The final recommendation from The Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of It’s A Wonderful Life is this modern day cult classic, that has found its way into the mainstream consciousness and has been stuck there since the film’s initial release, celebrating Christmas and Halloween in that macabre and…
Tag: morbid
Black Christmas: Season’s Grievings Editon (1974) – Bob Clark
Some people love the happy joyous type of films at Christmas, and while there is something to be said for all that good-will, happy endings and schmaltz that seem to highlight most of them, that morbid, macabre underside of humor and the holidays seem to be more appealing… As much as I loved Scrooged,…
Toronto Fringe: God’s Beard! (The Only Sketch Show That Has Ever Happened)
Falcon Powder, composed of Jim Annan, Scott Montgomery and Kurt Smeaton bring their delightfully absurdist, buddy sketch show to hilarious life at the Al Green Theatre for the course of the Fringe Festival. They played to a sold-out audience last night as they revelled in the bizarre, the hilarious, and sometimes the goofy, as one…
