While part of me is morbidly curious about this weekend’s realease of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL remake, most of me knows that this movie is a bad idea. The original was a low boiling, poignant, sci-fi masterpiece that felt like a stellar episode of “The Twilight Zone”. Gauging by advance footage, the remake…
Missed the Boat
Around this time last week, I feigned shock upon hearing that some fellow movie lovers hadn’t seen titles that I consider “essential viewing”. Even today, I was stunned to learn that a fellow cinephile had never seen IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. I’m sure in every case, these titles are, as I always say, “on the…
Life, In A Nutshell – Top Five Documentaries
So last night there was a fun little meet up of a circle of fellow film enthusiats from Toronto (Sidebar – It’s good for movie geeks like me to know we’re not alone sometimes. Sorta makes me feel like the Bee Girl at the end of the Blind Melon video). We drank, we laughed, we…
When You Wish Upon a Star
Believe it or not, today is Mickey Mouse’s eightieth birthday! On this day back in 1928, the leader of the gang that’s made for you and me debuted in the animated short STEAMBOAT WILLIE. The rest, of course, is history. The dapper rodent looks pretty darned good for eighty (though between you and me, I…
Remembrance Day
I took this photo, of a Canadian soldier dressed in WWI fatigues at Toronto’s Remembrance Day Ceremony a few years ago. Today, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, our nation takes pause to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. I wanted to pay them tribute in my own…
Scared
Going back in time once again and re-posting a Top Five. When you start flipping channels and find an endless array of horror movies on TV you can tell that Halloween is coming. When I was a kid it was a time to hike a few blocks toward the rich neighbourhood and hope to score…
Orange Crush
I do hope you’ll excuse my phoning one in, but it’s been a rough few weeks, and I find myself a tad uninspired this week. While I will be putting up two or even three new reviews over the weekend, I can’t shake the feeling that there’s a lot of time between now and then.…