WITTY LIZARD ON A WESTERN ADVENTURE A charlatan reptile tries to survive the American frontier in the animated film Rango, Page C3 Paramount PICtures SECTION C | THE GAZETTEMOVIES | MONTREAL | FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011 | EDITOR: BASEM BOSHRA | 514 987 2560 |
[email protected] C2 What’s On C4 Theatre C5 Camilli C8 Movie listings C10 Television C11 Comics C12 Puzzles Finkleman’s delightfully derivative in Good Dog BILL BROWNSTEIN on HBO Canada series “The success of the series hinged on the most unhinged Ken Finkleman.” ack in the last century, the B CBC unleashed one of the truly hysterical and memor- able satires in TV history. Ser- UNIVersal STUDIos iously. Of course, the object of Matt Damon and Emily Blunt have real chemistry together as they flee a group of agents led by Terence Stamp (below) in The Adjustment Bureau. the satire appears to have been the CBC itself. Which puts everything in perspective. Nonetheless, The News- room was not only a hit in this land but also touched a chord elsewhere. Without question, the success of the series hinged on the most unhinged Ken Finkleman, the producer, creator, writer NEEDS SOME TwEAKING and star of The Newsroom. Finkleman cast himself as George Findlay, the exec ADJUSTMENT BUREAU tries to be too many things, and comes up short on substance producer of a Canadian news show. George was petty, vain, self-absorbed, arrogant, T’CHA DUNLEVY The Adjustment Bureau steps in. Fine, he can see her, he is enough of any. obnoxious, obsessive, easily GAZETTE FILM CRITIC told; but if he does she will never The idea of a group of men work- agitated – and those were his become the famous dancer she is ing behind the scenes to chart the good qualities.