The Longest Yard (2005)

Genre: Sports/Drama/Comedy Starring: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, William Fichtner, James Cromwell, Dalip 'The Great Khali' Singh, Nelly, Michael IrvinEx-football super star, Paul Crewe (Sandler) is busted for drunk driving and stealing his girlfriends car. He gets sent to prison where he is unanimously hated by all the inmates...

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Black Sheep previews Hot Docs 2010

While Black Sheep is not going to be covering the 2010 Toronto Hot Docs film festival directly, it is still our great pleasure to preview some of the titles that will be featured this year.  Founded in 1993, the Hot Docs festival is committed to presenting over 150 of the best documentaries floating around the festival circuit.  This...

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Star Wars (1977)

Genre: Action/Science-fiction/Fantasy/Adventure/Drama Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guiness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones (voice), Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter MayhewThe first of the six Star Wars movies, it narrates the story of the Rebels who have won their first victory over the evil Galactic Empire....

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Black Sheep's Blu-Tuesday

By now, we've all heard about the crazy records James Cameron's AVATAR broke last week when it debuted conveniently on Earth Day, as though Cameron actually cared about the planet.  I mean, if he had allowed a portion of each AVATAR copy sold to go toward some form of environmental cause, I might feel differently about it but sadly,...

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Clash of the Titans (2010)

Genre: Fantasy/Action/Adventure/Drama Starring: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralf Fiennes, Gemma ArtertonA remake of the 1981 film with the same name, the movie narrates the story of Perseus (Worthington) the illegitimate son of Zeus (Neeson). Zeus created human-kind and all the gods lived on human worshipping except for Hades (Fiennes)...

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Black Sheep @ The Box Office

Not to take away from the great and rare feat that HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON accomplished this weekend by returning to the number one spot in its fifth week of release but what a boring weekend at the box office it is regardless.  It hardly even seems worth reporting.  You know what?  I'm not really going to report that much...

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OCEANS

Written and Directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques CluzaudNarrated by Pierce BrosnanNarrator: Down here, it’s like nature has given everything a try.I’ve never been particularly fascinated with the vast bodies of water known as the planet’s oceans. Sit me in a movie theatre though and immerse me in one of those bodies on the big screen and...

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Green Zone (2010)

Genre: War/History/Action/Drama/ThrillerStarring: Matt Damon, Yigal Naor, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan, Khalid AbdallaBased on the US invasion of Iraq, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) is given the task to search specific locations to look for weapons of mass destruction. Each of the sites he goes to are found empty and...

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Dragonball Evolution (2009)

Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy Starring: Justin Chatwin, Yun-Fat Chow, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, James Marsters, Joon ParkTwo thousand years ago, an evil warlord Piccolo (Marsters) descended upon Earth along with his disciple Ozaru. A group of monks used their powers to confine Piccolo and bring peace on Earth. Piccolo has escaped from his...

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THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

Written and Directed by Juan Jose CampanellaStarring Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil and Guillermo FrancellaIf in fact the secret is truly in their eyes, as is announced like some new revelation in the title of this 2010 Oscar winner for Foreign Language Film, THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS), then it must never have been...

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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Genre: Drama/Romance/Comedy Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George PeppardA New York socialite, Holly Golightly (Hepburn) leads a very typical life for a woman of her kind, socialising and fantasising about attaining a lot of wealth and fame and hoping to marry a filthy rich man very soon. She has a new neighbour, Paul Varjak (Peppard) who is an...

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Fighting (2009)

Genre: Drama/Sport/Action Starring: Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Zulay Henao, Brian J. WhiteShawn MacArthur (Tatum) takes on underground street fighting in a bid to make some money. Harvey (Howard) was first to spot Shawn and the talent he holds and becomes his agent, getting fights for him. Shawn and Harvey start making good and quick...

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Black Sheep @ The Box Office

Well, I don't know if anyone saw that coming.  Just three weeks after HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON debuted to what was being called a disappointing result at number one, the Dreamworks 3D adventure rises above the much hyped KICK-ASS to reclaim the top spot and throw it in the faces of all those  losers who sold their Dreamworks Animation...

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

Written by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus HeisterbergDirected by Niels Arden OplevStarring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi RapaceMikael Blomkvist: As we’ve been sharing files recently, I assume you’re up to date.Expectations are tricky to avoid when you watch a movie from the last year that has already generated enough international buzz to warrant a...

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The International (2009)

Genre: Drama/Action/Crime/Mystery/ThrilerStarring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armon Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Bryne, Ulrich ThomsenThe International Bank of Business & Credit (IBBC) has been linked with funding terrorist activities. Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Owen) learns that the bank purchases weapons manufactured in China and sells...

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Monsters vs Aliens

Genre: Animation/Drama/Comedy/Science-fiction/FantasyStarring (voice): Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn WilsonMonsters exist on Earth but have been closely kept under wraps by the United States government for 50 years. It is so secret that the President himself doesn't know of its existence...

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Fracture (2007)

Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery/ThrillerStarring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, Rosamund Pike, Billy Burke, Cliff CurtisTed Crawford (Hopkins) a wealthy businessman, who murders his wife when he learns of her affair with police officer Rob Nunally (Burke). Ted admits to the crime and goes on trial, acting as his own attorney. Willy Beachum (Gosling)...

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Showgirls (1995)

Genre: Drama Starring: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Gina RaveraLas Vegas, the land of opportunities, ambitions and ultimate doom. Thousands of people come here to fulfill their deepest desires and only a handful ever get there. Nomi Malone (Berkley) was one such random face in a huge crowd who came to...

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Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Genre: Drama/History/Biography/CrimeStarring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Nathalie Bay, Amy AdamsUSA, 1963, the concept of a cheque payment was relatively new and it attracted a lot of fraudulent cheque depositing practices. Frank Abegnale Jr. (DiCaprio) ran away from home at an early age and slowly learnt the way of...

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Black Sheep's Blu-Tuesday

Now that Easter is out of the way and AVATAR is right around the corner, there isn't much in the way of big home entertainment releases happening this week. Who needs to rent something tonight with the return of GLEE on anyway? Still, there are a few releases you might find interesting and here they are ...APOLLO 13It's been fifteen years...

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Poseidon (2006)

Genre: Drama/Action/Adventure Starring: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Mia Maestro, Mike Vogel, Jimmy BennettThe third remake of the book, The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico, the story describes a group of people trapped in a sinking ship, trying to make their way out of it. A new years eve...

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Black Sheep @ The Box Office

My apologies for missing the box office last weekend.  It was my birthday weekend and I was a little wrecked on Sunday.  Just a little though.  I still had enough juice to check out HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, which I thought was plenty funny, if not a little too good to be true in the end.  Maybe casting Steve Carrell in the...

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