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Lakeview Terrace

September 20th, 2008

Lakeview Terrace is the name of a suburban Californian cul-de-sac where Chris (Patrick Wilson) and Lisa (Kerry Washington) Mattson, a young inter racial Chicago couple become first time buyers. Abel Turner ( Samuel L. Jackson) is the guy next door who happens to be one of LAPD’s finest. To his fellow cops he’s a father figure, to the rest of the neighbourhood he’s a guardian angel but Chris a ...

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GhostTown

September 20th, 2008

GhostTown is a rib tickling take on the old “I see dead people” cliché. Britain’s Ricky Gervais brings his “brilliant” subtle sarcasm to the role of Bertram Pincus, a transplanted New York dentist with an uber anal personality who ironically runs into trouble during a colonoscopy. Foregoing a local and electing for a general anaesthetic the worst that can happen does happen and he dies briefl ...

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Igor

September 20th, 2008

Igor is an animated family treat set in the gloomy kingdom of Malaria – aptly named since there is something bad in the air that has turned the sky dark. Under perpetual heavy storm clouds nothing much grows or prospers save for an over abundance of humps on the backs of a litany of unlucky individuals. As it turns out they are much in demand because this one industry kingdom survives by attr ...

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Blindness

September 20th, 2008

Blindness focuses on dwellers of an anonymous city (Guelph Ontario) that after casual contact with one another are stricken by an unexplainable loss of vision and all of a sudden it’s Lord of the Flies time. Mark Ruffalo plays one of the characters all of whom are deliberately nameless. He’s an optometrist who treats the first person stricken by the contagious sightlessness that plunges its v ...

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I Served the King of England

September 20th, 2008

I Served the King of England is not the boast that the protagonist of this pre and post Nazi Czech comedy. He is Jan Díte played as a younger opportunist by Ivan Barnev and by Oldrich Kaiser in his reflective twilight years. Our hero aspires to be in that class but never seems to have the moral fibre. Jan was a long time protégé of a maitre‘d at Prague’s prestigious Hotel Paris who was a roya ...

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Girls Rock!

September 20th, 2008

Girls Rock! Treats us to a week long school of rock without Jack Black but with twice the insecurities. Portland Oregon is headquarters for this seven day camp that draws young women from pre teen to late adolescence regardless of musical ability (usually minimal). In their few days together some eighty to ninety girls form bands based on music genres, learn rudimentary musicianship and write ...

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Burn After Reading

September 13th, 2008

Burn After Reading is the latest production from last years Oscar winning Coen brothers and it looks like they’re going for gold again. A big slice of Hollywood’s A-list got to sink their acting chops into some very beefy roles. John Malkovich is Osborne Cox, A Langley researcher for the CIA with a short fuse and a five thousand word vocabulary that diminishes to a select group involving fou ...

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Righteous Kill

September 13th, 2008

Righteous Kill is a gritty New York crime drama starring two big apple fixtures not to mention movie star legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Even though both seem a little jowly to still be packing a badge for the NYPD instead of collecting a pension they both bring their A game to a couple of dirty cop characters. Turk (De Niro) has a hair trigger temperament but is very obliging when it ...

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The Women

September 13th, 2008

The Women could not be more aptly named since aside from one infant there is never even an ounce of testosterone on screen - although Annette Bening’s character Sylvia Fowler appears to have a fair amount of it coursing through her veins along with a quantity of ice water. Even with the magic of hair, make-up and lighting that does give her an alluring look, there still seems to be too big of ...

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The Edge of Heaven

September 5th, 2008

The Edge of Heaven has a litany of near misses that could have prevented tragedy if only connections had been made in this ping pong game of life between Munich and Istanbul. Intricately interwoven are the lives of Ali an expatiate Turk pensioner living in Germany who turns out to be far less benign than at first glance. Yeter is the prostitute that he hires to live with him. She thinks that ...

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