Yesterday was a brilliant day! (Even getting up at 4am to get it underway.) Sue and I headed to Niagara Falls for their comic con in their brand new Scotiabank Convention Center. Chris Dabrowski Co-Owner of the show, who handles the celebrity bookings, as well as the PR & Marketing for the event kindly set us up with…
Tag: back to the future
Romancing The Stone (1984)
“Romantic novelist my ass!” “The Joan Wilder?!?” I love this movie, it’s just so much fun, and has so many wonderful lines that tend to fall from my lips on a regular basis. In the early 80s, everyone was kind of keen to cash in on the big adventure stories ever since they saw what…
The Con is Over – What Now??!!
So Wizard World Comic Con is now behind us… What will Sue and I do next to get our geek fix? We’re going to Niagara Falls on June 9th! I’ve going on a press pass and will have a chance to chat with the guests and wander about and document the entire convention. Thank you…
Film Scores – A Whistler’s Tale
I’m a whistler, and a dreamer… and “Binary Sunset” is one of my favorite thoughtful, hopeful and slightly sad things to whistle, especially when I’m thinking about my future, and watching the horizon. Whistling. I do it all the time, and I carry a huge repertoire in my mind, and on my ipod. In the…
Back To The Future at the Digital Film Festival
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…
T5 or Tim’s Top Ten Temporal Tales
My thoughts spun off their axis for a while last night, and circled back around to the idea of top ten lists. We tend to love lists for some reason, and as my eyes raked my collection of films, I decided to throw together my list of favorite time travel films, or if not necessarily…
Michael J Fox
Michael J. Fox. His name is entwined inextricably with the 80s, and our hearts. He has also shown up a lot recently in my life, not the man himself, but his presence. I’ve been rewatching Family Ties, I’m working my way through season 2 even now, and loving every minute of it, and I’ve also…
Episode 8 with April Mullen & Tim Doiron
Welcome to Episode 8, wherein Sue and I sit down and chat with our dear friends April Mullen and Tim Doiron, Canadian filmmakers who brought us Rock, Paper, Scissors: Way of the Tosser, and Gravy Train. We met up for at Fran’s on Yonge & College for breakfast and chat about favorite films, how they…
The Death of the Movie Poster as Art
The art form that is the theatrical movie poster is dying. This isn’t one of those “when I was a kid” stories, it’s a legitimate claim. Now, yes, it’s true I’m going to be talking about movies from my youth and even before my birth, but they’re being used to illustrate the point, not indicate…
Episode 3 with Jeremy LaLonde
Welcome to our 3rd podcast! I should warn you there are spoilers ahead during our chat with Jeremy LaLonde but it is a lot of fun! The interview does seem to end rather abruptly, but the noise level in the pub, the gorgeous Dora Keogh on the Danforth, got a little too loud. We hope…
The Mind Reels 