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EYEWTKA WOODY ALLEN Woody in the future: “I haven’t seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I’d been going all this time, I’d probably almost be cured by now.” Today, Allen’s “nostalgic look at the future” is more or less relevant than ever.

Potiche (Trophy Wife)

When an umbrella factory owner falls ill, his trophy wife (Catherine Deneuve) takes over his job — and improves both sales and labour relations while reconnecting with an old lover (Gérard Depardieu). Ozon is “a director in full command of his craft [in this] energetic retro-homage [that’s] funny, twisty, and

Muppets Take Manhattan, The

You know what Broadway needs? More frogs and dogs and chickens and… and whatever! And that’s exactly what it gets when the Great White Way goes green in this, the Muppets third big-screen adventure.

Mighty Aphrodite

EYAWTKA WOODY ALLEN Woody, on finding out that your adopted genius son’s real mother is a prostitute (and on feeling compelled to get to know her better): “Of all human weaknesses, obsession is the most dangerous, and the silliest!”

Manhattan Murder Mystery

EYAWTKA WOODY ALLEN Woody on the possibility that the neighbor murdered his wife: “I don’t understand why you’re not more fascinated with this! I mean, we could be living next door to a murderer!” “New York is a melting pot! I’m used to it!”

Manhattan

EYAWTKA WOODY ALLEN Woody on NYC: “He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Uh, no. Make that ‘He romanticized it all out of proportion.’ To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

This film — also known as The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue and Don’t Open the Window! — was originally commissioned as a colour rip-off of Night of the Living Dead. But in the hands of Spanish auteur Jorge Grau, it became one of the best-looking and most entertaining

Last Mountain, The

OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION — SUNDANCE 2011 Corporate giant Massey Energy makes billions blasting the Appalachians and extracting coal. In return, the people who live there got 2.8 billion gallons of toxic sludge, and a cancer epidemic. Now, with only one mountain left, they’ve decided to fight back. This

Larry Crowne

Co-written by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and director/star Tom Hanks, Larry Crowne takes a page from Rodney Dangerfield’s book, sending Hanks’ middle-aged schlub back to college (on a scooter!), where he meets and falls in love with Julia Roberts — and yes, gets some respect.

Kung Fu Panda 2

Jack Black returns as the martial arts ursine in this “fleeter, funnier… sequel [that] delivers a bevy of super-powered set pieces that are dexterous and delirious.” (Village Voice) With Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman and even Jean-Claude Van Damme!

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