The Devil’s Double is less entertainment than it is dirty laundry of Sadamm Hussein’s family. The Devil’s Double is based on the autobiography of Latif Yahia, the man who was hired (or forced) to work as the live-in double for Uday Saddam Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein. Uday is portrayed as the more corrupt, petulant, self-indulgent son, [...]
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Movie Review: The Devil’s Double
Posted in Movies, tagged Dominic Cooper, Latif Yahia, Lee Tamahori, Ludivine Sagnier, Saddam Hussein, Sam Rockwell, The Devil's Double, Uday Saddam Hussein on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Movie Review: Horrible Bosses
Posted in Movies, tagged Charlie Day, Colin Farrell, Donald Sutherland, Horrible Bosses, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, Office Space, The Hangover on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a reason why a story of a horrible boss grabs our attention; at some point we’ve all experienced it, however Horrible Bosses has taken that shared experience and brought it to a whole new level. Enter the three friends that will be the protagonists to this story of workplace misery: corporate climber Nick Hendricks [...]
3D: The not-so-new technology
Posted in Movies on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Breschuk — The Lance (University of Windsor) WINDSOR, Ont. (CUP) — Although 3D cinema is all the rage — with films like Avatar and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland rising to the top of the box office — it may surprise some that the medium is not all that new. From the cheesy depths [...]
Movie Review: X-Men First Class
Posted in Movies, tagged Bryan Singer, James McAvoy, January Jones, Jason Flemyng, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Vaughn, Michael Fassbender, X-Men First Class on June 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
X-Men First Class is the most legit installment of the series so far, with the perfect combination of action thriller and comic book fantasy. After the last couple X-Men flops, this film is sure to win back fans and then some. Instead of relying on A-list names and special effects for box office draw, X-Men [...]
Movie Review: Little White Lies
Posted in Movies, tagged ( Laurent Lafitte, Benoît Magimel, Diane Kruger, Dustin Hoffman, François Cluzet, Gilles Lellouche, Guillaume Canet, Inception, Little White Lies, Marion Cotillard, Nine, Pascale Arbillot, The Big Chill, Valerie Bonneton on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Little White Lies among friends are still lies. We are sometimes faced with the decision to lie and spare someone’s feelings or face the truth and pay the consequences. The French Film Little White Lies addresses the sometimes devastating effects of those little lies, in the context of close friendships, and the complexity of facing [...]
Movie Review: The Hangover 2
Posted in Movies, tagged Billy Joel, Danzig, Ed Helms, Hangover II, Jackass series, Jenny Lewis, Kanye West, ken Jeong, Paul Giamatti, The Hangover 2 on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s all fun and games until someone loses a finger I was very surprised when I heard they were making a Hangover sequel. How could you top the original? It had everything a modern screwball comedy caper could ask for: cast chemistry, stellar cameos, a bumpin soundtrack, a deliciously random plotline, and the memorable ‘Wolf [...]
Movie Review: RIO
Posted in Movies, tagged 101 Dalmatians, An American Tale, Anne Hathaway, Carlos Saldanha, Flight of the Concords, George Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Jemaine Clement, Jesse Eisenberg, Leslie Mann, RIO, Rodrigo Santoro, Sergio Mendes, Tracey Morgan, Will.I.Am on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
3D animated feature Rio doesn’t grab you by the tail feathers, but it does make you want to shake them. The movie begins with a beautiful jungle carnival song and dance performed by a plethora of exotic, brightly feathered species to some strong, dance-in-your-seat opening music. This is where we meet the main character, Blu [...]
A few good docs
Posted in Movies, tagged Anders Ostergaard, Anthony Seck, BCITSA, Burma VJ, documentaries, Encounters at the End of the World, Errol Morris, Grizzly Man, Look At What the Light Did Now, Marc Obenhaus, Restrepo, Sebastian Junger, Seth Gordon, Steep, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The King of Kong, Tim Hetherington, Werner Herzog on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Overpaid hollywood actors, elaborate sets…all tweaked and coached to imitate reality. All this fuss when our own reality is already pretty damn interesting. Yes, at times it can be depressing, but to avoid this reality you are really doing yourself a disservice and depriving yourself of some truly beautiful moments and stories. And so, [...]
Movie Review: Red Riding Hood
Posted in Movies, tagged Amanda Seyfried, Catherine Hardwicke, Gary Oldman, Max Irons, Red Riding Hood, Shiloh Fernandez, Twilight on April 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Red Riding Hood is a strange adaptation of the beloved children’s story Little Red Riding Hood. Set in medieval times, the village of Daggerhorn has been haunted by a werewolf for years, one that has been appeased by animal offerings. However, the fi lm takes place under a blood moon which only happens every thirty [...]
Movie Review: Unknown
Posted in Movies, tagged Bourne Identity, Diane Krugar, Frank Langella, House of Wax, Jaume Collet-Serra, Liam Neeson, Memento, Orphan, Unkown on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Take Bourne Identity and mix it with the mind trips of Memento, and you have Liam Neeson’s new film Unknown. Directed by French director Jaume Collet-Serra, known mostly for this previous B-list horror endeavors House of Wax and Orphan, Unknown is definitely Collet-Serra’s most sophisticated work to date. The film repeatedly plays with the audience [...]
