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When Did You Last See Your Father?

June 13th, 2008

When Did You Last See Your Father? is the true story from author Blake Morrison played by Colin Firth which takes us from his childhood in the 50’s to the present day. From his perspective his father Arthur played perfectly by Jim Broadbent (currently on screen in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) was a verbose, slightly larcenous and lascivious bully but on the whole we ge ...

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Young People

June 13th, 2008

Young People F***ing is a Toronto filmed comedy featuring mostly Vancouver actors. Yes there are young people and the “F” verb is involved but what is really highlighted is the verbal intercourse surrounding “the act” as engaged in by five couples – actually that’s 4 couples and a threesome of two room mates and one girlfriend. The others are two on a first date, two exes who can’t let go, a ...

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Kung Fu Panda

June 6th, 2008

Kung Fu Panda is something to be expected over the course of a summer movie season which is an animated blockbuster voiced by a stable of Hollywood A-listers with a question mark hanging over it – is it clever enough to captivate and entertain young and old alike? In what seems like a stretch to incorporate lots of action and perhaps ride the coat tails of China’s Olympic Games this film take ...

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You Don't Mess With the Zohan

June 6th, 2008

You Don't Mess With the Zohan is the latest offering from Adam Sandler who has the propensity to either rock or suck – more often the latter. Co-writing here is Judd Apitow who currently can do no wrong (OK he gets a Mulligan for producing the sorta lame Drillbit Taylor). The result is an up tick for Sandler but with the Sandlerization of his work a bit of a come down for Apitow. Sandler is ...

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Silent Light

June 6th, 2008

Silent Light is an odd yet insightful and masterfully photographed bit of cinema. With an incongruous juxtaposing we have a Mennonite community in Chihuahua Mexico where I’m startled to find they get snow in the winter these days. The cast are less actors than actual Mennonites playing their parts while speaking their own hybrid language but religion is completely out of the picture. In fact ...

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Sex and the City

May 30th, 2008

Sex and the City brings that hugely popular cable TV show to the silver screen. It’s been 5 years and just like that we’re re-united with the fab four as if no time has passed at all. Like their audience however they too are dealing with separation anxiety as Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) continues to have sex in the Big Apple with Mr Big, Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) is in New Yor ...

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The Strangers

May 30th, 2008

The Strangers provides a fairly meaty part for Liv Tyler who up until now has done pretty well in roles that don’t challenge her to stretch. Here she rises to the occasion but what will live after the fallout - her career or just her first name? She plays Kristen McKay who dashes the hopes of her boyfriend James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) with a cool reception to his marriage proposal staged at hi ...

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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

May 30th, 2008

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation has little to do with 12 months of visiting theme parks and KOA campgrounds. This sweet Brazilian heart warmer takes us back to 1970 when that country was going for its third World Cup just as her military rulers were cracking down on socialists. Michael Joelsas plays Mauro a boy with an angelic face but full of 10 year old mischief whose left wing parents ...

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

May 23rd, 2008

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull truly does justice to the franchise as it catches us up with the whip smart fedora fancier two decades after his last known adventure. We join Indy in 1957 authentically revisited via a variety of cold war paranoia like the red menace, A-bomb tests, Roswell and area 51. A crystal skull with other worldly properties becomes the prize for Irina ...

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Postal

May 23rd, 2008

Postal is a filmed in Cloverdale comedy based on a violent video game. Director Ewe Boll who the critics have not been kind to of late was inspired (or uninspired to be accurate) to bring the game to the silver screen causing the critics to undoubtedly go “postal” on him again. Toronto’s Zack Ward is our unemployed trailer trash postal dude who turns to his uncle Dave for help. Dave (Dave Fol ...

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