100 Days of City Hall (Thunder Bay) – Trailer from Paul Morralee on Vimeo. Paul Morralee’s latest film, 100 Days of City Hall, takes people behind the scenes at Thunder Bay’s city hall from the perspectives of elected officials and administration. Morralee began filming when the new council and mayor were sworn in on December 6, 2010. Over the next [...]
Red A Romance Men Will Love By Patrick Thompson Don’t be fooled by all of the high octane pyrotechnics, flashy guns or loud sounds: this is a fantasy romance through and through, borne of the dreams of characters we all increasingly resemble, and wish we didn’t, with the passage of time. The first dreamer in question is Sarah Ross – [...]
By Patrick Thompson From the first scene in a bar with banter that is a perfect rendition of a conversation on Facebook’s chat (replies that come late and questions that fall on top of each other without pause or a wait for a reply), The Social Network is a movie that doesn’t pause and never stops. The frenetic pace of [...]
By Patrick Thompson “The American” is so good it might end up boring people. I mean this in all seriousness. Here are my top five reasons that you might not like this movie. Take it as a quiz. If you can make it through all of them without thinking, “Well, that’s all very good, but I won’t have any of [...]
The Last Exorcism: Atheists Beware Film Review by Patrick Thompson This film is great for a majority of its length, but beware – it will end up disappointing you. For those who enjoy a little bit of a kick at organized religion, or atheists of all colors, it will be of a particularly bitter nature. Not because it is another [...]
Despicable Me Review IF YOU HAVE KIDS, SPLURGE FOR THE 3D By Patrick Thompson I call it now—the many and varied yellow minions of evil Dr. Gru (he that is despicable) in this movie are going to be everywhere in the marketing campaign for “Despicable Me 2” (due 2013—yes, already). They were really very cute and my six-year-old friend thought [...]
The Last Airbender Review By Patrick Thompson Do you all remember how great 1999 was? There was an electricity in the air as we waited for 2000 and Y2K to strike, it seemed as though there would never be a deficit again and Bush was a good governor who couldn’t start wars yet. Plus, the movies were great. The Matrix, [...]
This Movie Sucks. Kevin Durand Doesn’t. Hometown boy (and one time rapper/comedian) Kevin Durand is in this movie for literally about 10 minutes, and he does a great job. He portrays one of the legend’s main characters, Little John, but you wouldn’t know it from the movie, where the story’s traditional secondary characters have been reduced to plot fodder. Here [...]
by Patrick Thompson Comic book adaptations have gotten a lot better in recent years, but their failure is still that they pander to as wide an audience as possible. The good ones will always have a mixed bag of tricks to draw audiences in, but the classics will have a focus that will always be nicely spiced by the humour, [...]
by Tiffany Jarva I so wanted to love Tim Burton’s version of Wonderland. That’s because the fantastical Burton doing his version of wonderland seemed like a no-brainer: dark, innovative, imaginative filmmaker meets the dreamy nonsensical world of Lewis Carroll. Apparently Burton, a master of creating mood (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands), wanted to create a new film version of [...]
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