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Winnipeg Folk Fest Interview & Performance: Two Crows for Comfort
Posted by: Paul Little • December 22, 2025 @ 1:43pm
Two Crows for Comfort are a Manitoba folk duo (with roots and country leanings) who spend a good chunk of their year touring around North America with their dog in tow. The incredible harmonies and storytelling from this real-life couple are up there with some of the best duos making their style of music anywhere on the planet.
This is neither a sequel to 1972's The Poseidon Adventure nor is it a re-make. It's more of a re-thinking. It is directed by a man who knows his way around water, Wolfgang Petersen, the same guy who brought us Das Boot and The Perfect Storm.
On the plus side, Poseidon gets right into the action.
Has there ever been a dreamy sports film about soccer? I can't seem to remember one unless you count Bend It like Beckham but that was about girls in an unprofessional league.
There have been more than a dozen Australian westerns and they always seem to have a central theme. The only difference with this film is that it's nastier, unapologetic, and definitely dirtier. No, not that kind of dirtier. The film is filthy and covered with grit and grime.
The dirt in this film seems to have a character of its own.
He goes by many names now.
Most are shameful and talk directly to his mental state, but Tom Cruise is in all sense of the word, an entertainer.
It's rare for a movie with this much advance publicity to live up to the hype, but you have done it.
I have always been a fan of yours. I mean, look at your resume: from Risky Business and Top Gun to Rain Man and Born on the 4th of July. I even know that you were born on the 3rd of July.
How much did you love those beloved National Lampoon's Vacation films from 1980s? I was a huge fan and yes, I even liked European Vacation.
I think when the filmmakers sat down to make RV they channeled those films, except they forgot one thing. You need a slapstick comedian to pull off all the outrageous stunts and gimmicks.
We all remember that fateful day. The day our safety evaporated with one single solitary image.
I went to this movie expecting to get about 90 minutes of good-natured fun without having to worry about plot-points and hidden messages. RV delivered.
Okay, not everyone out there enjoys parody and satire. Some people just can't take a joke. Smart writing in comedies seems to have gone the way of dodo with films like Are We There Yet?, The Benchwarmers, and others having insanely huge opening weekends.
Enter writer-director Paul Weitz, who seems to be a renaissance man when it comes to the modern comedy.
How many movies does one guy have to sit through that involve an attempted assassination of a Hollywood-inspired President? There have been so many and nine times out of ten, they are awful.
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