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The People I’ve Slept With: A Review

by Jaclyn Abergas June 30th, 2011 | Comedy, Independent Movie, Movie Reviews
The People I've Slept With has become a big hit in the Asian film community. Directed by Quentin Lee, written by Koji Steven Sekai and produced by Lee, Sekai and Stanley Yung, The People I've Slept With is a light romantic comedy about coming to terms with reality and committing to decisions made.

Angela Yang (played by Karina Cheung) loves sex and she's not gonna apologize for it. She even creates baseball cards of the all guys and girls she's slept with, complete with nicknames and basic information about them. And then the unthinkable happens: the stick turns blue.

Her gay
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Coming This June 3: New Releases

by Jaclyn Abergas May 31st, 2011 | Action, Comedy, Family, Independent Movie, Movie News, Sci-Fi
X-Men: First Class

A prequel to the first three X-Men movies, X-Men: First Class is set in period before Professor Xavier and Magneto became mortal enemies. Matthew Vaughn follows a younger Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr as they lead a team of mutants and save the world from nuclear annihilation and, in the process, shows us how the two powerful friends clash and break off into different missions: Professor X leadings his X-Men to fight for good and Magneto spreading destruction with his Brotherhood.

Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Caleb Landry Jones, January Jones and
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New Releases for May

by Jaclyn Abergas May 27th, 2011 | Animated, Comedy, Family, Independent Movie, Movie News
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

The fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, On Stranger Tides follows Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and his long-lost love, Angelica (Penelope Cruz), as they search for the Fountain Of Youth and confront the infamous legendary pirate, Blackbeard (Ian McShane). The fourth installment draws inspiration from the book, On Stranger Tides, written by Tim Powers.

Opens May 20, 2011

The Hangover 2

The boys are back and this time, they've gone to Bangkok. This time around, Stu (Ed Helms) is the one getting married. And he's got one request: no more Vegas and
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The Beaver—A Complicated Film that Calls for an Open Mind

by Samantha Glavin May 10th, 2011 | Drama, Independent Movie, Movie Commentary, Movie Reviews
I hadn’t set out to see The Beaver. The movie we planned on seeing wasn’t playing anymore, so we took a gamble. I sure did have some reservations of my own. I knew little of the movie except from what I had seen on the movie poster—a man who talks through a beaver puppet. This concept alone would make someone question its viability to become a quality full-length feature, but I was convinced to take a chance and have an open mind. I found that The Beaver (2011) actually surprised me, in some, but not all ways, for the
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Atlas Shrugged Part 1

by Ronald A. Rowe May 6th, 2011 | Independent Movie, Movie Commentary
I wrote about the political influence and near-universal critical panning of Atlas Shrugged Part 1 on our sister site, Camp Campaign, some time before the movie came out. Now that the film is in theaters – a limited number mind you, but still in theaters – it is time to treat the film on its artistic merits and leave the politics aside.

The film is neither as great as the far-Right Ayn Rand disciples and Objectivists would have you believe. Nor is it anywhere near as bad as the credential-carrying Left-leaning Hollywood critics would lead you
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