On April 7th, 1986, my friend and I went to Kitchener Memorial Auditorium to watch Wrestlemania 2 on a “Big Screen Television”. Ridiculous by today’s home entertainment standards, this was kind of a big deal in the mid-eighties when most people’s rec rooms still housed 4:3 CRT televisions, often dressed up as furniture, and 27” […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Review
I went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens today. I had previously suggested I would wait until it was in the cheap theatres but my totally reasonable proposal that Smokey and the Bandit needed a reboot and was a better movie than the original Star Wars appears to have garnered minimal traction so I […]
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT is a Better Movie Than STAR WARS
Three weeks past release and audiences continue flooding into movie theatres like flies to a corpse to watch the long anticipated seventh chapter of the Star Wars franchise. I am still not one of them. I prefer picked over bones to fresh flesh, not to mention a cheaper price tag and fewer people, so I’ll […]
The Martian by Ridley Scott – Review
I finally went to see The Martian movie last night. This is something I’ve been eagerly awaiting since discovering a movie was in the works after reading Andy Weir’s wonderful book. My expectations were muted because, let’s face it, rarely do movie adaptions do their source material justice, never mind surpass them. I can think […]
The 1977 Movie That REALLY Needs A Reboot
Ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012 and green-lit a sequel trilogy, not a week has passed where something Star Wars wasn’t blowing up my social media. This year it’s become a daily irritant as the orgasmically anticipated The Force Awakens inches ever closer to its December 18, 2015 release date. Star Wars this and […]