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Canadian show Bomb Girls is all about the women, which is likely why it's been such a big hit with gay women. But there's also the character of Betty McRae, a Rosie the Riveter type with a confident swagger that noticeably sets her apart from her more feminine counterparts. Ali Liebert plays Betty, the tough-talking, take-no-crap from her male peers bombmaker who seems to soften only in the presence of her co-worker Kate (Charlotte Hegele).

Ali said she took her inspiration for Betty from the likes of James Dean, Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn, which is probably why she's so effective. "I can be very feminine or masculine and I turned up the masculine dial," Ali said. "I don't walk like her, so as an actor it was so fun finding her general physical presence. It was definitely something I've never really played before which was exciting for me."

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Maybe I’m the only one who didn’t understand the big deal about Juno, but I really am starting to wonder when and how staggeringly awkward and desperately uninteresting hipsters became Hollywood’s go-to protagonists. Regardless, the charm, if there ever was any, has definitely worn off. Year of the Carnivore follows in the wake of 2007’s script by Diablo Cody, which won one of the Academy’s silliest Oscar giveaways. Written and directed by Canadian indie talent Sook-Yin Lee, Year of the Carnivore doesn’t deserve to be called bad, it just hovers at a level too neutral to really elicit any response one way or the other.

When Sammy Smalls (Cristin Milioti) finally hops in the sack with her dream guy, Eugene (Mark Rendall), an aspiring musician who busks outside the grocery store where she’s employed as a security guard, things do not go well. They...

Welcome to the first week of April! Now that all of the internet jokes, gags, and pranks are out of the way it’s time to settle in with another week of movies and TV shows on DVD to keep you entertained at home. Like every other week of the year this one features a fairly interesting array of titles that run the gamut from the good to the bad, but we also get two offbeat comedies that I think are worth a purchase for fans of oddball romances and charmingly humorous characters. Oh. And two shitty Tron movies hit shelves this week too. Year Of the Carnivore A young woman named Samantha Smalls (Cristin Milioti) has a terrible sexual experience with her guitarist crush, and he suggests she cut loose, have fun, and gain some more experience in bed. And so she does… and along the way she learns everything you’d expect her to in...

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Sneak Peek the new poster supporting the Canadian feature film "Year Of The Carnivore", directed by Sook-Yin-Lee.

The romantic comedy follows a female grocery store detective with a crush on a boy who rejects her because she has 'too little' sexual experience.

The film is Lee's feature directorial debut, premiering @ the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival as a 'Canada First' selection.

Produced by Trish Dolman, "Carnivore" stars Cristin Milioti as 'Sammy Smalls', Mark Rendall as 'Eugene', Will Sasso ("MadTV") as 'Dirk', Ali Liebert as 'Sylvia', Sheila McCarthy as 'Mrs. Smalls', Kevin McDonald as 'Mr. Smalls' and Patrick Gilmore as 'Todd'.

Click the images and Sneak Peek "Year Of The Carnivore"...

After a presence at the latest Toronto International Film Festival, Sook-Yin Lee's Year of the Carnivore will have a theatrical release in Canada on June 18, 2010. After all, E1 Entertainment, the film's Canadian distributor, just released the trailer online a few days ago.

According to the web site of the film, this is the story:

Year Of The Carnivore is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience'. Sammy Smalls (Cristin Milioti) is a 21-year-old tomboy who works as a store detective at Big Apple Food Town. Her job is to deliver shoplifters to her boss who beats them up so they never re-offend. Sammy feels guilty over her part in the dodgy scheme and wants to quit, but she doesn't have many options. She certainly isn't moving back home to live...

Sook-Yin Lee is often regarded as a bold actor and broadcaster. In 2001, for instance, she mooned TV cameras on one of her last days as a VJ at MuchMusic. And in the 2006 big-screen drama Shortbus, she performs non-simulated intercourse as the lead character, a sex-therapist.Which is why it's surprising that Lee is timid about the world premiere of Year of the Carnivore . she wrote and directed the feature . at the Toronto International Film Festival."I've been so scared!" the Vancouver native, host of CBC Radio's pop-culture show "Definitely Not the Opera," said in a recent interview."I love this movie, and you set it out into the world and you don't know if it'll get brutalized . or worse, ignored."So I've just been like: 'Oh my God, why do I make things? What am I doing?"'Year of the Carnivore . which...

Blackmailing shoplifters into giving sex lessons in the back of the store? I am So down with this! Another film I've been following for quite a while, Yotc will be premiering in the Canada First section at Tiff and is written and directed by Sook-Yin Lee. The story is quite odd, a tomboy, her crush, and her obsession to gain sexual experience to make the man she loves happy.

Year of the Carnivore is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience'. Sammy Smalls is a 21-year-old tomboy who works as a store detective at Big Apple Food Town. Her job is to deliver shoplifters to her boss who beats them up so they never re-offend. Sammy feels guilty over her part in the dodgy scheme and wants to quit, but she doesn't have many options.