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  • Defendor
    Woody Harrelson plays Arthur Poppington, a.k.a. Defendor, a black-clad vigilante who fights crime with eye-stinging lime juice, jars of angry wasps and handfuls of tossed marbles. Set in Hamilton, the story by Canadian actor-turned-director Peter Stebbings finds Defendor up against a bent cop (Elias Koteas)

  • Shutter Island
    Leonardo DiCaprio, pictured, plays a U.S. Marshal sent to an island penitentiary/ mental hospital somewhere in the seas off Boston in 1954 to investigate a classic locked-door mystery. An infanticidal maniac has escaped from her cell. Director Martin Scorsese sets our teeth on edge with a collection of off-

  • Good for what ails
    HELEN -- ---

  • Arrested development
    THE GHOST WRITER -- ---

  • Last Train Home
    Lixin Fan's moving documentary looks at the hardships of over 130 million migrant factory workers in China. Fan's work goes from daunting facts and cinematography illustrating the largest human migration in the world to intimate conversations with a couple who spend about one week a year with their 16-year-

  • Manic pixie dream boy meets girl
    AT HOME BY MYSELF ...WITH YOU -- ---

  • The Crazies
    Deadwood's Timothy Olyphant, pictured, steps into a similar role as sheriff in this remake of the 1973 cult classic by George A. Romero. This Crazies still revolves around a biological weapon shipment gone wrong, which leads to infecting people with a disease, the symptoms of which include wide eyes, facial

  • The Messenger
    Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster play U.S. Army casualty notification officers, tasked with visiting deceased soldiers' next of kin and telling them Little Johnny won't be coming home. They epitomize an interesting dynamic I've not yet seen portrayed on film; that of relations between veterans of the first an

  • What $600 will buy you these days
    ZOOEY & ADAM -- ---

  • Cop Out
    The latest from Kevin Smith is the nearest one could come to a remake of Beverly Hills Cop without facing a lawsuit. Bruce Willis takes the role of the balding, bullet-headed, no-nonsense cop. Tracy Morgan, pictured, plays the black cop, a role that originally went to Eddie Murphy. What passes for plot woul

  • When A-listers attack, repeatedly
    BROOKLYN'S FINEST -- ---

  • Tim Burton succeeds in creating new world without use of blue people
    Selected excerpts from reviews of Alice in Wonderland.

  • Absolutely frabjous
    There are certain directors for whom failure is better than many a filmmaker's success. Terry Gilliam springs to mind (although he's overdue for a hit). Martin Scorsese's recent Shutter Island caused The New Yorker's Anthony Lane to write of this disappointing take on B-movie tropes: "How can he hope to do

  • Jail Swell
    A PROPHET -- ---

  • The kindness of strangers
    BLIND DATE -- Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

  • I think you're getting fresh
    ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA -- Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto

  • Not Travelling Lightly
    LAST TRAIN HOME -- ---

  • Failure to land
    This month, the Popcorn Panel has been catching up on Oscar nominees that we missed the first time around. We'll return with new releases in March, starting with a live online Popcorn Panel about Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland on March 8 on The Ampersand.

  • Shutter Island
    Leonardo DiCaprio, pictured, plays a U.S. Marshal sent to an island penitentiary/ mental hospital somewhere in the seas off Boston in 1954 to investigate a classic locked-door mystery. An infanticidal maniac has escaped from her cell. Director Martin Scorsese sets our teeth on edge with a collection of off-

  • A Special Delivery
    THE MESSENGER -- ---