The ads for this latest release from Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures production company says that 30 Days of Night reinvents the vampire. However, I would that there isn’t much to reinvent with vampires — they are undead creatures that live off of blood. Since this film based on a graphic novel, I would definitely […]
The Darjeeling Limited is the latest film from director Wes Anderson. It deals about three brothers taking a spiritual journey across India one year after the death of their father. With each of his films, Wes Anderson has been progressing more and more along the artistic route of filmmaking. That said, I would definitely say
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Back in my Movies of the Moment post, I was hoping that this film, which reunited Ben Stiller with the Farrelly Brothers would have recreated the magic of There’s Something About Mary. Sadly, I have to say that is not the case. The film did have it’s moments. I thought the scenes where Stiller’s comedy
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Into The Wild is one of the films that I missed seeing earlier this month at the Toronto Film Festival. This film, which is based on a true story, plays out almost like an Odyssean journey, with the young Christopher McCandless (played by Emile Hirsch) journeying across North America towards Alaska and meeting a lot
First, I hope you enjoy the new look of the blog. As you can see from this post, I will now be including a picture of the movie poster when I post thoughts (I also edited my last post to include a picture from the Death Defying Acts Q&A at TIFF). Now onto the film.
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Alright, it is now time for be to sum up the films that I saw at this year’s festival. This year, I shattered my record of the number of films I saw. I was a grand total of 11 ticketed films this year, plus one film I kind of saw while being stationed in the
The biggest thing to happen during my volunteer shift yesterday was that I stood inside the theatre during a screening (to make sure there were no bootleggers in the crowd). As such, I also got to see the film (whenever I was not looking at the crowd), so I will post some quick thoughts on
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My first day volunteering at the Film Festival left me very exhausted. I did some tasks that I was familiar with from last year, however about half of my time today was spent outside the theatre at the Rush line (a line-up for people to get last minute tickets). Some celebrities actually showed up at
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Back in April, I pondered how Rob Zombie’s remake/reimagining/whatever of Halloween would measure up to John Carpenter’s original film. My final verdict is not that well. I have to say, when I was watching the film, I was intrigued by the expanded backstory that Zombie gave Michael Myers. In fact, I thought it was quite
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Ten years ago the first movie based on the popular British TV series was released. It was okay enough, however instead of retaining the spirit of the show (Mr. Bean doing daily tasks in his own unique way — saying hardly a word while doing), the film featured an “Americanized” plot with supporting characters, an
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