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If you're looking for a popcorn flick, Shake Hands with the Devil isn't it. It's a thought provoking and eerie take on one man's experience during the Rwandan genocide.
Classic VFX films return to Vancouver screen
Posted by: Mark McLeod • January 30, 2008 @ 8:02pm
One of the best things about seeing a great movie is remembering back to the time and place where you first saw it. I know that for me personally, I can remember many such moviegoing experiences, like the time I first saw The Matrix during the last night of its run in the smallest theatre of a local megaplex, wishing I had gone sooner so I could see it again.
SAG Award Winners: Sopranos, No Country take home biggest honours
Posted by: Paul Little • January 28, 2008 @ 5:24am
With the Golden Globes a wash, and the Oscars in jeopardy, the Screen Actors Guild Awards was the one Hollywood awards show completely unaffected by the WGA strike (as SAG has been supportive of the Writers Guild from the beginning).
If you've read my review of the Star Trek teaser, you'll already know I'm a Star Trek fan.
Oscar nominations: There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men lead with 8 a piece
Posted by: Paul Little • January 23, 2008 @ 7:05am
With the writers' strike still upon us and the 2008 Golden Globes coming and going as almost an afterthought, the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards were released from Hollywood on Wednesday.
After taking a year off last year for a variety of reasons, we're back with our annual Top 10 list of favourite movies compiled from our entire staff. We pride ourselves in the fact that not only do our movie critics take part in our year-end favourites poll, but all our employees.
I'm a simple Star Trek fan. I've never liked the terms "Trekkie" or "Trekker"; I even get embarrassed when people call themselves that. Yet I own a shirt with Captain William T. Riker's silhouetted beard on it.
If the word Cloverfield holds no meaning for you than Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Productions haven't done their job, you simply don't hang out online very much, or you've been somewhere without modern technology since the summer.
In the world of film criticism, the month of December can be described as hellish at best, even if you're not based out of New York or Los Angeles. Screenings ramp up and activities other than watching movies become a long lost memory.
The name Jessica Lucas may not be familiar to movie audiences yet, but rest assured with the imminent launch of Cloverfield (aka 01-18-08, aka that cool looking movie which had a trailer on Transformers), she's about to burst out huge.
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