There isn’t that much choice in movies this weekend. The major film for this weekend is the anime adaptation by the Wachowski brothers Speed Racer, which I am planning on seeing in the IMAX format.
The only other main release is the counter-programming effort of What Happens in Vegas…
And that’s this weekend in movies.
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So, I went to the film board. The OFRB is pretty much located in the middle of nowhere in the east end of Toronto. In fact, it’s so obscure that you probably wouldn’t notice it unless you were looking for it. The film was an independent Canadian film called “Monkey Warfare.” I’m not going to go into…
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