Category: EDITOR’S BLOG

Ah, Luv

Ah, Luv

December 14, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

Charlyne Yi is a really odd person, but her fusion film Paper Heart (2009) – part comedy, drama, and documentary – is an oddly cute effort to ruminate on the nature of love: What is it? How do you recognize it? When is it real? When is it dead? Blah-blah-blah…

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The Carlton’s Blinky-Blinky Lights Go Dark

The Carlton’s Blinky-Blinky Lights Go Dark

December 10, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

This past Sunday Dec. 6th marked the last day of operation of Toronto’s Carlton Cinemas, a modest Cineplex multiplex built in 1981, and known for showing indie and foreign films prior to their widespread availability on home video and specialty channels…

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Canada’s Top Ten on DVD (sort of)

Canada’s Top Ten on DVD (sort of)

December 8, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

Whenever a list of nominated or winning titles in a best-of or industry awards tally is revealed, there’s a curiosity among some (me) as to what’s currently out or will be out on DVD…

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Dark Sunday

Dark Sunday

December 7, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

Today marks two tragic anniversaries in Canada: the collision of a French munitions ship with a Norwegian vessel in 1917 that essentially flattened a whole swathe of the city of Halifax, and killed a thousand, and maimed nine thousand more; and the tenth anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre, where nutbar Marc Lepine set out to kill women at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique because he blamed women for all of his woes…

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Soundtracks Reviews (B)

Soundtracks Reviews (B)

December 5, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

Uploaded Friday are soundtrack reviews for a pair of MovieScore Media releases, the Swedish label that’s managed to build up what’s arguably the most diverse international roster of composers around…

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