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Welcome to the Sticks

January 24th, 2009

Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) is the biggest box office draw in French history. Who knew that the northern area close to the English Channel is considered the Newfoundland of France? Nowhere does that prejudice manifest itself more than within the southern sphere of influence for Philippe Abraham (Kad Merad). He’s a post office executive itching for a transfer to the Rivie ...

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Last Chance Harvey

January 17th, 2009

Last Chance Harvey stars Dustin Hoffman (nominated for a Golden Globe for this performance) as Harvey Shine a New York jingle writer whose broken dream of being a jazz musician is just one of a lifetime of disappointments he visibly carries. With his career hanging by a thread he’s off to England where his estranged daughter Susan (Toronto’s Liane Balaban) is about to get married. While in Lo ...

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop

January 17th, 2009

Paul Blart: Mall Cop is an idea ripe for a lampoon. I mean who hasn’t run into someone doing security that’s all puffed up on his own deluded self importance. Here Paul Blart is not so much self aggrandising as serious since he has a medical condition that prohibits him from passing any law enforcement physical so he’s doing the next best thing. He’s a single dad who lives with his daughter M ...

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Notorious

January 17th, 2009

Notorious charts the rise of a sheltered, chubby kid from Brooklyn born Christopher Wallace (Christopher Wallace Jr) who by the time of his well publicised and untimely demise had turned his hip hop moniker of Notorious B.I.G. into almost a household name. I’ve never been a total fan of this music genre but like many, posthumously I found likeable moments in Biggies work. Like many I had a mi ...

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Defiance

January 17th, 2009

Defiance unlike the former fictional westerns of the same name is the harrowing true survival story set during the Second World War of a group of Jews who in 1941 eluded the Nazi ghettos near Belarus by literally heading for the hills. After returning to their bucolic village just after it was wiped out by the SS, four brothers who knew the woods intimately (having taken flight there more tha ...

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Top 10 2008 movies

January 1st, 2009

1. The Dark Knight. Thanks for the memories Heath Ledger, we miss you already. Your were so good you stole the show from Christian Bale - best Batman ever and just a little more super in the superhero department than Iron Man. 2. In Bruges. A stand alone standout and an early entry onto my top ten list for 2008 - one that never got usurped until the Bruce Wayne comeback. 3. ...

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Gran Torino

December 25th, 2008

Gran Torino was a Ford product from a bygone era produced with muscle and attitude and in 1973 one was assembled in Detroit by auto worker Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), a war vet with muscle and attitude from a bygone era. Walt bought the car off the line and it remains his price and joy today as it sits in the garage/workshop behind his tidy house in a motor city suburb currently in transi ...

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

December 25th, 2008

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an epic fantasy loosely adapted from the 1922 short story of the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) is born in New Orleans at the end of the First World War with all the characteristics of an octogenarian. His mother dies in childbirth and his industrialist father abandons him on the steps of a seniors care facility whe ...

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Valkyrie

December 25th, 2008

Valkyrie is the name of an instantly recognizable piece by Wagner. Wagner was one of the few artists sanctioned by the Third Reich so it’s no surprise to have it as a code name for a military plan of action for the protection of the fuhrer should anyone want to launch a coup against Adolph Hitler. During he reign of terror there were over a dozen attempts to assassinate him, the last involved ...

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The Reader

December 25th, 2008

The Reader was a fifteen year old West German boy named Michael who in 1955 took up reading aloud at the bedside of Hannah, a woman 18 years his senior. Hannah was no invalid but Michael cared for her dutifully, probably in large part because there was sex involved after each oration. The affair lasted one summer before Hannah launched into her usual mysterious vagabond routine and disappeare ...

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