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Weekend Viewing: September 25 to 27

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Written by April Yorke   
Friday, 25 September 2009 00:00

FameI'm delighted to tell you that after a brief "Weekend Viewing" hiatus, there are tonnes (yes, metric tonnes) of movies to go see this weekend. Yippee!

On the Hollywood side of things there's the Fame remake, which sounds like it might not be too bad as it hews closely to the original's formula (no protagonist, just moments from four years of hard work), Pandorum, staring (Cult)ure fav Ben Foster, and Surrogates, where people have surrogates and Bruce Willis solves crimes and it's all fairly boring-looking. 

Much like our dear Mr. Foster, in the Canada column we've got the second TBP movie, Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day, which promises to be funny and inventively profane. 

Speaking of inventively profane,  run to the Bytowne to check out In the Loop before it's gone. The never-seen US President and UK Prime Minister fancy themselves a Middle Eastern war, and it's up to the rest of government to find a reason why. Naturally, it's a satire.

In the same "don't miss it" column is The Hurt Locker this weekend at the Mayfair, a movie which I cannot tout enough. Allow me to tell you this in all honesty: those movies are currently tied in my mind for best of the year. Make of that what you will.

Also opening this weekend at ye olde Bytowne is Bright Star, which I believe will launch stars Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw into Serious Actor territory.

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Last Updated on Friday, 25 September 2009 07:19
 

April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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