MACGRUBER (USA 2010) **
Directed by Jorma Taccone

MACGRUBER, the action comedy is based on the recurring Saturday Night Live sketch about a special operations agent of the same name who is tasked in each episode with deactivating a ticking bomb but becomes distracted by personal issues, resulting in the bomb’s detonation and (presumably) the deaths of his companions and himself. The sketch is a parody of the 1985-1992 adventure series MACGYVER.

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (USA 2010) ***** Top 10
Directed by Mike Mitchell

SHREK FOREVER AFTER, the fourth and reported last of the series is the best and funniest of the SHREK films.  It combines old-fashioned good plotted story telling, kids and adults humor, all the familiar fairy tale characters (Pinocchio, Puss In Boots, and The Three Little Pigs), inventive new ones but most of all imagination.  FOREVER AFTER has loads of imagination and it shows.

THE TROTSKY (Canada 2009) ***
Directed by Jacob Tierney

After directing the relatively well received gay take of Oliver Twist set in Toronto (TWIST), director Tierney takes on a less daunting task of the life of a high-schooler who thinks he is the reincarnation of Trotsky.

ROBIN HOOD (USA/UK 2010) *
Directed by Ridley Scott

ROBIN HOOD arrives with all the hype, opening the current Cannes Festival de Film as well. 

JUST WRIGHT (USA 2010) **
Directed by Sanaa Hamri

JUST WRIGHT is a movie that is so sugary sweet and clichéd right down to the proposition line: “You are just ‘Wright’ for me,” that the film leaves an awful taste in the mouth once one leaves the theatre.  But this romantic comedy might just be the right medicine for the undemanding moviegoer out to forget life’s woes and dream up the perfect romantic catch.