Fight Scenery: The unlikely kung-fu of Scott Pilgrim and Knives Chau
Posted by Jef in Fight Scenery, Film on 07. Jun, 2011 | 7 Comments
First, some words from screenwriter Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Identity, Michael Clayton) to screenwriter William Goldman (The Princess Bride, All the President’s Men), from Goldman’s book, “Which Lie Did I Tell?”: Tone scares me. When you fuck with tone, you risk squandering that spark. You risk losing the one thing the audience brings with them. The [...]
Reeling: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Posted by Simon in Film, Reeling, Toronto on 29. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
The crowd in the theatre was literally buzzing during a recent advance screening of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Everyone’s cell phones had been confiscated and nobody knew what time it actually was. Impatience begat face-to-face conversation and, nerdy and self-indulgent as it was, the energy in the air built to a fever [...]
Toronto Levels Up: +5 pop culture relevance
Posted by Simon in Film, Toronto on 26. Mar, 2010 | 1 Comment
As a Torontonian, I often have trouble differentiating when a movie is entertaining and shot in our city, or entertaining purely because it’s shot in our city. As bad as Toronto Stories was, or as much as Hollywood tries to make us look like Boston, or New York, or blow up our buildings because they’re [...]
Another reason why you should watch Jersey Shore
Posted by jessekg in Curiosities, Pop Culture, Television on 12. Jan, 2010 | 3 Comments
This really doesnt require much of an explanation. When a group of people can not only embrace the hilarious irony in every one of their actions, but actually be completely oblivious to how truly outdated/hilarious/potentially insulting to all Italians they truly are like the cast of Jersey Shore can, then I will watch every single one of their [...]
