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Film Friday: “No.”
Well, we’re suffering from our “festival cold” two weeks after the festival ended, which is kind of odd. It probably isn’t even a festival cold at all, just a lame cold we didn’t catch from a visiting celebrity or hot-shot Hollywood producer. Actually, wait, god knows what you could catch from those people, so forget our complaint.
We could complain about the generally uninteresting selection of films this week, however. This week’s most heavily hyped is Eagle Eye, starring Shia The Beef as a guy who runs around yelling “no” a lot. The trailers for it were bizarre in that they did absolutely everything in their power to make the film make you think of Transformers (right down to font selection), and if you’re interested in having the film’s plot spoiled for you, you can read Adam Nayman’s review over at Eye, where he reveals that the film culminates in “an assassination attempt keyed to whether or not a little boy can hit an F note on his trumpet.” That was basically the plot of a South Park episode, no?
This week’s TIFF release is Miracle at St. Anna, Spike Lee’s lengthy WWII flick, though it’s been roundly derided—called “plodding” by the Star‘s Peter Howell, for one—but our favourite put-down this week is NOW‘s Norm Wilner on Nights of Rodanthe: “Audiences who like these actors in this kind of movie will get exactly what they want, but that’s not an endorsement.”
Also on release this week, Chuck Palahniuk adaptation Choke, Patti Smith documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life (previously mentioned in our Urban Planner), The Lucky Ones, Tell No One, and Shoot on Sight.
This week we’ve got a surprising number of film festivals on the go, too! The Armenian Pomegranate Film Festival is currently running, the CommFFest Community Film Festival and Student Shorts Film Festival begin tonight, and there’s an Abilities Arts Festival screening tomorrow.
And tonight’s Free Friday Film from the CINSSU is Funky Forest: The First Contact, playing at the Innis Town Hall at 7 p.m.