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Film Festival Tips & Tricks You Need to Know!

Hot Docs starts in a couple weeks and TIFF will be here soon enough. I was staff at TIFF and am back volunteering at Hot Docs. Here are some of my inside tips and tricks for navigating a film festival. See the weird films, anything with or by a big name will be in the theatres in a few months anyway. It’s better to see the films you may not have a chance to see again. Additionally, if you’re planning on rushing a film, these are the best ones to do because they generally attract a smaller audience so your […]

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Least Depressing Best Picture Winners!

If you’re suffering from the post-holiday January blues, prepping for the Oscars by re-watching some best pictures of years past likely won’t pick you up out of that slump. The Oscars have a tendency of giving the big awards to, well, long, depressing films. War, slavery, death, debilitating mental illness, and we’re still only in the 2000s. Good news, they have let a few upbeat, crowd pleasers slip through and take best picture! Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Millionaire, 2008 I know, Slumdog has it’s violence and death, but, it also has romance, and a final ten minutes […]

Don’t watch “Home Alone” again this year!

I love Elf and Home Alone as much as the next person. But, if you can’t take watching the same Christmas movies year in and year out, give these less obvious Noel flicks a try this December. Colin Firth & Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones’ Diary Bridget Jones’ Diary, 2001 As if you really need an excuse to watch Bridget Jones for the twentieth time. Starts at Christmas, ends at Christmas, London, Colin Firth. Okay that’s it. Take a mini break holiday and just watch it, again. Watch it on Amazon Instant Video. Nathan Lane & Michael J. Fox in […]

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Non Horror Halloween Films!

I love Halloween, but I hate scary movies. So if you’re like me, good news, there are Halloween films for you! Here is my list of Halloween movies guaranteed not to give you nightmares. Hocus Pocus, 1993 The Divine Miss M has called this her favourite film of her own and with good reason. She, along with co-stars Kathy Nijimy and Sarah Jessica Parker are hilarious as three Salem witches who come back to life in 1993 for one night (of course Halloween) to wreak havoc and eat as many children as possible. Just one catch, they didn’t count on […]