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David Mamet's Kung-Fu Comebacknew
He's back in shape with the martial-arts thriller Redbelt.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
05-09-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: David Mamet, Redbelt
'Speed Racer' is a Migraine in Movie Formnew
The Wachowskis have used their skills as visual craftsmen to replicate the tics and wild stylization of the original. The results are at times amusing, at least in a "I can't believe there's actually a chimpanzee flying through the air against a streaky neon background" sense, and at most other times, nauseating.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
05-09-2008 |
Reviews
Kool, It's the Kinks Konvention!new
Some of Montreal's most passionate guys and gals -- including the Besnard Lakes, Bionic, Sunday Sinners, along with members of the Stills and Apostle of Hustle -- are getting together to pay tribute to the dark brown voices of the British Invasion during the first-ever Kinks Konvention.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
05-09-2008 |
Music
'Then She Found Me' is a Well-Made, Bittersweet Motherhood Dramanew
Fertility, and its opposite, are suddenly a bit of a Hollywood hot topic. While Tina Fey's Baby Mama runs with the comic approach to the subject, Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me is a much more bittersweet dramatic take.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
05-02-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Helen Hunt, Then She Found Me
Fatih Akin on His Complex 'The Edge of Heaven'new
For most filmgoers, the network narrative has become a crashing bore. But the Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin's latest film reinvigorates this screenwriting ploy, breathing new life into something I'd written off for dead.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
Robyn Returns in Command of Her Own Careernew
While many of her tabloid-bait contemporaries have crashed and burned, today the 28-year-old Swede is a comeback queen.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robyn
'Infidelities' Explores the Struggles of Croatians at Home and Abroadnew
Novakovich's collection of short stories represents a departure from the standard narrative of Eastern Europeans leaving the old country behind. It flows from a more fluid consciousness, able to shift between the horrors, joys and ordinary realities of both worlds.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
05-02-2008 |
Fiction
The Kills are on Targetnew
The duo weathered hurricanes, new-age hippies and tabloid hell to make Midnight Boom.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Kills, Midnight Boom
'Made of Honor' is a Humdrum Rom-Comnew
The leads have no chemistry, it isn't very funny, "made of honor" doesn't even make sense as a phrase, and it is definitely a waste of your time.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
05-02-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Made of Honor, Paul Weiland
'Rainbow Six Vegas 2' is Not Quite a Pot of Goldnew
Sometimes one botched sequel is enough to send the money train off the tracks. Ubisoft Montreal's latest is not that sequel -- in fact, it's quite enjoyable -- but arguably not as good as the first Vegas and not a great example of the company's desire to create engaging characters and storylines.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
04-25-2008 |
Video Games
Poppin' Wheelies with Monaretanew
The Colombian-bred, Brooklyn-based duo on BMXing
in Bogota and plugged-in porros.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
04-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Harold and Kumar' Star John Cho on the Stoned Sequelnew
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay's politics are as muddled as the baked-out minds that will appreciate it best. But the very existence of a new lowbrow comedy focusing on the U.S. government's racist persecution of innocent people should give the Republicans more fright than Obamamania.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
04-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Megadeth is Not Dead Yetnew
Frontman Dave Mustaine on life after 25 years of Megadeth.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
04-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Baby Mama' is Mildly Funny but Mostly Uninspirednew
There are definitely some laughs, but the film feels lazy overall, as if someone decided that having talented comedic actors was enough and if they could just do their own thing with an OK script then a serviceable comedy would somehow just ensue.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
04-25-2008 |
Reviews
The Blue Metropolis Literary Festival Turns 10 Years Oldnew
The festival deserves a lot of credit for lasting this long and for bringing international writers to Montreal, which, because of its language quirks, remains off the beaten track for many book tours.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
04-25-2008 |
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