By Erin V. Over the next week we will be having special coverage of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, to be presented on February 27th, 2011. Today until Friday, we will be sharing our more in-depth thoughts on the nominees in ten of the main categories. Check back tomorrow for a look at the… Read More The Oscars: A Look at 2010’s Original & Adapted Screenplay Nominees
By John C. With the Oscars just under a week away, it seems like the perfect time to offer a more in-depth look at the 10 films competing for the highest honour of Best Picture. We’ve previously reviewed five of the ten, and eight of them even got a spot on my list of the… Read More A Closer Look at the 10 Films Nominated for Best Picture at Next Week’s Oscars
By John C. It’s Valentine’s Day, so it seems like the perfect time to celebrate love on the big screen. There are many great dramas that I could be profiling, but due to the fact that a lot of romantic comedies have fallen flat in recent years, it seems like the perfect time to pause… Read More Love at the Movies: Looking Back on the Best Romantic Comedies
By John C. The King’s Speech has been widely embraced by critics and audiences alike, captivating and inspiring people with it’s powerful story of a monarch, King George VI (Colin Firth), overcoming a debilitating stutter. Even Queen Elizabeth II has enjoyed the film, in which Firth portrays her father. On it’s way to potentially pulling… Read More “The King’s Speech” Should not be Censored
By John Corrado A few weeks back, I offered my picks for the worst movies of 2010. Now February 2011 is nearly upon us, and seeing as the Academy has already announced the list of films to be honoured with Oscars come February 27th, it seems like the perfect time to share my picks for… Read More The Best Movies of 2010
By John C. It’s hard to believe that we’re about to enter the home stretch of the 2010 awards season, with the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards set to be announced tomorrow morning. I will finally get around to sharing my picks for the best movies of last year next Monday, but first here’s… Read More Predictions for the Oscar Nominations
By John C. Pictured to the right is Best Actress winner Natalie Portman, arriving at the Beverly Hilton hotel for last night’s Golden Globes. Partway through last night’s telecast of The Golden Globes, I tweeted that I was “enjoying the show” and was “pretty happy with the results.” I tweeted sparingly through the night,… Read More The cynical host and gracious winners of The Golden Globes
By John C. It’s hard to believe that we’re already into January 2011, and have yet to properly pay homage to the year that has just passed. Well, as I’m still putting some finishing touches on my list of the best movies of 2010, below are my picks for the worst movies of last… Read More The Worst Movies of 2010
By John C. It’s hard to believe that we are no longer in 2010. I will be sharing my picks for some of the best and worst titles of the previous year over the coming month of January, but believe it or not, I am still playing catch up on a select few titles. So… Read More 11 Films to Look Forward to in 2011
By John C. All box office numbers in this article are courtesy of Box Office Mojo, and representative of current worldwide grosses. Pictured to the right is one of the many brilliant posters in Disney’s “Not Since…” Best Picture campaign for Pixar’s Toy Story 3 – the highest grossing movie of the year. … Read More The Box Office Successes of 2010
By John C. “Marley was dead: to begin with.” This year marks 167 years since Charles Dickens first published those immortal opening words of his beloved masterpiece, A Christmas Carol. The story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a Victorian miser who is visited by three ghosts and taken on a spiritual journey of self redemption and… Read More A special appreciation of Charles Dickens’ beloved masterpiece, A Christmas Carol
By John C. Two weeks ago, I profiled some of the many great comedies that are recommended to be watched around Christmas. Last week, I spoke about the TV specials that are staples on the airwaves this time of year. With the big day coming at the end of this week, today I’m looking back on… Read More The Classics of Christmas
By John C. Last week, I took the time to profile different comedies that are good choices to watch around Christmas. Today I’m going to take a break from talking about the feature-length, to look back over a select few of the many classic television specials centred around the holidays that have aired over the… Read More Christmas TV Classics
By John C. The last two years I have spent the 10 days leading up to Christmas profiling different holiday-themed films. Instead of doing a formal countdown this year, I will instead spend the next few articles looking back on the many films that usually find themselves near my DVD player this time of year.… Read More Have yourself a comedic little Christmas
By John C. In 2003, a falling boulder pinned Aron Ralston’s arm to the wall of a crevice when exploring Blue John canyon in Utah. He was literally trapped, as his autobiography’s title suggests, between a rock and a hard place. Ralston remained alone for over 5 days, before amputating his own arm to… Read More “127 Hours” and other films by Danny Boyle
By John C. Originally released in 1987, John Hughes’ Planes, Trains and Automobiles is the perfect example of a genre now known as ‘dramedy.’ There are big laughs to be had in this classic road trip pairing of the uptight business man Neal Page (Steve Martin) and the socially awkward but genuinely well meaning… Read More Planes, Trains and John Hughes: Looking back on a Holiday classic
By John C. In 2000, Mark Hogencamp was mercilessly beaten up outside of a bar. In a coma for 9 days, 31 more in hospital, he was left with an acquired brain injury and had to relearn the day-to-day skills many of us take for granted. Now he lives his life through Marwencol –… Read More Marwencol: A hit at TIFF Bell Lightbox
By John C. It hasn’t been a good year for romantic-comedies. I don’t say this because I dislike the genre, but simply because many of the titles released under this label have failed at being either romantic or comedic. Sure there have been some genuinely good ones, but these have unfortunately become the exception… Read More No love for the majority of recent romantic-comedies
By John C. I got a Blu-ray player last year at Christmas. I watch a lot of movies, so the only natural step forward was upgrading to the more-modern format. But the question keeping a lot of people from purchasing a new machine is if there really is a noticeable difference between Blu-ray discs… Read More Seeing ‘Blu’ in the present and future
By John C. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) first enters the shower 46 minutes into Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho. Some 50 years after the film’s initial release, that now-famous scene on the fateful night at the rundown Bates Motel is still shocking in it’s themes and brilliant in its execution. Up until this point, there… Read More 50 years later, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” is still shocking and brilliant
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