Three different media. Three similar themes. There can be only one winner. … Um, except there’s not really a contest. So, I saw this movie, went to this play, and read this book, right?
Let me preface this with the caveat that I have read only the first book (I know, I know) out of the series of five. But you can bet I’ll be reading them all now! (Um… as soon as I finish researching the three term papers that are due in…
You know why I’d make an awful evil villain? Because, when I get really angry, I start to cry and shake. What an awful climactic confrontation scene that would be: imagine, Harry Potter flings off his Invisibility Cloak – Indiana Jones swings down from above and lands between me and…
Happy New Year, everyone! No matter what your religion, ethnicity, or creed, I think we can all agree that, according to the Gregorian calendar used by the majority of the world, the arbitrary time at which one year segues into another is rapidly approaching. So enjoy it! Because this is…
Let it be known that I am a sucker for films that both children and adults can watch and have entirely different – but enjoyable – experiences. So, clearly, the only thing to do was write a top ten list of my favourite such movies. (Thanks for the info, IMDB.)…
If I’ve made one thing clear to the recent readers of this blog, I hope it’s this: I am spending all my grocery money on theatre tickets. Somebody stop me. No, really. This afternoon, I saw another Canstage production, The Elephant Man, starring Brent Carver and a whole bunch of…
Seriously. The Seeker – wtf? Why would you go to the trouble of getting the rights to a series of books when all you really want to do is use the characters’ names and make up your own story? For those of you who haven’t read Susan Cooper’s The Dark…
In other news, Paprika is seriously one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen. Well, not really: I’m pretty sure FILM 110 had its gems, and I can’t honestly remember a lot of The Saddest Music in the World or even A Hard Day’s Night. But, since Paprika is (is…
On Wednesday, I went on a pirate ship to cruise the Halifax harbour in Nova Scotia. But that’s not what this entry’s about.