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Movie lines that salvaged the summer

The summer film season was kind of a dud, but some catchy dialogue helped redeem it

 
 
 
 

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Film review: Drive is a white-knuckle, existential film noir

Ryan Gosling delivers a cool but alert performance in character-driven action thriller


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Film review: The Lion King gets new dimension

Disney’s hand-drawn animated epic remains a classic of the art


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Contagion

'Contagion' catches box office lead

"Contagion" gripped filmgoers as the thriller about the race to contain a deadly virus took hold of the top spot at the domestic box office and knocked hit drama "The Help" to second place.


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Lutter

Victoria filmmaker's dream is now reality

Jeremy Lutter's short film goes into production after winning an award


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Spurlock

Would you buy this story?

Movie on product placement is hilarious and disturbing, but it's also a bit dated


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Gray

Tribute to a life well told

Spalding Gray has the last word in Soderbergh's expertly edited homage


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Victoria animator on a roll

New production, a science-fiction/martial arts hybrid, attracts major support


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Local movie theatre screening film for a good cause

Theatre happy to help soccer team’s fundraiser to benefit Victoria General Hospital’s cancer clinic


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Timing is everything

Mulroney: The Opera a cartoonish fable that seems tailor-made for Canada's current political landscape


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Movies: Nanaimo-born writer stuck to his guns when he shopped Hanna script around

B.C. writer stuck to his guns when he was shopping his script around


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Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody's new movie shot on Vancouver Island

You won't find it on the provincial government's list of Olympics spinoffs, but the 2010 Winter Games were partly responsible for Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody's latest movie being filmed on Vancouver...


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Digital in the house

It's bye-bye celluloid — satellites are beaming more movies into multiplex theatres


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Film executive takes on a labour of love

Film executive takes on a labour of love as he heads a new label devoted to releasing meticulously restored movie titles that have never been released for home entertainment


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J.K. Rowling biopic brings magic to Victoria streets

Parts of downtown Victoria will be transformed into Scotland, England and Portugal for a biopic about J.K. Rowling that is shooting several scenes here


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Best Bets - Oscars

There are bound to be a few surprises when the Oscars are handed out — there always are

If you haven't yet experienced The King's Speech, relax. You'll be hearing one — King George VI's acceptance speech, that is — on Sunday night when Colin Firth is crowned during the Academy...


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Film Reviews: The Other Woman, Matchmaker

Writer-director Don Roos unfortunately fails to live up to the promise of his dark, subversive romantic-comedy The Opposite of Sex with this uneven yet intermittently compelling vehicle for Natalie Portman...


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