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I must admit, I do wish I was staring down the barrel at a long weekend. Things have been pretty crazy up here in the Great White North lately, and four days off would do me good. Alas - no such luck. Not only did we already have our big turkey day last month, but we even had our festive ...
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Edward Norton
David Fincher
Brad Pitt
Penelope Cruz
Pedro Almodovar
I can't say this surprises me, but it saddens me none the less. On December 6, The Carlton Cinema in Toronto will close for good. For those of you reading this blog outside of 416, The Carlton is a bit of a mecca for indie movies here in my hometown. It has nine or ten screens and has long ...
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Pop quiz - what do THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and CITIZEN KANE have in common? If you answered that they are two of the best films of all time...well, you're right but that wasn't the answer I was going for. (Note to self, next time think your pop quiz through a bit more before you release it ...
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Alastair Sim...Albert Finney...Marcel Marceau...George C Scott...Bill Murray...Michael Caine...James Earl Jones...Bill Murray...Patrick Stewart...Kelsey Grammer...and a fluffy animated duck. Many a gifted actor has played this particular part, and now it's Jim Carrey's turn. If you don't know ...
Movies
Jim Carrey
A Christmas Carol
Robert Zemeckis
Colin Firth
Bob Hoskins
Robin Wright Penn
This blog is, and henceforth shall remain, a TWILIGHT-free zone. I have nothing against the fans of the books and/or movies, but they are truly not for me. The blogosphere is full of places where any Twi-Hards who read my space (and there are a few of ya) can keep up with The Cullens. This won't ...
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Missus Hatter and I have a new iMac on the way. Admit it - you're jealous. Along with the endless opportunities this will provide our individual photo and video work, it also recently dawned on me that this could potentially make podcasting a possibility. This leads me to wonder two things - ...
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Friday the Thirteenth today, huh? Interesting...guess it'd mean more if I were superstitious. If you're camping this weekend, I might stay away from the lake. Speaking of staying away, I'm not sure if I'm even going to get to a theatre to see something this weekend! That sorta sucks since I'm ...
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Snobs. Honestly, many of the people who read this space - and certainly the twerp who writes it - are in some small part a movie snob. We all have some sort of movie that we feel is beneath us, something we won't waste our time on...be it an action flick based on a comic book, or a ...
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Though my comic book knowledge seems to swell by the day, which at 31 makes me an easy target, I must admit I'd never heard of Mark Millar's comic Kick-Ass until earlier this year. Sheltered geekery aside, I now can't wait to see this upcoming flick, even if it does feature Nicolas Cage. This ...
Movies
Kick Ass
Nicolas Cage
The Mist
Sex And The City 2
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Note: I posted this same post around this time last year, but considering I'm still trying to shake this cold, that many of you weren't reading my stuff back then, and that it's all still rather apropos, I've decided to repost it. I took the photo above, of a Canadian soldier dressed in WWI ...
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mcneilmatinee.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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As much as I loved this movie, I
can't help but wonder how much more I woulda
dug it if I wasn't a Goy. Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is the titular serious man. He is a physics professor in 1967 Minnesota, thus an educated man. He is surrounded ...
Review: A SERIOUS MAN * * *
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Two days ago, I was talking with someone who may or may not read this blog. I asked if they'd seen PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, and likewise what they thought of it. The person told me that they weren't all that creeped out by it...which for better or worse, causes a pretty hefty degree of shock to ...
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A weird guy knocks on your door one morning and offers you a box. It’s got a bright red button covered by a locked lid. Weird guy tells you that if you press the button, two things will happen: you’ll be given one million dollars cash (tax free!), and somewhere, someone who you do not know ...
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Cameron Diaz
Richard Kelly
James Marsden
Sometimes it's kinda fun to go see something you usually wouldn't. I mean, the reason most movies I write about get favourable reviews is because almost all the time I'm choosing what I go to see...and, well, I'm picky. Then there's nights like last night. A magical evening where one Bruisey ...
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Yesterday, Joel wrote a review of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. He didn't seem to care for it too much, giving it a score of 2 out of 4. My first reaction when I read this was to call foul and/or scream "Blasphemy!". I say this because growing up this was one of my favorite movies, based on one ...
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Pardon me while I go back to last week. In my post last Friday , I mentioned that I tend to alternate between being totally into Halloween one year, and just shrugging it off the next. When I wrote that, 2009 was firmly seeded as a "Bah, Humbug!" year. My workplace, however, had other ideas. ...
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It occured to me the other day, that I almost have my blogging schedule down to a tee, what with three days out of seven being accounted for with regular features. Of course that has diminished the amount of actual writing I do in this space, but that should correct itself soon. One of those ...
