Comic books, superheros in silly suits, victorious nerds and spiffy oneliners. On paper, Kick-Ass wasn't going to be my kind of movie and so I kindly waited for the hype to blow over. I ignored all reviews and comments as...
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by Niels Matthijs, July 30, 2010 1:04 PM
Dennis Marasigan's Vox Populi begins on the last day of the elections campaign. San Cristobal mayoralty candidate Connie de Gracia (Irma Adlawan) is hearing mass, in the hopes that her fealty with the Catholic God translates to votes. After...
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by Oggs Cruz, July 30, 2010 11:11 AM
[Our thanks to Lauren Baggett for the following review.]There have been some fantastic movies playing this year at the Fantasia festival that are just not catching a break. I saw We Are What We Are in a theater that...
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by Todd Brown, July 28, 2010 2:07 PM
[Our thanks to Shelagh Rowan-Legg and Dork Shelf for the following review.]Last night I dared to say on Twitter that, after seeing Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, director Edgar Wright is on his way to gaining status as an...
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by Todd Brown, July 28, 2010 1:50 PM
[Our thanks to Mathieu Li-Goyette of Panorama Cinema for the following interview.]For the 14th edition of the Fantasia Film Festival, programmers had the great idea of bringing up Don Bluth and Gary Goldman to given them an honorary award...
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by Todd Brown, July 28, 2010 1:39 PM
[Our thanks to Liz Reed of MangaLife for this review.] The first 15 minutes of The People I've Slept With were the most uncomfortable, in your face moments I've seen in a movie in a long time - and not...
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by Charles Webb, July 28, 2010 9:34 AM
[Our thanks to Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau of Panorama Cinema for the following review, and Maude Michaud for the translation.]Many people have mentioned it: Sunao Katabuchi's style is incredibly reminiscent of Japan's animation master, Hayao Miyazaki. The comparison is not...
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by Todd Brown, July 28, 2010 9:07 AM
[Our thanks to Laurence H Collin from Panorama Cinema for the following review and Maude Michaud for the translation.]Charlie Otero, fifteen, was coming home from school as usual. The night before, he had just watched the film In Cold...
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by Todd Brown, July 28, 2010 9:01 AM
[Our thanks to Josh Hurtado for another review from the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, this time of a potentially incendiary documentary.] In 2007, Prince William county in Virginia passed a law requiring that its police officers verify the immigration status...
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by Peter Martin, July 28, 2010 12:22 AM
[We now bring bring James's take on Part 2 of the Mesrine biopic - if you are at Fantasia, do not pass up the opportunity to see them both back-to-back - albeit it is a tough choice against Metropolis-Extended with...
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by Kurt Halfyard, July 27, 2010 11:42 AM
[Our thanks to Liz Reed from MangaLife.com for this review].Summer Wars isn't your average anime movie - while we do get the familiar visuals of perverted nosebleeds, oversized sweat drops and magical worlds where almost anything can happen, the difference...
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by Charles Webb, July 27, 2010 11:17 AM
A young woman Rinco (Kou Shibasaki) loves food and dreams of opening her own restaurant. She moves to the city to learn more about food from all over the world. But Rinco becomes so heart-broken from a personal relationship loss...
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by Andrew Mack, July 26, 2010 9:19 PM