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Coco Avant Chanel

October 25th, 2009

Coco Avant Chanel. Yes we’re talking THAT Chanel, a name synonymous with luxurious chic in the world of high fashion. Gabrielle Chanel the company founder worked right up to her death in 1971 but her high end company was born of humble beginning. She was nicknamed “Coco” by her father who just before the turn of the century abandoned her to a French orphanage. Much later as a young woman she ...

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A Serious Man

October 17th, 2009

A Serious Man is more brilliance from Joel & Ethan Coen the brothers who won best picture for No Country for Old Men in 2008 and like that film this will leave you with the expectation of a follow-up sequel that will not likely be forthcoming. That and implausible but life altering car crashes are about the only similarities. Where “Old Men” was gritty and violent this hysterical and insightf ...

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It Might Get Loud

October 17th, 2009

It Might Get Loud is mandatory viewing for any guitar aficionado that is worth his or her salt and for everyone else it’s a fascinating background sound check of three of rock’s greatest axmen. In 2008 on a spartan sound stage with subdued lighting, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) The Edge (U2) and Jack White (White Stripes, the Raconteurs) sat on comfy sofas and occasionally jammed between discour ...

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Where the Wild Things

October 17th, 2009

Where the Wild Things Are is an adaptation of Maurice Sendak's acclaimed 1963 children's story of the same name. The fact that it was filmed in 2006 and took till now to be released because of differences of opinion between the Director and Warner Bros. doesn’t bode well for the picture. Twelve year old Max Records is terrific as Max, a lonely kid with a vivid imagination. He runs off from ho ...

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Law Abiding Citizen

October 17th, 2009

Law Abiding Citizen features Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, two high powered stars that square off in a high stakes battle of wits. In his best role for some time Foxx is Nick Rice an ambitious DA who plays the percentages for political gain. He makes a big mistake however when he takes a short cut in a grizzly murder case and cuts a deal with Clarence Darby (Christian Stolte), one of the vici ...

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Cairo Time

October 17th, 2009

Cairo Time is an uncharacteristic Canadian film in that its characteristics don’t look Canadian. Like Fifty Dead Men Walking earlier this year the setting is foreign as are the principal actors. In this story written and directed by Toronto’s Montreal born Ruba Nadda, Juliette Grant (the always rock solid Patricia Clarkson) is a magazine editor about to rendezvous in Cairo with Mark (Tom McCa ...

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Couples Retreat

October 10th, 2009

Couples Retreat again casts Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Kristen Bell in a tropics set comedy. Here she’s Cynthia the wife of tightly wound Jason (Jason Bateman). Their infertile loins has put a strain on their marriage to the point (or should that be power point) where divorce is one of only two options left to them. Through a series pf charts and graphs they convince their friends that th ...

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Capitalism: A Love Story

October 3rd, 2009

Capitalism: A Love Story is the latest skewering from writer-director Michael Moore which is assembled with his usual efficient prompting of infuriation. Put to the lie this time is the belief that the American Dream is only attainable through the current established capitalistic system. What is strongly suggested is a systematic erosion of the middle class by the very wealthy (mostly banks) ...

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Zombieland

October 3rd, 2009

Zombieland is not to be confused with Adventureland even though they both revolve somewhat around amusement parks and both star Jesse Eisenberg as a virginal but horny co-ed. Here he plays Columbus who we meet sometime after a mutation of the mad cow virus infected a fast food patron which caused a pandemic that turned continental USA into Zombieland. Because of his anal personality Columbus ...

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Whip It

October 3rd, 2009

Whip It re-immerses us in the world of women’s roller derby, the roller skating contact sport that fizzled in the 1970’s but apparently is making a resurgence in the cultural watershed of Austin Texas. Canada’s Ellen Page makes another solid career choice (although this one probably won’t garner any Oscar nominations) playing the mousey high school sophomore Bliss Cavendar in the Lone Star St ...

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