Movies
What happened to independent film? Of late I find myself pining for the woebegone days when guerilla filmmakers produced colorful and rebellious forays into the avant-garde like Harmony Korrine's Gummo or Vincent Gallo's Brown Bunny. Sure, some of them were disasters but they were interesting disasters.
The Uninvited Set Visit: David Strathairn, Elizabeth Banks, Emily Browning, & more
Posted by: Mark McLeod • January 26, 2009 @ 5:59am
One day a couple summers back, I was checking my e-mail as I do countless times per day, when I came across an interesting e-mail from one of my entertainment industry contacts. It was an invitation to visit the set of a major Hollywood motion picture shooting in Vancouver, then titled A Tale of Two Sisters.
Academy Award Nominations: Benjamin Button, Slumdog, and Dark Knight lead the pack
Posted by: Paul Little • January 22, 2009 @ 10:45am
After a few years of critically-lauded but hardly-seen films vying for the top spots at the Academy Awards, many were predicting that things this year would return back to the so-called "Golden Age", when commercially successful films could still win the big awards.
Hmmm. I wonder what this movie's about? It couldn't be about a literal hotel for literal dogs, could it? Actually... yes, that pretty much sums up the plot of Nickelodeon Studio's latest venture into movie-dom.
Edward Zwick's Defiance is based on the true life story of three Jewish brothers who escape Nazi-occupied Poland to the Belarussian forest during World War II. Forming a resistance, the Bielski brothers build and defend a woodland community for Jewish refugees.
Better get your popcorn ready, because Mall Cop is hitting theatres. This new Happy Madison production stars lovable big man Kevin James (Paul Blart), who also did some of the co-writing for this movie. Without giving too much away, Paul Blart is a mall cop who fails his police training time and time again, just to be back in the position he loves: guarding the mall.
Vancouver Bookstore Goes to the Dogs
Posted by: Mark McLeod • January 15, 2009 @ 3:49pm
A bookstore in Burnaby, B.C. went to the dogs this past Friday, January 9th, when canines Sofie, Belle and Maggie (along with their owners Barbara Swanston, Bev Mattson and Shelley Fletcher) came out to participate in a special book reading in support of the upcoming family film Hotel for Dogs.
English director, Sam Mendes is at it again in his latest indictment of American life and values, Revolutionary Road. This film, like Oscar Best Picture Winner, American Beauty, takes us to the suburbs, only this time, instead of modern times, the setting is a drearily realized 1950s.
Bedtime Stories, directed by Adam Shankman and starring Adam Sandler, is the timeless tale of a jerk uncle with a big heart that simultaneously tries to win the affection of his niece and nephew while furthering his career in the hotel biz by telling them fantastic bedtime stories that are somehow magically coming true. That run-on sentence is the premise of Mr.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based around a love story, a true love story about compassion, companionship and loyalty. There is no room for regrets. Things happen and you deal with them as they come.
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