Movies
The Day of Positivity hits Vancouver on Monday, January 5
Posted by: Mark McLeod • January 5, 2015 @ 12:19am
One month before its debut in theaters, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies have declared the first Monday of 2015 "The Day of Positivity," to celebrate SpongeBob SquarePants' upcoming film, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, in theaters on February 6, 2015.
Frank is a rare tragicomic masterpiece, one that will surely divide audiences. Jon (the wonderfully endearing Domhnall Gleason; next seen in J.J. Abrams' forthcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens) is a young office worker who writes songs in his spare time. He adores music, and dreams of an artist's life.
The charms of Serena's lead performers are worthy of note, but if we don't care about the characters they're portraying, we won't care when they start smashing into each other. And I just didn't care.
It's 1929.
My love of movies goes way back. Ever since I was a really little kid, I can remember having a love for movies. My earliest movie memory involves going to see An American Tail in theaters in 1986. That puts me at 4 years old. I remember covering my ears at the loud intense sound from the THX intro and the fire scene on the ship.
Trading in her blue body paint for a bow & arrow Jennifer Lawrence is back for her second blockbuster of the year. Returning to big screen as Katniss Everdeen, Lawrence and company reignite the phenomenon that is the Hunger Games for the final (sort of) chapter of this franchise.
Christopher Nolan sticks with traditional film on Interstellar amid a shifting industry
Posted by: Mark McLeod • November 6, 2014 @ 9:47pm
Chances are that unless you were born in the last 10 years, the first experience you would have had in going to a movie theatre involved film. For the better part of the entire existence of the motion picture film or movie industry, movies were captured on celluloid film and projected off them as well.
Submitted for your approval... Five strange and horrific works of cinematic depravity, the total running time of which would make a lovely line up for a li'l Halloween film festival.
My advice? Why not lock the door, draw those pesky curtains and dig into that massive bowl of candy yourself. Kids aren't getting enough exercise these days anyway.
TIFF 2014 Interview: Thorsteinn Bachmann
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • October 5, 2014 @ 6:42pm
It's commonly said that actors appear smaller in real life than they do on the screen. However, such is decidedly not the case with Thorsteinn Bachmann, star of the acclaimed Icelandic film, Life in a Fishbowl.
TIFF 2014 Interview: Omar Joseph Hady
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • September 24, 2014 @ 2:43pm
Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage published Cockroach: A Novel, in 2008 to generally positive reviews and even snagged a few literary awards.
In a small patio nestled in a high-rise apartment building in downtown Toronto, I sit across from Albert Shin. Despite the periodic sounds of honking from below and the roar of planes from above, the spot is peaceful, illuminated by the mid-morning sun. The young Canadian writer-director is friendly and informal, with a boyish face and irrepressible grin.
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