Back in July, as I was just coming off of our first coverage of Toronto’s Fringe festival, I made friends with a wonderfully talented actor and director, Adrianna Prosser, who advised me of a project she was involved in and was kind enough to arrange a ticket for me. That was for the strong,…
Tag: world war ii
State of Women
During World War II, it wasn’t only the men who answered the call of their country. All over North America, women left their kitchens, shedding the restraints of home maker and house wife, to take up the hammer and torque to work in the factories (Rosie the Riveter), building the equipment that was put to…
The Imitation Game (2014) – Morten Tyldum
Benedict Cumberbatch turns in a masterful performance as Alan Turing in Moreten Tyldum’s Biopic/WWII Thriller, The Imitation Game. Based on the book by Andrew Hodges, with a screenplay by Graham Moore, the film follows the life story of brilliant mathematician, Alan Turing, slipping back and forth through his life, centering on his youth in school,…
White Christmas (1954) – Michael Curtiz
Sure, we’re only part way through November, but this was the next title on the recommendation list from Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of the Jazz Singer. Despite being set at Christmas, this isn’t an overly sappy holiday season movie, sure the signature song pretty much opens and…
Trailer Tracks: Saving Private Ryan (1998) – Steven Spielberg
70 years ago today, some of the bravest and most frightened souls stepped onto beaches in Normandy, D-Day. It would feel wrong to put up some sci-fi or horror movie today, so I went with a film that had a powerful impact on me. Spielberg’s masterful, Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks… (as a side note,…
The Wolverine (2013) – James Mangold
The Wolverine is a bit of a mixed bag, and sadly, for me, came across as a bit of a lackluster affair. It led me to wonder if perhaps Fox is simply churning out X-Men films to hold onto the rights to prevent them from coming under the Disney umbrella much like it seems…
‘BOMB GIRLS’ FANS SEND 1,000 VICTORY BANDANAS TO GLOBAL TV
TORONTO, May 27, 2013 – Waging war not with bullets and bombs but with carefully chosen words and gifts from the heart, fans of TV’s Bomb Girls continue to fight to get their show back on the air. Almost a month after Bomb Girls was cancelled by Global TV, a shipment of 1,000 blue bandanas…
Hot Docs: Teenage – Matt Wolf
Using Jon Savage’s Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture as a launching point, Wolf’s film, which screened at the Lightbox yesterday, serves as a perfect companion piece to Savage’s work. Through the use of varied voice overs from the UK, the U.S. and Germany, the film charts the growth of a new creation, that of adolescence at…
Bomb Girls – Don’t Let Go
On every occasion, Tim does the heartfelt and wonderfully-worded write-ups to each of our our beloved Bomb Girls episodes. So close to the end, now, I feel it is only proper that he should also do the final two posts of the series. However, upon learning yesterday that our girls will not see a Season…
Bermuda International Film Festival – In The Hour of Victory – Lucinda Spurling, Andrew Kirkpatrick
This was one of the films I was most intent on seeing when I first toyed with the idea of coming to the Bermuda International Film Festival. Based on the book of the same name, it chronicles through his own letters to his wife Faith Bower, Bermuda-born Major Toby Smith’s service in World War II….
The Mind Reels 