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Before the Rains

July 11th, 2008

Before the Rains has colonial arrogance as its theme. A spice merchant in 1930’s India gambles everything on building a road to tangy riches and puts it all in jeopardy by carrying on an affair with a married village woman. His greed causes him to double cross his staunchest ally and puts his own life and the lives of his family in peril.

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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

July 4th, 2008

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl stars Little Miss Sunshine Abigail Breslin as a precocious 1930’s preteen wannabe journalist. With Toronto standing in for Cincinnati we see Kit’s middle class utopia shattered by the realities of the depression when her father’s car lot goes under and dad (Chris O'Donnell) is forced to seek work in Chicago. Kit and her golden hearted mother (Julia Ormond) are ...

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The Promotion

July 4th, 2008

The Promotion stars Seann William Scott who gradually continues to shuck off his American Pie Stickler persona. Still he remains synonymous with comedy and this time plays Doug Stauber the assistant manager of a Chicago grocery chain store who seems poised to be promoted to manager of the new store under construction until a new guy transferred from a Canadian subsidiary puts his rubber stam ...

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Priceless

July 4th, 2008

Priceless is a romantic comedy juxtaposed against one of the worlds most romantic backdrops, the south of France. In a luxury hotel a bartender named Jean (Gad Elmaleh) is mistaken in his tuxedo for a man of means by Irene (Audrey Tautou who has definitely shaken off any De Vinci Code Dowdiness). After a passionate interlude she quickly dumps him when she literally wakes up to realize his sta ...

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Brick Lane

July 4th, 2008

Brick Lane brings Monica Ali's acclaimed novel to life although Brick Wall might be a more appropriate title as that is what Nazeem the main character seems to constantly be up against. Her carefree preteen life in Islamic Bangladesh abruptly come to an end with her mothers depression fuelled suicide and only a few years after that she’s uprooted into an arranged marriage with a self professe ...

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Encounters at the End of the World

July 4th, 2008

Encounters at the End of the World is a documentary about Antarctica by Werner Herzog, a great director but unlikely narrator who from the outset insists that he wasn’t out to make another Penguin movie. Instead we are introduced to an odd set of creatures of the human kind who for a variety of reasons make the most desolate place on earth home. Through often stunning cinematography above and ...

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Wanted

June 27th, 2008

Wanted brings us up to speed (and the speed is furious!) with a millennium old group of assassins called “The Fraternity” whose members do their jobs without question and whose roots are literally a fabrication as the originators were fabric weavers. Initially we’re introduced to the unsuspecting next generation of these kinsmen who doesn’t seem all that dangerous as he has trouble killing an ...

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Hancock

June 27th, 2008

Hancock brings back the Fresh Prince with a fresh take on the super hero as he doesn’t hole up in some lair inventing impervious outerwear or suffer some kind of mutation originating here or on another planet. He’s more the super hero with human problems - and nothing so mundane as girlfriend trouble or financially making ends meet. Will Smith is Hancock who is bullet proof and can fly and ev ...

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Get Smart

June 19th, 2008

Get Smart is a somewhat incongruous screen adaptation for those who remember the wildly popular 60’s television spy spoof of the same name. Although set in the post cold war world of today, here Maxwell Smart has not yet achieved Agent status since he’s such a crack researcher for his agency CONTROL and thus too valuable to promote. However when KAOS manages to compromise every last global CO ...

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The Incredible Hulk

June 13th, 2008

The Incredible Hulk takes up where 2003’s Hulk left off- sort of. Dr. Bruce Banner’s alienation is a different story told quickly over the opening credits. We catch up with him hiding in Brazil working on anger management and trying to come up with an antidote to his problem using the flora and fauna of the Amazon with on line assistance from an anonymous biology geek stateside. When some key ...

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