Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast NEW RELEASES 11/24/06 Deja Vu (PG-13)Denzel Washington, Jim Caviezel, Paula PattonDirected by: Tony ScottIt’s fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras), and a ferry leaves the New Orleans dock loaded with school children on a field trip, Navy sailors by the hundreds going on leave, newlyweds, geriatric couples, and a young girl who cries when her doll falls overboard. Then, after a suitable amount of tension building, a terrorist … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNEW RELEASES 11/17/06 Casino Royale (aka Bond 21) (PG-13)Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey WrightDirected by: Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, Mask of Zorro)Not to put too fine a point on it, but James Bond, 007, is a paid government assassin and the 00, with its license to kill, has to be earned. Daniel Craig, the newest personification of James Bond, has the correct movie resume … Read More »

THE QUEENbyGil Mansergh According to Wikipedia, Her Royal Highness (HRH) Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), is Queen of 16 sovereign states (The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis). Elizabeth also holds the positions of Head of the Commonwealth, Lord High … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNEW RELEASES 11/10/06 Stranger Than Fiction (PG-13)Will Farrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhall, Dustin Hoffman, Queen LatiffahDirected by: Marc ForsterIRS man wakes with a woman’s voice narrating his life (at least the boring bits) and discovers that she is a novelist who thinks the man is her fictional creation “which he may be. Sort of a Charlie Kaufman lite, with Farrell once again being the glue that holds … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNEW RELEASES 11/03/06Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation Kazakhstan (R)Sacha Baron Cohen, Pamela AndersonDirected by: Larry CharlesThe Borat character has burst free of the oppressive chains which bound him to cable’s “Da Ali G Show.” Sent by the Kazakhi government to make a documentary about what makes the USA so great, Borat sees Pamela Anderson on TV and decides to make her his … Read More »