http://www.straight.com/content/rss/movies en http://www.straight.com/article-298845/vancouver/diary-wimpy-kid One never finds is a kiddie movie that is funny to all, despite featuring a central character so awful that adults are shocked it ever got made. Until Diary of a Wimpy Kid. 298845 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:30:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298845/vancouver/diary-wimpy-kid#comments Ron Yamauchi files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_WimpyKid.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_WimpyKid.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-298841/vancouver/bounty-hunter Is there one laugh in the soul-maiming action-comedy The Bounty Hunter, you ask? 298841 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:45:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298841/vancouver/bounty-hunter#comments Patty Jones files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_BountyHunter.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_BountyHunter.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-298784/vancouver/repo-men Under capitalism, everything has a price...including our own bodily organs. In Repo Men, the rules of the game have changed. 298784 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:01:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298784/vancouver/repo-men#comments Mark Harris files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_RepoMen.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_RepoMen.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-298145/vancouver/dragons-head-wrangler-tells-beastly-tale Like all the best people working in comedy, Dean DeBlois appreciates a good boob joke. Not that the perfectly silly one in the writer-director’s new 3-D animated film is very naughty. 298145 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:30:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298145/vancouver/dragons-head-wrangler-tells-beastly-tale#comments Patty Jones http://www.straight.com/article-298148/vancouver/capturing-rocks-bad-girls-runaways You don’t have to have seen The Runaways, the new biopic about Joan Jett’s early years as a teenage rocker, to know the directorial flair of Floria Sigismondi, an Italian-born, Canadian-raised filmmaker now based in the U.S. 298148 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:25:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298148/vancouver/capturing-rocks-bad-girls-runaways#comments Ken Eisner http://www.straight.com/article-298129/vancouver/runaways First-time feature director Floria Sigismondi gets plenty right in The Runaways, her fantastically colour-saturated, retro-looking love letter to the world’s first female rock band. 298129 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:20:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298129/vancouver/runaways#comments Mike Usinger http://www.straight.com/article-298139/vancouver/midaugust-lunch In this charming trifle, first-time director Gianni Di Gregorio plays a put-upon, middle-aged pleasure seeker who is genially struggling to get from day to day. 298139 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:15:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298139/vancouver/midaugust-lunch#comments Ken Eisner files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_Mid-August_2204.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_Mid-August_2204.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-298140/vancouver/cooking-stella Indie film veterans Don McKellar and Lisa Ray star as Michael and Maya, fresh to Canada’s diplomatic compound in the capital of India, New Delhi. 298140 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:10:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298140/vancouver/cooking-stella#comments Ken Eisner files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_Cooking2_2204.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_Cooking2_2204.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-298141/vancouver/inferno Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea’s documentary account of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1964 Inferno is fascinating for a number of reasons. 298141 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:05:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298141/vancouver/inferno#comments Mark Harris files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_Inferno_2204.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_Inferno_2204.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-298143/vancouver/don-mckellar-cooks-tasty-passage-india Don McKellar hadn’t planned for his role in Cooking With Stella to be an exercise in method acting, but the same kinds of culture shock happening on-screen were occurring every day while he was shooting the film in India. 298143 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:30:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298143/vancouver/don-mckellar-cooks-tasty-passage-india#comments Janet Smith http://www.straight.com/article-298083/vancouver/new-dvdbluray-everybodys-fine-fantastic-mr-fox-stargate-atlantis-men-who-stare-goats-twilight-saga-new- DVD/Blu-ray releases for March 23, 2010. 298083 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298083/vancouver/new-dvdbluray-everybodys-fine-fantastic-mr-fox-stargate-atlantis-men-who-stare-goats-twilight-saga-new-#comments http://www.straight.com/article-298052/vancouver/twilight-saga-new-moons-cameron-bright-no-stranger-controversy Regardless of whether you love or loathe The Twilight Saga, there’s no denying its popularity. And New Moon's Cameron Bright would know. 298052 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:24:00 -0700 http://www.straight.com/article-298052/vancouver/twilight-saga-new-moons-cameron-bright-no-stranger-controversy#comments Helen Halbert files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_NewMoon_Cameron.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_NewMoon_Cameron.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-297585/vancouver/shes-out-my-league She's Out of My League is designed to be the perfect date movie for guys who don’t actually date. 297585 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:41:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-297585/vancouver/shes-out-my-league#comments John Lekich files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_ShesOutoMyLeague_2204.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_ShesOutoMyLeague_2204.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-297578/vancouver/green-zone Green Zone director Paul Greengrass really is a master of action. But there seems something unfair and cunning about applying the look of documentaries to docudramas. 297578 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-297578/vancouver/green-zone#comments Ron Yamauchi files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_GreenZone.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_GreenZone.jpg http://www.straight.com/article-296903/vancouver/spring-film-fests-defy-odds Technically, it’s still winter outside, but spring has sprung as far as film festivals are concerned. 296903 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:40:00 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-296903/vancouver/spring-film-fests-defy-odds#comments Ken Eisner files/imagecache/mobile_image/images/wide/MOV_SpringFilmFest_2203.jpg files/imagecache/mobile_image_thumb/images/wide/MOV_SpringFilmFest_2203.jpg