By John H. Foote Let me start with my single complaint. You cannot make a warthog look like a friendly, jolly animal unless you are using animation. Unless it is a cartoon. The animals in this film are hyper-realistic, there is nothing cartoonish about them. But eyes in animated films are truly windows to the…
By Nick Maylor I am a big fan of the musician biopic when it’s done right. When I’m not writing about film, I pretend to be a musician sometimes. I’d like to offer some perspective, the best that I can, on the big wave of music biopics that is here and doesn’t show signs of…
By John H. Foote Despite being what audiences and critics felt was the weakest season in the history of the Emmy laden drama Game of Thrones, it dominated the Emmy nominations yesterday with a whopping 32 nominations. Other multiple nominee getters were Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with 20, the HBO drama Chernobyl with 19,…
By Nick Maylor Trey Parker and Matt Stone started their cartoon franchise over twenty years ago and the show is still putting out new episodes. Unlike The Simpsons Movie (2007) which took a long, slow journey to the big screen, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) was green-lit almost immediately after South Park began…
By John H. Foote My daughter Aurora, and her boyfriend Andrew, recently returned from Paris, a whirlwind birthday present her from Andrew, something he had planned, and executed as a complete surprise. When they returned, Andrew handed me a small jar of sand from Juno Beach. While in Paris they made the journey to the…
By Nick Maylor After seeing Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), I decided it was time to take a look back at all of the films starring our favourite wall-crawler and list them from weakest to strongest. While Holland’s version of Peter Parker/Spider-Man has appeared in other MCU films that are not “Spider-Man” centric, I will…
By John H. Foote The American Bicentennial year brought with it many great films, from both the United States and around the globe. 1976 was the year I REALLY discovered the power and art of cinema. I had my drivers license and could freely drive in my own car to Oshawa, twenty minutes from home…
By John H. Foote (****) If there is a greater American film, I have not seen it. If there is a greater film made in the history of the cinema, I am not aware of it. Francis Ford Coppola’s expansive, brilliant sequel to his Oscar-winning The Godfather (1972) actually bookends the first film, moving into…
By Alan Hurst 1964, 1972 and 1979 were three defining years in my movie going youth that have embedded themselves on my psyche. From a personal standpoint, it was the start of movies helping me grow up, figure out who I was and to begin establishing a point of view on basically everything. At the…
By Nick Maylor Coming off the heels of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) serves as both a solid standalone entry for everybody’s favourite web-slinger; as well as letting fans know that even though the Infinity Saga has come to an end, the Marvel Cinematic Universe still has a bright future and stories…