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…
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…
I Got Rhythm
I’m not entirely sure why, but I seem to suddenly be surrounded by musicals. Last weekend I watched MAMMA MIA!…next weekend I’ll be seeing the stage production of “Avenue Q”…interspersed with that, was a long conversation with a family member who’d just come back from an NYC trip full of Broadway productions. They’re following me…
I Don’t Mind if You Forget Me
I’m beginning to believe that there is something worse than a bad movie, for both the film makers and the audience. I think that worse than making a bad movie, is making one that is just plain forgettable. There have been some pretty bad flops made in the history of Hollywood – PLAN 9, WATERWORLD,…
Oh Canada
Today is Canada Day…our national holiday up here in the north, and the date celebrated as the birthday of our nation. Of course, in true polite Canadian form, no battles or declarations actually ever happened on this date – it happens to be the date where four of our provinces came together to form a…
Wasted Time
Weird lil’ moment for me this weekend. A guy named Lou Kije read my review on THE HAPPENING and actually posted a comment (still somewhat of a rarity for me). His comment was directed to his loathing of the movie and how I’d been too kind in my appraisal of it. Lou actually hated the…
Summertime Blues
In a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, columnist Chris Nashawaty bemoaned what has become of summer movies. He gripes that just about every release between the beginning of May and the end of August is either an over-stuffed blow-em-up, or a superhero franchise in the waiting. However, Nashawaty mentioned that it wasn’t always so. That…