tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229933642024-03-14T06:23:08.714-07:00The Canuck CritickI came here to watch gum and chew movies.
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-31760304078184813742020-10-23T17:48:00.000-07:002020-10-23T17:48:01.512-07:00REVIEW: The Kid Detective (2020) I honestly did not know what to expect from The Kid Detective when I saw the poster pop online. I was hoping it would be a Canadian Canadian movie, not a shameful attempt at emulating an American movie; no offense to my homies Yves Simoneau & Erik Canuel, but if you wanna do American then move down south (to be fair Simoneau did…). And I have to say, my hopes were Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-4462939254119408772020-10-20T18:52:00.000-07:002020-10-20T18:52:03.516-07:00TV REVIEW: Helstrom (2020 Hulu) Approaching Hulu’s new horror/thriller series Helstrom without taking into account that the source material is published by Marvel comics will definitely help lower the expectation thus enjoy for what it is. Although there isn’t a whole lot to enjoy aside from the fact that all episodes came out at once (as it often happens in Stream Land) which contributed to kill a rainy weekendAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-38695930945364024372020-10-10T19:37:00.005-07:002020-10-10T19:37:43.853-07:00REVIEW: Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) <!-- wp:image -->
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So I'm sitting here watching this movie because I feel I have to, less and less trying to keep an open mind nor trying to either remember who I was back when I adored those characters or defend their 'artistic' choices in my own head for an article I was less and less sure I'd be writing because who cares about Bill & Ted Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-38588507904959702412020-10-05T20:33:00.000-07:002020-10-05T20:33:07.310-07:00FIRST LOOK - Cobra Kai 3 <!-- wp:image {"align":"center"} -->
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Feels right to say just "3" and not "Season 3" now that it found itself a nw home on Netflix. For all the quasi-criminal cancellations the streaming giant has perpetrated (Did you hear about Glow? Yeah, I'm lighting a candle too...), saving the sequel series to the original Karate Kid is an olive branch that Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-55027732754007601532020-10-01T19:28:00.007-07:002020-10-01T22:24:23.917-07:00TV REVIEW: All Creatures Great & Small (2020)Throw any sharp object you can grab straight in my general direction if my opinion displeases you, I still absolutely adored Channel 5's new adaptation of the James Herriot stories All Creatures Great & Small. So sue me I was 4 years old when the old BBC series hit the airwaves and 15 when it was... put down. But I did read the first 2 novels in College, and I say with no hesitation that it Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-15618546421993703452020-09-30T19:30:00.005-07:002020-10-01T19:36:20.979-07:00TV REVIEW: Julie and the Phantoms (2020 Netflix) Mother, Teacher and Burgeoning Podcaster, the bubbly Renata Az of Nini & the Fountain of Youth podcast gives us her assessment of the Netflix original supernatural family comedy Julie & the Phantoms.Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-51136860164897711772020-09-29T17:49:00.001-07:002020-09-29T17:49:30.411-07:00IT CAME FROM THE DISCOUNT BIN: Horns (2013) Truth be told I always was tempted -nay, fascinated- to watch the 2013 movie adaptation of Joe Hill's novel Horns, and never did for one simple reason: not being much of a horror fan, I kept bumping on the name Alexandre Aja. The French director made a reputation for himself with the polarizing gore-porn Haute Tension which I strongly feel was nothing but an excuse to see how far you can Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-75504951640892699182020-09-28T17:58:00.004-07:002020-09-28T18:12:59.453-07:00IT'S FREE ON YOUTUBE: Rock & Rule (1983)Are you a fan of Bobba Fett? Do you know who to thank for his existence? No, not the... well yes, the infamous 1978 'Star Wars Holidays Special'. But to be fair, only ONE element of that atrocity (if you never seen it, be warned, it IS every bit as braindead as its reputation suggests) redeems the whole thing in hindsight: the 10-minute animated segment "The Faithful Wookie", entirely created by Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-59673549628181645482020-09-28T10:38:00.001-07:002020-09-28T10:38:18.202-07:00Why some people still refuse to simply wear a mask to stop the spread... Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-82254438189832943422020-09-27T14:28:00.004-07:002020-09-27T14:35:13.588-07:00On the Subject of the Next Bond... Pandemic willing, the next installment in the James Bond film franchise should see the inside of a theater before there are none left to screen it. And it will also be the last for current torch bearer Daniel Craig; cue the windmill of rumors and speculations. Might as well touch the subject, and not just because of a recent Showdown on this here platform, but because a once-candidate is Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-48146168776634348672020-09-26T20:00:00.001-07:002020-09-26T22:15:48.520-07:00MARQUEE SHOWDOWN #6: Bond vs Bourne
WHY?Doug Liman's Bourne re-invented the Espionage/Action thriller with it's gritty, fast-paced yet sober cinematography and its surgical fight sequences. So successful was this offering that the Bond reset borrowed those very elements for its own renaissance, going as far as casting an actor that looks like Matt Damon's incarnation of Jason Bourne (the original one, played by soap-yAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-46748737303331932872020-09-26T12:01:00.002-07:002020-09-26T22:16:24.345-07:00TV REVIEW : Des (2020 ITV) There's something invisibly off-putting about ITV's 3-episode series Des right from the get-go, which in hindsight is a stroke of genius because it is also how the viewer is made to feel about its titular character throughout the ordeal: he does absolutely nothing to antagonize you yet he chills you to the bloody bone.The short show centers on a British serial killer, Dennis Nilsen but Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-34764570135910303062020-09-24T19:22:00.008-07:002020-09-29T19:02:18.429-07:00REVIEW: Enola Holmes (2020 - Netflix) SO you used to play guitar for the aunts and uncles at family BBQs with the nice wool socks grandma knitted for you, and then someone went and made you famous with a song like nothing anyone has ever heard and the whole friggin planet wants more. Of your socks too. Whaddaya do? How do you keep the pendulum swinging, how do you keep the iron hot to beat it just the right shape? You go with aAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-32925102208465073252020-06-17T09:59:00.002-07:002020-06-17T10:28:09.184-07:00TV REVIEW: Solar Opposites (2020)
One episode of Solar
Opposites, the latest brainchild of deliciously deranged mastermind Justin Roiland, opens with one of the main-cast aliens living on Earth, as he drives
through his adopted human city in a frantic manner that wreaks havoc and
destruction all along his path, then when he gets home, hurls himself inside
the house and anxiously yells to his family "We have no Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-46894332564800694922020-06-16T18:17:00.001-07:002020-06-16T18:21:51.507-07:00After Midnight Music: All Night Long
For those keeping score, I also have a music podcast where every episode I play 5 songs related to one specific topic, and once in a while the songs are actually good because I invite someone else to select them and introduce them.
Check the full catalog of episode at AFTER MIDNIGHT, and if you wanna school me on air about what good music sounds like contact me on Twitter or Facebook!
This Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-58508520464480523802018-08-09T14:29:00.000-07:002018-07-09T16:19:33.845-07:00The Math of CopyrightWorth reposting!
Next time anyone argues that file sharing is to blame for the downfall of capitalist economies, send them to this 5-minute talk by comedic author Rob Reid on the absurdity of the entertainment industry's crusade.
Thanks to klb9037 for the find
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-89955540920254422812018-07-09T07:53:00.001-07:002018-07-09T16:23:55.454-07:00REVIEW: Ant-Man & the Wasp (2018)
Let's
make one thing straight right off the needle: if you didn't like the
first Ant-Man film, no need
to state the obvious about this one. But if so, why are you even
reading this? It's a Marvel Studios movie, so of course it follows
the MCU recipe for big-screen popcorn munching success. Yes, all
their movies slightly try to be their own thing -and on that point
I'll stare-contest to Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-8453326479136479452014-09-07T13:07:00.000-07:002014-09-08T04:18:38.394-07:00REVIEW: Chef (2014)
Who says a movie needs to be dark and edgy, filled with conflict, heartbreak and drama, to be taken seriously? Sure those can be quite the brain food and a good watch as well (Chris Nolan's filmography comes to mind) but can't a heartfelt uplifting movie with nothing nasty to say reach a spot on the same shelf? Although truth be told, one could read a bird being defiantly flipped Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-43864767741255693952014-03-09T09:40:00.000-07:002014-03-09T16:27:28.523-07:00REVIEW: I, Frankenstein (2014)
One of the plot points throughout this movie is a quest for a fabled journal that could spell doom for humanity. The good guys have it, and though it's completely useless to them while the bad guys need it desperately, they decide to do the obviously logical thing: lock it in their vault, instead of, say, burning the damn thing. Which is what they surmize should be done once they lose Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-33257883911198525922014-02-27T03:55:00.002-08:002014-02-27T03:55:47.722-08:00First Impressions: Global's REMEDY
If CBS had any sense
(and seeing as they promoted Nina Tassler to chairman, well...) they would've given Enrico
Colantoni's Person of Interest villain Elias a spin-off of his own so much he
made that character rich and irresistible to watch. But while the Eye remains happy
with putting him on a few minutes here and there, Global made the smart play of
putting their new medical show square onAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-30064517322598927832014-02-26T03:51:00.001-08:002014-02-26T05:08:39.546-08:00Being Human put to rest
"This entire season was, from inception, designed to be the last one. All stories are tied up. This was how we wanted to go," Sam Witwer tweeted yesterday. "Wanted to tell a great story from beginning to end. We didn't want to bleed the concept dry. Believe it or not - artistic decision." We see what you did there, Sam.
The story might not be bled dry, but Syfy soon will at the rate their Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-4167895436568090972014-02-24T11:36:00.002-08:002014-02-26T03:52:24.819-08:00Heaven just got a little funnier
He was a man never seen without a smile, and seldom around people who could resist smiling back at him. He was among his genration's pioneers in the art of making people laugh, pushed the enveloppe for so many others to express their art free of censorship and marked his time with work that will outlast any of us.
Canadian actor, writer, director and comedian Harold Ramis passed away Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-26703880159137762812014-01-04T09:42:00.002-08:002014-02-26T03:52:13.609-08:00REVIEW: Drinking Buddies (2013)
Let's be honest right off the bat: Drinking Buddies is the very definition of an independent movie, from hand-held cam tracking shots to the ass-kicking soundtrack to a set of low-to-no name actors clearly having their own personal little blast. It has NO budget, but most of all, No SCRIPT either. Those who DON'T like dialogue-based character pieces where very little happens while Michael Bay Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-88820739526278788152013-12-11T05:36:00.000-08:002013-12-11T05:36:05.520-08:00REVIEW: Only God Forgives (2013)
The slogan “art is supposed to make you think” is the doctrine that in part what makes a work of art good or worthwhile is its underlining of some social problem. We are stimulated to think about the problem, to recognize its ubiquity in contemporary society and the harsh effects it has on people. We recognize that some people’s enjoyment is bought at the price of other people’s unmerited Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22993364.post-71822765767050648162012-09-29T16:48:00.000-07:002012-09-30T03:44:59.530-07:00REVIEW: Dredd (2012)
Karl Urban called it a few weeks ago, when he told reporters his movie would be an instant cult hit. I wish he hadn't though. If we learned anything from Michael Bay or Summit, it's that moviegoers will more often than not choose bad movies in droves. And this instant cult classic is simply too good to have caught the interest of general audiences. Like Mad Max, Army of Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672224780842264286noreply@blogger.com1