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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

August 15th, 2010

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World stars Canada’s Michael Cera who does a subtle stretch in acting style to inch past the terminally virginal alter ego he’s constantly cast to play. Scott Pilgrim is a 23 year old slacker who at least appears to have had some success with women even if the relationships all ended badly. Cera must have been thrilled to be set in his actual home town of Toronto where h ...

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Eat Pray Love

August 15th, 2010

Eat Pray Love would be an enthralling but a little far fetched romantic novel - if it were fiction. However it’s actually the memoirs based on a year in the life of author Elizabeth Gilbert which dominated the New York Times best seller list for years. At 32 New York starts to feel surprisingly small with her ex husband Stephen (Billy Crudup) and fading boy-toy David Piccolo (James Franco) st ...

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Animal Kingdom

August 15th, 2010

Animal Kingdom is a tense Aussie underworld flick that takes place on the mean streets of Melbourne (why does that just sound odd?). Joshua 'J' Cody (James Frecheville) at eighteen is a bit slow so when his junkie mother OD’s he’s really at a loss. Although estranged he calls the only help he can think of - his grandmother Janine (Jacki Weaver) who is affectionately called Smurf and looks eve ...

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The Other Guys

August 8th, 2010

The Other Guys are what they call third string paper pushers in the NYPD, diametrically opposed to the precinct heroes. In the New York precinct where P.K. Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) and Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) are kingpins, Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) are very much the other guys and they get zero respect. In the case of Hoitz who was an up and ...

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Step Up 3D

August 8th, 2010

Step Up 3D has dynamic narrative but third rate choreography – NOT! No longer centered in Baltimore this unnecessary outing in even more unnecessary 3D has the action moves to New York City. Moose (Adam G. Sevani) from Step Up 2: The Streets and Camille (Alyson Stoner) from the original Step Up movie are the only vaguely familiar principles but who knew they were an item (albeit platonic) thr ...

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Get Low

August 8th, 2010

Get Low is a backwoods colloquialism for putting ones affairs in order before casting off this mortal coil. Here the backwoods is in 1930’s Tennessee and feeing it’s time to get low is Felix Bush (an almost unrecognizable Robert Duvall) a recluse with a reputed short fuse. The film is based on a true event of a hillbilly hermit buying himself a fancy funeral that he wants to attend while stil ...

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Dinner for Schmucks

August 1st, 2010

Dinner for Schmucks is based on the 1998 French film The Dinner Game. Tim (Paul Rudd) is making impressive jumps up the corporate ladder despite backstabbing by jealous co workers. He learns that he can really cinch that corner office by landing one perfect client – the most outstanding idiot as designated by his boss Lance Fender (Vancouver's Bruce Greenwood) when brought as a guest to one o ...

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Charlie St. Cloud

August 1st, 2010

Charlie St. Cloud is a teen romance flick starring Zac Efron. As a high school senior he’s poised to escape from his cloistered home town thanks to a sailing scholarship (say what?) when his life gets put on hold with the untimely death of his eleven year old brother Sam (sparky but believable Charlie Tahan). Instead of college he takes a job as groundskeeper at a local cemetery so that he ca ...

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Salt

July 25th, 2010

Salt stars Angelina Jolie as CIA operative Evelyn Salt who is accused by a Russian defector of being a mole for the former Soviet Union. She takes off using all of her spy chops to elude former colleagues, not the least of which is Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber) the one person who speaks out on her behalf. While she’s not only on the lam but also trying to rescue her kidnapped husband we learn t ...

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Solitary Man

July 25th, 2010

Solitary Man stars Michael Douglas as Ben Kalmen an almost sexagenarian skirt chasing scoundrel with a spotty EKG – which at least proves that he does have a heart. While bedding a litany of females who are at most half his age he spends his life emotionally sabotaging the relationships he has with those who refuse to stop loving him. That includes his friend of 35 years Jimmy Merino (Danny ...

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