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  1. Ashley says:
    April 28, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    Yay, the homework assignment is my favourite subject, geography!

    Jerichow is a town in northeast Germany. I’m not positive of the pronounciation, but my basic understanding of the language and a little research of the International Phonetic Alphabet on Wikipedia leads me to believe that it is “Yare-iko.”

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  2. Ashley says:
    April 28, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    And both of you need to see Sugar ASAP! Can’t wait for the podcast discussion once you have. :D

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    • Andrew James says:
      April 28, 2009 at 10:22 pm

      Hopefully Thursday Ashley. Can’t wait. Half-Nelson kills all the competition, so can’t wait for more from them. Especially at the start of my beloved baseball season.

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  3. ralph says:
    April 29, 2009 at 5:54 am

    oh, i never heard of Sugar. that looks really good!

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  4. rot says:
    April 29, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Maybe I am biased, but I don’t think Joe Wright Sold Out with what he did with the Soloist, I think he was misguided. He directs the shit out of the film, and I didn’t quite get this gloss you talk about Andrew, its more trying to captures Los Angeles, the golden light, the traffic, etc. It almost feels like something out of the Lars Von Trier’s Five Obstructions, this is what Joe Wright can do when obstructed by a clunky script. My experience was that the film was better than the trailer makes you believe, but even then, it cannot escape its central concept which the trailer hones in on.

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  5. rot says:
    April 29, 2009 at 11:52 am

    I am the opposite, I rarely go to Hot Docs, and rather get my dose of documentaries from TIFF. They usually have a strong showing of docs from my experience.

    In addition to the ones Kurt mentions I also saw

    Touching the Void
    The Killer Within
    Fog of War
    The Corporation
    In the Shadow of the Moon
    Spellbound

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    • Andrew James says:
      April 29, 2009 at 1:07 pm

      Shockingly I’ve seen all of those except Killier Within and thought they were all pretty damn good. Fog of War probably being the best, but In the Shadow of the Moon was quite thrilling as well.

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  6. Goon says:
    April 30, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    So Wolverine apparently sucks and comes out this weekend, and I will see it regardless.

    A primer for when I give an opinion:

    if I like or love it, it means nothing because of all comic franchises, XMen for me is like pizza, its hard for me to not like it, I am definitely an apologist for it.

    If I acknowledge it sucking, then it really really really really must suck.

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  7. Marina Antunes says:
    April 30, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    Goon – I’ll be there with you in spirit. A big group of us is going on Saturday night. Should be fun if only for the talk afterwards.

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  8. Dave says:
    April 30, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    Re: Wolverine

    I saw it last night. I liked it. In fact, I think it’s better than X-Men 3.

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  9. kurt says:
    May 1, 2009 at 7:36 am

    Dave saying Wolverine is better than X3 isn’t saying much. I mean, the action sequences in X3 were pretty solid,but the movie dropped all of the things that made X-Men and X2 interesting films. They basically turned it into a big dumb action flick. Which is what Wolverine looks like.

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