http://www.straight.com/content/rss/Movies en http://www.straight.com/article-298052/vancouver/twilight-saga-new-moons-cameron-bright-no-stranger-controversy Regardless of whether you love or loathe The Twilight Saga, there’s no denying its popularity. And New Moon's Cameron Bright would know. 298052 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:24:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298052/vancouver/twilight-saga-new-moons-cameron-bright-no-stranger-controversy#comments Helen Halbert files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_NewMoon_Cameron.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_NewMoon_Cameron.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-297585/vancouver/shes-out-my-league She's Out of My League is designed to be the perfect date movie for guys who don’t actually date. 297585 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:41:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-297585/vancouver/shes-out-my-league#comments John Lekich files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_ShesOutoMyLeague_2204.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_ShesOutoMyLeague_2204.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-297578/vancouver/green-zone Green Zone director Paul Greengrass really is a master of action. But there seems something unfair and cunning about applying the look of documentaries to docudramas. 297578 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-297578/vancouver/green-zone#comments Ron Yamauchi files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_GreenZone.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_GreenZone.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-296903/vancouver/spring-film-fests-defy-odds Technically, it’s still winter outside, but spring has sprung as far as film festivals are concerned. 296903 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:40:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296903/vancouver/spring-film-fests-defy-odds#comments Ken Eisner files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_SpringFilmFest_2203.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_SpringFilmFest_2203.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-296905/vancouver/live-music-tells-heroism Daniel Janke may have been on a trip to the Czech Republic, but it was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that captured his imagination. 296905 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:35:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296905/vancouver/live-music-tells-heroism#comments Jennifer Van Evra files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_AliceHeros_2203.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_AliceHeros_2203.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-296908/vancouver/remember-me Remember Me has so many low-key surprises, from its solid character studies to its deeper ideas about the meaning of life, that you might actually remember it for a while. 296908 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:30:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296908/vancouver/remember-me#comments Janet Smith files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_remember_me_2203.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_remember_me_2203.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-296909/vancouver/prodigal-sons Even if this riveting documentary holds back some key information for as long as it can, no review of Prodigal Sons can avoid the central thrust of writer-director Kimberly Reed’s multiple returns to her hometown of Helena, Montana. 296909 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:25:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296909/vancouver/prodigal-sons#comments Ken Eisner files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_ProdigalSons3_2203.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_ProdigalSons3_2203.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-296910/vancouver/fish-tank The first and most enduring thing you notice about Fish Tank is how beautiful it is. 296910 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:20:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296910/vancouver/fish-tank#comments Ken Eisner files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_fish_tank_2203.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_fish_tank_2203.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-296911/vancouver/blood-wine If you want to know what it takes to start your own vineyard, Blood Into Wine has a lot for you. 296911 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:15:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296911/vancouver/blood-wine#comments Ken Eisner http://www.straight.com/article-296913/vancouver/our-family-wedding The film is a painfully humourless parade of ethnic stereotypes in the guise of a can’t-we-all-just-get-along scenario. 296913 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296913/vancouver/our-family-wedding#comments Ken Eisner files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_our_family_wedding_2203.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_our_family_wedding_2203.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-296938/vancouver/new-dvdbluray-astro-boy-bandslam-ninja-assassin-fourth-kind-white-stripes-under-great-white-northern-li DVD/Blu-ray releases for March 16, 2010. 296938 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:05:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296938/vancouver/new-dvdbluray-astro-boy-bandslam-ninja-assassin-fourth-kind-white-stripes-under-great-white-northern-li#comments http://www.straight.com/article-296430/vancouver/alice-wonderland if you’re thinking you’ll need “some kind of mushroom" to absorb the Tim Burton treatment of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian tale, leave your magic fungi in your sock drawer. The hallucinogens are on the screen, man. 296430 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:10:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296430/vancouver/alice-wonderland#comments Patty Jones files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_AliceinWonderland_2203.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_AliceinWonderland_2203.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-295737/vancouver/casting-was-key-prophet Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain were pretty sure they had a good screenplay when they set out to get Un Prophète (A Prophet) into production. 295737 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:55:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-295737/vancouver/casting-was-key-prophet#comments Ian Caddell files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_prophet_2202.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_prophet_2202.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-295722/vancouver/family-sacrifice-moves-last-train-filmmaker In the winter of 2006, the southern Chinese railway system was paralyzed by a snowstorm, with 60,000 people stuck at the Guangzhou train station. Montreal-based director Lixin Fan calls what he saw a “war zone”. 295722 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:50:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-295722/vancouver/family-sacrifice-moves-last-train-filmmaker#comments Craig Takeuchi files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_Lasttrain2_2202.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_Lasttrain2_2202.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-295721/vancouver/brooklyns-small-role-suits-snipes-just-fine If anyone knows how the game of Hollywood is played, that would be Wesley Snipes. 295721 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:45:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-295721/vancouver/brooklyns-small-role-suits-snipes-just-fine#comments Ken Eisner files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_brooklyns_finest_2202.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_brooklyns_finest_2202.jpg