Articles by Erin Oke

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  Disgrace

  Steve Jacobs

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

  Based on J.M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace is an incredibly bleak tale set in post-apartheid South Africa. The protagonis...

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  Nurse.Fighter.Boy

  Charles Officer

  PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008

  A project of the Canadian Film Centre, Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a sparse film about a single mother, her son and a boxer who enters their lives...

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  One Week

  Michael McGowan

  PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008

  One Week tells the story of Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson), a failed writer turned middle school English teacher who is sleepwalking through hi...

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  Hamlet 2

  Andrew Fleming

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2008

  Hamlet 2 is an uneven comedy about failed actor turned high school drama teacher Dana Marschz’s (Steve Coogan) misguided attempts to inspir...

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  The Babysitters

  David Ross

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2008

  The Babysitters is a pretty dark, oddly amoral take on suburban life. The story starts with overachieving Shirley, a 16-year-old with a cru...

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  The Visitor

  Thomas McCarthy

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2008

  Like director Thomas McCarthy’s brilliant debut feature, The Station Agent, his follow-up film, The Visitor, also tells the story of an iso...

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  Paranoid Park

  Gus Van Sant

  PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2008

  Paranoid Park is another meditation on the impact of violence on teenage life by director Gus Van Sant. This film has skater boy Alex (Gabe...

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  Persepolis

  Vincent Parronaud and Marjane Satrapi

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2008

  Adapted from filmmaker Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis is her beautiful, animated "coming of age” tale. The story begins in Ira...