Birdman leads the Independent Spirit Award (ISA) Nominations with 6, Boyhood, Selma, and Nightcrawler follow closely with 5 nominations each. For those keeping score, Foxcatcher was not eligible in any of these categories, while Imitation Game was, and was snubbed. Harvey Weinstein has bigger fish to fry, but ISA winners over the last few years […]
You used to be my favourite. In fact, you’re the first network I remember watching (that includes YTV, and Canadian 90s kids lived for YTV). Full House, then Sister Sister and, perhaps most importantly, Boy Meets World– these were the shows that shaped my worldview more indelibly than any others. My dad worked a lot […]
The statistic all over the Internet, troubling studio executives and producers of the world, is the domestic summer box office was down 14.6 percent from last year. Some films found footing in this drought, especially good movies. I think there are lessons to be learned that could help change things, but will anyone listen? Make […]
Many years ago, I remember being obsessed with saying “Good Morning, Vietnam” as a young kid. I was probably five or six, but I remember this loud boisterous guy bringing humor and joy with this phrase. Then came the re-runs of Mork and Mindy, was this the same guy from that movie? This was different, […]
A lot of people probably think I’m too young to be a Ramones fan. I’m 30 now, which means I was about 12 when the Ramones broke up in 1996. I discovered the Ramones around that time and fell in love with them, but I never got to see them perform. Going to concerts was […]
As the story goes, in 1973, German bricklayer Rolf Schumacher built a racing kart using an old motorcycle engine and his pedal kart. His son Michael, at the age of four, promptly hopped in and crashed it head on into a lamp post. From that point onwards Michael Schumacher began racing proper karts on formal […]
It wasn’t until the day after Silicon Valley’s third episode did I even realize that the actor Christopher Evan Welch, who played borderline-autistic billionaire Peter Gregory, had died back in December. Episode five would be his final episode, my friend had told me, leaving my mouth agape to fill the pit in my stomach with […]
After 95 interviews in the Nominee Interview Series and the announcements of the Boston, New York and Toronto My Theatre Award Winners, and the My TV Award Winners, it’s time for the 2013 My Cinema Award Winners. The Oscars snubbed a lot of our favourites again this year but we also somehow found ourselves rewarding […]