By Alan Hurst Will the Aaron Sorkin scripted bio of Lucille Ball ever hit the big screens? Announced a while back with Cate Blanchett on board to play the famous redhead (and with the participation of both Lucy’s children), it seemed like the last century’s best comedienne was finally going to get the respect she…
By Alan Hurst (This is an updated version of an article originally posted in July 2017.) Doris Day – one of my favourites since I was a kid – turns 97 on April 3, as good a reason as any to look back at her film career. By all accounts still doing well in her…
By Nick Maylor While Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) was released after Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the film’s plot largely deals with the fallout of Captain America: Civil War (2016) as it pertains to Scott Lang’s situation. Lang (Paul Rudd) is under house arrest due to his involvement in the Avengers battle in Germany (as…
By Nick Maylor We Canadians recently had our national holiday That means that today our neighbours below the 49th parallel are celebrating their Independence day. . Happy Fourth of July to our American friends and readers! I must admit that when I conceived the idea for this post, I had a much goofier list of…
By John H. Foote How can I properly do justice to one of the greatest American films of all time? A film that was brilliantly directed by Czech Milos Forman, using his documentary style to bring to the screen a new realism that was startling? Can words truly do justice to the breathtaking, and there…
By John H. Foote The Incredibles (2004) now fourteen years old, remains among the greatest films of the decade, easily among the top three Pixar films ever made. In addition, it stands among the finest of the super hero genre, which in 2004 had yet to explode to the extent it has in 2018. Neither…