Through Black Spruce Movie on hoopla digital Source: Through Black Spruce (2019) Movie – hoopla A beautiful young woman from northern Ontario goes down to Toronto in search of her missing sister. Her broken uncle comes to grips with personal tragedy and the bottle. Meanwhile, a volatile drug dealer threatens them both. That’s pretty much… Read More Through Black Spruce (2019) – Review
Time to catch up! Source: Where to stream the Oscar nominations 2022 Opinion: I have been watching the Oscars less and less over the past decade. Seems political correctness, quotas and ‘equity’ (which is not necessarily the same as equality or success through merit) have largely eclipsed quality. Sociologically, it is mildly interesting to see… Read More Where to stream the Oscar nominations 2022 | Opinion
Spoiler Alert! Don’t read this if you haven’t seen it! Have you ever warned someone about something, believed you were right, felt the issue was important, and yet were roundly ignored? If you have, this movie might work for you. Prophets of doom are not usually met with approbation. Think of Jeremiah in the Old… Read More Netflix’s Don’t Look Up – An honest reaction
This 2020 Dutch film about WW-II came to Netflix Canada recently. It doesn’t have any star-studded romances like some films about this era. Instead, The Forgotten Battle portrays the real moments of the occupying Nazis with convincing detail. A Nazi commandant walks into your home and asks for your father who isn’t there. You are… Read More The Forgotten Battle (2020) – MiniReview
This 2019 A&E doc focuses almost entirely on the creation of John and Yoko’s Imagine LP. The vintage footage of Lennon along with some leading studio musicians of the day should satisfy most aged hippies like myself who were mightily impressed by these figures as kids. You gotta understand. The Beatles were bigger than Bieber,… Read More John and Yoko: Above Us Only Sky – Review
If you get Tubi in your location you can watch this movie for free, providing you are willing to put up with a few ads here and there. Myself, I don’t mind ads because they punctuate a film, giving you a chance to take a break, grab a coffee, whatever. Yes, you can do that… Read More The Ghost Writer – Tubi Movie Review
I rarely do summaries of films. Just go to Wikipedia if you want that. But this still may contain spoilers! It’s hard to believe that the guy who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange could create something like Eyes Wide Shut. Is that a compliment or an insult? Well, depending on how… Read More Another look at Eyes Wide Shut – A review of Stanley Kubrick’s last and final film
The other night this movie came on TCM and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Extensive use of double and triple split-screen in an era way before Zoom. A silly tale but nonetheless still fresh. Previously, I had thought Rock Hudson was just all looks with little acting ability. But his performance is, if you’ll pardon the… Read More Pillow Talk (1959) with Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall – Review
During the Gettysburg Address in 1863, Abraham Lincoln stated that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” He must have thought democracy to be the best political system in the world. Albert Camus, a French philosopher trusted democracy to be the protection of the minority. For… Read More Corruption weakens democracy – myRepublica – The New York Times Partner, Latest news of Nepal in English, Latest News Articles | + Opinion
I have this kind of love affair with the 70s. To me, it’s an ‘authentic’ period when life was fun and not too complicated. Phones that rang, answering machines with tape, TVs that… Source: Dolemite – Not Eddie Murphy but The Real Thing
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