When I was about 7 years old or so, my mom would do my fortune cookie for me. And she'd bullshit, in the best, most benign way. "You are a very well-behaved boy" or "Always take care of your little ...
Read more »Before Shame, a trailer ran for Cronenberg's upcoming A Dangerous Method. Michael Fassbender stars in both movies and in the latter he plays Carl Jung to Viggo Mortenson's Sigmund Freud. This is a ...
Read more »Twice, I've introduced The Terrys to someone and both times I got nervous at the exact same moment: a close-up of the crowning during a childbirth scene. It's a really convincing latex model of a ...
Read more »Armadillo, about a group of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan, doesn't feel like a documentary in a lot of ways. We never hear the filmmakers' voices and the soldiers never speak directly into the ...
Read more »At one point during the documentary Jonestown, I caught myself thinking, wow, this Jim Jones is a cool guy. There's this one line he tells his parish that's stuck with me (at 9:30 mark): "Now my home ...
Read more »Sure, They Live By Night (which I watched as part of the Nicholas Ray retrospective at TIFF) looks like just a quaint movie. Two outcast kids (the boy recently escaped from prison, the girl who hides ...
Read more »At TIFF, I watched Miss Bala, a movie on the Mexican drug war, sort of Scarface meets Kafka (which is an interesting choice, but makes for a too-cold feel, especially for a movie trying to be ...
Read more »At the film festival last Sunday, before each screening played a god-awful commemorative short film about the 10th anniversary of 9/11. There is a brooding piano score film professionals talk about ...
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"also check this out -- all the stuff obama had to deal with in his first term http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all "
avp"a gingrich / obama race would definitely be uglier, but there's still no way gingrich wins. "
avp"We shouldn't be funding the Catholic school system. If they're going to take their orders from the Vatican and Catholic dogma, then they don't deserve our money."
C"Michael Fassbender could have been nominated for Jane Eyre or A Desperate Measure very plausibly but that he was overlooked for Shame was one of those imbecilic outrages that we've had to become a numb to with the Academy. You really must see that film ..."
Salem
" The Conservative Government was sued in the Supreme Court for the illegal age of sexual consent increase as it was a direct violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution. A book about the court case that remains ..."
Octaevius Altair