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Fast and Furious

April 5th, 2009

Fast and Furious not only describes the expected action but also the speed with which producers have re-issued new instalments of this franchise. This is the fourth since 2001 which really doesn’t allow for a lot of lag time between productions. This series has to be the best thing to happen to the career of Vin Diesel. Although he was absent from the middle two films he’s part of the complet ...

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Fanboys

April 5th, 2009

Fanboys takes a comic deep dip into the ultimate in geekdom i.e. rabid fans of Star Wars and Star Trek. If you get nothing else from this romp you’ll walk away knowing there is no honour among these terminal virgins. Hapless Star Wars fans have no use for Trekkies (now preferring to be called the less offensive Trekkers) and the feeling is mutual. With countdown clocks set to tick off the day ...

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Gomorrah

April 5th, 2009

Gomorrah along with Sodom are biblical cities synonymous with unrepentant sin. While Sodom traditionally gets top billing, here the second banana stands alone because it sounds so much like Camorra, an organization definitely defined by unrepentant sin. The Camorra is the pervasive crime syndicate that has been engrained into the daily fabric of life in Italy around Naples and Caserta and the ...

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Crossing Over

March 28th, 2009

Crossing Over is the first really worthwhile Hollywood drama of 2009. In a series of vignettes that eventually all interlock we’re introduced to Max Brogan (Harrison Ford) a jaded but thorough California immigration officer who uncharacteristically helps Mireya Sanchez (Alice Braga) a Mexican alien whose young son is left stranded following her arrest. After returning the lad to his grandpare ...

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Sunshine Cleaning

March 28th, 2009

Sunshine Cleaning has the feel (but with much less charm) of the similarly monikered Little Miss Sunshine right down to casting Alan Arkin in a supporting role as the family patriarch. Here he’s Joe Lorkowski a semi-retired low level hustler living in Albuquerque and the father of two grown thirtysomething daughters. There’s the lost cause Norah (Emily Blunt) and the more grounded Rose (Amy A ...

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I Love You, Man

March 21st, 2009

I Love You, Man follows the well trodden Hollywood formula to a tee but with a surprisingly fresh and original theme. Paul Rudd is Peter Klaven an L.A. Realtor engaged to Zooey (Rashida Jones) and a man with big developer plans as soon as he sells his ace listing, the somewhat gaudy home of Lou Ferrigno (playing himself). A bevy of tight friends surrounding his intended comprised of Hailey ( ...

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Duplicity

March 21st, 2009

Duplicity has Julia Roberts and Clive Owen who are both pretty good (and pretty) in a caper flick that unfolds like Mr and Mrs Smith meet Ocean’s 11. Owen seems to be the go to guy for spooks having trouble holding down a spy gig because like in the recent (and also underachieving) International he plays an ex-MI6 agent named Ray Koval who years ago while with the agency was burned in the fie ...

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Knowing

March 21st, 2009

Knowing is what you should do better prior to entering a Nicolas Cage movie as normally with him you can expect a hairpiece as obnoxious as the film it appears in. There’s no exception here other than it starts with some unpredictable promise. Cage plays John Koestler a hard drinking physics prof but attentive single father to his pre-teen son Caleb (Chandler Canterbury, annoying at first but ...

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Miss March

March 14th, 2009

Miss March is the first big screen project for "The Whitest Kids U Know", internet darlings who managed to wangle their own cable network show of sketch comedy. Actually only two fifths of the comedy troop are represented, Trevor Moore who is like Emu Phillips after 25 espressos playing Tucker Cleigh a Playboy magazine loving horn dog whose best friend forever is Eugene Bell played by Zach Cr ...

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Race to Witch Mountain

March 14th, 2009

Race to Witch Mountain is a fantastic non stop chase, and having a mountain as the final destination it ironically stars The Rock (Dwayne Johnson). He’s Jack Bruno, a Vegas cabbie trying to get on the straight and narrow after doing a stretch for his work providing muscle and being a wheel man for a local mob boss. Too bad his old boss isn’t ready for him to retire. Life really gets complicat ...

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