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Step Up 2 The Streets

February 16th, 2008

Step Up 2 The Streets is a sequel of sorts to 2006’s Step Up but isn’t a step up at all. Meantime veiled in all the fancy footwork is the same race plagiarism that has stretched from Elvis to Eminem and includes the Stones and The Beatles. I’m talking about predominantly white people taking a predominantly black art form and without improving on it, have more success with it. Briana Evigan ...

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Normal

February 12th, 2008

Normal was filmed on Southern Vancouver Island with Oak Bay standing in for any upscale seaside WASP ghetto that you might want to name. A cast of local a-list actors portray an ensemble of characters that seem to be unrelated but actually have a teen vehicular fatality in common. Oh yeah, and not one of them is anywhere near normal. Matrix star Carrie-Anne Moss is an obsessive compulsive mom ...

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Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show

February 12th, 2008

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show is really Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show 30 Days and 30 Nights, Hollywood to the Hinterland. It was actually filmed in 2005 and maybe it took so long to get released because it takes a little over a year to say the full title. Actually it took that long to edit the movie out of 600 hours of footage but the title says it all as The Wedding Crasher sta ...

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In Bruges

February 12th, 2008

In Bruges takes place in a Belgian town famous for medieval architecture. Two Irish hit men find themselves there on the lam having just capped a priest on a job that went terribly wrong for Harry, their London boss played by Ralph Fiennes. Colin Farrell is Ray the pugnacious gunman who will duke it out with absolutely anyone be it women, dwarfs or Canadians. Ken the other more refined trig ...

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Fool's Gold

February 12th, 2008

Fool's Gold is a comedy adventure about treasure hunting. That explains the gold part but the fools part may refer to otherwise venerable actors who here mistakenly believe they’re pulling off convincing foreign accents. Donald Sutherland comes up short doing a haughty British lilt while Britain’s Ray Winstone who did sound American in last years Oscar winner The Departed can’t master a south ...

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Love and Other Dilemmas

February 1st, 2008

Love and Other Dilemmas apparently had its biggest dilemma regarding the decision on when to release this goofball comedy since it’s a 2006 movie. You’ll recognize locations in East Vancouver and most of the cast from Corner Gas in this story of Ginger Shapiro (played with some intensely comic moments by Gabrielle Miller) who tries to lift the curse of the last three generations of her family ...

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They Wait

February 1st, 2008

They Wait is a supernatural suspense thriller based on Chinese superstition. With Feng Shui and other oriental beliefs having a moderating influence in Vancouver life it’s a natural that the story is obviously set in our city although it’s never acknowledged as anything other than The Pacific Northwest. Jaime King (Goldie in Sin City) plays Sarah who is married to Jason (Edmonton’s Terry Chen ...

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Poor Boy's Game

February 1st, 2008

Poor Boy's Game is yet another boxing film this time set in Halifax against a backdrop of prejudice that we like to believe doesn’t exist in this country. Joining an adept group of Canadian actors is Danny Glover as George, the dockworker father of Charles, a severely brain damaged son. Suspending disbelief that any minor in Canada would serve anywhere near 10 years incarcerated for anything, ...

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Over Her Dead Body

February 1st, 2008

Over Her Dead Body stars Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria Parker. Marriage may have made her name longer but this movie won’t do the same for her career. In a role that’s nothing to trumpet about she plays Kate, basically the same character we see as Gabrielle Solis who dies after a ridiculous ice sculpture mishap on her wedding day. Kate’s A-type personality rubs the pearly gate greeter the ...

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One Missed Call

January 25th, 2008

One Missed Call is the readout on the cell phone of a select few co-eds. Impossibly the message is dated some time in the future and when the message is retrieved it’s the wireless owner saying the last few words at her untimely death. Shannyn Sossamon is Beth Raymond who gets more and more creeped out as the messages seem to be making a daisy chain around her My5 local plan. After she witnes ...

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Step Up 2 The Streets

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In Bruges

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