Tagged: year: 2010

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 picks up right after the events in HP6. As Voldemort’s plans have been discovered by the general public, his group of Death Eaters must act quickly. Taking over the Ministry of Magic and creating chaos in and out of the Magical world, killing Muggles and making headlines in “our” world.

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Brandon Flowers – Flamingo (Deluxe)

Flamingo starts with Welcome to Las Vegas, an ode to Flowers’ hometown and the track that defines the sound of the rest of the album, which sounds like the b-side from The Killers’ Day & Age, but doesn’t have the same variety and energy of it.

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YAM – Issue 012

Our latest and last issue as a PDF. This marks a new beginning for us, and marks the actual 2-month countdown for the opening of yam-mag.com. In this issue, McNeil from The Dark of the Matinee gives us a look at what was the Toronto Film Festival this year, and gives his thoughts on Let Me In, Black Swan, and Norwegian Wood.

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Gloria – Ep01-Ep12

Gloria’s first 12 episodes (of a lasting 50) are a light drama story with comedic moments and a bit of music. It tells the story of four characters — Na Jin Jin, Dong Ah, Kang Suk, and Yoon Seo — and how their lives change when they meet.

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Atami no Sousakan

Atami no Sousakan is an 8-episode mystery comedy written and directed by film director Satoshi Miki and starring Joe Odagiri and Chiaki Kuriyama as two special branch detectives arriving to the city of South Atami to solve the mysterious disappearance of a bus with four schoolgirls from a private school.

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Let Me In

As many of you know, this film is Matt Reeves’s American adaptation of John Lindqvist’s novel Let the Right One in, which has already been adapted into the Swedish film of the same name. First thing’s first — no, it’s not bad. At all. Let Me In is quiet, beautiful, terrifying and patient.

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Town, The (2010)

Adapted from the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, The Town tells the story of a group of bank robbers from the city of Charlestown in Boston. Passed from father to son as if it were traditional work.

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Toronto Film Festival 2010

Early September ranks right up there with Christmas thanks to the cinematic nirvana I experience at the Toronto Film Festival. 2010 marked the festival’s 35th anniversary, and my own ninth go-round of the TIFF experience.