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Savage Grace

July 19th, 2008

Savage Grace is an uncomfortable biopic starting in 1946 and spanning the next 28 years in the social stratosphere surrounding the lives of the Baekeland family, heirs to the Bakelite plastics fortune. 1946 is the year that Tony is born to Brooks (Stephen Dillane) and his trophy wife Barbara Daly (an outstanding Julianne Moore). In later life Tony is played with detached confusion by Eddie Re ...

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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Mr. Hunter S. Thompson

July 19th, 2008

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Mr. Hunter S. Thompson is a revealing look at the journalistic juggernaut only touched on in the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where Johnny Depp played a Thompson-esque character. Depp appears frequently in this documentary either in snippets from that movie or reciting choice selections of Thompson’s brilliant prose. Among other famous talking heads are Jim ...

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

July 11th, 2008

Hellboy II: The Golden Army brings back Ron Perlman as the demonic red and ripped cigar, beer and cat fancier with a bad temper. He’s still in the employ of the BPRD (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defence) and still subordinate (but just barely) to Tom Manning (Jeffrey Tambor) as well as a new character the mist-ic mystic Johann Krauss (James Dodd). Doug Jones as the aquaman-ish Abe Sapie ...

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Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D

July 11th, 2008

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D is definitely NOT a remake of the 1959 film starring Pat Boone. Here the premise makes the Jules Verne classic a road map for some modern day “Vernians” – people who believe that the 19th century novel is actually fact based. Our Heroes start out sceptical lead by Trevor Anderson (sometimes Canadian Brendan Fraser) a less than distinguished professor whos ...

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Before the Rains

July 11th, 2008

Before the Rains has colonial arrogance as its theme. A spice merchant in 1930’s India gambles everything on building a road to tangy riches and puts it all in jeopardy by carrying on an affair with a married village woman. His greed causes him to double cross his staunchest ally and puts his own life and the lives of his family in peril.

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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

July 4th, 2008

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl stars Little Miss Sunshine Abigail Breslin as a precocious 1930’s preteen wannabe journalist. With Toronto standing in for Cincinnati we see Kit’s middle class utopia shattered by the realities of the depression when her father’s car lot goes under and dad (Chris O'Donnell) is forced to seek work in Chicago. Kit and her golden hearted mother (Julia Ormond) are ...

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The Promotion

July 4th, 2008

The Promotion stars Seann William Scott who gradually continues to shuck off his American Pie Stickler persona. Still he remains synonymous with comedy and this time plays Doug Stauber the assistant manager of a Chicago grocery chain store who seems poised to be promoted to manager of the new store under construction until a new guy transferred from a Canadian subsidiary puts his rubber stam ...

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Priceless

July 4th, 2008

Priceless is a romantic comedy juxtaposed against one of the worlds most romantic backdrops, the south of France. In a luxury hotel a bartender named Jean (Gad Elmaleh) is mistaken in his tuxedo for a man of means by Irene (Audrey Tautou who has definitely shaken off any De Vinci Code Dowdiness). After a passionate interlude she quickly dumps him when she literally wakes up to realize his sta ...

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Brick Lane

July 4th, 2008

Brick Lane brings Monica Ali's acclaimed novel to life although Brick Wall might be a more appropriate title as that is what Nazeem the main character seems to constantly be up against. Her carefree preteen life in Islamic Bangladesh abruptly come to an end with her mothers depression fuelled suicide and only a few years after that she’s uprooted into an arranged marriage with a self professe ...

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Encounters at the End of the World

July 4th, 2008

Encounters at the End of the World is a documentary about Antarctica by Werner Herzog, a great director but unlikely narrator who from the outset insists that he wasn’t out to make another Penguin movie. Instead we are introduced to an odd set of creatures of the human kind who for a variety of reasons make the most desolate place on earth home. Through often stunning cinematography above and ...

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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Mr. Hunter S. Thompson

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

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