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What's On Tonight? - Friday, July 3

Posted by Ariana | Friday, July 3, 2009 @ 3:01pm

Check in with us daily to see what's new tonight in the land of summer TV.

My pick for tonight: There's slim pickings tonight with no new TLC offerings, my traditional Friday-night fare, so I recommend... going outside. Or watching Elvis Costello talk to Rufus Wainwright on CTV.

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Review: Public Enemies

Posted by Elizabeth Hughes Belzil | Wednesday, July 1, 2009 @ 2:39am

Public Enemies is one of those rare films that boasts numerous outstanding attributes (great cast, great story, great direction, great cinematography) but somehow fails to amount to the sum of its parts. As the ending credits roll, I suspect, audience members will feel surprisingly under-whelmed.

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Review: My Sister's Keeper

Posted by Elizabeth Hughes Belzil | Friday, June 26, 2009 @ 3:18am

A film like My Sister’s Keeper is so difficult to review from a critical standpoint: it’s not a film that loses itself in melodrama but rather a film that shamelessly aspires to be just that. Fans of director Nick Cassavetes’ 2004 tearjerker, The Notebook, can look forward to another overdose of sentimentality and a full two hours worth of waterworks—expect one’s eyes to mist over almost immediately, soon escalating into a steady trickle of tears and, at last, culminating in several minutes of outright sobbing during the grand finale.

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Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Posted by Big Marv from Hot 103 | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 @ 1:47am

The Basic:

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen takes place 2 years after Transformers. The Autobots are secretly working with the Government to destroy the last remaining Decepticons. But the Decepticons regroup, bring Megatron back to life and deal a HUGE blow to the Autobots. It’s up to the humans, Shia LeBouef and Hot Megan Fox to save the world.

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Interview: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen special effects guru Scott Farrar of ILM

Posted by Mark McLeod | Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 6:39pm

Special effects are an important part of the movie business. From May to September each year, movie studios big and small try to blow audiences with their biggest budget releases of the year, and the majority of these are centered on the special effects. Already this summer, we've had an intergalactic space battle, a futuristic apocalypse with robots, and a race against the clock to solve a murder conspiracy. Still to come are a couple of big budget war movies and a film that aims to be more than meets the eye. However, when it comes to special effects, one company more than any other has been on the cutting edge, pushing the limits of what can be accomplished for decades. That company is Industrial Light and Magic based out of San Franscisco, which has contributed to so many of the biggest special effects films of all time, from Jurassic Park to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? to Star Wars to The Terminator. In advance of one of the summer's big blockbusters, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I had the chance to talk with Scott Farrar, one of the men responsible for these ground-breaking effects. We talked about how he got into the business, what he looks for in a special effects movie, and what audiences can expect from TF2.

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Review: Year One

Posted by Elizabeth Hughes Belzil | Friday, June 19, 2009 @ 3:37am

What happens when the director of Forty Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow), the creator of Ghost Busters (Harold Ramis) and some of the world’s most talented comedic actors (Jack Black, Michael Cera) get together and make a movie? Well, let’s just say not exactly what you’d expect. It brings me no joy to announce: Apatow and company’s Old Testament era comedy, Year One is a disaster of biblical proportions.

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Review: The Proposal

Posted by Elizabeth Hughes Belzil | Friday, June 19, 2009 @ 3:23am

The problem with recent romantic comedies is that they all seem spliced from the same Petri dish. A few variables change slightly: stars (Katherine Heigl or Kate Hudson), settings (wedding in Rhode Island or wedding in New York) and plot details; but the general lackluster style remains unvaried. Because they have a built in audience, genre filmmakers tend to become lazy and complacent, feeling little motivation to develop new tricks while the old ones are still bringing in the bucks. From the summer’s newest rom-com, The Proposal, I would have expected the usual hackneyed drivel, however, it’s zaniness and clever dialogue serve to distinguish it from the pack. While it doesn’t break new ground, (the wedding’s set in Alaska this time round!) it’s an entertaining enough chic flick that won’t have the guys gnashing their teeth in abject misery.

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Review: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Posted by Luke Schick | Friday, June 12, 2009 @ 7:15pm

Heist movies are great. I love putting the plan that’s unfolding onscreen under a microscope and picking it apart. Who doesn’t like to think they are smarter than a criminal mastermind? Without even seeing Tony Scott’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, I had a pretty good idea why the heist was bound to fail and what I’d do differently. I wouldn’t hijack a subway car. Where’s the money in that? Hijacking and hostage taking just seems like too much effort for an uncertain payoff.

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Late night guest line-ups: June 8-12

Posted by Paul Little | Monday, June 8, 2009 @ 9:20pm

I'm out of town this week, so there won't really be explanations for my Top 5 picks (but don't worry, they're still below). Besides this being the second week ever of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert will be in Iraq! After months of teasing on The Colbert Report that he'd be taping his show from somewhere in the Persian Gulf, sometime in the future (he couldn't talk details as per the Pentagon instructions) with his segment, "Where in the World and When in Time is Stephen Colbert Going to Be in the Persian Gulf?" everything is now set. Should be interesting, to say the least!

Take a look at what other 5 guests you can't miss:

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Review: Act of God

Posted by Elizabeth Hughes Belzil | Friday, June 5, 2009 @ 4:31pm

There are few phenomena in this universe as evocative and imbued with as much symbolic power as a lightening bolt. When one gazes at these pillars of light descending from the heavens, charged with devastating potential, one understands why pre-technological societies believed them the instruments of gods. In the modern era, scientists have deduced the atmospheric conditions that create lightning storms, however, it remains impossible to predict where exactly lightening will strike. It follows that when lightning strikes ask, “was this a random natural event or was this an act of God?” This question is the focal point of Canadian filmmaker, Jennifer Baichwal’s most recent documentary, Act of God.

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Review: O'Horten

Posted by Elizabeth Hughes Belzil | Friday, June 5, 2009 @ 4:26pm

In the realm of world cinema, Norwegian film remains largely unknown—perhaps eclipsed by their Scandinavian neighbors, Sweden and Denmark. While Norway has a long cinematic tradition, dating back to the first decade of the twentieth century, only seven to eight features are produced annually and most productions remain unavailable to English-speaking audiences. And so it was a rare treat to attend a screening of the Norwegian film, O’Horten, a quietly moving dramatic comedy.

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