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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

July 24th, 2008

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED brings the novel by Evelyn Waugh to the big screen - shorter but richer that the 1981 serialized TV version. Brideshead is a palatial English country estate which is a touchstone for our protagonist Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) but for its heirs it’s a prison and if it had a warden that would be Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson) the family matriarch. Working class Charles i ...

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THE LAST MISTRESS

July 24th, 2008

THE LAST MISTRESS is adapted from a controversial 1851 Novel Central to the story is Ryno de Marigny (newcomer Fu'ad Ait Aattou who is much too pretty for a guy) and Vellini his lover of 10 years portrayed by veteran Italian actress Asia Argento - clearly the more macho of the two until seen unclad which becomes more and more frequent as the film progresses. We meet Ryno in 1835’s Paris as it ...

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JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER

July 24th, 2008

JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER resurrects Robert Englund but not as Freddy Kruger. This time he’s a kindly chemistry professor but hey, this is Robert Englund so you know eventually he’s going to get ugly and dangerous. In a departure from the recent horror film trend towards gory torture this movie relies on good old fashioned gross outs peppered with dark humour. Jack Brooks (Trevor Matthews) ...

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JUST BURIED

July 24th, 2008

JUST BURIED stars Montrealer Jay Baruchel as Oliver Zinc, a reluctant mortician after he surprised to inherit a small town funeral home from his estranged father. He soon finds out from the morgue’s handyman Henry (Graham Greene) that the only thing dying in town is Oliver’s newly acquired business venture. Dad also left behind a young widow whose overactive libido also transfers from father ...

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The Dark Knight

July 19th, 2008

The Dark Knight is possibly the darkest Batman movie, yet at the same time possibly the most humorous (in a creepy way) thanks in large part to the late Heath Ledger. Almost lost in his unending hijacking of on screen attention is the stellar work of Christian Bale who continues to be the most outstanding actor to slip into a bat cowl. The underworld in Gotham City is crumbling thanks to the ...

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Mamma Mia!

July 19th, 2008

Mamma Mia! Is fluffy musical summer popcorn fun that dodges its potential to be abysmal with the amazing performance of Meryl Streep. As Donna she effortlessly wears the mantle of a gracefully aging free spirit as easily as she personifies haughty sophistication in a number of other outstanding roles – but who knew she could sing so well? Her version of Winner Takes It All is a show stopper ...

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Savage Grace

July 19th, 2008

Savage Grace is an uncomfortable biopic starting in 1946 and spanning the next 28 years in the social stratosphere surrounding the lives of the Baekeland family, heirs to the Bakelite plastics fortune. 1946 is the year that Tony is born to Brooks (Stephen Dillane) and his trophy wife Barbara Daly (an outstanding Julianne Moore). In later life Tony is played with detached confusion by Eddie Re ...

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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Mr. Hunter S. Thompson

July 19th, 2008

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Mr. Hunter S. Thompson is a revealing look at the journalistic juggernaut only touched on in the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where Johnny Depp played a Thompson-esque character. Depp appears frequently in this documentary either in snippets from that movie or reciting choice selections of Thompson’s brilliant prose. Among other famous talking heads are Jim ...

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

July 11th, 2008

Hellboy II: The Golden Army brings back Ron Perlman as the demonic red and ripped cigar, beer and cat fancier with a bad temper. He’s still in the employ of the BPRD (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defence) and still subordinate (but just barely) to Tom Manning (Jeffrey Tambor) as well as a new character the mist-ic mystic Johann Krauss (James Dodd). Doug Jones as the aquaman-ish Abe Sapie ...

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Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D

July 11th, 2008

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D is definitely NOT a remake of the 1959 film starring Pat Boone. Here the premise makes the Jules Verne classic a road map for some modern day “Vernians” – people who believe that the 19th century novel is actually fact based. Our Heroes start out sceptical lead by Trevor Anderson (sometimes Canadian Brendan Fraser) a less than distinguished professor whos ...

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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

THE LAST MISTRESS

JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER

JUST BURIED

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Mamma Mia!

Savage Grace

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Mr. Hunter S. Thompson

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D

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