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Category Archives: Film
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
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
Posted in Film, Uncategorized
Tagged Chronic pain, Emily Blunt, Existere, Eye Weekly, James McAvoy, Michael Caine, Ozzy Osbourne, Toronto Star
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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
Posted in Film, Uncategorized
Tagged AIDS, Al Pacino, Angels in America, Fantasy, Homosexuality, Meryl Streep, Politics, Race, Roy Cohn, Theatre, Tony Kushner
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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
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
Posted in Film, Uncategorized
Tagged A Simple Plan, Film, Hockey, Ice Hockey, National Hockey League, Ophelia, Sport, Swimming Pool, The Band, Toronto Maple Leafs
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So Inception is ripped from . . . a Scrooge McDuck comic book?
No, you are not dreaming within a dream within a dream. Sorry to break it to you Inception fans, but this is too good of a find. Couldn’t he have just optioned the thing instead of draining it of all … Continue reading
Posted in auteur, comedy, derivative, Film, Inception, Leonardo Di Caprio, Uncategorized, Uncle Scrooge McDuck
Tagged Christopher Nolan, Inception, Uncle Scrooge McDuck
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Stories of serial killers and spies | 500 Movies, 365 Days (Identity) / Now Playing (Salt) |
Rotten Tomatoes tells me that a lot of you have flocked the theatres to see that actress with the lips and the hair that make you want to lecture God about equality and justice. South of the border, Americans have … Continue reading
|500 Movies, 365 Days| Movie 3: Garden State — planting idiosyncrasies
You won’t find a garden-variety cast of characters in Garden State. Peopled with oddballs in their 20s, this film satisfies my appetite for character-driven belated coming-of-age stories. It doesn’t shine as a whole, but many moments call attention to themselves … Continue reading
Posted in auteur, comedy, Film, Garden State, Natalie Portman, Uncategorized, Zach Braff
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