;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&rsquo;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 of unsophisticated but enthusiastic vintners who bottle some surprisingly sophisticated vino. He focuses particularly on Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) a cowboy in grape clothing whose hubris is his blessing and his curse. He and his hippy son Bo (Chris Pine) tend to have issues and his winery business is in a shambles. We don&rsquo;t know how much of the &ldquo;based on true events&rdquo; story on screen is actually true although there&rsquo;s not much guess work as to how this linear screenplay will end yet even with that the moment is uplifting. We do know for sure that there is a bottle of Barrett&rsquo;s 1976 wine in the Smithsonian and we also know for sure that Alan Rickman can make anything worth watching. <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	&nbsp;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&rsquo;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 of unsophisticated but enthusiastic vintners who bottle some surprisingly sophisticated vino. He focuses particularly on Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) a cowboy in grape clothing whose hubris is his blessing and his curse. He and his hippy son Bo (Chris Pine) tend to have issues and his winery business is in a shambles. We don&rsquo;t know how much of the &ldquo;based on true events&rdquo; story on screen is actually true although there&rsquo;s not much guess work as to how this linear screenplay will end yet even with that the moment is uplifting. We do know for sure that there is a bottle of Barrett&rsquo;s 1976 wine in the Smithsonian and we also know for sure that Alan Rickman can make anything worth watching. <br />
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		<title>Pineapple Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category domain="Personal">Movie Review</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 easily stepping back into comedy) lets his best customer in on the newly emerged pot strain which unbeknownst to them is the object of a drug war. When Dale serves papers to a scofflaw named Ted Jones (Gary Cole) he turns out to be one of the warring gang leaders and Dale inadvertently witnesses Ted taking out one of his rivals. The joint that he drops in his hasty exit from the scene of the crime leads the bad guys to Dale through Saul and his supplier &ldquo;Red&rdquo; (Danny R. McBride) and the chase is on. The humour is often so over the top that it&rsquo;s borderline morbid but clever one liners and comic subtleties are tossed off so quickly that Pineapple Express will probably see a lot of repeat business just to pick up parts missed the first time, not to mention further entrench Seth Rogan as a comedy god. <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 easily stepping back into comedy) lets his best customer in on the newly emerged pot strain which unbeknownst to them is the object of a drug war. When Dale serves papers to a scofflaw named Ted Jones (Gary Cole) he turns out to be one of the warring gang leaders and Dale inadvertently witnesses Ted taking out one of his rivals. The joint that he drops in his hasty exit from the scene of the crime leads the bad guys to Dale through Saul and his supplier &ldquo;Red&rdquo; (Danny R. McBride) and the chase is on. The humour is often so over the top that it&rsquo;s borderline morbid but clever one liners and comic subtleties are tossed off so quickly that Pineapple Express will probably see a lot of repeat business just to pick up parts missed the first time, not to mention further entrench Seth Rogan as a comedy god. <br />
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		<title>Amal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amal was an audience favourite at this year&#39;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 with G.K. Jayaram (Naseeruddin Shah) a wealthy entrepreneur spending his dying days trying to find redemption as he roams the streets dressed as a derelict. Jayaram&rsquo;s last wish is that Amal should inherit his fortune which touches off a city wide search for the mysterious rickshaw driver that is in turn being hampered by Jayaram&rsquo;s sons who stand to lose almost everything if Amal is found within 30 days. Amal is not only a tender story flanked by a gorgeous soundtrack but also a rich depiction of the emerging middle class as India rapidly develops as a nation. <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Amal was an audience favourite at this year&#39;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 with G.K. Jayaram (Naseeruddin Shah) a wealthy entrepreneur spending his dying days trying to find redemption as he roams the streets dressed as a derelict. Jayaram&rsquo;s last wish is that Amal should inherit his fortune which touches off a city wide search for the mysterious rickshaw driver that is in turn being hampered by Jayaram&rsquo;s sons who stand to lose almost everything if Amal is found within 30 days. Amal is not only a tender story flanked by a gorgeous soundtrack but also a rich depiction of the emerging middle class as India rapidly develops as a nation. <br />
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