The holidays are drawing closer, in fact some people have probably already started their Xmas shopping, and if you have a Star Wars fan on your list, or a businessperson, or someone trying to get the best out of their life, as well as achieving a bit of zen, then DK Canada may have the…
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Doctor Who (Matt Smith) – The Wedding of River Song, and The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe
The Wedding of River Song, which aired on 1 October, 2011, was penned by Steven Moffat, and brought the sixth series of the relaunched Doctor Who to a close. Things are strange from the off, as the Doctor (Smith) seems to be stuck in a bit of an alternate timeline where all of time seems…
Zero de Conduite (1933) – Jean Vigo
The next stop in DK Canada’s brilliant, and highly enjoyable, The Movie Book is a collection of films by French auteur Jean Vigo. The first one highlighted and serving as gateway to the rest of his work is the short, Zero de Conduite, or Zero for Conduct. Running at a brisk forty-one minutes the film…
Home Alone (1990 ) – Chris Columbus
I return to the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book and venture back into the family genre. And despite the fact that it’s May, it’s apparently time for a Christmas movie. I’m a little bit divided on this one. It has so much working for it. It’s written and produced by John Hughes,…
The Twilight Zone (1960/1961) – A Most Unusual Camera, The Night of the Meek and Dust
Paramount Pictures guides me deeper into The Twilight Zone with their Complete Series on blu-ray. Up first this week is A Most Unusual Camera. Written by Rod Serling, this episode premiered on 16 December, 1960. When Chester (Fred Clark) and Paula (Jean Carson) rob a curio shop they get more than they expected with a…
The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series
Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone is one of those television titles that surpassed its small screen trappings to become something more, something bigger, iconic, finding its way into the very fabric of the cultural DNA. Even today, people make references to it, by humming the iconic opening theme by Marius Constant, (though Bernard Herrmann composed a…
Body (2015) – Dan Berk & Robert Olsen
Screening today and again on Thursday at the Slamdance film festival is this taut, tightly written and paced thriller starring three talented young women, Helen Rogers, Alexandra Tushen and Lauren Molina. It’s the Christmas holidays and three BFFs, Holly (Rogers), Cali (Tushen), and Mel (Molina) are hanging out and trying to figure out what…
The Mind Reels 