And with that I’ve passed 100 films on the year, which begs the question – who had 84 Days in the pool? I submitted my wishlist for dvd screeners to Hot Docs this week, so expect this feature to start getting dotted with a lot of non-fiction over the next six weeks or so. This…
Today, I Feel Like This…
Cripes, and I thought last week was rough. To quote BRINGING OUT THE DEAD “It can always get worse”. Here’s hoping that BACK TO THE FUTURE, Tim Burton, and podcasting will be good for what ails me. King of Pain Voting Update!! WHAT A GIRL WANTS still holds the belt, albeit with a slight dip…
The first time you watch it, you will be overwhelmed by its battle scenes. Watch this film a second time, and you realize its true heart beats in between those epic battles.
The truth is out there. If you’re in or around Toronto, you’d be well-served to check out the offerings of The 2011 Hot Docs Festival, North America’s largest documentary film fest which is now eighteen years old. And if you think that the films being offered up are tiny passion projects that will never become…
It was time to revisit my childhood this past weekend with a screening of GREMLINS at The Lightbox. The screening was part of TIFF’s ‘Back to The 80’s’ series, which has given me great joy in the way that it has been a rousing success. On the one hand, it’s been fun to see a…
There isn’t a whole lot of modern film noir, but sometimes you can find noir in the darndest of places. For instance, my interest in WINTER’S BONE was sparked the first time I heard a fellow blogger discuss the film in the early summer of 2010. It was the term he used to describe it…
