Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Grab A Tree And DANCE!
But first, Bollywood 101:
For those of you that don’t know, one of the biggest rivals to Hollywood cinema in terms of ticket earnings (Aside from video games) is the amazingly voluminous film industry in Bombay, affectionately known as Bollywood. With Kajillions of viewers there and a guerilla style budget and [...]
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I Know A Rocket Scientist
And he used to play Transformers on his Commodore 64.
Perhaps it’s just that I have a supernaturally high amount of intelligent friends, but when I see stuff like what my old childhood (And still dear) friend Francis Poulin has accomplished, wanting to be a novelist doesn’t really seem like that big [...]
Oh Yeah…
Will someone please explain to me why I don’t review more movies professionally around here?
I Am So NOT Money…
Tonight’s borrowed DVD comes courtesy of Ultra-Urbanite Ching, and is, not surprisingly, a comedy film about urban life called Swingers.
It’s a conflicted and strangely arty (At moments anyway) look at single men in the 90’s and what it takes get any action going anymore. I liked it. Some really [...]
This Is Jack’s Cinematic Credibility Going Straight To Hell
Those of you who take films seriously at all are now about to never take me seriously again.
That is because I am about to stand up and defend the teen flick, and since you’re all a bunch’a intellectual types with taste, you are about declare that after [...]
Why Woody Allen Is A Fucking Genius
One bit of brilliant, BRILLIANT dialogue right at the very end of Hollywood Ending:
“Thank God the French exist.”
It wasn’t the best Woody Allen film I’ve seen, but even his worst stuff is pretty darn good compared to the vast majority of writing for most movies. And that line [...]
I’m A Shut In And I Like It
I don’t like going out much.
This SARS thing is a kind of convenient that way, because it gives me a legitimate reason to stay at home most of the time, and since everyone else’s self-preservation instincts have kicked in, they don’t exactly bug me about going out to [...]
Bonus Karma Points
Last night we rescued ANOTHER cat.
The girlfriend went out to dinner and a movie with her Ex, mistakenly thinking that this Friday was the X-Men 2 Crit-tanza. That’s my contribution to the Enlgish language for the day:
Critanza: (krit-tan-za)
1) A lame attempt to invent a new word for the sake of [...]
Awwwww…
Today’s borrowed film was a Korean romantic comedy called My Sassy Girl.
The short version is that it is sweet enough to kill a diabetic.
The long version:
It was a fun film. I don’t know if I’d ever list it on my all time favorites, but there was a sweetness and lightness to it that made [...]