GROWN UPS (USA 2010) ***
Directed by Dennis Dugan

Five best friends from a basketball winning team unite after their coach’s death on Independence Day spending a weekend at a lake resort.  Simple plot with clichéd storyline, but the film’s simplicity allows Adam Sandler and his Saturday Night Alive cohorts Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider to carry on some might hilarious high jinx.

THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN (Canada 2010) *1/2
Directed by Bruce McDonald

Low-budget filmmaking combining fiction with the real-life performance of a band works partly but can be a total bore if you dispense McDonalds film as bullsh*t.

COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY (France 2009) ***
Directed by Jan Kounen

This latest film of Coco Chanel unlike COCO BEFORE CHANEL, concentrates on the tumultuous love affair between the famous French designer (Anna Mouglalis, herself a Chanel model) and the Russian composer, Starvinsky (Dane Mads Mikkelsen).

SOUNDS LIKE A REVOLUTION (USA/Canada 2010) ***1/2
Directed by Summer Love

What better film to open NXNE music festival in Toronto?  SOUNDS LIKE A REVOLUTION charts the rise of activist musicians struggling for social change for the benefit of the world.  Inspiring, breathtaking and riveting, this documentary is proof that good in the world still exists.

KNIGHT AND DAY (USA 2010) ****
Directed by James Mangold

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are film stars for a reason.  And KNIGHT AND DAY proves it.  Cruise is as charming, funny and sexy as he can be, staring down from his shades as he did 20 years back in RISKY BUSINESS and racing fast cars as he did back then in KNIGHT AND DAY which contains one of the best car chases (enhanced though by CGI) on film ever.