About this time last year, someone in the know told me that The Toronto International Film Festival was getting close to point break (As in the point where the wave breaks…not the lousy movie cited in the photo above). I could follow the logic – galas were getting bigger, guest lists were getting longer, it…
Yeah!
Spent many an hour last night trying to hatch up an idea for this Tuesday’s top five. I came up completely blank, but wouldn’t you know it – the moment I get to work in the morning it hits me (look for my weekly five tomorrow). In the meantime, Perhaps it’s a sign that I’m…
THE GOLDEN COMPASS
Quite often when I finish watching a movie based on a book, I find myself wanting to read the source material. This is quite true in the case of THE GOLDEN COMPASS, since I found the movie adaptation to be one massive, glorious, mess. I’m a pretty smart guy, but I swear the counter on…
News of The World v
I’m a pretty big fan of Stephen Soderbergh (TRAFFIC is one of my all-time top five movies). So it brought me much movie-geek excitement yesterday to learn that his two part bio-pic CHE, about the life of Che Guevera, will be playing this year’s Toronto International Film Festival! The two parts together will run four…
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
It probably seems like I’m a tad late in posting this one, but before I linked to this amazing trailer, I wanted to read the graphic novel. The first challenge to that was actually finding a copy in stores! Having finished reading it though, I find myself quite curious about how this movie will go…
We Were Born in a Flame
It’s that time again…time to tune into nightly TV that happened twelve hours ago, and momentarily pretend that we are actually interested in gymnastics. Yes, The Olympics are in full swing. As I write this Michael Phelps has won his third gold, Canada is still without a medal, and the games many felt would be…
A Change Would Do You Good
As The Olympics unfold on the other side of the world, I can’t help but think back to happier times…and by “happier times” I mean back when Canada had more to look forward to than just top ten finishes. Take for instance 1996, when Donovan Bailey set a new world record and won the gold…