Nostalgia is a strange beast as it has the wonderful capability of giving everything in your past a rose-colored tint and smoothing over a whole bunch of things that were problematic or just plainly sucked. In many ways 1997 is peak nostalgia for my movie watching days as it represents the year when I went …
It's that time when we approach the end of the year and I feel immense pressure to catch-up on as many 2017 movies as I possibly can before putting together an end-of-year "Best Of" list that has a wide enough sample to be somewhat legitimate. Spoiler alert however: The list I put out in December …
It's that season again, when 'Muricans everywhere (myself included) prepare to eat an obnoxiously large amount of delicious food to celebrate Thanksgiving (and officially kick off the holiday season). Frustratingly apart from a few notable exceptions like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, the season is pretty much devoid of classic Thanksgiving-themed movies. But fortunately, there are …
It is no secret that movies directed by women are few and far between. Part of the fanfare surrounding Patty Jenkins directing Wonder Woman earlier this year was the simply pathetic fact that it had been so long since a woman was handed the realms of a blockbuster. Additionally even though we've had close to a hundred superhero movies, …
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Thor: Ragnarok could have gone in one of two directions. It could have either decided to act as a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) expansion machine (like Captain America: Civil War) as it tried to connect all the loose threads to set up next May's enormous Avengers: Infinity War. Or it could function as a proper conclusion to the …
Ever since Studio Ghibli closed shop with its final feature film When Marnie Was There in 2014 it is safe to say that there has been something of a void in Japanese animation. The latest to try and stake his claim as heir apparent to the legacy of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata is Makoto Shinkai …
In typical timely fashion, my list on the best Fall-themed movies comes out the day after we get our first snowfall in the GTA. But that just comes part and parcel with what has increasingly become my favourite season of the year in the twelve years or so that I've been able to experience living …
Although Netflix has been in the business of making original movie content for about two years, it's fair to say that 2017 is the year when they finally broke through as a major player on the movie scene in general. This year they are on track to release an astonishing 60 original narrative and documentary …
With this post I will pass a semi-decent milestone of making 50 posts. I promised myself when I started this blog that I would at least do 50 posts (before presumably giving up) in order to give the venture of writing about the movies the good college try. And in that intervening period, I've come …
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