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About Ofelia Legaspi

Ofelia Legaspi is a journalist and literary magazine editor living in the underrated city of Toronto.

Last chance to get your Fall/Winter 2012 issue of Existere

So, the snow memo didn’t get out this season, and it feels like this issue deserves four more months in bookstores until Canada looks like Existere’s stunning winter cover. This is the last issue I edited for Existere. Its first … Continue reading

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Isn’t she lovely?

Here’s my second journal as executive editor. It’s a good one. There’s a comic story about a father saving his house from a sinkhole, an essay on how the US military uses a clever trick to distract the enemy, a … Continue reading

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It’s a doomed love, and that’s the best kind: A little V-day message from Gnomeo and Juliet

The Bard is certainly no stranger to silver screen reincarnations of his teenage double-suicides. But a movie like Gnomeo and Juliet he couldn’t have seen coming. [Click here to read my latest Eye Weekly review] Related Articles Doug & the … Continue reading

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Wherefore art thou Gnomeo?

If you haven’t noticed, I finally gave in and switched the name of my blog from the delusional 500 Movies, 365 Days to the pragmatic Mostly Movies. I don’t like doing it, but if you’re juggling three jobs and you … Continue reading

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Mini Dakota Fanning in theatres today: The Nutcracker in 3D

Director Andrey Konchalovskiy (whose extensive background in film includes 1989′s Hollywood crossover Tango & Cash) takes a crack at Christmas classic The Nutcracker, boldly trading the tulle for a twist: setting it in a dystopian world transformed by the anthropomorphic … Continue reading

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American Splendor: Being our own life’s comic relief

“If you think reading comics about your life seems strange, try watching a play about it. God only knows how I’ll feel when I see this movie.” – Harvey Pekar While in school, I did my time of hard manual labour … Continue reading

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Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches

Directed by Mike Nichols (2003) “Do you wanna be nice, or do you want to be effective?” – Roy Cohn Angels in America is essentially a long conversation about identity – a grand debate on race, sexual orientation, politics and … Continue reading

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About a Boy

    Christine: You will end up childless and alone. Will: Well, fingers crossed, yeah. So, what could About a Boy be about? Well, with Hugh Grant on the cover, it’s safe to say it would be about love, it … Continue reading

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American Psycho: The corporate version of Clueless

Patrick Bateman is a splendor in symmetry. But when he’s not returning videotapes, flexing and admiring his deltoids and biceps or running his fingers through his tumble of wavy, full-bodied hair, you’ll soon see that, on the inside, he’s the … Continue reading

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Ophelia, please darken my door . . .

I know that you’ve been playing The Band nonstop in my unexplained absence. The blog comes back tomorrow, because today I have, wait for it, a hockey game! Yay for beer and nachos and guys in protective gear beating the … Continue reading

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