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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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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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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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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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The night three became one: Why you should give The Human Centipede a chance

The horror started before the film did: the movie was sold out. This, after my panicked marathon trying to outwalk all the other horror fans trying to get to the end of the line. I actually managed to overtake more … Continue reading

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One crazy week later … is another crazy week

But at least I got to see Billy Zane make Greek zombie heads fly and bathe in Niagara Falls of fake blood (Evil in the Time of Heroes — Toronto After Dark Film Festival). I also saw probably the most … Continue reading

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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

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