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Going the Distance

September 5th, 2010

Going the Distance is about Erin (Drew Barrymore) and Garrett (Justin Long) who hook up for a New York one nighter that turns out to be a care free summer fling that should have ended when Erin headed back to fall semester in California. Turns out neither wants the affair to end so a bi-coastal love affair ensues with all the typical frustrations. It doesn’t help that Erin resides with Corinn ...

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The American

September 5th, 2010

The American is the screen adaptation of Martin Booth’s 1990 best selling novel A Very Private Gentleman starring George Clooney who in 2005’s Syriana beefed up to play Bob Barnes and here buffs down to play Edwards (who goes by the alias of Jack). He’s a sinewy and sullen lone wolf who seems to have driven to homicide not only some rarely vindictive Swedes but also his apparent comrades. Why ...

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The Last Exorcism

August 29th, 2010

The Last Exorcism has a cast of barely knows including star Patrick Fabian as Cotton Marcus, a charlatan evangelist taking over the family ministry from a long line of bible thumpers many of whom claim to have exorcised demons. Cotton was a child preaching prodigy and although his faith is waning he continues for pragmatic reasons which he justifies on camera in documentary style. Although n ...

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Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, and Rebel

August 29th, 2010

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, and Rebel on the surface might almost be mistaken for a somewhat self serving legacy piece somehow funded by the iconic octogenarian but when you follow the money it leads nowhere near Hef. This documentary is funded by Canadian dollars some of which originates from Astral Media. This helps to objectify this well made film with the objectifier of women at its c ...

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Lebanon

August 29th, 2010

Lebanon doesn’t have much in the way of anything Lebanese – language or gentry. It’s 1982 and the start of “First Lebanon War” routinely glimpsed claustrophobically through the periscope of an army tank manned by four reluctant Jewish conscripts. This vehicle is stencilled with the Hebrew phrase “men are made of steel, tanks are just junk”. Maybe not so much in this armoured personnel carrier ...

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Nanny McPhee Returns

August 22nd, 2010

Nanny McPhee Returns bring back that stern but kind hearted governess with the startlingly bad dental work even by British standards. She left last time when she was wanted and not needed and here comes to stay when needed but not wanted by Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal issuing a spot on Brit accent) a weary shop keeper and farmer’s wife whose husband is off to war. At her wits end trying t ...

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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

August 22nd, 2010

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work had a reality show like inception and ended up as a documentary of a TV reality show star. Not that she wasn’t a star already but through the footage captured during fourteen months of the 76th year of her life interspersed with file footage we get a revealing look at some dramatic points in television history. There’s her departure as permanent guest host as anoi ...

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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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Going the Distance

The American

The Last Exorcism

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, and Rebel

Lebanon

Nanny McPhee Returns

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Eat Pray Love

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