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Ladyfriends

Hanna is an interesting new direction for director Joe Wright who is best known for making the period dramas Pride & Prejudice and Atonement.  Unlike those films, Hanna is a contemporary action film that moves at the same accelerated pace as that of its young heroine. Hanna lives in a remote snowy woodland location with her father Erik who rigorously ...

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Paul, the story of two British nerds in America who stumble upon a fugitive alien who is trying to return to his home planet is a lovingly written homage to nerd culture by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who are both giant nerds.  As you’d expect then, the jokes, references, novetly t-shirts and cameos from sci-fi actors all hit the ...

I can’t believe it’s Friday already.  It’s a long weekend for the Queen’s Birthday! I enjoyed this clip on Youtube.  Its an advertisement for the Alama Drafthouse, a movie theatre in America that actually enforces its rules regarding mobile phone usage.  Apparently after they kicked out a girl for constantly texting, she left them a voicemail message which they now ...

Teenage Mutant

Jakes On A Train

Cheese For Moose