DVD Review: Being Julia

Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys  •  April 9, 2005 @ 12:00am

Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is falling desperately into a trap of mid-life crisis where her successful theatre career and her marriage to the powerful director Michael Gosselyn (Jeremy Irons) are aiding a developing void, and she is plummeting on a steady emotional decline.

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Review: Fever Pitch

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  April 8, 2005 @ 11:59am

The Farrelly Brothers have always exceeded in displaying and capitalizing on the absurd.

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Review: Sahara

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  April 8, 2005 @ 11:59am

Dirk Pitt is probably one of the best kept secrets in adventure fiction today. Novelist Clive Cussler created the heart-throb deep sea adventurer in 1973's "The Mediterranean Caper", which launched 18 adventures for the popular character.

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DVD Review: The Corporation

Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys  •  April 5, 2005 @ 12:00am

The Corporation is an educational documentary saturated with information outlining the nature, evolution, and impact of today's corporation. The combined efforts of filmmakers Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan bring us the eye-opening film based on Joel Bakan's book titled "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power".

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Review: Sin City

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  April 1, 2005 @ 11:59am

Blood, brawn, and babes.

These are the three main factors in the world that is Frank Miller's Sin City.

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Review: Beauty Shop

Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys  •  March 30, 2005 @ 11:59am

A brand new comedy which suggests by the title to be the feminine counterpart to the once ever-so-popular Barbershop, the movie sheds its conceptual resemblances long enough to declare that the Beauty Shop girls can be funny too -- even if it was a little hit and miss.

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Previewing the 2004/2005 Television Season: Part 2

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  March 29, 2005 @ 12:00am

Okay, so this is a little late. Back in October, I took a look at the emergence of the new 2004-2005 television season. There has been a lot of interesting developments since I wrote that article.

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Wrap Yourself in Our Shorts Festival

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  March 29, 2005 @ 12:00am

The first edition of the shorts film festival Wrap Yourself in Our Shorts, celebrating Vancouver's independent film community, takes place over two nights at the Planet Theatre at the HR MacMillian Space Centre. The festival not only has a witty name, but is comprised of a great selection of short films by Canadian filmmakers.

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Review: Guess Who

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  March 25, 2005 @ 11:59am

In the immortal 1967 classic, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, a couple's (Spencer Tracey, Katharine Hepburn) attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home her prospective fiancé (Sidney Poitier), who happens to be black.

The film was a landmark of its time on so many fronts and challenged so many attitudes of the time.

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Review: Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Posted by: Tom Milroy  •  March 23, 2005 @ 11:59am

The last time we saw Gracie Hart 5 years ago in Miss Congeniality, she was involved with Benjamin Bratt's character Eric Matthews. There is no Eric Matthews in the sequel â€" Bratt must have seen the script and passed.

Directed by John Pasquin (The Santa Clause), Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous is one bad movie.

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