By John H. Foote And the race for the Academy Awards begins with the announcement of the first batch of films coming to Toronto for the annual Film Festival. TIFF has long been a major player in the annual run towards Oscar, with many films premiering here going all the way to the big award.…
By Nick Maylor It was a big weekend for Marvel Studios as they recently celebrated Avengers: Endgame (2019) surpassing Avatar (2009) to become the highest-grossing film of all time. I suppose it shouldn’t really matter as both film franchises are now owned by Disney but I am personally happy about Endgame besting James Cameron’s visually…
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 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 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 John H. Foote Through the years film critics and historians have written about individual years being the greatest in movie history. Those years celebrated yielded the greatest number of bonafide masterpieces, and one cannot deny it makes for an interesting debate. The greatest enemy to film is time, and as time flashes furiously past…
By Craig Leask As mentioned in my article on Famous Television Cars a vehicle in movies, when properly used and presented, can be iconic and an integral component of the main character’s persona. Often great lengths are taken by a production team to research and identify the perfect car for their film, and when done…
By Alan Hurst Every decade or so – and sometimes more than once in a decade – you get a year where the film output from Hollywood and Europe aligns and we’re treated to an abundance of memorable films. A great year is also something much easier to recognize when you have the advantage of…
By Craig Leask In movies and in television, few techniques have been used to easily define the character of an individual better than the car the lead actor drives. Beginning predominantly in the 1960’s, cars were incorporated into various television series as an identifier of the character(s) uniqueness, social class or conventionality, rather than as…