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Letters to Juliet

May 16th, 2010

Letters to Juliet are apparently a long standing tradition almost exclusively for women Shakespeare fans visiting Verona, the mythical home of the feuding Capulets and Montagues. These letters are posted by the lovelorn beneath a balcony in the centre of town and collected daily by women on the city payroll whose job it is to write unctuous responses to the broken hearted authors. This is all ...

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Just Wright

May 16th, 2010

Just Wright is another romantic comedy for Queen Latifah that has some endearing moments if you can get past the derivative script and the uncomfortable stereotyping. Latifah plays Leslie Wright, an accomplished physiotherapist who although a home owner drives a total beater that might be worth $100. OK, that running (barely) gag gets explained away logically but there’s some political incorr ...

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Mao's Last Dancer

May 16th, 2010

Mao's Last Dancer stars Birmingham Royal Ballet principal Chi Cao who makes a smooth cross over to film playing the adult subject adapted from Li Cunxin best selling autobiography. A child of Mao’s Cultural Revolution Cunxin was taken from his peasant family to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. For being able to artistically portray Maoist ideology he became an unlikely star in his o ...

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Iron Man 2

May 9th, 2010

Iron Man 2 takes us six months past the original Iron Man where Tony Stark told the world that he is the man in the red and gold suit. Reprising the role is Robert Downey Jr.whose name may be mud in a law court but is pure gold on the silver screen. Hard to imagines it but Stark’s swagger has increased since he’s used the phenomenal exo-suit to bring about world peace. He receives rock star a ...

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Please Give

May 9th, 2010

Please Give offers up a pleasant slice of New York surrounding the last days on earth for Andra (Ann Guilbert), a rather nasty grandmother of two sisters - the vivacious Mary (Amanda Peet) and the younger more serious Rebecca (Rebecca Hall). Mary s a beautician on the rebound obsessed with the woman who stole her man and constantly feels the need to justify her vocation to her clearly brighte ...

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Exit Through the Gift Shop

May 9th, 2010

Exit Through the Gift Shop is a biography of street pop artist Thierry Guetta the man who among other accomplishments designed the cover of Madonna’s Celebration Album. This affable Frenchman (single handily trying to rejuvenate mutton chops as fashionable) emigrated to the USA and made a comfortable living in second hand clothing but his passion was his ubiquitous video camera. This gave hi ...

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

May 2nd, 2010

A Nightmare on Elm Street is the latest in the Freddy Kruger franchise that spawned eight sequels from 1984 to 2003. Here we’re back to square one with a bunch of twenty something adults pretending to be terrified high schoolers. With a little tweaking the story is basically the same. Again the children of guilty parents are haunted in their dream by a bogeyman with razor extensions on his fi ...

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Furry Vengeance

May 2nd, 2010

Furry Vengeance is the story of Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) an ambitious suburban developer eager to please his soulless boss Neal Lyman (a wasted Ken Jeong as is Angela Kinsey playing his assistant Felder). To do this Dan is forced to uproot his family from Chicago and move to the sticks to oversee the building of a new ticky tacky neighbourhood. This development requires the deforestation ...

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Gunless

May 2nd, 2010

Gunless is the latest big screen outing for Canada’s Paul Gross but unlike last years Passchendaele this one is far more palatable and the gorgeous typography of Osoyoos can rival that of any American duster ever made. Gross plays Sean 'The Montana Kid' Rafferty, a US frontier gunslinger who has just narrowly escaped a lynching only to stumble into an even worse fate, ending up in the Canadia ...

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Passenger Side

May 2nd, 2010

Passenger Side is a Canadian road movie but all of the lead actors are American and the action takes place in California. This however doesn’t look like the Golden State we’ve come to see portrayed elsewhere as the backdrops are a succession of deserted desolation as two brothers with mommy issues go on a wild goose chase to find a woman. Michael (Adam Scott) is an author and his older but fr ...

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