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…
Does that title make sense in the context of what I’m about to type? Probably not. But, rest assured, it will contain the word “storytelling”. This is largely due to the fact that I can’t really imagine discussing Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman without it. The Pillowman is one of those…
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…
It makes me smile when I am sad. No, really, I went to see A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum last weekend, and it was terrific. Part of my opinion, of course, stems from the fact that I love Stephen Sondheim musicals. I had a song…
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…
1. I found this essay on Harry Potter and (erroneously expressed) Calvinism pretty interesting. And entertaining. Now, I’m not saying you’d enjoy going and reading it, but, for Pete’s sake, I went to the trouble of figuring out how to post a link and all, didn’t I? 2. Spanish flu.…
So if you want to understand this post at all, you need to remember Guess Who. A board game only fractionally more challenging than Hungry Hungry Hippos, it involved a flat of little doors for each player. Each door had a picture of a “character” with a unique set of…
I wanted to read Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion since it came out and am probably the last person EVER to finally read it, but, in my defense, I put myself on the Ottawa Library’s hold list around Christmas and didn’t get my hands on a copy until the end…