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Summer Popcorn Thrillers! Films reviewed:
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Predators, Inception
Summer’s here, and sometimes a movie’s good enough to watch if it lets you
sit in a comfortable seat, in a dark, air-conditioned room, while pretty
pictures dance on the screen in front of you. If there’s a bit of a plot,
credible acting, or a thrilling story – all the better. Escapism is simply
getting away from the heat...(read more)
Kids Movies! Movies Reviewed: Toy Story 3,
The Last Airbender,
Despicable Me, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Despicable Me is an original piece of computer animation, with cool
characters, minimal product placement, and a story not out of place with
Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl or Charles Addams – but not too scary.... (read more)
Lives of Girls and Women. Movies reviewed:
Acts of Dishonour, The Kids are Alright, Hey Hey it’s Esther Blueburger
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – there are way too many movies
that use female characters only as walk-ons, tokens, eye candy, or as the
"straight man" in joke scenes. This isn’t an isolated phenomenon......(read more)
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July 23th - Summer Popcorn Thrillers! Films
reviewed: The Girl Who Played with Fire, Predators, Inception
July 16th - Kids Movies! Movies Reviewed: Toy Story
3, The Last Airbender,
Despicable Me, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
July 9th - Lives of Girls and Women. Movies reviewed: Acts of Dishonour, The Kids are Alright, Hey Hey it’s Esther
Blueburger
June 25th - Is Toronto Broken? Movies Reviewed: This Movie is Broken, Thomas Pynchon: a Journey into the Mind of P.
June 18th - Journeys. Movies reviewed: Winter’s Bone, Get Him to the Greek, Cyrus
June 11th - Rockers and Rollers. Movies Reviewed: Search and Destroy: Iggy & The Stooges’ Raw Power; You Left Me Blue; Carnival; Holy Rollers
June 4th - Geek Appeal! Movies reviewed: It Came from Kuchar; Splice;
Micmacs.
May 28th - Inside Out Festival, 2010. Movies: Leo’s
Room, The OWLs, Brotherhood, Oy Vey My Son is Gay, Joan Rivers, a Piece of
Work, Undertow.
May 21st - Inspirational Heroes: The Trotsky,
MacGruber, Leslie my Name is Evil, Ryan Trecartin: In Short, and Ryan
Trecartin: Any Ever
May 14th - Jaw Droppers. Documentaries Reviewed:
Secrets of the Tribe, Gasland, 12th and Delaware
May 7th - Unusual Characters: Documentaries
Reviewed: And Everything is Going Fine, The Story of Furious Pete, The
Canal Street Madam, Inventing Dr Nakamats, Sex Magic: Manifesting Maya
April 30th - Out of the Picture. Movies Reviewed:
Babies, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, Kim Longinotto at Hotdocs, The
Secret in their Eyes
April 23rd - Over the Top. Movies reviewed: The
Square, Kick-Ass, Fritz the Cat
April 16th - Shame and Guilt. Movies reviewed: Hot
Tub Time Machine, Greenberg, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
April 9th - HIgh Concept movies v Conceptual Art.
Movies Reviewed: No Images, How to Train Your Dragon, The Lightning Thief,
Clash of the Titans
April 2nd - History! Movies Reviewed: Max Manus,
Summer Camp, Crash and Burn Karaoke, I Went to the Zoo the Other Day,
Women Without Men
March 26th - Matryoshka Dolls Dancing on a Moebius
Strip. Movies Reviewed: The Crazies, The Runaways, You are Here
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