2010 Golden Globe Nominations - An Ottawa Viewing Guide

April Yorke — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:51:52 +0100

Golden Globe nominations, because of their comedy/drama split, are always a mixed bag. Despite the fact that some excellent movies have come out in the last year, it's been more miss than hit, so we're going to try to pare it down to an essential viewing/incredibly biased predictions. Here we go:

Film

Drama

Black Swan, The Fighter

Tuesday DVD Guide - December 7, 2010

Administrator — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:56:13 +0100

INCEPTION
DIRECTOR: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
Starring: Leonardo Dicaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an inter...

Weekend Viewing: July 16 - 18, 2010

April Yorke — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:18:39 +0100

There aren't many new movies at the multiplex this weekend, which is just as well as I can't imagine exactly what could slow Inception down. Consensus seems to be that it's a stunning visual masterwork possibly lacking in the corresponding emotional majesty. If you can't get a ticket to whatever showing you attempt, yo...

Weekend Viewing: June 30 - July 4

April Yorke — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:38:57 +0100

Are you a fan of Jackson Rathbone?

Who?

Jasper from Twilight.

The one with the really weird hair. Really, extra weird.

Oh, that guy. Sure.

Then you are in for a treat! Two movies have opened in which Rathbone plays a significant role: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which is you've n...

Inception Has a Plot!

April Yorke — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:52:22 +0100

If you've seen any advertising for this summer's Christopher Nolan/Leonardo DiCaprio thriller Inception, you can be forgiven for wondering what this movie is about it. In fact, both Nolan and DiCaprio have been incredibly tight-lipped about things like, oh, the general plot or even the characters that appear in the movie. Shocking, the...

Weekend Viewing: August 28 - 30

April Yorke — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Sweet, sweet movies, what have you on offer this weekend?

A few releases that have been kicking around elsewhere have landed here this weekend, like Adam, in which darling Hugh Dancy plays a young man with Asperger's negotiating a romantic relationship with Rose Byrne. Two horror movies, both of which were not scre...

District 9's Ugly Vision of Mankind

Kevin Johns — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0100

April is away on vacation, which is why we didn't have our usual "Weekend Viewing" blog feature on Friday. I was going to write it up in her absence, but I figured why bother? Given the near universally positive reviews District 9 received from critics, there really wasn't any question what all of us were going to see this weekend, right? I mean, it was District 9 or nothing.

Well, now that we have all seen it, I can't help but ask... am I the only one w...

Weekend Viewing: July 24 - 26

April Yorke — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Could it be? Are there movies worth seeing playing again in Ottawa? Saints be praised!

The Hurt Locker is playing in Ottawa! I repeat, critically-acclaimed, award-winning, best-damn-Iraq-war-movie-yet The Hurt Locker is finally here! Consider the question of what to do this rainy Friday night resolved. You're spending it with Jeremy Renner and Kathryn Big...

Thank you, Marc Webb

April Yorke — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

500 Days of Summer is one of the movies I have been looking forward to this season. It's unlikely to be a blockbuster, but it's got Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and that's enough to get my butt in the seat every time. It's Marc Webb's feature debut. He comes from the world of music videos, which makes him unknown to me. I'm very glad to read that he and I share a movie philosophy:

Every movie, in some way or another, is a coming-of-age story.

So true. Movies follow an arc, and th...

"I consider this so lame. Clips don't blow people away!"

April Yorke — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

If there's one thing Michael Bay should know, it's blowing people away. Also, blowing things up. Imagine how explosively upset he must have been when he sat down at his computer to type a grammatically confused email to Paramount re: their sucky publicity campaign for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. While his complaint about the trailer might make him seem like a man after my own heart (because seriously, what was stopping them?), this line is my favourite:

"Over the years Jer...

This must be a joke: Mickey Rourke & Iron Man 2

April Yorke — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

There were few things that I loved more last summer than Iron Man (a movie that scores insanely high in re-watchability for me), so you can imagine how much I am looking forward to Iron Man 2. But what the crap is this (pictured, by Francois Duhamel, Marvel Studios)? Is anyone seeing what I'm seeing? Rourke, as Whiplash, is wearing a prison jumpsuit, a utility belt, Iron Man's miniature arc reactor heart ("The technologies are definitely related," says director Jon Favreau.), and, l...

Famke, you rock!

Kevin Johns — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I'm mid-season five in my rewatching of the entire Star Trek: the Next Generation series. I viewed the show fairly often as a youngster, but there are still a massive number of episodes I haven't seen.

The other day I came across one of these never before seen gems. It was called "The Perfect Mate", and I was astonished to see it featured an extremely sex...

Weekend viewing: May 29 - 31

April Yorke — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I'm sure boatloads of you will go see Up, this weekend's big movie, as people just love their Pixar. I've got nothing against Pixar, but it's just not for me. If you feel the same way, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, a strange rock doc that feels like Spinal Tap except that it's true, opens this weekend at the Mayfair. Tomorrow night will be your last chance to catch Nigh...

Weekend viewing: May 15-18

April Yorke — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Aw, yeah, that's right: 'til the 18th. May 2-4, whoo!

So, I forgot what the big movie opening this weekend is and was sort of at a loss as to what to recommend for you. Then I read Kevin's last post. I can't in good conscience recommend that you go see Angels & Demons, so let's do a little counter-programming, shall we?

If you're one of the approximately 38 people w...

Angels, Demons & Marketing

Kevin Johns — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Given that I thought The Da Vinci Code was one of the worst movies I have ever seen, I find myself taking perverse pleasure in the way the marketing campaign for the prequel, Angels & Demons, is dancing around the uncomfortable fact that it is a sequel to a very terrible film.

The critic...

Downloading Movies is Wrong!

Kevin Johns — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

By downloading movies you are stealing from the hardworking artists of Hollywood, and more importantly you are single-handedly destroying the movie business. The art form that you love so much and that has enriched your life in so many ways is being utterly destroyed by YOU!!!!

I mean, everyone knows that the work print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine ...

Weekend viewing - May 1

April Yorke — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Or, Wolverine Counter Programming.

Since you're probably planning to see X-Men: Origins: Wolverine (ooo, the double colon!), all I can really do here is recommend that you read this article in Slate and remind yourselves that Wolverine is the most badass Canadian ever created.

If you're looking for something a little different, Two Lovers is opening this ...

Trekkie Tingles

Kevin Johns — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Oh shit. I'm getting that tingly feeling.

You know the one, where you start to get really excited, the way you used to get excited back when you were a teenager and everything was still new and wondrous. It's that magical sense that takes over your body and tells you, "Don't worry, everything is going to be alright. This is going to rock. You are going to feel the way you want to feel."

April Yorke — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:00:00 +0100

There's a new Terminator: Salvation trailer making the rounds, which gives away slightly more plot than we've seen in the past and even cooler robots, explosions, and motorcycle chases. I don't care what Christian Bale does at this point: this thing looks awesome, and he can't take that away from me.

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