For those who don’t know 5-25-77 is a feature film about a young high school student completely obsessed with Star Wars.

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Not to be confused with the upcoming (we hope) Fanboys - this film resonates so frickin’ strongly with my own geeked out youth. I remember seeing […]

Fred sent me this via Facebook and I just had to share.
I’ve loved Keaton’s work from back when I was a kid and through my own less than illustrious days as a clown and mime. His physical theatre is stunning and surreal and beautifully collected here with the mesmerizing sounds of Radiohead.
Enjoy and share.

Thanks, […]

Just reading that headline makes me laugh.
I posted a while ago in this pathetic excuse for a blog about how I thought the Wachowski sibling’s latest film “Speed Racer” was going to mark a new era in cinema. At that time, and certainly since with the dismal box office performance of the film, I […]

I don’t think I have ever done this before - but it’s late and I can’t sleep and so here it is:
I received a comment today on a previous post about Bill C-10 to which I felt compelled to reply.

My basic position on the proposed bill, to adjudicate and control content of Canadian produced film […]

It’s not what you think. This Legion Of Decency is a great blog run by Jim Henshaw and it provides some of the most insightful harangues about the Canadian Film and Television industry you are likely to find online. It is comparable to mark Achtenberg’s Musings & Contradictions and Jill Gollick’s Running With […]

Go Speed Racer!! Here’s the 2 new trailers for the Wachowski’s feature version of Speed Racer which was (according to Wikipedia) along with Astro Boy, one of the first truly successful anime franchises in the United States and retains an intensely strong cult following.
I found this over on FirstShowing.net so you should drop by […]

Michael Geist has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Harper government’s Bill C-10 and the growing vocal opposition to the proposed changes to the tax credit system which would see government policy dictate content of Canadian films.
This is from his post:

This afternoon I received an email urging me to “write your Government and support […]

My esteemed colleague, Kit Pasold, has finally released his project “ENERKID vs. The Monster Ray” to the wilds of the public marketplace. As the title suggests it’s a campy SciFi superhero adventure featuring … you!

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The premise is fairly simple: place an order for the DVD and send in a photo of yourself (or […]

Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
What the hell - it’s the Year Of The Rat.
It’s a Leap Year.
It’s Friday.
It’s Round-Up Day!
There won’t be much commentary on this disparate bunch of crap I’m about to lay on you - just a big ass whack of links to stories that caught my attention and which […]

My buddy, Mark Achtenberg, has posted more of our email exchange where we discuss writing for cinema. I hold forth in my usual endless ranting style and he thinks enough of it to put it on his blog - and I think enough of what he’s done to post about it on my blog.
I […]