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Latest Reviews
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Sneak Preview
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Sometimes a film looks and feels like poetry in motion to me. At Eternity’s Gates, a movie with Willem Dafoe as painter Vincent Van Gogh, and Yesterday, an offering paying homage to the music of The Beatles, are two recent examples. The latest one is Cyrano, a...
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Wasted talent. That’s the most economical way to sum up The 355, a female-led globetrotting espionage action thriller that finds its multi-racial cast of Hollywood A-listers muddling through a script so lazily written it gives generic a bad name.
Then again,...
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Watching The Tender Bar made me feel nostalgic. It’s about a youngster and his relationship with an uncle who owns a bar. Coincidentally, I spent the early days of my childhood living in the back of a bar my grandma owned. And one of the bartenders took on extra duties as...
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The Lost Daughter is an homage to what used to be called “a woman’s picture” during the Golden Age of Hollywood. These films were usually directed by George Cukor at MGM for deities such as Katharine Hepburn or Joan Crawford. They were slick and designed to wrench the hearts...
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Latest Features
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Below are more soundtrack reviews of recent and archival releases.
The Brothers Grimm (Dario Marianelli, 2005) *** A lively brew not content to be complacent nor anxious, Dario Marianelli's The Brothers Grimm requires tender loving care....
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On February 1, Movie Addict Headquarters shines the spotlight on Jim Henson and The Muppets. Canadian film critic Geoff Roberts has agreed to discuss this fun topic with our producer Nikki Starr. He will talk about how Henson became interested in puppetry and will share backstage...
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Grab-Bag Review
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Consider the onion. It may be smelly and make you cry, but this popular plant offers much more than that. It has layers. In Shrek, the title character says ogres are a lot like onions. How does he know? Because he’s one...
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