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2009 | U.S. | 115 minutes
Director: Richard Eyre
Writers: Richard Eyre, Charles Wood (based on a short story by Bernhard Schlink)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney
Distributor: Image Entertainment
Cdn video distributor: Image Entertainment
The Wife jokingly calls me “Bastardo” sometimes. She picked it up from an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. She [...]

2009 | U.S. | 115 minutes
Director: McG
Writers: John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris
Cast: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures
Cdn video distributor: Warner Home Video
The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day are widely known as action classics. They also told simple stories. Hero vs unstoppable killing [...]

2009 | U.S. | 146 minutes (153 minutes unrated)
Director: Judd Apatow
Writers: Judd Apatow
Cast: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Cdn video distributor: Universal Studios
When you make a movie about stand-up comics, cast it full of comedians, advertise that it’s from the writer/director of 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked-Up, [...]

2009 | U.S. | 138 minutes (146 extended)
Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Tom Hanks,
Cast: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Cdn video distributor: Columbia/Tristar
Angels & Demons is the follow-up to The Da Vinci Code — based on a book written prior to its release — and replaces intriguing [...]

2008 | U.S. | 88 minutes
Director: Seth Gordon
Writers: Matt R. Allen, Caleb Wilson, Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall , Jon Favreau, Mary Steenburgen
Distributor: Alliance Atlantis
Cdn video distributor: Alliance Atlantis
Four Christmases is a movie that probably started out as a pitch. It certainly has comedic potential; [...]

2009 | U.S. | 127 minutes
Director: J.J. Abrams
Writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto , Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Cdn video distributor: Paramount
By now this much should be obvious — the new Star Trek is visually lush with a slick new Enterprise, a hot new [...]

2009 | U.S. | 109 minutes
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Writers: Nick Cassavetes, Jeremy Leven (based on a book by Jodi Picoult)
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Eric Baldwin, Joan Cuzack
Distributor: Alliance Atlantis
Cdn video distributor: Alliance Atlantis
My Sister’s Keeper launches right away into it’s captivating story; desperate parents (Cameron Diaz and Jason [...]

2009 | U.S. | 89 minutes
Director: Neal Brennan
Writers: Andy Stock, Rick Stempson
Cast: Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, David Koechner, Kathryn Hahn
Distributor: Paramount Vantage
Cdn video distributor: Paramount
NOTE: Though the dvd release is not scheduled until December 15th, rental versions of this title are now available.
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2008 | U.S. | 96 minutes
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Writers: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Cast: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios
Cdn video distributor: Walt Disney Video
When I was kid our family had a dog named Nemo. It was a wonderful German Shepherd/Labrador mix that loved catching all sorts of things. [...]

2008 | U.S. | 90 minutes
Director: Griffin Dunn
Writers: Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor, Bonnie Sikowitz
Cast: Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Distributor: No domestic theatrical
Cdn video distributor: Sony Pictures
Much like this week’s The Ugly Truth (critique posted last week), The Accidental Husband uses the much-loved template of boy meets girl, boy/girl [...]

2009 | U.S. | 96 minutes
Director: Robert Luketic
Writers: Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Cdn video distributor: Sony Pictures
The Wife loves reading Cosmo, or just about anything that will help her unlock the secrets to the male [...]

2009 | U.S. | 106 minutes
Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Brian Helgeland
Cast: John Travolta, Denzel Washington, John Turturro, James Gandolfini
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Cdn video distributor: Sony Pictures
New York has changed a lot in the the last 35 years. So have the movies. Everything is more high-tech and fast-paced [...]

2009 | U.S. | 95 minutes
Director: John Hindman
Writer: John Hindman
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Lou Taylor Pucci, Nora Dunn
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Cdn video distributor: Mongrel Media
The Answer Man is your standard romantic comedy — boy meets girl, gets girl, loses girl, gets girl back — that [...]

Director: Fred Dekker
Writer: Fred Dekker
Cast: Tom Atkins, Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow, Steve Marshall
Distributor: TriStar Pictures
Cdn video distributor: Sony Pictures
Night of the Creeps is a zombie/sci-fi/comedy hybrid that mostly passed without notice when released in 1986. Over the years the film has steadily developed a cult following amongst horror fans. Generally because [...]

2009 | U.S. | 92 minutes
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Cast: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley Jr.
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Cdn video distributor: Maple Pictures
Woody Allen has always insisted his films are not autobiographical, but when a Jewish New York filmmaker, who married his ex-lover’s adopted daughter (35 [...]

2009 | U.S. | 150 minutes
Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, John Turturro, Ramon Rodriguez
Distributor: DreamWorks SKG
Cdn video distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment
The negative reviews for Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen all share a similar opinion. It’s noisy and incomprehensible. These naysayers see [...]

1987 | U.S./U.K. | 89 minutes
Director: Joseph Ruben
Writer: Donald E. Westlake
Cast: Terry O’Quinn, Shelley Hack, Jill Schoelen, Charles Lanyer, Stephen Shellen
Distributor: New Century
Cdn video distributor: Shout Factory
The 1980s were a popular time for slasher films but, by the late 1980s, the formula of gory death at the hands of some [...]

1996 | U.S. | 122 minutes
Director: Michael Cimino
Writer: Charles Leavitt
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jon Seda
Distributed by: Warner Brothers
Cdn video distributor: Warner Home Video
By the time Michael Cimino directed Sunchaser in 1996, his name had long-lost its star power. The film didn’t even get a theatrical release (at least not in Canada) [...]

2008 | U.S. | 82 minutes
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Cast: Steve “Lips” Kudlow, Robb Reiner
Distributed by: VH1 Films
Cdn video distributor: VH1 Classics
“Everything on the tour went drastically wrong. But at least there was a tour for it to go wrong on.” says Steve “Lips” Kudlow, leader of Anvil. How many people do you [...]

2007 | U.S. | 82 minutes
Writer/Director: Michael Dougherty
Cast: Dylan Baker, Brian Cox, Anna Paquin
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Cdn video distributor: Warner Home Video
For a horror flick, Trick ‘r Treat is quite handsome-looking. Not many of this genre are. The whole thing is set in a small town on Halloween night, and rarely [...]