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One Week

March 8th, 2009

One Week features Vancouver’s Joshua Jackson the star of the successful paranormal series Fringe on the Fox Network, although here the non stop narrative makes it a bit more like Pushing Daisies. Co-starring is Toronto’s Liane Balaban (last seen in Last Chance Harvey and ironically again playing a bride to be) as his fiancée Samantha Pierce. Jackson plays Ben a Toronto teacher who has spent ...

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Cassandra’s Dream

March 8th, 2009

Cassandra’s Dream is the name of a long shot horse which is used to christen a pre-owned sailboat. The boat is the proud new possession of two British brothers who are out to beat the odds, each in his own way. Ewen McGregor is Ian, clearly the more grounded of the two. The boat turns out to be his in with Angela (Hayley Atwell) a budding actress he wants to impress but his real dream is to e ...

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The Green Chain

March 8th, 2009

The Green Chain is that part of a sawmill where cut lumber is sorted. Here it’s a metaphor for the line-up of arguments on both sides of the green issue regarding forest management in B.C. The drama starts with a soliloquy from Ben (Scott McNeil) a small town logger and ends with a diatribe by Jenni (Jillian Fargey) his waitress wife. In between we get a take on the issue from Dylan and Abiga ...

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Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience

February 28th, 2009

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience does not represent a “D” grade each for Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas (I think I hate the fact that I am now familiar with these teen heartthrobs on a first name basis). To be fair the grade is probably closer to a B-. The 3D concert (which outnumbers the dimensions of their belief system by 2) filmed over two days last August In Anaheim is spliced betwee ...

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Che

February 28th, 2009

Che Pt 1 and 2 is a labour of love for Benicio Del Toro who is his usual masterful self portraying the Argentinean revolutionary icon Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Unfortunately it’s also very laborious for audiences. It’s broken up into two films which may be screened with an intermission at twice the price or released in sequence. Either way it represents four and a half hours of time that moviego ...

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Fired Up

February 22nd, 2009

Fired Up is the name of a cheerleading camp that annually overtakes the dorms of an Illinois University campus for 3 weeks of pompom perfecting. The program is called Fired up instead of just Cheerleader Camp because it’s not as funny when they’re chanting C-C as opposed to cheering F-U in unison. If this level of comedy tickles your funny bone then you’ll get along fine with this film. Here ...

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Confessions of a Shopaholic

February 14th, 2009

Confessions of a Shopaholic is a screen adaptation loosely based on the best-selling novels on the topic by Sophie Kinsella. Amy Adams clone Isla Fisher is captivating as Rebecca Bloomwood, a New Yorker damaged as a child from being dressed by her mother (Joan Cusack) in sensible shoes as well as other dowdy but equally terminally durable apparel. At twenty five she subconsciously lashes out ...

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Friday the 13th

February 14th, 2009

Friday the 13th scheduled its opening day on the fist Friday the 13th of 2009 which is a lucky coincidence – not so lucky or course for anyone paying to see this remake – but if it didn’t open on Friday the 13th then the title would have nothing to do with the actual film. Camp Crystal Lake is again the scene of the crime(s) where in 1980 (the year of the original movies carnage) young Jason ...

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The International

February 14th, 2009

The International stars Clive Owen as Louis Salinger, a rumpled Interpol agent who reluctantly came to that organization from Scotland Yard. We meet him in liaison with the FBI and Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) from the NYC District Attorney’s office. While in Germany closing in on a small arms money laundering scheme Salinger’s FBI partner comes to an untimely end which almost turns out to b ...

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Cadillac Records

February 14th, 2009

Cadillac Records takes us back to Chicago in the’50’s and the genesis of Rock and Roll. Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) was a colour blind nightclub owner with a passion for rhythm and blues. After he opened the legendary Chess records he would reward his label stable who achieved success with a new Cadillac – and what a stable: Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Chuck Berr ...

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