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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Well thought out storyline with fantastic acting, directing and drama. |
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Breakfast with Scot
(yes, only one T) brings vibrant life into an ordinary Restoration Hardware
style Toronto gay couple who get more than they bargained for out of
their relationship. When a family member (Sam's brother) cannot be
located, Eric and Sam are selected to host the boy until the brother is
found; Sam and Eric thought they were plenty gay until the boy, Scot
shows up and transforms everyone around him with glitter, Christmas music, and
White Gardenia perfume. In short, this is a coming out movie, not for the
flamboyant child, but for the two adults living their life on the down low.
Breakfast with Scot
is showing at Gateway Cinemas, for showtimes use this underlined link,
Breakfast With Scot at Gateway Cinemas |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Quite possibly the best gay film ever. Incredible cast, director. |
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The story is simple; Harvey Milk, played by Sean Penn, is a closeted
man losing his soul in a dead end job. A chance encounter in a new York Subway
staircase leads him to meet a younger man, Scott Smith, played by James Franco,
who will become his lover, confidant and supporter. In an attempt to live their
lives openly and unashamed, they move to San Francisco where Milk is inspired to
run for public office, in hopes of being the first openly Gay elected official,
while at the same Anita Bryant is beginning in Miami what would become a
nationwide crusade of intolerance that ultimately leads to Milk's murder. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Lighthearted film with a message. Okay performances and solid script. |
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A High School girl and her moms move to suburban Southern California and
the girl ends up surrounded by homophobes at school. When she finally thinks a
guy is interested in her, the captain of the football team, it turns out he's a
closet case that thinks she'll be his beard. Will she bring him out against his
will or play the game? |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Amazingly dramatic scenes, gruesome action. Predictable, but logical
plot |
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In this latest
chapter of the Saw series,
Saw V,
we discover the way The Saw Games are set up, who the players are, the history
and backgrounds of The Players, and reasoning and justifications why they are
carried out. Though Jigsaw died in
Saw III, his legacy and physical manipulations of people’s souls
continue through flashbacks and a new and unlikely protégé. Will five new
linked people be able to survive or will they crack under the pressure? |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Slow plot development that includes average acting, but intense ending.
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In
Pride and Glory,
a father, his daughter and two sons find themselves dragged into the
dealings of a police squad filled with dirty cops that shake down low life drug
dealers, rob innocent shop owners, plant evidence, murder uncooperative thugs
and are led by the daughter's husband. The father and two sons are cops that
have been in similar circumstances before and have "stood by their own." Will
they once again lie under oath, this time to protect a family member (the
brother in law), or will they stand up with honor and do the right thing? |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Delivers moral without preaching. All star cast, believable script,
story.
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In Ready, OK!,
an exuberant young boy named Joshua, played by Lurie Poston wants
to live out his dream of being a cheerleader. With the encouragement of the
repressive nuns and faculty at Joshua's private Catholic school, his mom
Andy, played by Carrie Preston, is trying to turn him into a
wrestler. Fortunately for Joshua, an eccentric gay neighbor, Charlie,
played by Michael Emerson, has his back and gently guides his mom into
accepting her ten year old son's interests in activities that are less than 100%
masculine. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Fantastic sets and wardrobe. Incredible cast, believable acting, intense
drama. |
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Set at
the end of the
eighteenth century,
The
Duchess is based on the
life of Georgiana
Cavendish, Duchess of
Devonshire. While
her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for
gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of
Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon,
a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people,
but at the core of the story is a desperate search for love.
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Mediocre directing and acting spoils romantic comedy with solid premise. |
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A British tabloid owner closes his magazine and moves to New York to
work for a Vanity Fair knockoff and meets the love of his life. Attempting to
acquire fame and make his dad proud, he sells his soul and follows his heart in
the wrong direction. Will he finally fall for the right girl? |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Stellar performances, great script. Balls to the wall madcap comedy. |
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In
I Do & I Don't,
three weeks before their wedding, Bob (Bryan
Callen) and Cheryl
(Alexie Gilmore)
discover they have not taken the pre-marital classes required by their Catholic
church and so their pastor arranges private classes for them with the
Stelmacks
(Matt Servitto
and Jane Lynch), a couple whose seventeen year marriage is the definition
of dysfunctional lunacy.
Bob and Cheryl are in love
and blissfully ignorant of any secrets hiding in the nooks and crannies of each
other's hearts and unfortunately the Stelmacks are determined to enlighten them,
and encourage indiscriminate “sharing.” Will pre-martial counseling mess up
their chances of making it down the aisle?
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Perfect
dagger-like
lines. Outstanding acting and completely believable cast. |
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Bertram
Pincus (Ricky Gervais)
dies for seven minutes
during his routine
colonoscopy. After the
surgery, Bertram then
awakens to realize he has
gained the ability to see
and communicate with ghosts.
There are two problems, Bertram never had people skills,
in life or in death and his ghostly patron,
Frank Herlihy (Greg
Kinnear), pesters him
into meddling with the
impending marriage of his
widow, Gwen (Tea
Leoni), who lives in
Bertram's building and isn't
necessarily his number-one
fan. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Incredible superstar cast with amazing acting and believable plot. |
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What
would you do if you found out your best friend’s husband was cheating? To what
lengths would you go, as a friend to help them out?
The Women
is the story of four fabulous females who not only conquer infidelity,
unemployment, loss of identity, parental connection, and vanity but a host of
other topics faced by NY society women as well. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Farce leaves audience in stitches. Storyline so unbelievable, it's
believable. |
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In Burn
After Reading, Washington's covert power brokers and intellectuals are
taken on by two gym workers, one of whom needs money to pay for extensive
reworking of her physical appearance. As one misunderstanding piles onto
another, more and more characters are drawn into an escapade with moments so
hilariously illogical that the audience is left in stitches. Meaningless acts
and random occurrences begin to appear to be tied together, part of an ever more
and more sinister plot, or at least that's how it appears. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Improbable, unbelievable cliché filled story and script. Bad,
uninterested acting.
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Mark's List Quick Critic Three Sentence Synopsis |
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Three former soldiers arrive in New York from
Germany only to find their connecting flights
canceled due to a power outage. Anxious to get to
their respective destinations, they agree to share a
rented minivan to suburban St. Louis where
one of them is to reunite with his wife and teenage son.
But when the homecoming turns out to be a far cry
from what he anticipated, the trio's one-day drive expands into an impromptu
cross-country marathon where they they experience a string of surprising
adventures ranging from the hilarious to the heartbreaking. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Lighthearted little thought required movie with a message about friends. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Three Sentence Synopsis |
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The House Bunny
is kicked out of the Playboy Mansion because she's too old. She finds a
new life as a sorority House Mother and attempts to transform seven ugly
ducklings into swans. Will she succeed? |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Gay spoof movie.
To expect anything more would be insane. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Three Sentence Synopsis |
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Another Gay Sequel:
Gays Gone Wild finds Andy, Nico, Jarod and Griff reuniting
for Spring Break at a Gay resort in Fort Lauderdale. They participate in a
contest called 'Gays Gone Wild!' to determine who can attain the most "buttlove"
over the course of the vacation. Wet Package contests, Evil Gay Fratboys,
genital crabs the size of rats and other antics and gags ensue, but who will get
laid the most? |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Inspiring loveable loser film with average acting but believable
characters. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Three Sentence Synopsis |
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Swing Vote is the story of an average White Trash Single Father of
an over-achieving daughter that is on a crusade to teach her fellow Americans
the importance of each person's vote. When it becomes clear that the girl's
drunken father is not going participate in an upcoming election, she registers
him by mail. Molly then does everything in her power to get her loser father to
cast the vote that, becomes the pivotal ballot in a tied national election for
President. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Ten
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Non-stop action scenes with little drama and imperfect script. |
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Mark's List Quick Critic Three Sentence Synopsis |
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This chapter in the ongoing saga of the O'Connell family,
The Mummy, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, has the gang
fighting the resurrected Han Emperor, played by Jet Li. From the neon-lit
streets of post-war Shanghai to the Great Wall of China and high into the
Himalayas, the Han Emperor fights to resurrect his Terra Cotta Army, give them
Eternal Life and then rule the world. Will the O'Connells and their allies be
able to save mankind? |
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The Quick Critic's Ten
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Complicated Gay love story. Spectacular setting, acting, wardrobe and
cinematography. |
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The Quick Critic's Three Sentence Synopsis |
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Brideshead Revisted
is the story of young
man, no Title, no birthright, just well-educated and attending
Oxford in the mid 1920’s. Under less than ideal circumstances he
meets a wealthy upper-class student who takes a shining to him. They both end up
at the wealthy student's family estate, where complications to a "happily ever
after" romance ensue. |
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Mamma Mia!
Reviewed by Stephen R. Lang
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The Quick Critic's Ten
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Righteously Laugh Out Loud funny story line. All-star cast. Beautiful
scenery. |
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The Quick Critic's Three Sentence Synopsis |
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Mamma Mia!
is a British & American
film adaptation of the
West End
musical of the same name
based on the songs of
pop
group ABBA.
There's a wedding where
the bride doesn't know which of three possible men is her father and a mother
who was the lead singer in a music group in her younger years. Will the real
father be revealed in time to walk the bride down the aisle?
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Batman, The Dark Knight
Reviewed by Stephen R. Lang
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The Quick Critic's Ten
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Incredible graphics. Fast action and terrific performance by Heath Ledger. |
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The Quick Critic's Three Sentence Synopsis |
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Batman, The Dark Knight
focuses on the forces of corruption in Gotham City. Within the city of
Gotham,
they have now received their White Knight in the form of Harvey Dent, the
District Attorney, who is trying to personally put all mobsters and related
people in jail. Can Batman save him? |
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Kiss
The Bride
Reviewed by Mark Haines
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The Quick Critic's Ten
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Laugh Out Loud funny comedy. All star cast. Clever story. |
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The Quick Critic's Three Sentence Synopsis |
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Kiss The Bride tells the story of cynical gay magazine Editor, Matt,
who’s latest monthly assignment is to cover Gay Weddings with the help of his
truly fierce Asian Lesbian Chic Assistant, Stephanie.
After
arguing and sifting through piles of worthless “Commitment Ceremony” and
“Bonding Moments” invitations, Matt discovers a photo of his high school
boyfriend Ryan who is marrying a girl!
Now Matt is going to try to
do something he promised he would do for Ryan years ago, come back and save
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Sex And The City
Reviewed by Stephen R. Lang
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The Quick Critic's Ten
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The best episode ever! Hot
fashion, cool jewels, emotional ride. |
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The Quick Critic's Three Sentence Synopsis |
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Sex And The City picks up four years after
the series ended. The four fashionable and sexually free main
characters, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda have moved
on with there lives, yet are still searching for the Two L's,
Labels and Love. Will they find what they think that are searching for, is love
finally possible for the Fab Four, or is another twist in plot about to be
revealed?
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The Fall
Reviewed by Mark Haines
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The Quick Critic's Ten
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Artistic film with fantastic sets. Complex, intriguing and intricate
fantasy.
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The Quick Critic's Three Sentence Synopsis |
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A silent film star with a broken leg
meets a five year old girl with a broken arm while they are convalescing in a
Los Angeles Hospital. The film star weaves an intricate tale intended to gain
the girls trust and ultimately convince her to steal morphine pills that he will
use to kill himself. Will he succeed in killing himself or will living regain
its appeal? |
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