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musical

trailers adewale akinnuoye-agbaje, annie, bobby canavale, cameron diaz, jamie foxx, musical, quvenzhané wallis, rose byrne, will gluk

A Hard Knock Life: ANNIE Trailer

March 12, 2014

Is there perhaps one genre that lends itself to film remakes?

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF antonia thomas, dexter fletcher, freya mavor, george mackay, jane horrocks, jason flemyng, kevin guthrie, musical, peter mullan, sunshine on leith, the proclaimers, TIFF 2013

SUNSHINE ON LEITH plays TIFF 2013

September 18, 2013

Thought the book was written
Thought the game had ended
Thought the song was sung
…but then TIFF sung another

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 2 stars, amanda seyfried, anne hathaway, colm wilkinson, eddie redmayne, helena bonham-carter, hugh jackman, les miserables, musical, russell crowe, sacha baron cohen, samantha barks, tom hooper

LES MISERABLES

December 20, 2012

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? They are fans of broadway musicals, disappointed yet again.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 2 stars, anna camp, anna kendrick, brittany snow, comedy, musical, pitch perfect, rebel wilson, skylar astin

PITCH PERFECT

October 14, 2012

I sat down hoping to be aca-tained, but two hours later I just found myself aca-pointed.

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Ryan McNeil
watchin' & writin' andrea martin, cult, hedwig and the angry inch, john cameron mitchell, michael pitt, miriam shor, musical, stephen trask

Another Day: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

September 21, 2012

Ten years ago, a conversation about one movie changed the course of my life. Ten years later, I still really love the movie, and the person shared that conversation.

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Ryan McNeil
trailers amanda seyfried, anne hathaway, helena bonham-carter, hugh jackman, musical, russel crowe, sacha baron cohen, tom hooper

Do You Hear The People Sing? – LES MISÉRABLES Trailer

May 30, 2012

…Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again

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Ryan McNeil
reviews antoinette noufaily, claude baz moussawbaa, comedy, drama, foreign, julian farhat, lebanese, leyla hakim, musical, nadine labaki, yvonne maalouf

WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (ET MAINTENANT ON VA OÙ?)

May 27, 2012

When you’ve managed to build a delicate religious harmony, you sometimes have to get creative in how you protect it.

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Ryan McNeil
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