Have you ever begun watching a new television show at the beginning of the fall season and become immediately hooked? What makes that show appeal to you? Is it an actor or actress? Is it the show's writing? Or are you hooked because everyone at work talks about it by the proverbial water cooler?
I am not talking about a show that goes on for 10 seasons and becomes part of nost
Interview: On the Corner director Nathaniel Geary and star JR Bourne
Posted by: Mark McLeod • June 19, 2004 @ 12:00am
2003 was a banner year for my career as a writer. The month was October and I had been in the middle of my first full fledged Film Festival experience, having only gone to the odd show a year earlier. There would be days when I'd see two or three films back to back with very little downtime and then spend the night covering a Hollywood feature.
For the past five years, Angel Henry (Alex Rice) has lived a life of prostitution and drugs on the streets of Vancouver's downtown east side. She lives in a rundown, rent-by-the-month room at the Portland hotel where she and her friend Stacey (Katherine Isabelle) exist day to day by prostituting themselves out to various johns who find them "On the Corner".
Can you possibly imagine what it is like to be a person who doesn't exist? A freak of nature that has slipped through the cracks of our society.
Review: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Posted by: Dean Kish • June 18, 2004 @ 11:59am
There have been a lot of sports comedies over the years. Some have been memorable like 1989's Major League and some have been horrendous like 1998's Baseketball.
The Stepford Wives, the classic 1975 sci-fi horror film, escaladed the paranoia that everything you know isn't always what it seems. The idea of replacing your mate with a robo-duplicate was horrific and absurd.
Who is David Twohy? How did this small budget science-fiction director get saddled with the 100-million-dollar film like The Chronicles of Riddick? He created, wrote, and directed it, of course.
Twohy's 2000 cult favorite Pitch Black was the film that launched Vin Diesel into the minds of movie-goers.
The lovable lazy feline who scarfs lasagna and is a staple in the funny pages of newspapers across the globe comes to the silver screen in a live-action take.
Garfield (voiced by Bill Murray) nearly has a heart attack when his love-struck master Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) brings home a wily pup named Odie.
Review: Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban
Posted by: Dean Kish • June 4, 2004 @ 11:59am
In the now-classic third book in the "Harry Potter" series, author J.K. Rowling first began to carve her boy-wizard chronicles into a series that could reach beyond a child audience.
There is no questioning the literary genius of Charles Dickens. From A Christmas Carol to Oliver Twist and everything in between, the man was responsible for a number of literary classics. His stories have been told time and time again on both the big and small screens and on stages throughout North America and all over the world.
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