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Crime/Comedy
Thriller
The Company You Keep
Pain & Gain
Drama
Comedy
Children of the screen
The Big Wedding
To the Wonder
Director. Justin Zackham
Director. Terrence Malick
Stars. Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Stanley Tucci
Stars. Amanda Seyfried, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon
Stars. Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko
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The real-life tale of three Miami-based body builders (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) who abduct a prominent local businessman (Tony Shalhoub) in a plot to grab his wealth is so outlandish that director Michael Bay flashes up a graphic in the last half hour reminding us this is “STILL a true story.” Playing like an episode of CSI: Miami performed by the Three Stooges, this is a violent, funny movie featuring likeable actors playing unlikeable people. richard
Robert Redford does triple duty as actor, producer and director on the story of Jim Grant, an ex-member of a radical activist group, in hiding since a robbery resulted in the death of a security guard 30 years ago. When one of his former associates (Susan Sarandon) turns herself in, Grant goes on the lam, pursued by the FBI and a dogged reporter (Shia LaBeouf). An all-star cast (Nick Nolte, Terrence Howard and Julie Christie) fuels this political thriller. Trouble is, there aren’t many thrills. richard crouse
All the pretty lakeside country homes, big stars and cool clothes can’t save this family gathering comedy from instant oblivion. Flat humour leaning on fart, barf and orgasm jokes and painfully inauthentic dialogue is just the start. The actors are clearly giving their all, but they’re licked. Copping feels at dinner is about as funny as it gets. A blended family of one dimensional “types” dredges up its dirty secrets on the eve of the son’s wedding; this gives them license to act out.
Love it or despise it, Terrence Malick’s work has a shrewd signature. Following up The Tree of Life, the equally poetic To the Wonder stars Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko in disparate stages of love. But of course, like any Malick movie, narrative takes a back seat to sweeping scores, gorgeous shots of streams and fields and an abundance of elegiac voice-over. To the Wonder may not be wondrously sleek storytelling but it’s certainly worth consideration.
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Steve gow
Director. Michael Bay
Director. Robert Redford
Stars. Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie
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“I have a big thing about child actors, and that is I have an aversion to child actors who ‘act’ as opposed to child actors who can be natural, who can be real … Scarlett Johansson was a kid when we did The Horse Whisperer and I was very concerned if a child looked like they were acting it would be like fingernails on a blackboard.” Robert Redford, who stars along with acting newcomer Jackie Evancho in the film The Company You Keep. the canadian press
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