DVD: Mademoiselle Chambon (PG)
Any love story about pained longing at a train station will inevitably draw comparisons to classic David Lean/Noel Coward romance, Brief Encounter.
December 9, 2011
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Any love story about pained longing at a train station will inevitably draw comparisons to classic David Lean/Noel Coward romance, Brief Encounter.
“It’s on the news, that means it’s real,” maintains Charlie (Riley Griffiths) to his best pal, Joseph (Joel Courtney).
Back in the mid noughties, you couldn’t move for marching and dancing penguins, so there’s something vaguely out-of-date about this Jim Carrey kids book adaptation.
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I know how busy Washington University students are during the semester, so there are probably a lot of movies you wanted to see but just couldn’t find the time to. Here are ten movies to watch over winter break (or during reading week, when anything seems better than studying some more). “50/50â€: Wash
Not quite as fun or droll as Kenneth Branagh’s Thor but a lot better than the woeful Green Lantern, Captain America is a middling Marvel adaptation, which starts nicely but flags (the lengthy action scenes mainly) half-way through.
Todd Haynes’s first, hugely successful Hangover caper was innovative, crude and funny, the lead characters – decent Doug (Justin Bartha), indecent Phil (Bradley Cooper), unhinged Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and neurotic Stu (Ed Helms) – were obnoxious but still endearing, particularly Helms’s bullied dentist.
Harry Potter’s film incarnation can now settle where he belongs – the pre-Christmas shopping melee.
# movies But first the comedic/folksy/funky/ sugalumpy duo needs a story, says Bret McKenzie (the non-bespectacled half). You don’t have much going on these days—maybe you should write one for them