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Adam

August 16th, 2009

Adam is Adam Raki (Hugh Dancy), A New York Asperger's Syndrome savant with a maximum education and minimum social skills. He’s orphaned at 29 when his father dies which for most men would be no problem but Adam is left virtually rudderless. Thankfully his father’s surviving army buddy Harlan (Frankie Faison) is there for support but he can only do so much. More help arrives (although bewilder ...

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Julie and Julia

August 9th, 2009

Julie and Julia reunites last years Oscar nominees for Doubt Amy Adams and Meryl Streep – sort of. They never actually share the screen together because they’re living in dimensions 50 years apart but connected by a love of French Cuisine. Julia (Streep) is legendary TV gourmet chef Julia Child while Julie (Adams) is Julie Powell, a thirtysomething woman trapped in a stressful post 9-11 job. ...

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A Perfect Getaway

August 9th, 2009

A Perfect Getaway starts with a clever double entendre for a title and keeps the double talk coming right through to its twisted ending. In a corner of that paradise known as Hawaii two newlyweds Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) are honeymooning in the 50th state and elect to take an overnight hike to a pristine but secluded beach. On the way they meet a couple of couples, one n ...

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Soul Power

August 9th, 2009

Soul Power documents an important part of rock music’s chronology that amazingly has been shelved for 35 years and only came to light when researchers were looking for footage for the 1996 documentary When We Were Kings. In 1974 Don King wasn’t the oily, obnoxious crook many today claim him to be but a promoter with the genius and vision to combine a heavyweight title fight and music festival ...

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Thirst

August 9th, 2009

Thirst is kind of a Korean True Blood, the hit HBO vampire series but you’d never guess it during the first half hour of the movie. Sang-hyeon (Kang-ho Song) a troubled priest in the largely non catholic Korean peninsula. His faith is self defeating as it lacks the miraculous power that he envisioned having as a man of the cloth. After nihilistically volunteering to act as a human guinea pig ...

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Funny People

August 1st, 2009

Funny People indeed has a lot of funny people, most of them playing themselves like Paul Reiser, Norm MacDonald, Sarah Silverman, Ray Romano – pretty much anyone in stand-up comedy who doesn’t have a picture deal right now – even James Taylor not known for any sense of humour at all is pretty funny here. These real comedians are fictitious contemporaries of George Simmons played by Adam San ...

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Fifty Dead Men Walking

August 1st, 2009

Fifty Dead Men Walking brings back the excellent Across the Universe star Jim Sturgess in a markedly different role (even though he does “sing” so to speak) but again one from a different generation. Here he becomes Martin McGartland, a Belfast delinquent thanks in large part to the sectarian segregation that brought about the class struggle so incongruous to the rest of the world that smoul ...

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The Stoning of Soraya M.

August 1st, 2009

The Stoning of Soraya M. is an infuriating film. That it is based on a true story is completely galling. In the mid 80’s Iran had settled into a theocracy where mullahs were the law. Soraya (Mozhan Marnò) the mother of four in a rocky, remote village is trapped in a loveless marriage. Her abusive husband Ali (played with soulless gravity by Navid Negahban) wants to divorce her and marry a 14 ...

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G Force

July 26th, 2009

G Force is the latest Disney offering where the G stands for Guinea Pigs – three to be exact Juarez (Penélope Cruz), Bucky (Steve Buscemi) and the scene stealing Blaster (Tracy Morgan) with one more named Hurley (Jon Favreau) to be added later. In a 3-D mix of CGI rodents and live actors, they’ve been assembled by scientists Ben (Zach Galifianakis) and Marcie (Kelli Garner) as a crack cove ...

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Orphan

July 26th, 2009

Orphan, not to be confused with he chilling 2007 offering The Orphanage, is laughably predictable. This was clearly fortified by the audience laughter experienced while watching this well constructed string of clichés. In a strong performance Vera Farmiga is Kate Coleman a fragile recovering alcoholic who feels the need to fill the void left by a still born child even with two subsequent well ...

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