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Bottle Shock

August 15th, 2008

Bottle Shock is the name given to the phenomenon when the character of wine is changed in transit over long distances. In 1976 the international character of wine was changed forever after a Parisian taste test that pitted French wine (the eternal standard of excellence) against the best from Napa Valley. Alan Rickman is Steven Spurrier, a British oenophile living in Paris but not financiall ...

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Pineapple Express

August 8th, 2008

Pineapple Express is metaphor used by every west coast meteorologist in reference to the moisture laden winds that originate around the Hawaiian Islands and condense as sheets of winter rain across the lower mainland. The term is probably a flashback to Seth Rogan’s hazy days at Point Grey secondary but here he tags the name on a potent strain of marijuana allegedly cultured by the army in th ...

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Amal

August 8th, 2008

Amal was an audience favourite at this year's Whistler Film Festival as well as Best Feature Film at the Victoria Film Festival. It was produced in part by Astral Media the parent company of 650 CISL. Amal Kumar (Rupinder Nagra) is an unorthodox auto rickshaw driver in New Delhi. While his fellow drivers do nothing to dispel their reputation as crooks Amal is courteous and fair to a fault wit ...

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American Teen

August 8th, 2008

American Teen takes us through the senior year of an American high school smack dab in the middle of a red state bible belt. Focussing on four 18 year olds in Warsaw Indiana this amazing documentary actually plays out like an insightfully written drama. In a word there’s a jock, geek, prom queen and misfit - none of whom is totally likeable although some are more charming than others. The qua ...

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Man on Wire

August 8th, 2008

Man on Wire was the improvised and amusing description on a 1974 New York City police report describing the nature of a disturbance cause by an arrested Parisian street performer. Philippe Petit was the culprit and the wire you see was stretched between the then brand new World Trade Towers. The arrest took over an hour as Petit was in no hurry to wrap up his adventure and the police were und ...

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A Secret

August 4th, 2008

A Secret is a drama told in flashbacks and starts in the 1950’s post war Paris where 9 year old Francois, the son of a champion swimmer mom and gymnast father, feels the disenchantment in his father’s heart at the boy’s physical limitations. Francois invents an imaginary older brother with all the attributes that he lacks. His hero increasingly becomes a real presence in his life which is une ...

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

August 1st, 2008

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a follow up to Brendan Fraser’s 1999 remake of the 1932 Boris Karloff classic and his subsequent 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns. Again Fraser is Rick O'Connell, now a retired gentleman in post war Oxfordshire sharing his country estate with his wife Evelyn (no longer Rachel Weitz but now Maria Bello who uses her excess leisure time to oversell a British ...

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Swing Vote

August 1st, 2008

Swing Vote solidifies Kevin Kostner as the new go-to-guy for the personification of rumpled. Here he’s known as Bud to everyone including his child. He’s a middle aged slacker and single father to Molly (the endearing Madeline Carroll who has an impressive resume for a 12 year old) in an arid small town with the unlikely name of Texaco New Mexico. The pre teen Molly is the Hollywood cliché ch ...

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STEP BROTHERS

July 24th, 2008

STEP BROTHERS is some more summertime silliness re-teaming Taladega Nights stars Will Farrell and John C. Reilly again portraying blithely vacuous characters under encore director Adam McKay. This time Farrell and Reilly are 40ish man-boys each enjoying his own hapless failure to launch. Farrell’s Brennan Huff lives with his mom Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) until she falls in love with Robert Dob ...

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THE WACKNESS

July 24th, 2008

THE WACKNESS takes us back to 1994’s New York as Rudi Giuliani embarked on turning the mean street into clean streets in the Big Apple. Josh Peck plays Luke, a confused high school senior spending his transition summer selling ganja from a modified ice cream vending unit to Central Park customers one of whom is Union played by Mary-Kate Olson (lets hope this sparks her appetite). Josh’s paren ...

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