There are few movies guaranteed to plaster a smile on my face every time I see them. Back To The Future is, however, one of them. I actually realized this today when I was watching it for who-knows-how-many-times-I’ve-seen-it. In between mouthing my favorite lines as they came up, there would be a huge grin plastered…
Category: Revisited
Jurassic Park at the Digital Film Festival
I love the Digital Film Festival put on by Cineplex here in Canada. It’s a chance to see beloved films from the 80s and 90s back where they belong, on the big screen… in a digital presentation. I would go to all of them, if I had the time and the cash flow, even at…
Degrassi Junior High Season 3/Degrassi High Season 1
So, just the other night, I got to talk to Stacie Mistysyn on the phone. Her chat with us will be up next Saturday! It just seemed a perfect way to highlight the wonderful experience of revisiting the halls of Degrassi as I work my way through these episodes. And I have to tell you,…
Tim’s Top Ten Detectives
People seem to love lists. We love to see how our favorites stack up against someone else’s, or maybe learn about a title or character or book in a genre we like that we had never heard of before. Today, it popped into my head that I wondered what my favorite all-time detectives were. To…
King Kong (1933)
Some films stand the tests of time, eternally appealing. King Kong is one of those films. This is yet another of the titles listed in 101 Horror Movies, but honestly, I was simply just looking for an excuse to pull it out of my collection and give it another watch. While Peter Jackson remade it…
Degrassi Junior High Season 2
Season 2 of Degrassi Junior High sees the second half of our kids first year in Grades 7 & 8 respectively. The stories and the characters are still resonate, and it’s so amazing to watch all these young people grow up before your eyes. Long before we were enchanted with Hogwarts Academy, we were…
Contact (1997)
…”good to go”… “I’m good to go…” My throat tightens up every time that sequence is on-screen. It fills me with such hope and excitement for the possibility of contact. Contact is one of those movies that I won’t watch for extended periods of time, but then when I throw it on to watch, I…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) & Jekyll (2007)
So after an amazing day yesterday, I settled in to watch another film from the 101 Horror Movies book. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Fredric March in the duel role. Two points – number one, I liked it. Number two, I didn’t like the name pronunciation, I’ve always grown up calling him Doctor…
School Days With Scholastic Books
Today I was gonna do a nostalgic post about another movie, maybe seeing The Empire Strikes Back or Raiders of The Lost Ark for the first time. Both of them stand out in my memory like lighthouses. But, as I ruminated on Raiders, I realized I didn’t get to see it when it first came…
Degrassi Junior High – Season 1
Ahhh, junior high. I really don’t remember it looking that much fun. Course I was a pretty geeky looking kid trying his best to fit in, while living in a country that was not my own, though I did grow to love it as if it were. Still, the stories and cast of Degrassi Junior…
The Mind Reels 