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From Wired 's "Underwire" blog: Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From Twilight (1) Female moviegoers are incapable of thinking critically or ironically about the entertainment they consume. (2) Female romantic fantasies are psychologically sick. (3) Degree of “scariness” is the only ...
Twilight
Twilight
New Moon
Wow, my voice nearly gave out at the end of this one — I guess that's a sign of how enthusiastic I was about recommending Lynn Shelton's droll mumblecore comedy Humpday in this week's "Hidden Gems" DVD segment for CBC Radio. Besides being a welcome antidote to "gay panic" humour, it also ...
Movies
Humpday
I have never been on one of Richard Linklater’s sets, but it’s hard to imagine him doing what Orson Welles does in his new film Me and Orson Welles and yelling at the assembled cast and crew, “You are all adjuncts to my vision!” My impression of Linklater — formed by watching his best films, ...
Movies
Richard Linklater
TOM WAITS Glitter and Doom Live (Anti) **** 1/2 (out of 5) Tom Waits is one of the great live performers in music today, but he’s been curiously ill-served by his live albums: Nighthawks at the Diner (1975) suffers from a weak lineup of songs, while Big Time (1988) suffered from the same ...
Movies
The waiflike beauty looks up at the strong, handsome, silent man, who seems at that moment like the embodiment of every kind of forbidden love. Strands of long, dark hair in her eyes, she begs him to change her into a vampire like himself, so they can be lovers forever. He shakes his head and ...
Celebrities
According to legend, Terrence Malick tried to shoot as much of Days of Heaven as he could at the “magic hour,” those brief, beautiful minutes of the day just after the sun has set but there’s still light in the sky. I don’t know what you’d call the opposite of the magic hour (the tragic ...
Celebrities
Viggo Mortensen
My "HIdden Gem" DVD pick this week for CBC Radio is Not Quite Hollywood , director Mark Hartley's high-octane documentary about the golden age of Australian exploitation movies. I tend to recommend a lot of movies about movies in these segments, and I don't know if that's something listeners ...
Movies
So many directors are remaking classic horror movies from the ’70s and ’80s, and yet it’s occurred to almost none of them to do what Ti West has done in The House of the Devil and come up with an original horror story but set it in the ’80s. In fact, judging from the scene in which the main ...
Television
CONNIE KALDOR Postcards From the Road (Outside Music) ** (out of 5) There’s a fine line between eloquent simplicity and mere banality, between familiar shared truths and shopworn sentiments, and far too often on Postcards From the Road , singer/songwriter and Canadian folk festival mainstay ...
Movies
Peter Morgan is one of the few screenwriters who appears to have no ambitions to become a director, but whose scripts have such consistent themes that he practically qualifies as an auteur anyway. A typical Morgan script will dramatize a little-known footnote of ’70s history, and use that ...
Movies
Every frame of The Fantastic Mr. Fox , Wes Anderson’s first foray into stop-motion animation, is so filled with wonders, you hardly know where to look. A book on a shelf, leaning against a TV set, titled Spices of the Jungle. A stalk of wheat worn in the breast pocket of a corduroy suit ...
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
George Clooney
Meryl Streep
THE WILLIAM BLAKES Wayne Coyne (Speed of Sound) *** 1/2 (out of 5) The Danish rock band The William Blakes may have named their debut album after the lead singer of The Flaming Lips, but judging from these 12 songs, Coyne is the least of their influences. The opening track, “Secrets of the ...
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Flaming Lips
Most computer animation studios don’t actually aspire to be Pixar. Pixar turns out one entertaining, moving, visually spectacular, critically acclaimed, and ridiculously profitable animated film after another, and that’s a task no sane studio would ever assign itself. No, most fledgling ...
Movies
When divorced single mom Muna Farah’s application to emigrate from Palestine to the United States is unexpectedly approved, she balks at leaving her familiar surroundings, even as she knows it’s an opportunity she can’t refuse — if only for the sake of her teenage son Fadi, a bright kid who ...
Celebrities
“Scripture-pure veracity and scandal-rag content. That conjunction gives it its sizzle.” That’s how the narrator of James Ellroy’s stunning new novel Blood’s a Rover describes the 600 pages that follow — but that description would apply equally well to any of James Ellroy’s books, which ...
Movies
Roman Polanski
Watch out, John Cusack! That plane’s going to fly off without you! If you don’t run faster, you’re going to fall into one of thousands of faultlines opening up right under your feet in Yellowstone National Park! What’s more, you won’t be able to give your ex-wife and your two kids directions ...
Movies
John Cusack
Armando Ianucci's scathing political satire In the Loop is the topic of this week's "Hidden Gem" segment for CBC Radio, and it made me glad all over again that I chose not to work in politics, because if I had a boss even a fraction as terrifying as Malcolm Tucker, I would do nothing but cry ...
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In the Loop
WINTER KILLS Plot In A Nutshell William Richert’s 1979 conspiracy thriller about the brother (Jeff Bridges) of an assassinated president who many years later uncovers his first clue to the identity of the killer. Thoughts I watched this one about a week and a half ago, and I really shouldn’t ...
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Jeff Bridges
Diary
Richard Kelly
BETTY DAVIS Nasty Gal/Is It Love Or Desire (Light in the Attic) **** 1/2 (out of 5) Soul sister, sex goddess, funk icon, force of nature: Betty Davis recorded only four albums before dropping out of the music business, but no one who’s heard her voice will ever forget it. It’s less a voice, ...
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Desire
The British ensemble comedy Pirate Radio tells a pretty familiar slobs-vs.-snobs story, but does so within an unusual historical setting. It’s 1966, British rock is at its creative zenith, but almost none of it is being heard on the radio — according to an opening title, BBC Radio was playing ...
