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Tag: jim broadbent

reviews

BROOKLYN

Walking through the golden door is sometimes just the beginning. What awaits on the other side is what makes for stories like BROOKLYN.

Posted on November 20, 2015November 28, 2015
reactions, screenings, TIFF

BROOKLYN plays TIFF 2015

Something sweet in the midst of all this festival heaviness.

Posted on September 15, 2015September 18, 2015
trailers

Thunder On the Mountain: BIG GAME Trailer

Time to party like it’s 1995…

Posted on January 6, 2015January 11, 2015
reactions, TIFF

BIG GAME plays TIFF 2014

It’s not enough to act fun, sometimes you actually have to be fun.

Posted on September 8, 2014September 11, 2014
reviews

CLOUD ATLAS

An audacious new film poses the theory that our lives are not our own: That we are bound to others – past and present. Can it make its case with grace? Or miss the mark from excess?

Posted on October 26, 2012November 30, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

CLOUD ATLAS Plays TIFF 2012

The creators of RUN LOLA RUN and THE MATRIX have come together on a project that is amazingly venturesome.

Posted on September 16, 2012September 11, 2020
reviews

THE IRON LADY

Over the last ten or twelve years, Meryl Streep has given moviegoers some of the very best performances they have ever witnessed. This isn’t one of them.

Posted on February 12, 2012April 9, 2013
reviews

ANOTHER YEAR

It’s Amazing How Desirable The Simple Life Can Be For Those That Don’t Have One.

Posted on February 20, 2011March 31, 2012
reviews

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

Six down, two to go.

Posted on July 15, 2009July 25, 2012
trailers

Magic Trick – HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Trailer

Way back when, a few million fans would have been all a-tingle with excitement right about now with their favorite teenaged wizard due to hit … Read More ›

Posted on October 29, 2008November 15, 2018
reviews

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

The man in the hat is back, and this time he’s brought his fridge.

Posted on May 23, 2008November 8, 2012

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