Kids have wanted to be stars for as long as they’ve had stars to aspire to be. These days though, the drive to be famous seems to have found a new gear, what with shows like American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance? ready to pluck young talent eagerly awaiting their shot and…
I consider myself someone fascinated by history – especially athletic history – and a proud Canadian, so the fact that I knew nothing about Harry Jerome prior to last week was pretty darned shameful. Luckily, MIGHTY JEROME – a fantastic film playing this year’s Hot Docs festival – has arrived to take me from the…
We now interrupt this regularly scheduled blog to talk documentaries… Today begins a special series of my regular Matineecast, talking about all thing festival related. The format will be a little different than usual, namely episodes will be a bit shorter, and sometimes more raw as I won’t be finessing all of them through editing…
I’ve joked a lot about this over the last few weeks, but I thought i’d actually put out a true plea… Stick with me through my Hot Docs coverage. Like many other bloggers I take a look at what my audience is from time to time, and last year during Hot Docs i noticed my…
Just over a week ago, while on The Reel Insight Podcast, I was discussing Steven Spielberg’s A.I. At the time I mentioned my hang-up with the ending of the film, and specifically griped that the film could end three times before it finally does. As I said on that show, I’ve long believed that any…
If Evelyn Salt and Jason Bourne Had a Daughter…They’d Name Her Hanna.
Even though I was just short of one-a-day, it felt like a bit of a down week. What can I say, it’s fun watching all of these documentaries but I still have to make time to actually write about them. Next week might be a little on the low side too, what with all the…
