May 29th, 2009 12:03am
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Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast
New Releases 5/29/09
UP (PG)Starring the voices of: Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Bob Peterson, Delroy LindoDirector: Pete Docter, Bob PetersonThe curmudgeonly old man is a movie staple. Walter Matthau play a great curmudgeon, and Ed Asner, on Mary Tyler Moore’s TV show was great as her curmudgeonly boss. Well Asner is back and still curmudgeonly so in Pixar’s newest film, …
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May 28th, 2009 11:43pm
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HITCHCOCK LAUNCHES
SEBASTOPOL FILMMAKERS SAMPLERS
A series of banners rustle in the breeze at the entrance to the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, “PAINT,” “WRITE” “DANCE,” and “FILM” they ambiguously proclaim, leaving passersby to interpret the words as either nouns or verbs.
Variations of the “FILM” component will become clearer on several Saturday evenings this summer as the SCA launches an ambitious program of “Filmmakers Samplers” “honoring the outstanding local …
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May 22nd, 2009 01:23pm
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Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNew Releases 5/22/09
Dance Flick (PG-13)Starring: Damon Wayans, Craig Wayans, Shoshanna Bush, Essence AtkinsDirector: Damien Dante WayansTHE PRESS NOTES SAY: “In this hilarious new comedy, a young street dancer from the wrong side of the tracks and a beautiful young woman are brought together by their passion for dancing and put to the test in the mother of all dance battles.”Unavailable for preview (but “Hilarious” in the studio …
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May 15th, 2009 01:59pm
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Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast
New Releases 5/15/09
Angels and Demons (PG-13)Starring: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan SkarsgaardDirector: Ron HowardIn a season that has movies returning back to their roots, this one has the people from “The DaVinci Code” back to tell the first of Dan Brown’s tales of symbol expert Robert Langdon’s Indiana-Jones-like adventures. What I find amusing, is how Tom Hanks keeps the sleeves of his professor’s jacket free …
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May 8th, 2009 10:41pm
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Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast
New Releases 5/08/09
Star Trek (PG-13)Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Zoe Soldana, Eric Bana, Leonard NimoyDirector: J.J. AbramsIt is appropriate that a TV writer/director (”Alias,” “Lost“) should take the venerable TV series created by Gene Roddenberry 42 years ago, and successfully bring it back to where no one has gone before “the past. A whole new cast create 21st century versions of 20th …
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May 8th, 2009 08:07pm
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STAR TREK and UHURA’S BRAByGil Mansergh
I’ll tell you right up front. The new “Star Trek” is a winner.
It is appropriate that a TV writer/director, J.J. Abrams (“Alias,” “Lost”), should take the venerable TV series created by Gene Roddenberry 4 decades ago, and successfully bring it back to where no one has gone before “the past. A whole new cast create 21st century versions of 20th century icons Kirk, …
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May 1st, 2009 12:58pm
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Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast
New Releases 5/01/09
Battle for Terra (PG)Starring the voices of: Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long, Luke Wilson, Brian CoxDirector: Aristomenis TsirbasAlthough Terra is the name that TV star Tom Corbett, Space Cadet gave to Earth in the early 50’s, this time it is an alien world populated by big-eyed, peaceful beings living in perfect ecological balance in cities floating above their planet’s surface. If this reminds you of …
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