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Jonah Hex

June 20th, 2010

Jonah Hex is another graphic DC comics anti hero brought to life on the silver screen. Hex (Josh Brolin) who communes with dead people is a facially disfigured Civil War veteran and current bounty hunter with a bounty on his own head. He suffered a near death experience at the hands of Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) and his ensuing recuperation with the help of a local first nation’s tribe ...

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Year of the Carnivore

June 20th, 2010

Year of the Carnivore is the brainchild of Sook-Yin Lee, Vancouver’s brainy and child like former front singer for Bob’s Your Uncle. With familiar Fraser Valley locations as a back drop she’s taken a mini Sarah Silverman named Cristin Milioti from Sopranos bit player to the borderline of being the next Ellen Page. In front of a mostly Canadian cast Milioti plays the ironically named Sammy Sma ...

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The Karate Kid

June 13th, 2010

The Karate Kid is a distant knock off of the 1984 film of the same name with Jackie Chan taking on Pat Morita’s mentoring role and Ralph Macchio’s tormented fish out of water Daniel Larusso is now Dre Parker played by Jaden Smith. There are a lot of departures in this film not the least of which is that kung fu and not karate is the martial art of choice and the action is nowhere near the USA ...

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Mother and Child

June 13th, 2010

Mother and Child is a heartfelt trio of stories with adoption at their heart that eventually intersect although some more predictably than others. Annette Bening is Karen, a bitter 52 year old woman who lives with her aged mother Nora (Eileen Ryan). Karen has used the world as her whipping boy since having to give up her daughter who was conceived when she was only 14. Today that daughter is ...

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Agora

June 13th, 2010

Agora refers to an open "place of assembly" in ancient city-states and in Alexandria’s antiquity was located just outside of its lamentably sacked library. Originally a place where citizens would gather to hear statements of the ruling king or council, in the time of the scientific philosopher Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) the space was used to find recruits for the newly emancipated religion called ...

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Micmacs

June 13th, 2010

Micmacs is the latest round of devilishly witty insanity from French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet who gave us Amélie, probably Europe most profitable film export ever. Dany Boon plays Bazil, a video store clerk who survives accidentally being shot in the head. Surgeons elect not to remove the bullet since the procedure would likely put him in a vegetative state while leaving it in will only “l ...

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Get Him to the Greek

June 6th, 2010

Get Him to the Greek reintroduces us to the vacuous, hedonistic rocker Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) who we met in Forgetting Sarah Marshall – although at this point for him she’s merely a substance addled almost memory. For our part we should completely forget that Jonas hill played Matthew the waiter in Sarah Marshal as here he’s Aaron Green, an LA record industry flack working for an A+ pers ...

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Sex and the City 2

May 30th, 2010

Sex and the City 2 picks up where the 2008 movie left off and takes us from a gay wedding to the hot sands of Abu Dhabi with a host of adventures in between. Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) still do lunch frequently but the single life does not dominate the conversation so much save for Sa ...

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

May 30th, 2010

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is an epic tale with gorgeous locations and par cour that is innovative and thrilling but the movie also contains some inherent flaws - not the lease of which is that none of the stars cast looks Persian. OK, maybe Ben Kinglsey since we already bought him as Ghandi. He might squeak by but not Alfred Molina as Sheik Amar the ex slave with a weird penchant fo ...

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The Maid

May 30th, 2010

The Maid is a Chilean film starring Catalina Saavedra as Raquel a 41 year old live-in maid who has spent half her life in the service of the Valdez family and who is so comfortable in their Santiago home that she runs the house like a general. After being laid low by health issues her paranoia runs deep regarding the help hired to take care of things during her convalescence. Rather than rest ...

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