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Ricki and the Flash Written by Diablo Cody Directed by Jonathan Demme Starring Meryl Streep, Mamie Gummer, Rick Springfield and Kevin Kline Rating 3.5 / 5 Meryl Streep can now play solid rock guitar, wail and swagger like a rocker and that’s another feather in her cap. The woman is …
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TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto on now until Sept. 6 Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque at TIFF Bell Lightbox spends Summer in Italy once again this year. It’s much loved annual programme of classic Italian film from its golden age – post war to the seventies - includes the works of masters and their …
Written and directed by Woody Allen Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Parker Posey Rating 4/5 Woody Allen fans have reason to celebrate Irrational Man, his strongest film in years. Allen’s contemporary versions of the romantic crime comedies of Nick and Nora Charles have been a mixed bag …
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Directed by Judd Apatow Written by and Starring Amy Schumer Comedy 3/5 Amu Schumer, reportedly the latest second coming in female comic, hits so many buttons in Trainwreck your head will spin. That’s the intention, of course, rolling, shock-based laughter via equal opportunity disses, putdowns, …
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Directed by Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin With the Voices of Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Jennifer Saunders, Steve Carrell Rating 3/5 Minions! Those crazy yellow hydrant looking hellions – who do everything en masse and scream in a bastardized pan-Europe/Asian/American language – are …
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