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April 2005

April 18, 2005

Canadian box-office stats — April 17

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest...

April 17, 2005

A new personal milestone!

I just realized something. I think I bought my first-ever non-English DVD today.I know, I...

April 16, 2005

Narnia movie pun alert!

Here's a groaner that had somehow never occurred to me before. Jeff Overstreet's blog includes...

April 15, 2005

Hollywood vs. “families”?

I happen to be in the middle of researching a story on the arrival in...

April 15, 2005

Frisbee gets more OC Weekly coverage

Just a quick link to the OC Weekly's latest story on the soon-to-be-premiered Frisbee: The...

April 15, 2005

Amityville remake — the review is up

Just a note to say my review of the new version of The Amityville Horror...

April 14, 2005

Dante’s Inferno — trailer online!

Thanks to my colleague David F. Dawes for pointing this out to me. Apparently the...

April 14, 2005

The gospels are now complete!

Don't know if it comes through, but I'm going for a Star Wars style "the...

April 14, 2005

More Dogme delights, perhaps?

I do not subscribe to ScreenDaily.com, but I do subscribe to their newsletter, so while...

April 13, 2005

The assassination of Sean Penn

Just a few links to reviews here. I didn't care much for The Assassination of...

April 13, 2005

Sister Rose’s Passion, etc.

There was much chatter a few months ago about how the Academy had "snubbed" The...

April 12, 2005

Fun with Google maps!

I have lived in downtown Vancouver for a bit more than five and a half...

April 11, 2005

Frankie redux

I caught a preview screening of Dear Frankie tonight, and I just might have liked...

April 11, 2005

Narnia and the meaning(s) of the number 7

Just noticed an article by Don King at the Matthews House Project which speculates that...

April 11, 2005

Left Behind: evangelical “pornography”?

Jeff Overstreet has just linked to this article by Ken Morefield on the possibility that...

April 11, 2005

Canadian box-office stats — April 10

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest...

April 10, 2005

Giving Frisbee another plug

Only two weeks left until the public premiere of Frisbee: The Life and Death of...

April 10, 2005

Lazier, or more discerning?

This weekend, Disney's The Pacifier passed the $100 million mark in domestic box-office receipts. Why...

April 09, 2005

One of the reasons I do love Cecil B. DeMille

Let's see if I've figured out how to capture DVD images yet ... aha, it...

April 09, 2005

Critiquing Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is another one of those films that I have always had mixed...

April 08, 2005

Miracle battles and unknown soldiers

Here's a random thought, spurred by that Crusades movie.On the flight to L.A., I brought...

April 08, 2005

A day without new posts? Noooo!

Looks like I missed a day for the first time since starting this blog just...

April 06, 2005

Star Wars — why bother waiting?

Jeff Overstreet beat me to it, but yeah, like he says:Doesn't it take some of...

April 06, 2005

I’m gonna be on TV!

I've got to catch a plane in a couple hours, but I just have to...

April 05, 2005

New Errol Morris DVDs coming soon

Woo-hoo! Three classic films by one of my favorite documentarians are coming to DVD later...

April 04, 2005

Canadian box-office stats — April 3

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest...

April 04, 2005

Steyn on royalty and celebrity

Mark Steyn has a lovely column up now on the way British rock stars take...

April 04, 2005

Fever Pitch, etc.

Caught a press screening of the Farrelly brothers' remake of Fever Pitch this morning.In a...

April 03, 2005

Playtime on the big screen!

Just got home from seeing Jacques Tati's Playtime (1967). Gad, I love living three blocks...

April 02, 2005

My second book (sort of)

Inch by inch, little by little, I am gradually making my way onto the bookshelves.I...