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The Soloist

April 25th, 2009

The Soloist is a story based literally on today’s headlines, or at least by-lines if you want to get technical. Star Jamie Foxx will probably be remembered at the next far away award season for his portrayal of Nathaniel Ayers which will be a testament to his outstanding performance (yet another) a the child prodigy at Julliard poised to make a mark on the world with his cello until his brain ...

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Earth

April 25th, 2009

Earth is the premiere documentary released from Disneynature, the first new Disney-branded film label to be introduced in 60 years. This mash-up of absolutely stunning camera work seems to be in search of a theme, which it finds to a point. The spectacular natural beauty and savagery of our planet is in abundance although euphemistically expressed in the trite context of a human nuclear famil ...

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Tulpan

April 25th, 2009

Tulpan is a young woman in Kazakhstan who we never really get to see and whose role is minor yet significant. Asa is a young man back from a stint in the navy which is diametrically opposed to his barren landlocked home on the Kazakh Steppe. On his return he must share a tent with his sister and her nomadic family since he can not become a shepherd on his own – he must be married. Such is des ...

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State of Play

April 18th, 2009

State of Play is an American adaptation of a 6 part British TV mystery thriller. True to the original a high minded politician railing against government collusion with the private sector is suddenly thrust into a sex scandal. Looking suspiciously set up by his corporate adversaries his natural enemy, the press, come to his rescue. Ben Affleck is the straying US congressman Stephen Collins an ...

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17 Again

April 18th, 2009

17 Again takes us back to 1989 and introduces us to high school senior Mike O'Donnell (heart throb Zac Efron) who with the trophy girlfriend and basketball scholarship is all set for a bright future. The court lights dim quickly when his best girl Scarlett (Allison Miller) announces she’s pregnant and when he does the honourable thing college takes a back seat. Fast forward to the present and ...

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Sugar

April 18th, 2009

Sugar is about Miguel “Sugar” Santos (instantly endearing newcomer Algenis Perez Soto) a twenty year old from the Dominican Republic with a howitzer arm who dream of playing baseball in the USA. His dream seems at hand when he gets called up to a fictitious Midwestern double A team but gets pitched a dose of reality when faced with the competition of working up through the minors before makin ...

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Hannah Montana: The Movie

April 11th, 2009

Hannah Montana: The Movie successfully brings the Miley Cyrus ‘tween TV hit from Disney to the big screen in a typical inoffensive, happiest-place-on-earth manner. The Hannah Montana alter ego has altered the ego of Smiley Miley Stewart (Cyrus) who has started to believe her own hype so that the wig and make-up barely distinguish the two personae. It looks like the charade that allows Miley t ...

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Observe and Report

April 11th, 2009

Observe and Report has Vancouver’s Seth Rogen hopping down the gross-out trail again this Easter weekend as Ronnie Barnhardt, a man with no filters. He constantly laments the foot dragging by management to allow firearms for guards at the mall where he is head of security (which by the way gives you an idea of the calibre of his underlings if he represents a step up). He lives with his mother ...

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Two Lovers

April 11th, 2009

Two Lovers stars Joaquin Phoenix as Leonard Kraditor a timid Jewish New Yorker with an ability to make people laugh when he’s finally comfortable with them but who also carries a lot of pain that makes him prone to suicide. Despite this and living at home with his parents he has managed to capture the affections of two beautiful women. Sandra Cohen (Vinessa Shaw) is the daughter of a family b ...

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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

April 11th, 2009

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh stars relative newcomer Jon Foster as Art Bechstein and he holds his own surrounded by veterans Nick Nolte, Sienna Miller and Peter Sarsgaard. In the mid 80’s after getting a business degree, Art plans a mindless summer in a minimum wage job while taking a securities course so that he can parachute into a cushy job provided by his uncle. His dad (Nolte) runs a thri ...

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