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Oral Pleasantries

The King’s Speech, AMC Forum 22

by James Gartler
26.02.2011

Have you ever been forced to speak with a mouth full of marbles? Colin Firth has. And, apparently, so was Queen Elizabeth’s father. Judging by The King’s Speech, both managed it with as much grace as possible in such a situation, which may be why Academy voters nominated the film for no less than a [...]

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OSCAR TIME

Plié Good Enough?

Black Swan, Scotia Bank Theatre

by James Gartler
24.02.2011

With the Oscars only days away, it’s seems high time we ask ourselves whether some of the films leading the pack are deserving of their multiple nominations. Consider the phenomenon of Black Swan, possibly the first film to ever make ballet an interesting subject to movie-goers, male and female alike. Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman [...]

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FILM

The Kids Are All Right

7 Up, Cinema du Parc

by Matthew Hays
13.11.2010

The Up documentaries have emerged as one of the most enduring, popular and critically-acclaimed film series in the history of the medium. This fascinating portrait of 14 Britons shows us their lives at seven-year intervals, running the gamut from seven-year-old optimism and energy to the most recent, 49 Up (2005), which showed us middle-aged people [...]

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FILM

Exclamation Point Not Quite Enough

The Informant!

by James Gartler
21.10.2009

What do bored, pudgy businessmen fantasize about? Matt Damon knows. In his newest flick, The Informant!, he piles on 30 extra pounds and sports a moustache to portray real-life executive-turned-FBI informant Mark Whitacre – a character as deceitful as The Talented Mr. Ripley, but less than half as interesting, in a film nowhere nearly as [...]

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