While part of me is morbidly curious about this weekend’s realease of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL remake, most of me knows that this movie is a bad idea. The original was a low boiling, poignant, sci-fi masterpiece that felt like a stellar episode of “The Twilight Zone”. Gauging by advance footage, the remake…
Let’s Take a Walk
Saturday night I changed up my movie-going routine a little bit, and decided to go see a screening at one of Toronto’s second-run theatres. I used to watch movies at theatres like The Kingsway, The Paradise, and The Music Hall all the time…but these days I usually find myself succumbing to stadium-seat comfort. But after…
MILK
Gus van Sant’s beautiful portrait of different sort of hopeful audacity.
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
As we travel, we tend to take a vacation from more than just our day-to-day…sometimes we take a vacation from everything we’re known to be back home.
Minnie the Moocher
Being a blogger can have its advantages sometimes. For instance, three days ago when I raised a few eyebrows with the admission that I’d never seen 12ANGRY MEN. Enter B: A friend, co-worker, and loyal reader who felt such a sheltered existence couldn’t continue. She was nice enough to bring her DVD copy in the…
Gimme Some Lovin’ (National Board of Review Award Winners)
It is officially awards season my little chickadees, and today a handful of films were tapped as the year’s best by The National Board of Review. Sometimes they manage to forecast the Oscar for Best Picture (as was the case last year, with NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN). Other years…not so much (FINDING NEVERLAND won…
I Can’t Explain
As if writing this blog isn’t entertaining enough, gauging the traffic on this blog can be even more interesting (fyi – I consider days where I get 40 hits a “good day”). At the moment, it seems as though a certain phrase typed into Google is getting me hit after hit: “synecdoche new york explanation”…