During the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, some jackass caught a few minutes of the Borat movie on his cellphone and posted it online. Ever since then, the studios have gone apeshit paranoid, and the festival organizers have bent over to appease them. There are security guards in many screenings with night vision scopes looking…
Ocean of Noise (Thoughts on TIFF Day 6)
While it slightly saddens me to realize that I’m on the back nine of this year’s Toronto Film Fest, I’m sure my eyes and body will be happy to know that only four more days of this crazy abuse remain. As you might have read below, this afternoon brought me to Darren Aronofsky’s THE WRESTLER…
Rich Girl
Can’t say I had any interest in attending the TIFF screening of the doc PARIS, NOT THE CITY. The subject of the doc is celebutante Paris Hilton, who I don’t care very much for in any way shape or form. But mysteriously, the doc was scuttled from three screenings down to one. What happened?? Well…
A Change Would Do You Good
As The Olympics unfold on the other side of the world, I can’t help but think back to happier times…and by “happier times” I mean back when Canada had more to look forward to than just top ten finishes. Take for instance 1996, when Donovan Bailey set a new world record and won the gold…
Blood on The Tracks
No top five today. I couldn’t come up with a good enough topic and took that as a sign that after almost a year I needed to take a week off to reload (though feel free to suggest a subject for next week’s five). While this little bit of news might be “so last week”,…
Why?
Rumours were at a fever pitch that Paramount is working on a sequel to TOP GUN. Earlier this week, the stories went one step further and started to say that Tom Cruise would be up for reprising his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. News of this has me repeating the same word over and over…
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,…