Its difficult to know where to start with this offensive mess. Theres a character named Fes (and acronym for "foreign exchange student) w...
Articles By Jeff Musgrave
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That 70's Show Season Five David Trainer Published Feb 19, 2007 -
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Corner Gas Season Three Published Feb 19, 2007The third series of Corner Gas has moments of self-reflexive promise, like when a microphone falls into view during a comment on the importa...
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Breakfast on Pluto Neil Jordan Published May 01, 2006Based on Patrick McCabe's novel of the same name, Breakfast On Pluto has Neil Jordan preparing a potentially explosive mixture of gender, id...
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ATL Chris Robinson Published Apr 01, 2006The trailer for ATL takes the gangster flick route to entice patrons, selling itself as a hardcore "new American story"; this head-on approa...
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Niagara Motel Gary Yates Published Apr 01, 2006Crisis haunts an assortment of characters at the Niagara Hotel. Loretta, a local waitress, is torn between a stapler salesman and a small ti...
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Six Figures David Christensen Published Apr 01, 2006Don't let the title fool you; this film runs much deeper than the yuppie-gone-mad tagline some critics have given it. David Christensen has...
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L'Enfant Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Published Apr 01, 2006L'Enfant, winner of the Palme D'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, is grisly realism at its most grating. Twenty-year-old Bruno (Jérémie R...
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Whole New Thing Amnon Buchbinder Published Apr 01, 2006Newcomer Aaron Webber plays Emerson Thorson, a home-educated adolescent sent to public school because of his poor math skills. His mother, K...
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Tsotsi Gavin Hood Published Mar 01, 2006It's not often you see a film that makes full and brilliant use of the medium. Tsotsi, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Langu...
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Beowulf & Grendel Sturla Gunnarsson Published Mar 01, 2006Too bad this film wasn't called Selma. Sarah Polley is luminous as the soothsaying outsider cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths of...
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A Good Woman Mike Barker Published Mar 01, 2006The self-conscious voiceover that starts A Good Woman is the first, but certainly not the last, sign that the film's in trouble. Helen Hunt'...
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The Notorious Bettie Page Mary Harron Published Jan 01, 2006Gretchen Mol plays Bettie Page, the God-fearing good girl who moves to New York City from Nashville in pursuit of a modelling career, becomi...
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Three Needles Thom Fitzgerald Published Jan 01, 2006While Fitzgerald's The Event (his other contribution to the AIDS canon) sometimes veered into sentimentality, the trio of plot lines that ma...
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Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés Robin Aubert Published Jan 01, 2006Flavien Juste (François Chenier), a tabloid reporter, is sent with his photographer friend Armand (Patrice Robitaille) to a small town where...
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Isolation Billy O'Brien Published Jan 01, 2006Isolation is The Thing on a farm. Dan, a proud Irishman, lets a research firm experiment on his stock for a promised cash payment. Trouble s...
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Whole New Thing Amnon Buchbinder Published Jan 01, 2006Newcomer Aaron Webber plays Emerson Thorson, a home-educated adolescent sent to public school because of his poor math skills. His mother, K...
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Evil Aliens Jake West Published Jan 01, 2006The first half of Evil Aliens plays more like Porky's than a sci-fi film, complete with big-breasted women and the wet dreams they inspire....
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Mrs. Henderson Presents Stephen Frears Published Dec 01, 2005It's hard to believe that the same man who directed My Beautiful Laundrette, Prick Up Your Ears and Dirty Pretty Things is responsible for t...
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The Golden Girls: The Complete Third Season Published Dec 01, 2005It's easy to dismiss The Golden Girls as pop culture junk. After all, sitcoms in 1987 usually solved problems in approximately 19 minutes; y...
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An Angel At My Table Jane Campion Published Dec 01, 2005The true introvert is an anomaly in a culture that prizes extroversion. Janet Frame, the subject of Jane Campion's An Angel At My Table, was...