ROCK STAR: Can’t Get No Satisfaction

Categories: Burnt Popcorn, Comedy, Drama, Musical
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Burnt Popcorn Set in the 80's, Rock Star tells the tale of Chris "Izzy" Cole, a copy machine repairer by day and a rock star wannabe by night. Chris idolizes Bobby Beers, the leader of the legendary heavy metal band Steel Dragon. Although he wishes to become a member, Chris settles to being the lead vocalist of Blood Polution, a tribute band to Steel Dragon that only plays their songs the way the real band plays them. When he's booted out of ... Read More

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD…Are We Ready For A Revolution?

Categories: Butter Popcorn, Drama, In Theatres
by Colin MacKenzie

Rating: Butter Popcorn Revolutionary Road, based on the Richard Yates novel of the same name, is the story of a married couple fighting suburban malaise in 1950s America. April (Kate Winslet) is a trained actress who has become a stay-at-home mom and is struggling with her new role as housewife while her husband Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a corporate stiff who takes the train to work in the city Monday to Friday dressed like everyone else and hates every moment of it. ... Read More

The Reader Has Five Oscar Nominations, But Does Anyone Want To Listen?

Categories: Butter Popcorn, Drama, In Theatres, Romance
by Colin MacKenzie

Rating: Butter Popcorn The Reader is the story of a young man in post-World War II Germany who has an affair with an older woman and, years later, learns a secret about her past that changes both of their lives. The movie opens during a rainstorm in 1946 Nuremberg, where 15-year-old Michael Berg (played by David Kross at this stage) is struggling to make his way home from school through the downpour. When he takes refuge in the entryway of ... Read More

‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ Now On DVD

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sizzling Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Sizzling Popcorn Vicky and Cristina set out to Barcelona on a summer vacation. On their first evening in the city, the two young American women are approached by a handsome "Casanova" who wants both of them to join him on a journey to Oviedo for the weekend and make love. After meeting Juan Antonio's ex-wife, the four become entangled in a web of passionate love. Mixing together Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), Oscar nominee Penélope Cruz (Volver), Golden Globe ... Read More

Harvey’s ‘Last Chance’ At Love

Categories: Butter Popcorn, Comedy, Drama, In Theatres, Romance
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Butter Popcorn Harvey Shine, a jingle writer in New York, has one last chance to prove himself to his boss. Leaving for the weekend for his daughter's wedding in London, Harvey promises that he'll be back on Monday. He arrives in London to find out his daughter has decided to have her step-father give her away instead. Devastated, Harvey leaves before the wedding reception in hopes of catching a plane back to New York, however he arrives a little too late to ... Read More

Is Clint Eastwood’s Performance In ‘Gran Torino’ Worth An Award?

Categories: Action, Butter Popcorn, Drama, In Theatres, Thriller
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Butter Popcorn In his first motion picture since 2004's Academy Award-winning Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood stars in Gran Torino as Walt Kowalski, a disgruntled racist Korean War veteran who is out to change a young Hmong teen’s life after he attempts to steal Kowalski’s most prized possession, a 1972 Gran Torino. As Kowalski unwillfully draws closer to the teen, he finds himself having to defend the boy and his family from the gangs that are trying to terrorize their neighbourhood. Gran Torino ... Read More

Movie Review: Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ Is Beautiful And Adventurous!

Categories: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sizzling Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Sizzling Popcorn In Australia, on the verge of World War II, Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat, travels to the Northern Territory. When she meets a rough-looking local, she reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save her inherited land from being overtaken. Together with a herd of cattle, they embark upon a transforming journey across some of the world's most beautiful yet unrelenting landscape, only to find themselves in the middle of the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces ... Read More

ROLE MODELS: How Not To Be A Good Role Model

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn After trashing their energy drink company's truck, Danny and Wheeler are summoned to spend either 30 days in jail or 150 service hours in a mentorship program. After the salesmen's first day with the kids, being locked up behind bars doesn't seem like a bad idea. Surrounded by annoying mentors, Danny has a hard time guiding Augie, a 16-year-old boy who's obsessed with medieval role playing, through the trials leading into manhood. Instead, he uses his sarcastic ways to put down the ... Read More

Does RACHEL GETTING MARRIED Have Oscar Potential?

Categories: Drama, Sizzling Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Sizzling Popcorn With just over three months until the world's eyes are glued to the boob tube to watch the most prestigious film awards event of the year, critics are already making predictions on who will be nominated for an Oscar and who will be the winners. One film that has been talked about amongst critics since its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival is Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married, starring Anne Hathaway (Get Smart) and Rosamarie DeWitt (Cinderella ... Read More

PRIDE AND GLORY: What Are You Willing To Sacrifice?

Categories: Drama, Popcorn
by Jean Brunet

Rating: Popcorn After four NYPD officers are killed in an ambush, the entire police department is on high alert as the cop killer is out on the loose. Chief of Manhattan Detectives Francis Tierney Sr. asks his son, Detective Ray Tierney to take on the investigation. He takes over knowing the officers murdered worked under his brother, Francis Tierney Jr., and alongside his brother-in-law, Jimmy Egan. What looks like a drug bust gone wrong becomes much more than Ray thought: an inside job ... Read More