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…
I’ve been hearing about events like these for years…I just never had any true desire to get off my duff and go. Here in Toronto, as happens in many other major film markets, certain theatres set aside a screen once or twice a month to broadcast a feed of a live event. It’s usually ballet…
My dvd renting tendencies found a wonderful new source this week. After multiple suggestions by Bob Turnbull and matthew Price, I finally decided to hit Filmfest DVD’s just one block past my regular subway station. To quote Homer Simpson, “I felt like a kid in some kind of store”. They’ve got an awesome supply of…
Three posts in a day coming up! Seems as though the incomparable Castor Troy wants to put my playlist skills to the test, and ask which dozen songs would be on that magical indestructible iPod that would survive a crash on a desert island. Course, this sort of question could keep me shuffling through tracks…
Today, I Feel Like This…
It feels like it’s been a long week. It’s hard to say precisely why, except to say that it’s had it’s share of unexpected surprises for a lot of people around me. I’d like to think that I could take the weekend to recoup, but as it happens, the weekend is gonna be hellish too.…
The cool thing about writing as part of a community is meeting people who have similar tastes to your own. Eventually, you meet someone who’s tastes overlap so much that they’re more or less your filmgoing soulmate. For me that bromance is currently raging with Simon Columb. Though even in the most sound of relationships,…
