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…
Sunshine
Usually I post clips on Wednesdays, but I was just too excited about this one to sit on it for two more days. Solace…Quantum of Solace…
Everything Old is New Again
I’m a little late on sharing this one, but really wanted to put it up anyway. It’s the poster for the next Coen Brothers movie BURN AFTER READING (trailer posted here)… What I really love about this one sheet is how it’s a throwback to some vintage Hollywood posters designed by Saul Bass, like the…
WALL-E
The gang at Pixar give audiences one of their very best.
The World Will Know (…Again…*sigh*…)
It feels like it wasn’t that long ago that I was writing in this space bemoaning a potential writer’s strike. Oh…wait…that’s right – it wasn’t that long ago. Well prepare yourselves movie lovers, because as the awful hair metal song says “Here we go again”. While the writers are happily working away on their laptops,…
Trust Yourself
As June creeps toward July, my thoughts are slowly turning toward the next Toronto International Film Festival. As if on cue, this morning I happened upon a piece from Living in Cinema, where the writer actually states that reviews from film festivals really shouldn’t be trusted. He says that the stress of a festival experience…
Where Eagles Fly
So in case you’ve been living under a rock, Shaia LeBoeuf is one of Hollywood’s new “it” boys. The sort who they seem poised and ready to hand over the keys to the kingdom. True he’s been in two very high profile movies over the last two summers, but is he really ready to be…