Broken Lizard is the comedy team that produced Super Troopers, a surprisingly hilarious, offbeat comedy. With maple chugging contests, and State Troopers saying ‘Meow’, it’s humour that you can’t explain, but is solid gold on the big screen. Their next movie, Club Dread, was considered ‘unwatchable’, but I still enjoyed it for the smoking hot […]
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While I do like fast paced, edgy indie films, or breathtaking, water drip dramas, there will always be a special place in my cerebellum for Mary Poppins. My mother used to watch it with me when I was a little kid it was one of her favourite movies that and the Sound of Music and
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I rented this movie last night because I saw that Ang Lee, director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed and wrote this movie glorifying Chinese cuisine, linking it to romance and sensuality. It’s called Eat Drink Man Woman, or Yin Shi Nan Nu in Mandarin, and it was Lee’s first movie filmed
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I saw this movie twice on the weekend, as strange as that may seem and even found it endlessly amusing the second time. A Prairie Home Companion is Robert Altman’s latest movie fans of Altman’s work will find that he’s at his tranquil best here, passing up an epic story to etch out an impressive
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One of Woody Allen’s most loved films, Manhattan takes a picturesque black and white tour of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Filmed in 1979, the vintage look of the film make it feel like we’re jazz cats in the 20s, or beatniks in the 50s, sitting on a bench by the 59th
The full name of this movie is Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. As soon as I heard the name, I knew that I was going to see it. I first saw Borat on the Ali G show in the UK. He was mildly funny. Ali G in the
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A new comedy from France’s Francis Veber, who wrote and directed the delightful Diner de Cons, comes the latest in the Francois Pignon series, Le Valet. I had planned to watch Almodovar’s Volver this weekend, but I saw the Palace Verona was showing Le Valet and dropped Spanish for French. I’ll leave Volver for Tracy
I recently watched High Fidelity again it’s even better now that I’ve become old enough to be surly enough to be jaded. What? It’s a 2000 film based on Nick Hornby’s novel, and the movie plays out like a giant clockwork golem great pacing, amazing narration and interesting dialogue make it so rewatchable. The cast
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Canadian Bacon movie poster John Candy’s last completed film, and the only non-documentary made my Michael Moore, Canadian Bacon is a hilarious satire of US-Canada relations, and has a certain dire edge in face of the current American incarnation. It’s technically an American film, but Canadians have claimed it for our own. after all, Michael
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Dave Chappelle is a manically raving lunatic who, if he was wearing a dirty trenchcoat and drinking a 40oz bottle of malt, you’d assume to be some sort of dangerous hobo. Give him a ravenous all star hiphop lineup, though, et il est le roi. He is The King. Back in 2004, Dave Chappelle was
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