MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II – A secret, deadly, virus has been developed in order to sell a secret cure that wouldn’t have been commercially viable without a matching disease. Terrorists have stolen the cure, but now they need to get their hands on the disease. In the second film of the franchise, I start to wonder [...]
Read more →BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) – Oo… a bit of horror film history here – not only is this Canadian Content with Margot Kidder and Andrea Martin of all people, it’s also by director Bob Clark of the film with wider appeal, A CHRISTMAS STORY. Additionally, and possibly more importantly for horror and cult movie fans, this [...]
Read more →THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS – I thought maybe Will Smith had given up on acting, but this worked out pretty well. Sure, it’s a conservative fairy tale biography about a man who pulled himself up by his own bootstraps without any help from anyone! Except all the people who helped him, the shelters that housed [...]
Read more →GODFATHER – Fantastic movie – all three hours of it are important to the story of Don Corleone’s (Brando) fall and the rise of his replacement, son Michael (Pacino). I read the book one summer in high school, and never found the time to sit through the full film. It’s one solid piece of film… [...]
Read more →CASHBACK (Netflix) – “This tells me so much more than you could ever say…” What? That he’s a creepy stalker wannabe? Not just figuratively undressing women with his mind, but literally undressing them when he stops time. No, not creepy at all. Other than the weird stalker vibe, it’s mostly a bit of a cute [...]
Read more →I didn’t think I’d hit SEVEN films today, but a couple of them clocked in at the 90 minute run time; I didn’t hit a single film that hit two hours, so that helped. I still managed to get some things done here, including a couple hours of breaks for kitchen and dog walking. I [...]
Read more →BILLY CONNOLLY JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Netflix) – Technically this is a TV series for ITV in the UK, but watched end-to-end, it’s a 3 hour travel documentary with an Entertainer that decides that he needs to travel across Canada, but wants to stay as far as possible from Winnipeg at all [...]
Read more →DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER (Netflix) – This begins as a project in by a film maker to tell a kid about his murdered father. A father murdered by his ex-girlfriend, Zachary’s mother. It’s disturbing how much the Newfoundland courts and family services failed in this case; it’s almost as [...]
Read more →THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Netflix) – I’ve been meaning to see this film for a while, and now that I’ve seen it, I know why it beat out PAN’S LABYRINTH for the foreign language Oscar. This is a film about the East German State Security and about how the lines aren’t always clear, even for [...]
Read more →MONKEY WARFARE (DVD) – Radicals don’t always age very well, and despite their best efforts become part of society and consumerism. Oh sure, they try to explain it as exploiting yuppies, but they’re just like everyone else with 9 to 5 jobs… Well, maybe a bit higher… Then along comes SPOKE with their pro-cycle anti-SUV [...]
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