So, not much posting this weekend (friend’s in town), but I wanted to run this list of the best fighter pilots in the galaxy by you (by scifichick). I find it pretty ambitious, to list the top 13, that’s why I always do lists of 8 - a whole lot easier. I mean, there’s always [...]

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I learned many things this morning. Important things. All related to Porky’s. For instance, who knew that until very recently Porky’s was canada’s highest-grossing film? Sadly, its director Bob Clark died in a car crash yesterday. That’s super sad. He was also the director of A Christmas Story, perhaps the finest christmas movie to ever [...]

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According to the SFX magazine poll (3,000 strong), Whedon’s Serenity was the #1 sci-fi movie, evar (via BBC). It handily beat out Star Wars, which is debatable but understandable since the retroactive ruining of the original trilogy by Lucas’s more recent works (special edition). Serenity was a great show and a great movie, you should [...]

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I was talking with Ben the other day about what movies we were looking forward to. And with that simple conversation was born a new list of 8!
I’m not really going out on any limbs here, I don’t think. I mean, it’s mostly summer fare and that’s all about big productions, right? Turns out it’s [...]

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So Ben sent me this youtube the other day. For those of you who appreciate the subtle art of PG-ifying movies, who marvelled when TBS changed “hot beef injection” into “hot wild affection” in the Breakfast club, you’ll love this video.
This IS CAKE TOWN!
Delicious!

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So, there’s a few movies I’m excited to see. One of them is Stardust - at one point it was my favourite Neil Gaiman novel (although, Neverwhere has since resumed that hallowed position). Slated to come out this this August (on the 10th, to be specific), the trailer is now online. I’ll admit that the [...]

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Wow, like the guy who wrote this post on the Star Wars hotel, I can’t believe that I’ve never heard of this. The site of Luke’s childhood on Tatooine turns out to be a real place in Tunisia! These buildings are called ksars and they are carved out of sandstone - they used to be [...]

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So just found out (I know it’s old news, but I’m old too) that Hellboy 2 is now under way (thanks scifichick). Thankfully Guillermo del Toro will be heading up this one, too. I really like every movie I’ve seen by him - although I’ll have to go with Pan’s Labyrinth as the top of [...]

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I wanted to follow up my last list of 8 with another one. This time I’m going out on a limb and putting forth my 8 favourite fight scenes. There is no objective criteria for this pick, these are just scenes that I think are awesome. It is not a comment on the movie as [...]

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If you like movies and you like dvd’s, check out The Criterion Contraption. One man’s mission to watch and review each of the Criterion discs. I only have most of the Kurosawa discs in my collection, but they’re great. And this guy’s reviews are pretty serious, a ton of effort goes into it and if [...]

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