Colombo Critic

July 27th 2007
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The Interview ****

The Interview by David Mamet Directed by Feroz Kamardeen Produced by Amrik Wilson Starring Jithendra Seneviratne & Sashane Perera Part of the fourth and final installment of the Noir Theater Festival, by StageLight&MagicA lawyer and his interogator sitting in hell. Sounds fairly plausible. According to the SL&M website: Interview is an oblique, mystifying interrogation. A ...
July 21st 2007
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The Other Side ***½

I left the theater with an unusual revulsion of the female sex, which I attribute to Niluka Silva's apathetic, wooden and unpalatable performance in The Other Side. When considering her for her next role I recommend that a monkey of some description be used for comparison. An untrained chimpanzee hurling ...

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April 4th 2008
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An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen was a true great. No cast, no director should be allowed to desecrate that greatness by a mediocre performance of an Ibsen work. I am glad to say that the StageLight & Magic production team and cast are completely innocent of any such crime in their performance of ...
February 22nd 2008
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Caliban’s Rebellion

Caliban's Rebellion is a dramatic adaptation of a work of Shakespeare in typical CenterStage Productions' style. Drawing on The Tempest for inspiration Caliban's Rebellion attempts to paint Caliban in a more forgiving light and give a slightly different view from the traditional interpretation. So, you may be wondering… is it ...
February 21st 2008
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There Will Be Blood

This movie was the last of the Best Picture nominees I got a chance to look at. I was initially hesitant to seek this one out primarily because of Day-Lewis' performance in Gangs of New York. While I admired that performance it was completely at odds with everything I remembered ...
February 21st 2008
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Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton is the second Best Picture Academy Award nominated film for 2008 we'll be looking at before the night in question. And no, it's not about American Football (or 'Football' as the Americans like to call it), but rather a legal drama in which we see George Clooney, Tom ...
February 21st 2008
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Juno

Remember Knocked Up? Geek meets girl. Geek sleeps with girl. Out pops baby. Well, Juno is more of the same... except all the parent's to be are highschoolers. Usually, I wouldn't be interested by something as mundane and Oprahesque as a drama comedy about unplanned teenage pregnancy. However, Jason Reitman's ...

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