Feb 8, 2009
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
Feb 6, 2009
by Jean Brunet
Rating: Sizzling Popcorn
After relocating to Oregon, Coraline misses her friends and finds that her parents are too occupied with their work to be bothered by her. Wanting some excitement, Coraline wonders off outside. Through her adventures, she meets Wybie, a local boy her age whom she finds annoying, and they decide to visit their elderly neighbours. Coraline realizes that life in her new home will be plain and boring, but when she finds a secret doorway, her curiosity is peaked. One evening, ... Read More
Feb 1, 2009
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
Jan 30, 2009
by Jean Brunet
Rating: Kernel
Lucy Hill, an uptight materialistic women climbing her way up the corporate ladder, is sent to reconfigure a plant that her Miami company owns out in a small frigid and obscure town in Minnesota. What starts off as an easy task for her becomes a reconfiguration of her values, which sets her up to meet the man of her dreams.
Making his English language feature film directorial debut, Jonas Elmer brings together Academy Award-winner Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain) and Harry Connick Jr. ... Read More
Jan 23, 2009
by Jean Brunet
Rating: Kernel
Mo 'Silvertongue' Folchart has the magical powers to bring characters from books to life when he reads them aloud. The downside to his powers is that when a fictional character is read out of the book, a real person vanishes into the pages of the story. While visiting a secondhand book shop, Mo finds the book he's been looking for since his wife, Resa, disappeared into the mystical world nine years ago. Determined to rescue Resa, Mo's plans take a detour ... Read More
Jan 16, 2009
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
Jan 9, 2009
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
Dec 27, 2008
by Jean Brunet
Rating: Kernel
Adam Sandler has had his fair share of good comedies over the years such as Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy and Punch-Drunk Love, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for his role, but his latest flick, Bedtime Stories, just doesn't cut it. In the film, Sandler is Skeeter Bronson, a hotel attendant who's life is about to be changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew magically come true. Bronson tries to take advantage ... Read More
Jul 18, 2008
by Jean Brunet
You die as a hero or you live as long to be the villain.
- The Dark Knight
Rating: Sizzling Popcorn
"The follow-up to the action hit Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and the committed new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham City for good. The triumvirate initially proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves ... Read More