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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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The Invention of Lying

October 3rd, 2009

The Invention of Lying written by and starring Ricky Gervais, takes us to a parallel world that looks suspiciously like any town USA (right down to the green backed legal tender) where telling anything but the truth is inconceivable. As a matter of fact being brutally honest overtakes every conversation so instead of polite banter people say exactly what is on their minds and then some. This ...

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Surrogates

September 27th, 2009

Surrogates takes us into the future where although the automobiles have a 2009 streamline the drivers are definitely a throwback to a younger day. In this world crime and violence have gone the way of polio thanks to the technical expertise of a robotics company that provides everyone with a younger, more vivacious copy of themselves through which they can live vicariously from the comfort of ...

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Pandorum

September 27th, 2009

Pandorum is a mental malady undefined in the dictionary that is like cabin fever to the power of ten where despair brought on by isolation causes violent psychosis. There are hints of it aboard a hulking space ship adrift in the firmament but for the most part that’s a latent defect and the current patent problems are clearly more dangerous. It’s centuries in the future and with the earth pop ...

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Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day

September 27th, 2009

Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day brings to an end one of the longest fake documentary shoots ever. After the 6 year run of the well received maritime comedy came to an end in 2008 this big screen extrapolation is probably the last time up for Ricky (Robb Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Bubbles (Mike Smith). As usual this one starts with the trio making parole but with differ ...

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