This is a film that I had seen snippets of through my entire life. In fact I remember, as a child, sitting in Mother’s Pizza, a now defunct pizza chain, at least in the incarnation that I grew up loving, the decor was all 20s and 30s and they would show clips from Laurel &…
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Polaris 26 – July 6-8, 2012
Great news!!! The Mind Reels has been granted media accreditation for Polaris 26! Polaris is Canada’s longest running media fan-run event, and is one that we have both partaken in almost regularly over the past several years. Polaris has changed a lot in recent years, as well – it’s seen changes in everything from its…
The Black Hole (1979)
I remember having the V.I.N.C.E.N.T. and Maximilian pencil holders when I was a kid, as well as some of the action figures, the soundtrack album, as well as the storybook album, the comics and finally I had a giant puzzle from the CNE one year. And I remember watching this film in the theater, Perkins’…
Heavy Metal (1981)
I remember seeing the covers for these magazines when I was a kid, collecting my first Star Wars comics, and even then at age 8, I was suitably intrigued by the covers. They gave me funny feelings in my tummy with all the babes, and all the cool sci-fi weapons, swords, robots and aliens that…
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…
Quantum Leap
“Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished… He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey…
Remembering When… Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars and Indiana Jones were an inextricable part of my youth. As mentioned in my Star Wars post, prior to ’77 there was nothing that stood out amongst the pop culture landscape, there were fun and cool things, but nothing like the mountain that was the experience of Star Wars, and then, a number…
Remembering Ralph McQuarrie
Artist Ralph McQuarrie passed away this weekend. I was raised on his work. Well to clarify, I raised myself on it. I would seek it out. His imagery always fired my imagination, and now he’s gone. His gift to my imagination, however, lives on. I never knew the man, so I can’t speak to that,…
A Pint and a Chinwag with Paul Amos
Sue and I met and survived our first encounter with a Dark Fae. Paul Amos, who plays Vex on Lost Girl, graciously met us for drinks at C’est What, a gorgeous little pub here in Toronto We had a great talk about his fave movies, Canadian television and advertising, and of course Lost Girl,…
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…
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