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Review: On the Corner

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  June 18, 2004 @ 11:59am

For the past five years, Angel Henry (Alex Rice) has lived a life of prostitution and drugs on the streets of Vancouver's downtown east side. She lives in a rundown, rent-by-the-month room at the Portland hotel where she and her friend Stacey (Katherine Isabelle) exist day to day by prostituting themselves out to various johns who find them "On the Corner".

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Review: The Terminal

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  June 18, 2004 @ 11:59am

Can you possibly imagine what it is like to be a person who doesn't exist? A freak of nature that has slipped through the cracks of our society.

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Review: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  June 18, 2004 @ 11:59am

There have been a lot of sports comedies over the years. Some have been memorable like 1989's Major League and some have been horrendous like 1998's Baseketball.

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Review: The Stepford Wives

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  June 11, 2004 @ 11:59am

The Stepford Wives, the classic 1975 sci-fi horror film, escaladed the paranoia that everything you know isn't always what it seems. The idea of replacing your mate with a robo-duplicate was horrific and absurd.

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Review: The Chronicles of Riddick

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  June 11, 2004 @ 11:59am

Who is David Twohy? How did this small budget science-fiction director get saddled with the 100-million-dollar film like The Chronicles of Riddick? He created, wrote, and directed it, of course.

Twohy's 2000 cult favorite Pitch Black was the film that launched Vin Diesel into the minds of movie-goers.

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Review: Garfield

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  June 11, 2004 @ 11:59am

The lovable lazy feline who scarfs lasagna and is a staple in the funny pages of newspapers across the globe comes to the silver screen in a live-action take.

Garfield (voiced by Bill Murray) nearly has a heart attack when his love-struck master Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) brings home a wily pup named Odie.

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Review: Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  June 4, 2004 @ 11:59am

In the now-classic third book in the "Harry Potter" series, author J.K. Rowling first began to carve her boy-wizard chronicles into a series that could reach beyond a child audience.

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Review: Twist

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  June 4, 2004 @ 11:59am

There is no questioning the literary genius of Charles Dickens. From A Christmas Carol to Oliver Twist and everything in between, the man was responsible for a number of literary classics. His stories have been told time and time again on both the big and small screens and on stages throughout North America and all over the world.

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Review: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  June 4, 2004 @ 11:59am

What is there to be said about Harry Potter that hasn't been said before? The wizard and his universe, created by a then-out-of-work school teacher J.K. Rowling, has gone on to be one of the most successful book franchises in history with massive anticipation for each subsequent book and film release in the series.

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Review: The Day After Tomorrow

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  May 28, 2004 @ 11:59am

I have always been a huge fan of disaster movies, especially the giant all-star cast films of the late 1970s and early '80s. Who can forget the classic disaster moments like Gene Hackman in the conclusion of the Poseidon Adventure or Robert Wagner engulfed in flames in The Towering Inferno?

In the new epic disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow, climatologist Prof.

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