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Category Archives: Movies
Ah!! Jessica Chastain is EVERYWHERE!
SEVEN films in 6 months?! So a year ago at TIFF, I saw The Debt (Aug 31). It was fine, but the fact it’s taken a year to see the light of day with a general release in North America … Continue reading
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Tagged al pacino, chastain, coriolanus, gate theatre, ginger, jessica chastain, redhead, take shelter, terence malick, texas killing fields, The Debt, the gate, the help, TIFF, TIFF10, tree of life, wilde salome
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My TIFF 2011 movie schedule!
336 films. 11 days. Another year has rolled around. It’s been 12 months since I kinda kick-started my blog for the first time after a hiatus and wrote My TIFF 2010 movie schedule! and TIFF thoughts & 123 movie reviews. … Continue reading
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Tagged andrea arnold, ben wheatley, Binoche, Carey Mulligan, coming soon, coppola, dardenne, elles, fassbender, film, film festivals, gate theatre, herzog, into the abyss, jason segal, jeff who lives at home, kill list, martha marcy may marlene, Midnight Madness, olsen, preview, prison, prisons, shame, the deep blue sea, the kid with a bike, theatre, TIFF, tiff11, Toronto, twixt, val kilmer, wuthering heights
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Imagine an alternative version of The Sound of Music…
The hills are alive… I really love The Sound of Music. Visiting the sets in Salzburg and taking the coach tour around the mountains was one of the highlights of my 2003 inter-railing experience. Most people would probably say getting … Continue reading
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Tagged auditions, Burt Reynolds, inter-railing, Mia Farrow, Salzburg, The Sound of Music, Tom Selleck
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I’m a scatman… // Scatman Crothers 1910-1986
It’s a scoobie oobie doobie scoobie doobie melody. So if I said to you one of my favourite actors is famous for appearing in two of cinema’s best-loved celebrations of madness, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and The … Continue reading
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Tagged attention bebe, Blackface, Chico and the Man, Disney, Jack Nicholson, Kubrick, NBC, One Flew over the cuckoo's nest, Orson Welles, Scatman Crothers, Scatman John, The Shining, Transformers
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Gail from Corrie looks really like Kermit the Frog
It’s uncanny right? And I’m not the only one to think this either, check out the Facebook group “gail platt looks an awful lot like kermit the frog???“. For once, 50 people agree with me. So this silly revelation does … Continue reading
I AM ONE // Happy birthday blog
Birthday Bumps!!! So a year ago I was just arriving in South Africa for the 2010 FIFA world cup and figured it would be useful to have an online depository for travel writing, videos, photos and your typical self-effacing and … Continue reading
14 summer movies to get a lil excited about… [pt2]
previously… 14 summer movies to get a lil excited about… [pt1] A documentary maker, Mike Cahill, and a trainee investment banker, Brit Marling, combine to write a screenplay. Cahill directing, producing, shooting and editing and Marling acting as co-producer and … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 minutes or less, abrams, Another Earth, Bellflower, Carey Mulligan, Drive, movies, My idiot brother, One Day, ryan gosling, spielberg, summer 2011, Super 8, super8, Terri, upcoming
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Movie Review: Bridesmaids
previously: 14 summer movies to get a lil excited about… [pt1] Bridesmaids – ★★★★½ 125 minutes | America | Language: English | Rating: R Weddings and cinema are a match made in heaven. Whether it’s in drama – imagine the … Continue reading
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Tagged bridesmaids, Chris O'Dowd, comedy, Ellie Kemper, Graham Linehan, IT Crowd, Judd Apatow, kristen wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Movie Reviews, movies, Posters, reviews, Richard Ayoade, Rose Bryne, Saturday Night Live, snl, Wendi Mclendon-Covey
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Terence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” – first impressions & reviews… (woos and boos)
Magnificent. Mental. Preposterous. Pretentious. Amazing. Bollocks. Terence Malick’s fifth film premiered at Cannes at 8.30 this morning and, as expected, it is getting fantastically mixed reviews. It was on almost everyone’s most anticipated lists, including mine, and living up to … Continue reading
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Tagged brad pitt, cannes, cinema, film festival, film festivals, guardian, hollywood reporter, malick, reviews, sean penn, terence malick, tree of life, variety
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14 summer movies to get a lil excited about… [pt1]
Summertime… and the livin’ is easy… ~ The Tree of Life ~ So quite an obvious one to start, but no one can argue it doesn’t deserve its place here. To put it bluntly, I don’t remember a more highly-anticipated … Continue reading
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Tagged bridesmaids, cinema, film, franco, kristen wiig, kung fu panda, lars von trier, malick, melancholia, monkeys, movies, Oscars, planet of the apes, project nim, snl, summer, summer 2011, trailers, tree of life, upcoming, what's your number, wiig
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Hot Docs 2011 reviews: Wiebo’s War // The Redemption of General Butt Naked // Empire North // Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
previously: Hot Docs 2011 preview & thoughts Wiebo’s War – ★★★★½ 94 minutes | Canada | Language: English | North American Premiere | Rating: 14A Like any fair story of a struggle, Wiebo’s War doesn’t force us to side with … Continue reading
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Hot Docs 2011 preview & thoughts
What’s up doc… Without sounding too rosemantic, there are some wonderful things about living in North America. I’m not talking about twinkies, maple syrup or Hershey’s cookies and cream. I’m actually talking about film festivals. Showcases for films looking for … Continue reading
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Tagged Being Elmo, Better this World, Bloor CInema, Conan O'Brien, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, docs, documentaries, Empire North, film festival, General Butt Naked, Hell and back again, Hot Docs, hotdocs11, movies, Superheroes, Toronto, Wiebo's War
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Movie Reviews: The High Cost of Living // Certified Copy
Fin(e) The High Cost of Living directed by Deborah Chow [imdb | trailer] me rating: 2.5/5 saw it: cinema (limited release in Canada for the moment) In the initial months and years “post-Garden State” Zach Braff was considered by some … Continue reading
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Tagged Binoche, Canadian Cinema, Certified Copy, cinema, Deborah Chow, French Film, Incendies, Rabbit Hole, Scrubs, TIFF, Uncle Boonmee, Zach Braff
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