After Star Trek (2009), J.J. Abrams and Co. were in a great place with the Trek franchise. After a decade of slowly fading into irrelevance with 2 dud films and a prequel series that even hardcore fans despised, Star Trek was brought back to life in a big bad way. For once in a... Read More »
Hey All. Alongside Before Midnight, my most anticipated of all the summer releases of 2013 is of course Star Trek Into Darkness. Picking up after where Star Trek, the JJ Abrams reboot left off, it's easy to see why both Trekkers and the general public would be excited for this l... Read More »
Lowered expectations can sometimes be a film geek's best ally in discovering either a new filmmaker or falling in love with a film that, under any other circumstances, would be either ignored or completely disregarded. Such was the case for How to Train Your Dragon: despite havin... Read More »
While the 90's in general was one of the best decades for film overall, if there was one type of film that was woefully underrepresented, it was the comic book genre. Despite Batman being a zeitgeist tapping hit, the majority of the films based on comic books that came out in th... Read More »
Some films are classics right out of the gate. People see the genius and the power of it right away and it becomes canonized in the annals of greatness and stays there. Some films get warmly received right away before dropping off the cultural radar and become ignored at best o... Read More »
And now we get to the nominated scores. Unlike, say, two years ago where with one exception all the nominees were worthy entries that deserved awards of their own, this year's nominees are a bit more traditional. There are really no iconic themes or boundary-pushers from untrad... Read More »
In David Hughes book "The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made", a chapter is devoted to "Night Skies", a sci-fi/horror film that was supposed to be Spielberg's follow-up to his seminal Close Encounters of the Third Kind about a family on a farm under attack by a group of aliens. W... Read More »
Last year, I decided to take a listen to all the nominees for Best Original Song and Best Original Score for last year's Oscars. The music categories are some of my favorite categories to focus on every year during the Oscar season. So much so that I get all the songs and albums ... Read More »
The film noir genre, by its very nature, is a genre both stylized and rough. While sharp costume design, shadows, hard boiled dialogue, Dutch angles and hazy sunlit cinematography are part of the package deal, it's only there to balance out the overall seedy sleaziness of the sto... Read More »
Reviewing a work as massive and as beloved as Les Misérables is a daunting task for anyone to undertake, regardless of familiarity with the source material. Between the massive Victor Hugo novel, the bladder-busting musical that's been equally beloved and despised for over 25 yea... Read More »
If there is one well that indie filmmakers love to go back to over and over again, it's that of the relationship drama. Of putting two fairly well knows actors and actresses in a room or out in some hipster part of any city and have them go through the ups and downs of your aver... Read More »
After almost 2 years of writing, re-writing, developing, shooting and editing, I am proud to announce my first foray into actual filmmaking is complete.This is the inaugural production of Farmboy Films, my production company. Based out of Regina, Saskatchewan, this is my self-fin... Read More »
I've never been a fan of the "hero going over to the dark side" arc that we sometimes see in characters. Mainly because it's a hollow journey that has no real lasting impact on the character. We all know Luke Skywalker is never going to join the Emperor and rule the Galaxy. W... Read More »
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