Riveting tale of Tolstoy and his woman

Christopher Plummer and Hellen Mirren get sexier at 60

Mildred Pierce

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Shutter makes my heart flutter

Scorsese’s stab at film noir draws first blood

Alex Mugford

Shutter Island Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, and Max Von Sydow Paramount 138 mins Rated 14A One of the most influential living American directors, Martin Scorsese has returned with the psychological film noir thriller Shutter Island. U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and his partner, Chuck Aule (Ruffalo) have been summoned to Ashecliffe Hospital, a criminal sanatorium....

Don’t push him ‘cause he’s close to the edge

Mel Gibson is a good guy gone badass

Sarah Bungay

Edge of Darkness Starring Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic, Shawn Roberts, Denis O’Hare, and Jay O. Sanders 108 mins Rated 14A By Sarah Bungay When someone’s grieving, we usually feel a sense of sorrow and pity. This is the case for sympathetic character Thomas Craven (Gibson), a Boston homicide detective who witnesses the murder of his only...

A cameo by the Lucky Charms guy couldn’t redeem Leap Year

Ireland-set movie makes reviewer uncomfortable throughout

Zaren White

Leap Year Starring Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, and Adam Scott Universal 97 mins Rated PG With the frequency that digestible, passable romantic comedies are churned out and consumed, their formulaic construction is fairly obvious to the masses. We know what to expect, and while we don’t go in expecting to be born again or have our Earth shaken, we are...

The Coen brothers' dark comic take on the Book of Job

Autobiographical Yiddish childhood story marks another cinematic triumph

Mildred Pierce

You don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate the Coen Brothers’ latest masterpiece, and Mildred really believes this is a true masterpiece. Famously autobiographical, A Serious Man comes from a place that no writer could make up. They would have had to live it, and the Coen brothers undoubtedly did. The film is set in the 1960s and stars Michael...

Soccer heroes and hooligans score

MUN Cinema Series

Mildred Pierce

A lot of people are waiting to see this marvelous biopic called The Damned United. With the huge international appeal of football you’d think this film might have reached the mainstream theatres, but, once again, someone doesn’t know what he or she is doing. In any case, MUN Cinema wisely knows there is a hungry audience in town for this...

It’s the end of the world as we know it, again

Denzel goes Mad Max

Alex Mugford

The Book of Eli Starring Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Gary Oldman, and Malcolm McDowell Warner Bros. 118 mins Rated 14A With the market being flooded with post-apocalyptic movies these past few months, one can’t help but mash all of them together for comparison. This film would be the lesser of the bunch. It’s been 30 years since the war destroyed...

New season promises diversity in films

Mildred Pierce

Col: MUN Cinema Series The Winter 2010 MUN Cinema Series begins with a musical treat, The Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould. What’s especially intriguing about the title is that it suggests that it is actually possible to show an inner life on film. But the challenge is especially daunting when it comes to someone like eccentric pianist...

George Clooney will lift you up where you don't belong

Juno's Jason Reitman comes of age as a director

Guruchathram Ledchumanan

Up In The Air Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman Paramount 109 mins 14A Up In The Air will be seen as the Jerry Maguire of the year and many more years from now, it will be seen as the It's A Wonderful Life of this era. George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who does not...

Italian studs galore

All singing, all dancing Daniel Day-Lewis and friends Sub:

Selina Pinto

Nine Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren, and Stacey Ferguson The Weinstein Company 110 mins Rated PG* From Rob Marshall, the director of Chicago, comes another playful musical about the power of women and the downfall of a star. Based on the Broadway production of the same name, the film is...

George Clooney is a stone cold fox

Wes Anderson and friends bring Roald Dahl tale to life

Guruchathram Ledchumanan

Fantastic Mr. Fox Starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe and Owen Wilson Twentieth Century Fox 87 mins Rated PG Some directors blindside you with the certainty of their vision. It’s like having a fight with your girlfriend that you can’t win. Whether or not you believe in their world, there is no question...

Cinema Series’ Last Supper of the semester reveals what’s really on your plate

Supermarket trips and lunch will never be the same

Mildred Pierce

MUN Cinema Series Mildred is squaring down on the last entry for the fall semester, the promised screening of Food Inc. You’ll recall the print failed to arrive during a perfect storm earlier in the fall. Now it’s returning for the last slot in this series. Meanwhile, plans are afoot for a winter season that promises to be exciting and...

Goats should not stare at this movie

Alex Mugford

The Men Who Stare At Goats Starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey Maple Pictures 90 mins 14A The Men Who Stare At Goats is one of the oddest movies of the year. What if the Jedi really existed? What if the government funded the “First Earth Battalion,” a secret organization to train Jedi knights in the United...

All I want for Christmas is a gimmick

Jillian Sexton

A Christmas Carol Starring Jim Carey, Gary Oldman, and Colin Firth Walt Disney Pictures 96 mins Rated PG As someone who starts listening to Christmas tunes mid-October and watches How The Grinch Stole Christmas religiously every holiday season, I was pretty excited to hear that Jim Carey is starring as Scrooge in a remake of the classic Dickens tale A...

Francis Ford Coppolla’s operatic autobiography

Nothing in it happened but it’s all true

Mildred Pierce

MUN Cinema Series Is there anyone who doesn’t pay attention to a new Francis Ford Coppola film? The Italian maestro and Californian godfather of cinema and wine has happily given us another gift from his large talent pool. Tetro is one of his finest experiments in story-telling in a long while. Coppola always delivers, but not always flawlessly. Tetro comes...