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Holocaust docu-drama heads 'Inside Hana's Suitcase'

Posted on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

A Holocaust movie that deftly manages to strike a balance between the heartbreaking and the hopeful, docu-drama Inside Hana’s Suitcase follows the story of one Jewish family, a determined Japanese teacher and more than a few twists of fate, all connected by a rogue piece of luggage.

Requiem for a king: ‘This Is It’ offers fans last look at MJ

Posted on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

Kenny Ortega admits that his initial reaction to being asked to helm a Michael Jackson documentary mere months after the King of Pop’s shocking death was a firm no.

Catherine O’Hara goes wild in sorrowful take on a classic

Posted on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

“Wanna go up on the hill and play war?”

Not exactly how Canadian comedic icon Catherine O’Hara expected to be greeted by her Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze when she arrived at his house, but appropriately whimsical, impulsive and blissfully innocent considering the film they were making together.

A love story without sex? 'Bright Star' does the impossible

Posted on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

Oscar winning writer-director Jane Campion certainly had her work cut out for her with Bright Star.

Not only is the main character long since dead Romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) but his passionate romance with witty fashionista Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) is largely played out on paper and not, as is so often the case, in the bedroom. Try selling that to a "Girls Gone Wild"-reared society.

Trailer Park Boys go back to basics for their final crusade

Posted on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

It may seem hard to believe that it's been 10 years since Ricky, Julian and Bubbles first entered into the zeitgeist as three deadbeat yokels who lived in, wait for it, a trailer park and consistently butted heads with the boozy park supervisor Jim Lahey and of course, the law.