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Review: ‘The Trotsky’ Isn’t The Revolutionary Comedy It Wants To Be

Jacob Combs — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:23:00 +0000

Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel) thinks his life bears more than just a coincidental resemblance to the socialist leader Leon Trotsky. After reading Trotsky’s autobiography My Life, Bronstein determines that is, in fact, the reincarnation of Trotsky and believes that his life will mirror his own. He will marry young, start a revolution, be betrayed and then eventually assassinated. Comedies don’t get much more high concept than this, and despite a spirited performance by Baruchel, “The Trotsky” isn’t quite the revolutionary comedy it wants to be.

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2010 Tribeca Film Festival Adds ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock N’ Roll’, Plus Jay Baruchel’s ‘The Trotsky’ & More…

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:36:00 +0000

Having just slightly recovered from our 2010 SXSW Film Festival experience, we’re realizing another festival is almost on us again (sigh, yes, it’s a good problem to have). But we’re also realizing we’re a bit behind with our 2010 Tribeca Film Festival line-up news.

And fittingly, right on cue, today a few more titles were announced. And… ok, so we’re not dazzled by today’s announcements, but there is some decent stuff including the British rock biopic “Sex & Drugs & Rock N’ Roll,” starring Andy Serkis as Ian Dury of Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

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‘X-Men: First Class’ To Shoot Next Year?; Bill Hader Compares ‘Paul’ to Early Spielberg

Oliver Lyttelton — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:41:00 +0000

– Tim Pocock, who replaced James Marsden as Cyclops in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” and somehow managed to be even blander (don’t get us wrong, we like Marsden a lot, just not in the “X-Men” movies), wrote on his Twitter account a few days back “Currently shooting Australian TV series till February 2010… then X-men first class ;)”. This suggests that he’s been officially asked to reprise his role in the long-in-development script from Josh Schwartz (“The OC”, “Chuck”) following a number of the X-Men characters as teenagers.

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Montreal Indie-Rockers Malajube Score Jay Baruchel Comedy, ‘The Trotsky’

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:12:00 +0000

Every year during the Toronto International Film Fest pre-season, a massive slate of new films are set to premiere and when that line-up hits, interesting soundtrack tie-ins are always revealed in the details.

Yesterday we discovered that Drew Barrymore’s rollerskate derby comedy “Whip it!” starring Ellen Page, was tapping the L.A. string players, The Section Quartet to compose its music. Today we uncover that Montreal Franchophone indie rockers Malajube are scoring the new Jay Baruchel film, “The Trotsky.”

What’s it about you ask?

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