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DVD Tuesdays: January 24, 2012

This week’s releases include: a cancer drama made lighter; a Woody Allen masterpiece; director Billy Wilder’s best picture winner; a man giving up everything for love; a spy with a difficult choice to make; a found-footage horror prequel; Rocky with …

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Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady

Review: The Iron Lady

How far would you be willing to go to display a truly brilliant performance? That is bound to be the question on the minds of anyone wandering out of

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Books on Film Club: The Orchid Thief and Adaptation

I finished Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief with about 20 minutes to spare before its film adaptation, aptly titled Adaptation, screened at TIFF Bell Lightbox this week.

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Julie & Julia at the Epicure’s Revue

This month’s installment of the Epicure’s Revue, taking place this Wednesday, November 17,  features the beloved Julia Child with a screening of Julie & Julia. The 2009 film,

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DVD Tuesdays: November 9, 2010

This week’s releases include presentations from several acclaimed directors as well as a few strained relationships: a young woman is forced to choose between tradition and a new

DVD Tuesdays – March 23, 2010

It is like they plan this in advance - great movies out on a rainy day!  There is something good for everyone from the child,

New Sendak adaptation to be included on Wild Things DVD

The National Film Board and Warner Home Video have just announced that a new live-action animated short film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Higglety

Review: It’s Complicated

When someone submits and agrees to indulge themselves in a Nancy Meyers film, it ignites this certain sense of familiarity - a picturesque IKEA universe, bubbly fumbling

DVD Tuesday – December 8, 2009

The good variety keeps on this Tuesday with a Harry Potter, a Meryl Streep and a Johnny Depp but you can go wrong with the Ben Stiller,

Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson’s latest feature, Fantastic Mr. Fox, is simultaneously silly, surreal, and contemplative, making an artful turn of his signature style.