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Wordplay

At the recent Toronto Hot Docs documentary film festival, Wordplay was, despite a lot of positive word-of-mouth, at the bottom of my list of films to see. Let’s face it: a movie about crossword puzzles? And the people who make them? It might make an interesting New Yorker piece, but it doesn’t sound awfully cinematic.



Click

Here’s a premise that we can all relate to: Wouldn’t it be great to be able to control everything around you instead of everything always controlling you? Click stars Adam Sandler as an overworked corporate architect (I know, but just overlook that for the time being) who is finding it impossible to meet both the demands of his overbearing boss and the needs of his family. Salvation comes in the form of a universal remote control that merits its name: he can use it to pause, fast forward and rewind everything around him, adjust the volume, change the colors, even translate other languages.



The Devil Wears Prada

As the editor of a Manhattan-based fashion magazine (think Vogue) so powerful that the merest pursing of her lips can send entire fall lines to the dumpster, Meryl Streep pulls off a performance with one simple tactic: She never varies her voice from a monotone or raises it above a whisper. She strides through her offices ignoring her staff and muttering to herself that she doesn’t understand why it’s so hard to get the simplest things done, and she’s a hoot.





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