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4 April 2012 #421

This week at the Fridae Movie Club, we'd like to let you in on a little secret. There's a new Shaw cinema in town called JCube at Jurong East, home to the chain's second IMAX screen in Singapore and it opens this weekend, so we suggest you watch these new releases or Titanic IMAX 3D at this cutting-edge theatre.

Our pick of the week is The Vow. Starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, this romcom is about a husband who must date his wife all over again after an accident wipes out all her memory of her life with him. Can love strike twice?

Homicidal clowns armed with machetes, chainsaws, and shotguns face off against one another in Spanish horror comedy The Last Circus. Directed by Alex de la Iglesia, the film plays like a funhouse counterpart to Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone.

In spite of Snow White being the fairest of them all, Julia Roberts as the wicked queen is the centre of attention in Mirror Mirror, where she steals the show just by being wicked, funny, and wickedly funny.

Hong Kong noir gets another addition to its canon with Nightfall, starring Simon Yam and Nick Cheung as depressed cop engaged leading a manhunt for a brilliant psychotic criminal whom he believes could be innocent of the crime.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

The Vow

As a slightly more serious romcom, The Vow is not entirely predictable until it works its way to its happy ending. Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, two actors whose talent consists of being agreeable to the eye, star as a happily married bohemian couple. Perhaps The Vow is a sign that in this age, scriptwriting, directorial, and acting talent is just not sufficient for a romcom with an interesting premise to rise above itself. But as it stands, The Vow is an agreeable, slightly thought-provoking romcom.

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