Since it's the week of the Oscars, I've been preparing my predictions and also an Oscar-edition of Everybody's Chattin' series. That's on schedule for Friday but today I just want to pick your brain a bit today, so hope you'd indulge me. I just found out about this post from Flavorwire site (thanks to @WordandFilm …
Continue reading Question of the Week: Who’d you pick for Best (or Worst) Casting in 2012?
I was recently asked by Andrew Kendall at Encore Entertainment to contribute a post for the Motifs in Cinema blogging project. 2012, a multi-site themed blogging projects of 11 writers looking at 11 motifs from films last year. When Andrew emailed me the topics for the Motifs in Cinema Project, for some reason I gravitated …
Continue reading Motifs in Cinema Project: Love (and/or Marriage)
There has been quite a lot of buzz around this movie, so I'm thrilled that it's showing at TCFF about a month before its wide release! As I've mentioned on this post, this movie has won the coveted People's Choice Award at TIFF and there's been some Oscar buzz on Jennifer Lawrence's performance, deservedly so. …
Continue reading TCFF Day 7: Review of ‘Silver Linings Playbook’
TCFF is just four days away and I've finalized the movies I'll be watching during the 9-day film fest. I'm just thrilled that there's quite an eclectic lineup we've got this year, practically there's something from every genre. I've blogged about some of them on this post, but below is my full schedule of what …
Continue reading Counting Down to TCFF! The Films I Can’t Wait to See
Wahoo!! After months of planning, negotiating, previewing, etc. the TCFF board and staff have finally revealed the full lineup of its third film fest! As did the previous two years, TCFF have become the regional premiere of a lot of this season's most-anticipated films. Steve Snyder, TIME magazine's assistant managing editor and TCFF's scheduler, said …
Continue reading TCFF Lineup is here! Check out what’s showing Oct 12-20
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