]> http://vueweekly.com/film/ Films and film reviews database en meaghan@vueweekly.com Copyright 2013 2013-05-15T21:50:52+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/the_great_gatsby http://vueweekly.com/film/story/the_great_gatsby#When:21:50:52Z   That great implosion of the American Dream, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1926) pushes the Roaring '20s façade of white wealth to its glittering, bewitching extreme even as it slowly reveals the ugliness and immorality that's at its broken heart. Film Reviews 2013-05-15T21:50:52+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/in_your_dreams http://vueweekly.com/film/story/in_your_dreams#When:23:01:07Z The rock doc, like all music journalism, is ultimately about access: getting to probe a little deeper into the mind, emotions or actions of an artist, to watch them overcome hurdles or fall to the wayside, or simply to take in what their presence is actually like. Film Reviews 2013-05-08T23:01:07+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/a_cat_in_paris http://vueweekly.com/film/story/a_cat_in_paris#When:22:59:52Z The English title of Folimage studio's lovely 2010 animation feature, A Cat in Paris, may lead you to expect a film that curls, purringly, around a feline. Film Reviews 2013-05-08T22:59:52+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/iron_man_3 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/iron_man_3#When:22:56:33Z More and more, as a blockbuster's hundred$-of-million$ budget is splayed, splattered, pixellated and exploded across the green screen for tens of millions around the globe to behold, it's what's in-between the blocks getting busted that matters. Film Reviews 2013-05-08T22:56:33+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/pain_gain http://vueweekly.com/film/story/pain_gain#When:21:47:22Z Michael Bay's latest follows the basically true story of Danny Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), a dimwitted bodybuilder and personal trainer in mid-'90s Miami who enlists two musclehead friends—played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Anthony Mackie—to help him kidnap a rich businessman, torture him and force him to sign over his fortune, after which they will be free to enjoy the life of luxury that they feel they deserve simply for being Americans (and very muscular Americans at that). Film Reviews 2013-05-01T21:47:22+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/the_big_wedding http://vueweekly.com/film/story/the_big_wedding#When:21:45:19Z Ladies and gentlemen, we're gathered today for four weddings and a funeral. Film Reviews 2013-05-01T21:45:19+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/wrong http://vueweekly.com/film/story/wrong#When:21:44:41Z A van's burning as firefighters stand around, one of them unbuckling his pants and squatting down . Film Reviews 2013-05-01T21:44:41+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/ginger_rosa http://vueweekly.com/film/story/ginger_rosa#When:21:42:05Z Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) were born with the dawn of the bomb—on August 9, 1945, their mothers side by side in labour in some London…. Film Reviews 2013-05-01T21:42:05+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/the_colony http://vueweekly.com/film/story/the_colony#When:15:56:22Z   And you thought our winter was interminable? The vitamin-deficient cast of The Colony are stuck living underground full-time in the midst of an ice age forecast for the not-too-distant future. Film Reviews 2013-04-18T15:56:22+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/blood_pressure http://vueweekly.com/film/story/blood_pressure#When:15:37:56Z Dear Nicole: You don't know me, but I know you. Film Reviews 2013-04-18T15:37:56+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/a_band_called_death http://vueweekly.com/film/story/a_band_called_death#When:15:36:43Z David Hackney came up with the name for the band he'd started with his brothers Dennis and Bobby not long after their father was killed in a car accident: Death. Film Reviews 2013-04-18T15:36:43+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/evil_dead http://vueweekly.com/film/story/evil_dead#When:15:31:57Z Oh, look, another group of people have decided it's a good idea to spend some time in a run-down cabin deep in the woods, with civilization nowhere in sight. Film Reviews 2013-04-18T15:31:57+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/trance http://vueweekly.com/film/story/trance#When:15:30:23Z Trance begins with a heist gone wrong. Film Reviews 2013-04-18T15:30:23+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/battle_for_brooklyn http://vueweekly.com/film/story/battle_for_brooklyn#When:15:30:27Z Covering the proposed razing of city blocks for the building of an arena and surrounding skyscrapers, Battle for Brooklyn is a smartly constructed documentary that gets in on a multi-layered story at the ground floor. Film Reviews 2013-04-11T15:30:27+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/like_someone_in_love http://vueweekly.com/film/story/like_someone_in_love#When:15:29:35Z There is a kind of film that appeals to our need for the familiar and the established, for orientation, continuity and context. Film Reviews 2013-04-11T15:29:35+00:00 http://vueweekly.com/film/story/no http://vueweekly.com/film/story/no#When:14:54:59Z Opens Friday Directed by Pablo Larraín Princess Theatre As I write this, the papers are full of tributes to Margaret Thatcher. Film Reviews 2013-04-11T14:54:59+00:00