Marc from Go, See, Talk wants me to indulge in a geeky dream – the dream of owning and operating my own movie theatre. What a wonderful world that would be. I can tell you for certain, that my theatre would contain a bar that opened when the films ended so that people could gather…
Rich over at Wide Screen World is hosting a blog-a-thon this week called “My Hometown”…and when I think about my hometown in film, I can’t help but crack a smile. For a lot of reasons – financial, convenient, aesthetic – Toronto has been the staging ground for many a rolling camera over the years. The…
The votes are in, the beans have been counted, and the hellish progamme has been set. Below, in alphabetical order are the seven films I’ll endure this June for the King of Pain Blog-a-Thon. But before that, a call to arms.Misery loves company gang, so I’m hoping that some of you might join me in…
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…
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…
