As luck and extreme good fortune would have it, I will be covering the Reel World Film Festival for the first time this year! Since Tim will be in freaking Bermuda (that’s my new name for it) covering their festival and passing out drunk on a beach somewhere, I’ll be taking on this one…
Toronto Screenwriting Conference
Sue and I have been extended an invitation to sit in on the Toronto Screenwriting Conference this weekend, and cover it for the blog. To say that we’re both excited about it is a bit of an understatement. We’re close to ecstatic about it. We are going to try and chat to some of the folks…
Bomb Girls S02E08 – Fifth Column
What a beautiful episode. Kate’s (Charlotte Hegele) stirring voice and a single tear running down a wounded soldier’s cheek. Lorna (Meg Tilly) stopping work on the line to recognize and applaud Betty (Ali Liebert) after she was involved in an altercation with a couple of fellas who were intent on her and Theresa (Rachel…
Goldfinger (1964) – Guy Hamilton
James Bond returns in the installment that created the mold. With the third James Bond film, director Guy Hamilton perfects the Bond formula, as we see in this welcome addition to the 101 Action Movies list. We have the incredibly suave Connery as 007, beautiful women, including The Avengers star Honor Blackman as Pussy…
Stranded Review (Book #1) – Jeff Probst and Chris Tebbetts
I was one of the millions of people worldwide who watched Richard Hatch irritate, dominate, and win the first season of television’s epic reality show pioneer, Survivor. After that, I watched a few seasons, then tapered off to other things, and came back to it again after a few years, once I realized that…
NOW Talks with Jason Priestley
Thanks to my good friend and co-worker, Beth Beard, I was able to join her in this event, held at the lovely Jane Mallet Theatre in the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto. We got there well in advance, ensuring ourselves some amazing seats, and settled in to watch NOW’s Associate Entertainment…
Lost Girl S03E11 – Adventures In Fae-bysitting
Aha! This time I loved the Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) and Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) storyline, you know they’re setting stuff up! A field that is a mass grave of light and dark Fae that someone is hunting down and watching said field via camera… Cool! We learn from this that Bo did not kill the woman, who’s…
John Dies At The End (2012) – Don Coscarelli
Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep, yup, even Beastmaster… Don Coscarelli has always been a cult fave director, and he’s had my attention since 1982, when I saw Beastmaster on First Choice (on one of the free weekends). I remember as a kid sitting in my bedroom in CFB Borden, reading comics on my rug, and seeing an…
Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior (1981) – George Miller
Back when no one knew Mel Gibson’s name, he made a little film with George Miller called Mad Max, that became a bit of a cult sensation, a few years after that, they paired for the sequel and gave us one of my favorite action movies of all time, and a welcome addition to the…
Toronto After Dark – Call For Entries!!!
We love film festivals here at The Mind Reels, so anytime one of them asks if we can help out we’re happy to oblige. Our friend Adam Lopez over at Toronto After Dark asked if we could share this, so filmmakers, get those submissions in NOW!!! Toronto After Dark announces Call for Horror, Sci-Fi,…
