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Repo Men leaves something to be desired

Under capitalism, everything has a price...including our own bodily organs. In Repo Men, the rules of the game have changed.

Howlingly hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid shouldn't be kept a secret

Howlingly hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid shouldn't be kept a secret Movie Reviews

By Ron Yamauchi | March 19, 2010
What one never finds is a kiddie movie that is howlingly funny to all, despite featuring a central character so fundamentally awful that adults are left feeling a bit shocked it ever got made. Until Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
The Bounty Hunter leaves little to laugh about

The Bounty Hunter leaves little to laugh about Movie Reviews

By Patty Jones | March 19, 2010
Is there one laugh in the soul-maiming action-comedy The Bounty Hunter, you ask?
How to Train Your Dragon’s head wrangler Dean DeBlois tells beastly tale

How to Train Your Dragon’s head wrangler Dean DeBlois tells beastly tale Movies Features

By Patty Jones | March 18, 2010
Like all the best people working in comedy, Dean DeBlois appreciates a good boob joke. Not that the perfectly silly one in the writer-director’s new 3-D animated film is very naughty.
Director Floria Sigismondi captures rock’s bad girls in The Runaways

Director Floria Sigismondi captures rock’s bad girls in The Runaways Movies Features

By Ken Eisner | March 18, 2010
You don’t have to have seen The Runaways, the new biopic about Joan Jett’s early years as a teenage rocker, to know the directorial flair of Floria Sigismondi, an Italian-born, Canadian-raised filmmaker now based in the U.S.
The Runaways

The Runaways Movie Reviews

By Mike Usinger | March 18, 2010
First-time feature director Floria Sigismondi gets plenty right in The Runaways, her fantastically colour-saturated, retro-looking love letter to the world’s first female rock band.
Mid-August Lunch

Mid-August Lunch Movie Reviews

By Ken Eisner | March 18, 2010
In this charming trifle, first-time director Gianni Di Gregorio plays a put-upon, middle-aged pleasure seeker who is genially struggling to get from day to day.
Cooking With Stella

Cooking With Stella Movie Reviews

By Ken Eisner | March 18, 2010
Indie film veterans Don McKellar and Lisa Ray star as Michael and Maya, fresh to Canada’s diplomatic compound in the capital of India, New Delhi.
Inferno

Inferno Movie Reviews

By Mark Harris | March 18, 2010
Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea’s documentary account of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1964 Inferno is fascinating for a number of reasons.
Don McKellar cooks up a tasty passage to India in Cooking With Stella

Don McKellar cooks up a tasty passage to India in Cooking With Stella Movies Features

By Janet Smith | March 17, 2010
Don McKellar hadn’t planned for his role in Cooking With Stella to be an exercise in method acting, but the same kinds of culture shock happening on-screen were occurring every day while he was shooting the film in India.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon's Cameron Bright is no stranger to controversy

The Twilight Saga: New Moon's Cameron Bright is no stranger to controversy New on DVD-Blu-ray

By Helen Halbert | March 16, 2010
Regardless of whether you love or loathe The Twilight Saga, there’s no denying its popularity. And New Moon's Cameron Bright would know.
She's Out of My League: a date movie for guys who don't date

She's Out of My League: a date movie for guys who don't date Movie Reviews

By John Lekich | March 12, 2010
She's Out of My League is designed to be the perfect date movie for guys who don’t actually date.
Action-packed Green Zone presents speculation as fact

Action-packed Green Zone presents speculation as fact Movie Reviews

By Ron Yamauchi | March 12, 2010
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.
Vancouver's spring film festivals defy odds

Vancouver's spring film festivals defy odds Movies Features

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
Technically, it’s still winter outside, but spring has sprung as far as film festivals are concerned.
Alice and Other Heroes uses live music to tell heroic tales

Alice and Other Heroes uses live music to tell heroic tales Movies Features

By Jennifer Van Evra | March 11, 2010
Daniel Janke may have been on a trip to the Czech Republic, but it was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that captured his imagination.

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