Friday afternoon I welcomed director Guy Ritchie back to the age of jive – tonight I felt like extending the same welcome to director Kevin Smith. He of New Jersey birth and Degrassi obsession has been a tad lost for the last little while in my opinion – and I’m a fan! However, I’m happy…
TIFF Reaction: ONCE UPON A TIME IN RIO (ERA UMA VEZ…)
The first opportunity you get – go see ONCE UPON A TIME IN RIO (aka ERA UMA VEZ…). I’m actually going to refrain from trying to write about it, because I’m still so moved and shaken up from what I just watched. I will say this: The movie is a fable, but a fable that…
TIFF Reaction – NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU
Forward: NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU was brought to the Toronto International Film Festival as a work in progress. Please take my thoughts below with a grain of salt since the film is incomplete.They say there are a million stories to be told in the city that never sleeps, and here we stand witness to…
With a Little Help From My Friends: TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY
Gonna start something a little new with this post. I got a movie reccomendation this week from my friend Beth. As I was watching it, I knew I wanted to write about it…but not in the same way I write my usual full-on reviews, or my doubleback DVD reactions. Instead, I wanted to combine my…
Doubleback: WAITRESS
On the surface, WAITRESS is a movie about life, love, and loss in a small middle-America town. Below the crust though, it touches on the sadness of people who find themselves stuck in a rut they gradually slipped into…and now long to climb out of, if only they could figure out how. You could call…
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
And now for something completely different…