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Love and Other Dilemmas

February 1st, 2008

Love and Other Dilemmas apparently had its biggest dilemma regarding the decision on when to release this goofball comedy since it’s a 2006 movie. You’ll recognize locations in East Vancouver and most of the cast from Corner Gas in this story of Ginger Shapiro (played with some intensely comic moments by Gabrielle Miller) who tries to lift the curse of the last three generations of her family ...

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They Wait

February 1st, 2008

They Wait is a supernatural suspense thriller based on Chinese superstition. With Feng Shui and other oriental beliefs having a moderating influence in Vancouver life it’s a natural that the story is obviously set in our city although it’s never acknowledged as anything other than The Pacific Northwest. Jaime King (Goldie in Sin City) plays Sarah who is married to Jason (Edmonton’s Terry Chen ...

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Poor Boy's Game

February 1st, 2008

Poor Boy's Game is yet another boxing film this time set in Halifax against a backdrop of prejudice that we like to believe doesn’t exist in this country. Joining an adept group of Canadian actors is Danny Glover as George, the dockworker father of Charles, a severely brain damaged son. Suspending disbelief that any minor in Canada would serve anywhere near 10 years incarcerated for anything, ...

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Over Her Dead Body

February 1st, 2008

Over Her Dead Body stars Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria Parker. Marriage may have made her name longer but this movie won’t do the same for her career. In a role that’s nothing to trumpet about she plays Kate, basically the same character we see as Gabrielle Solis who dies after a ridiculous ice sculpture mishap on her wedding day. Kate’s A-type personality rubs the pearly gate greeter the ...

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One Missed Call

January 25th, 2008

One Missed Call is the readout on the cell phone of a select few co-eds. Impossibly the message is dated some time in the future and when the message is retrieved it’s the wireless owner saying the last few words at her untimely death. Shannyn Sossamon is Beth Raymond who gets more and more creeped out as the messages seem to be making a daisy chain around her My5 local plan. After she witnes ...

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The Bucket List

January 25th, 2008

The Bucket List has Rob Reiner directing two of Hollywood’s biggest heavyweights - Morgan Freeman who is in everything and Jack Nicholson who isn’t in nearly enough. Nicholson is Edward Cole whose lavish lifestyle ironically hits a wall when chemotherapy forces him to conform to the indignity of the rules of his own chain of private hospitals. His first commandment is two patients to a room, ...

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There Will Be Blood

January 25th, 2008

There Will Be Blood adapted from the 1920’s novel “Oil” is true to the title but only after about two and a half hours have passed in this circa 1900 epic drama. Meantime for the first 20 minutes you start to believe that there won’t be any dialogue yet the basis of the story unfolds articulately thanks to the talent of Daniel Day Lewis. As we’ve come to expect, when he does finally speak h ...

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In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege

January 25th, 2008

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is a big budget, filmed in Burnaby, Lord of the Rings Wannabe. Jason Statham is a boomerang tossing farmer who spent his life pulling turnips yet mysteriously is a skilled swordsman. Although it’s delightful to see some local actors land good parts, the rest of the casting seems to have gone to the lowest bidder. Burt Reynolds is King Konreid o ...

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First Sunday

January 25th, 2008

First Sunday is the latest make work project for Ice Cube who produced this forgettable comedy. He plays Durell, a down on his luck dad sharing custody with his ex who is making noises about leaving town. The tough luck is usually the result of trying to prevent the latest lamely set up catastrophe brought on by his best friend LeeJohn played by Tracy Morgan. Morgan’s misguided hubris is kill ...

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Persepolis

January 25th, 2008

Persepolis was an ancient capital of Persia the ruins of which sit in southern Iran so the title is fitting for this animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's semi autobiographical graphic novel. Although from France very little of the story takes place there or Europe in general. “Marji“ is born in Tehran during the time of the Shah and her pre-teens were as a westernized middle class school ...

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First Sunday

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