Rant: Shame on Cineplex for Increasing Ticket Prices
I’m going to preface this by saying that going to the movies has become an expensive hobby for me. As someone who goes to see movies on a near-weekly basis, the ticket admission prices really […]
Rants
Rant: The Angry Video Game Nerd Doesn’t Want to See the New Ghostbusters…..And I Don’t Care!
James Rolfe, best known by his webseries persona “The Angry Video Game Nerd” posted a video on his website Cinemassacre, which he described as a “non-review” of the upcoming reboot of Ghostbusters. Before I go […]
Rant: How trying to stop piracy can ruin an evening
This week Cineplex has been holding their annual Great Digital Film Festival, which generally consists of them screening a number of older films over the course of the week. On a whim, I decided to […]
Rant: Against the Blockbuster Mentality
A few days ago, I was watching the PBS interview show Charlie Rose. After an interesting, and very down-to-earth, interview with the cast of Anchorman 2, the next guest was a Harvard professor named Anita […]
The Golden Globes Are Tonight and I Don’t Really Care
There was once a time when you could say that the Golden Globes were a good way to predict what films may win at the Oscars. Usually the same films get nominated at both and […]
Rant: A Wasted Afternoon
I go to the movies a lot and I am happy to say that, the vast majority of the time, I have watched films theatrically without a hitch. In fact, before today, the only time […]
The Annoying Trend of Teasers for Trailers
So, today I went to iTunes Movie Trailers to see what I thought was the first trailer for the film Looper, which is the new film directed by Rian Johnson (Brick) and is one of my […]
A Brief Rant on HMV DVD Gouging
The retailer I typically buy most of my DVDs at is HMV, which is the main music/video chain in Canada. I always typically find that the pricing at HMV is usually fair (or at least […]
DVD Thoughts: Friday the 13th – Killer Cut Edition
The biggest message I am receiving from the standard DVD release of Friday the 13th is “Why didn’t you get the Blu-Ray?” First, a quick overview: This extended cut is nine minutes longer than the […]
