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Nothing Like the Holidays

December 12th, 2008

Nothing Like the Holidays is really nothing like most stories based on tense family moments around the old Yule log. For starters other than mom and dad wanting a divorce there’s a lot of love in this Chicago family of 5 with ties to Puerto Rico. Mom (Elizabeth Peña) suspect’s dad (Afred Molina) of having an affair which he doesn’t deny and at dinner just prior to Christmas Eve announces her ...

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A Christmas Tale

December 12th, 2008

A Christmas Tale is a French take on the dysfunctional family Christmas get together but it is nothing like the gingerbread cutter formula we’re used to with this kind of story. It doesn’t repeatedly go for a punch line and what laughs do come up are pretty dark. Even the most sympathetic member of the family isn’t all that likeable. That would be Junon (Catherine Deneuve) the GILF matriarch ...

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Nobel Son

December 5th, 2008

Nobel Son stars the loveable Alan Rickman playing a very unlikeable character. He’s Professor Eli Michaelson PhD soon to be Nobel laureate of chemistry, an accolade that makes him even more insufferable. Mary Steenburgen is Sarah a crackerjack lawyer and Eli’s long suffering wife. The family dynamic is explored through their son Barkley (Bryan Greenberg) the apple of his mother’s eye but as a ...

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Saving Luna

December 5th, 2008

Saving Luna is a gorgeous and tenderly poetic documentary five years in the making about an affectionate semi-famous orca orphaned in Nootka Sound earlier this decade. Husband and wife journalists Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm ended up devoting three years documenting the amazing story of Orca L 69 nick named Luna. He was abandoned by his pod in his infancy and his instinctive craving f ...

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Milk

November 27th, 2008

Milk is a Gus Van Sant biopic about Harvey Milk, a San Franciscan who was the first openly gay man ever elected to public office in the USA. That today this would be no phenomenon at all speaks volumes as to the progress made since the ‘70’s. As a neophyte campaigner the power of his demographic once organized started to become clear although it took several tries before winning a seat as ...

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Four Christmases

November 27th, 2008

Four Christmases goes a long way to legitimizing my unwritten axiom – beware of movies with an all star cast. But what a cast – Robert Duval, Cissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Kristin Chenoweth, John Voight, Jon Favreau and country stars Tim McGraw and Dwight Yokum all trying desperately to make a comedy out of a script that isn’t funny. Kudos to Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn who despite p ...

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Twilight

November 22nd, 2008

Twilight has little to do with that time just after dusk but who would have thought that we would get two fantastic teen vampire/mortal love stories in rapid succession and both based on enormously popular books. On the heels of Let the Right One In, Twilight reverses the roles and has a creature of the night boy with the girl now the potential dinner/date. Impressive Kristen Stewart who also ...

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Bolt

November 22nd, 2008

Bolt (John Travolta) is an animated pooch with an affable mug but a lightning tattoo to prove he means business. No ordinary dog, with his laser vision, battering ram skull and best of all super bark he’s able to fight the evil Green Eyed Man with the help of Penny (Disney darling Miley Cyrus) his turbo charged razor scooter ridin’ human. The trouble is he can’t really do all these things b ...

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Slumdog Millionaire

November 22nd, 2008

Slumdog Millionaire concisely states the outcome of a deprived lifetime that painfully prepares a young man from Mumbai for one critical moment in his life. Jamal Malik (British newcomer Dev Patel) who grew up in a tin roof shanty town built on a garbage dump was orphaned at a tender age and his only family is his slightly older brother Salim and Latika a girl also orphaned at the same time. ...

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Growing Op

November 22nd, 2008

Growing Op if nothing else gives the uninitiated a ring side seat to a rarely highlighted Moncton, New Brunswick where this low budget Canadian film is was shot. Most recognizable is a not well aging Rosanna Arquette playing Diana Dawson, a stoner dropout school teacher along with series TV vet Wallace Langham as her ganja genus genius husband Bryce. The real focus of the film is their home s ...

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