Here’s what I learned last night: Trying to schedule your TIFF selections + Brand new HDTV service = Amazing lack of concentration. I got through it eventually, and find myself rather happy with how everything might play out. As usual there are a handful of conflicts, but in going through the program book and the…
Missing You
Today’s the day I order take-out for dinner and spend a few stressful hours with highlighters scattered across my desk, my outlook working overtime, and working some mad google skills to get the scoop on titles I’ve never heard of. In short, it’s the day I try to draw up my Toronto Film Fest schedule.…
My Favorite Mistake
If I were pair to blog, today i’d be calling one in as a mental health day. It’s been a hectic weekend…I’m trying to sort out my film festival priorities…and at the moment I’m a tad uninspired for something to write about. So sorry boss…I can’t make it in today. Instead of a few hunderd…
THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS
THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS really bummed me out. Not because it’s a depressing story – although it is – but because I turned it on really wanting to like it. Unfortunately when the credits rolled I was left with a bad taste in my mouth. THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS is a Canadian film by maverick director Bruce…
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
I wonder if there is a harder sell than getting stoner humour to work for those of us who don’t use ’em?
Birthday
Believe it or not, the cake in that photo was the one from my last birthday back in June…..when I turned thirty. If ever there was a doubt about how much of a big kid I am, I think that should be the most damning piece of evidence. That birthday was a blast, and this…
Modern Guilt (Top Five Guilty Pleasure Movies)
So there’s me the other night, pulling my shaggy hair out trying to come up with a top five list for this week. I’m off in la-la land…hoping a topic will come to me… trying to think of things that have happened in the world (Jamaican runners? Russian wars?). I dwell on things that I…