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With the releases of Let Me In and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Hollywood proves once again that there's money to be made by copying off your neighbour.

For this week's GJ article, I thought I would jump right into talking about a mortal-lock favourite of mine: West Side Story. If you haven't seen it (and a lot of folks havent - dudes especially) and you want a lesson in filmmaking craft from a bonafide master then you kind of owe it to yourself to rent this undisputed gem.Through occasionally hokey-now song and dance sequences, WSS tells the story of star-crossed lovers caught in the middle of a vicious, brutal gang war. Dance gangs....

Hey editor Mike here from thesubstream and I would like to welcome our newest contributor to the site, our tweens 'n' teens cinema specialist, my little sister Amanda. We're going to make her go watch all the movies that we don't want to see ourselves and then make her tell us and you about them. Up first: the Zac Efron vehicle Charlie St. Cloud.

Pity the fate of the blank-faced man or: Why you need to rewatch Bill & Ted's Excellent AdventureSomewhere along the line, around about the time Pacino, De Niro, Brando and Hoffman and Hackman and Eastwood were intensing-it-up in a series of American early-mid '70s mood-offs like The Godfather movies and Taxi Driver and The Conversation and Straw Dogs and Dirty Harry it entered into popular consciousness (and OK, not without good reason) that "good actors" weren't whatever grand postulators &...

WATCH THIS INSTEAD - On this special Happy Canada Day edition of WTI, Mike lets you know what to watch instead of M. Night's The Last Airbender.

This Christmas you can expect Cameron's Avatar to come back en vogue for a good ole holiday push.

Cameron Diaz does what she can with what little she's given to work with in James Mangold's brainless, hyperactive and utterly rote spy-romance-thriller Knight and Day. Paired with the increasingly wooden, increasingly off-putting Tom Cruise as half of a pair of mis-matched adventurers on the run with a valuable MacGuffin fighting off arms dealers and CIA agents alike, she seems to be the only one in the flick that's got a half-inch worth of ambition.