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I’ll be building this section out over the next few months.
I wrote about movies for the International Herald Tribune and launched a TV and movie magazine for Bell ExpressVu.
The Ides of March is “an enjoyable, if slight, political thriller… (that’s) never quite as clever as it thinks it is, but ace performances from some of Hollywood’s brightest talents, plus some tight plotting, make (it) a nail-biting affair.” Since I couldn’t agree more with this review from the Mirror’s David Edwards, I’ve decided to [...]
Out December 6: The Help, The Hangover Part II, The Debt, Cowboys and Aliens, Point Blank and Life, Above All. Since Rogers doesn’t give you this information, I do. The Help Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Mike Vogel, Mary Steenburgen, Allison Janney, Sissy Spacek, Anna Camp, Chris Lowell [...]
What new movies are out on Rogers cable this week? Here’s the list of movies that came out on January 10 including Moneyball, Killer Elite, What’s Your Number?, 1911, A Matter of Size, Answer This!, Coyote County Loser, Brighton Rock, The Tempest, The Chameleon, Moby Dick, A Matter of Size, Le Quattro Volte. Here’s the [...]
Update: this movie will be available on demand December 27th. —————————- Margin Call is one of those okay movies that mysteriously and undeservedly garners almost uniformly great reviews. Yes, its first-time director and screenwriter, J.C. Chandor, does indeed elicit excellent performances as he tells the story of the first major trading firm to recognize that [...]
For the opening 20 minutes, Contagion seems like the perfect thriller. And then a deadly virus strikes. Somehow, the multiple plot strands involving multiple famous actors, all get killed off with no resolution. What originally seem like tantalizing story lines involving Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslett, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Eliott Gould, just shrivel [...]
For thriller fans there are three good reasons to see The Debt: Helen Mirren A trio of hot young Mossad agents Eerie, sixties-era east Berlin Unfortunately, that’s about it. The whole of this movie is not any greater than the sum of those parts. The Debt, which is remake of the 2007 Israeli movie Ha-Hov, [...]
