Friday night I went home for a delicious barbeque steak dinner and then sat by the fire while the rain poured and chatted with my parents. Then I went back to other home (or apartment home) and watched "Tricheuse/So Woman!" a cute little French film that Cinefranco sent me a screener for ( Read more... )

 A decade ago, I was at a New Year's eve party at my neighbour's house, singing "bye bye ms american pie" and crying because Toronto had merged with surrounding "suburbs" to become a big megacity (with Mel Lastman as mayor). I've mostly gotten over the megacity shock, though I still say that if you live in Etobicoke or Scarborough, you don't live ( Read more... )

My world crumbles, but in a good way.

Away We Go - I can't believe Sam Mendes is capable of making a sweet, upbeat movie, about a couple that doesn't actually want to kill each other. Soon-to-be parents take a road trip to find a new place to live and get some (occasionally very bad and insane) parenting advice along the way. Very entertaining and ( Read more... )

From a friend of mine "The Great Read is apparently all scandalized that most Canadians have only read six of these books." I, like her, don't really understand why these books are the ones they've chosen. I hardly think that reading the daVinci code makes you a reader -- aren't most serious readers too embarrassed to read that? Plus, half of these ( Read more... )

ˆGoodfellas - Would someone please explain to me what I'm supposed to like about Goodfellas? It becomes clear after the first 30 minutes that there is no plot, and from then on there's just scene after scene of objectified (or oppressed) mob wives, random killings, and stupid people doing stupid things. I can only be grateful that it wasn't nearly ( Read more... )

Eros - is beautifully shot all the way through and the first two segments (by Kar Wai Wong and in particular, Mr Steven Soderbergh himself) were very engaging and rewatchable. Antonioni's short was, unsurprisingly, dull, and with way too much pointless gratuitous nudity. But Robert Downey Jr and Alan Arkin are fantastic in Equilibrium (Soderbergh's ( Read more... )

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Worldwide Short Film Festival Coverage
HotDocs Coverage
The Last Continent
American Teen
Interview with Jazz Pianist Geri Allen (Toronto Jazz Festival)

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Pierrot le Fou  - Jean-Luc Godard is insane, but I kind of love him for it. This is definitely up there with La Chinoise though a lot less heavy. I'm still not much of a fan of Breathless. But how can you not love a twisted, french, bonnie and clyde where the woman kills people with scissors, the guy blows himself up in the end with dynamite, and ( Read more... )

friendship: the act of and agreement to mutual mockery.

I just watched Jeux d'Enfants, which was a disappointment. It didn't even have enough Guillaume Canet to compensate for its stupidity.

I just watched Hard Candy and all I can say is wow. wow. wow. I'm still formulating thoughts on this one but boy is there a lot to talk about here.

After seeing it show up on several of my friends' favourite movies facebook listings (whose taste I trust), and since it just happened to be on television yesterday, and since I'm becoming a very big ( Read more... )