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At the Movies: April 6 / 13

At the Movies reviews new flicks featuring Abbie Cornish, Russell Brand, James Marsden, Kaley Cuoco, Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg.

Tonight on At the Movies Margaret and David will be reviewing new flicks featuring Abbie Cornish, Russell Brand, James Marsden, Kaley Cuoco, Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg.

(and keep your eye on Gordon Street Tonight for a fun At the Movies moment, especially with Margaret).

APRIL 6

SUCKER PUNCH – starring Abbie Cornish, Emily Browning and Jenna Malone. A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.

HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER – Written and rirected by Aleksei Popogrebsky. A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere…

HOP – Stars Russell Brand, James Marsden and Kaley Cuoco. Live action and CGI. E.B., the Easter Bunny’s teenage son, heads to Hollywood, determined to become a drummer in a rock ‘n’ roll band. In LA, he’s taken in by Fred after the out-of-work slacker hits E.B. with his car.

RIO – Directed by Carlos Saldanha and starring Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Leslie Mann. When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with this bird of his dreams.

MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE РG̩rard Depardieu, Gis̬le Casadesus and Maurane. An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.

DVD CLASSIC: David reviews the 1942 film TO BE OR NOT TO BE starring Carol Lombard, Jack Benny and Robert Stack, and directed by Ernst ubitsch.

APRIL 13

PAUL – stars Jane Lynch, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, he decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town — a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings.

BRIGHTON ROCK – Stars Helen Mirren, John Hurt and Andy Serkis. Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

POTICHE РCatherine Deneuve leads a blue-chip cast in a Fran̤ois Ozon screwball comedy.

THE TEMPEST – Director Julie Taymor’s version of Shakespeare’s fantastical thriller. Stars David Strathairn, Helen Mirren, Tom Conti, Russell Brand, Chris Cooper. Includes interview with Julie Taymor and Helen Mirren

DVD CLASSIC: Margaret reviews Robert Altman’s 1975 classic, NASHVILLE (her favourite film).

It airs at 10pm Wednesdays on ABC1.

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