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AVATAR
Titanic’s James Cameron with a big 3D sci-fi thriller
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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS?
Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker as a dysfunctional couple on the verge of divorce – who get sentenced to the witness protection program.
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1. THE HANGOVER:
Guys in Vegas for a bachelor party awaken to find that one is married, another is missing a front tooth, another finds a baby in the closet, and there’s a tiger in the room. They have a police car too .. oh yes – and the groom is missing. What was in that tequila? This one was a huge moneymaker – crude sexual humour, but theatres were packed. Brad Cooper stars along with the bizarre Zack Galifianikis. Rated 18A.
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2. INGLORIOUS BASTERDS:
Quentin Tarentino is over the top with this rewriting of a piece of WWII history as Brad Pitt leads a group of Jewish-American soldiers in a plot against Hitler. An odd and quirky telling marked by some brilliant performances, especially from Christoph Waltz as a German office who will make your blood run cold. Rated 14A.
3. G-FORCE:
So … you have trained hamsters and Guinea pigs, the voices of Nicolas Cage and the previously mentioned Zack Galifinaikis, and Penelope Cruz along with a story out of a relatively beign science fiction thriller, and you remember that it’s the rodents that are the trained operatives, and there’s your story. Plays best to ages 8 to 13, and can be endured by adults, but only if appropriately fortified. Rated PG.
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4. INGLORIOUS BASTERDS:
Quentin Tarentino’s favourite movie genre is the spaghetti western, and you can see that in this film which begins in much the same fashion as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, complete with haunting music and long, slow camera dolly shots.
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946):
Easily my favourite Christmas movie, this one was a financial and critical failure when it was released. When the copyright expired due to a clerical error in the ‘70s, it fell into the public domain, got picked up by network television for free, and became one of the biggest Christmas movies of all time, a quarter-century later.
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INVICTUS
South Africa in 1990 – 95 under Nelson Mandela, and the World Cup of Rugby. Great film, historically accurate with excellent direction by Clint Eastwood and a starring turn by Morgan Freeman as Mandela.
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THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
Return to hand-drawn animation, the first African-American Disney princess, and Voodoo in New Orleans make this one a good ride, lots of music that the kids will love, but maybe too scary for the under-five set.
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