I have three hours and forty five minutes to go until my screening begins…and I’m starting to believe this is the most ramped up I’ve been for a movie in a long long time. Today has been an endless hive of anticipation… …overhearing a girl’s conversation about the movie in a coffee shop…thinking back to…
Easy Tiger
Note: THE DARK KNIGHT hits theatres this coming Friday, and I for one couldn’t be more excited. As such, this space will pretty much be a Bat-Blog for most of this week.With mere days to go until the new Batman movie is released, the buzz machine is running at red-line level. There has only been…
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…
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Ladies and (especially) gentlemen – prepare to be amazed. This weekend SEX AND THE CITY gets its victory lap at a cineplex near you. Now before I go any further, I should state that I’m not a fan of the show, and never have been. I hate to be unoriginal, but there’s no other way…
Don’t Believe The Hype
Last year the marketing gurus at Dreamworks made their way to the half prestigous / half celeb-fest Cannes Film Festival. They somehow decided that this was a good idea: This year?… I swear, I’m this close to boycotting future Dreamworks animation based on pure annoyance.
In Too Deep
I know someone who likes to refer to the latter two-thirds of The Matrix Trilogy as nothing more than the Wachowski Brothers presenting two hours worth of their best “alone time” with their laptops. While I’ll openly admit that MATRIX RELOADED and MATRIX REVOLUTIONS are both pale follow-ups to the ground-breaking original, I wouldn’t go…
Smile Like You Mean It
Confession: I’ve never found Seinfeld funny. Never. Not once. I’ve tried though. I’ve watched classic episode after classic episode, exposed myself to contests, puffy shirts, shrinkage, Frogger, and Mulva. I’ve never laughed out loud…ever, and it’s usually pretty easy to make me laugh. Now combine that “I-don’t-get-it” shoulder shrug with the fact that reruns of…