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The Spy Next Door

January 17th, 2010

The Spy Next Door has all of the cool choreography that Jackie Chan fans have come to expect. That’s the good news. All of it. The neighbours should have been tipped off to espionage in their community right out of the chute as Chan clearly goes by an alias with the name of “Bob” Ho. He’ a suburban dweller whose main squeeze Gillian (Amber Valletta) conveniently lives next door. She’s cliché ...

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Leap Year

January 10th, 2010

Leap Year is the story of Anna (Amy Adams) and Jeremy (Adam Scott) a New York power couple although Anna, rather than a Blackberry would prefer a ring for her left hand. After four years however Jeremy who is a brilliant surgeon is a little thick on this point. When he heads to Ireland for a medical convention an exasperated Anna, going on the outcome of a family fable told by her father Jack ...

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Youth in Revolt

January 10th, 2010

Youth in Revolt is the first outing of the new decade for Canada’s affable Michael Cera. Within the past 10 years he’s established himself as Hollywood’s go to guy for the nebbish, virginal but erudite teen and here we go again – sort of. He plays Nick Twisp the 16 year old son of Estelle (a trailer trashy hot Jean Smart) and George Twisp (Steve Buscemi). Nick can’t stay with his father and h ...

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The Yes Men Fix the World

January 3rd, 2010

The Yes Men Fix the World features Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno – yes men for some of the world’s largest corporations who speak on behalf of businesses to millions around the world on matters of urgency to mankind. This is no mean feat since they’re not affiliated with any corporate entity whatsoever. They’re just a couple of pranksters extrapolating the theory of corporations as psychopa ...

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Sherlock Holmes

December 26th, 2009

Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed movie character ever according to the Guinness folks and IMDb lends credence to that with 223 entries to date going back as far as 1908 in listing films and TV series featuring that consultant detective. Guy Ritchie must have felt a lot of pressure to bring new life to the role but he’s helped immeasurably by the superb cast featuring a buffed Robert Down ...

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Nine

December 26th, 2009

Nine is the film version of the stage musical based on the celebrated 1963 classic Italian film 8 1/2 that is still revered today - a loosely autobiographical Federico Fellini film that starred Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi. This musical is also set in 1963 but the famous yet troubled protagonist is now Guido Contini played by Daniel Day-Lewis. He’s the first to admit he’s no singer y ...

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It’s Complicated

December 26th, 2009

It’s Complicated stars Meryl Streep as Jane, a California divorcee who has an affair with a married man around the time of her middle child’s college graduation. The laugh (and a last one at that) is that the married man is her ex-husband Jake (Alec Baldwin) who is now cheating on his current trophy wife Agness (Lake Bell) with whom he used to cheat on Jane. This is sweet music to Joanne (Mar ...

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A Single Man

December 26th, 2009

A Single Man takes us back to a time when gay men were politely referred to as “light in the loafers”. As for impolite references, here not many come up other than in the faces of neighbours who live across from a suburban house which ironically is mostly glass. It’s the home of George (Colin Firth), a British émigré professor teaching English in California just as the Cuban missile crisis is ...

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Did You Hear About the Morgans?

December 20th, 2009

Did You Hear About the Morgans? Features a philandering New York lawyer named Paul Morgan (Hugh Grant) on the outs with his wife Meryl (Sarah Jessica Parker) the Big Apple’s go-to Realtor. While negotiating marital peace they witness a murder that lands them in the witness protection program. They’re sequestered in a Wyoming hamlet with Clay Wheeler (Sam Elliott) the town Sheriff and his pist ...

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The Young Victoria

December 20th, 2009

The Young Victoria is a regal trip back to the early 19th century and the beginning of the longest reign of a monarch in British history that lasted through the apex of the empire days for England. Heavy is the head that wears the crown and in this case it was true even before the installation of that bejewelled head gear. Emily Blunt carries the film masterfully as the bullied but headstrong ...

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