J. Edgar
We’ve all had the experience of watching a movie that just can’t get your cinematic rocks off. Nonetheless, sometimes you can ignore plot holes or deranged narrative when the acting is too damn good to ignore. Examples that spring to mind are Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, or [...]
Hey y’all, want to get an academic’s bloomers in a bunch at an alarming speed? Then I present to you Anonymous, this year’s most ridiculous and unnecessary film. The tagline asks, “Was Shakespeare a Fraud?” The movie doesn’t so much answer this question as punch you with a fist of highly-wrought nonsense gloved in pretty [...]
Continue reading …Silver Wave finds future in young filmmakers despite tax credit cancellation
November 8, 2011 Comments Off
It wasn’t exactly the feel-good news New Brunswick filmmakers were looking for. With the cancellation of the NB film tax credit, there was a shadow hanging over the Silver Wave Film Festival this year. “Axing that tax credit is stupid,” said Ryan O’Toole, a Fredericton-based film director who had two short films in this year’s [...]
Continue reading …Somewhere in the depths of a Hollywood Starbucks, Kevin Bacon is probably sulking. Not because the film industry inexplicably decided to remake his breakout movie Footloose, but because they didn’t even ask him to cameo. Apart from this lapse in judgement – and that I originally went out to see 50-50 – this movie barely [...]
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When I was 12, I was part of the group of kids that was determined to make a movie and submit it to a film festival. That dream fell flatwhen we realized that yes, we can hit record and act in front of a camera, but then what? So we just let it go. Then [...]
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Moneyball: a movie that’s unfortunately not about someone carrying around a giant ball made of money. What hijinks would ensue when the character tries to purchase a wallet! Alas, this is about baseball instead – you know, that sport that Canadians don’t really care about. The story is thus: in the early 2000s, Oakland A’s [...]
Continue reading …I love movies. Movies are the cold side of the pillow or the three-day extension from your terrifying prof – downright sublime. From quivering in my middle-school boots while watching Snape scowl in the first Harry Potter movie, to falling for Leonardo Dicaprio in his dashing suspenders in Titanic, I’ve had some transformative moments within [...]
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Nicola McLeod believes that anyone who hates Harry Potter doesn’t have a soul. McLeod, who’s entering her second year at St. Thomas University in the fall, has been a Potter fan ever since she can remember. Her father read her the first three books and she read the fourth to seventh on her own. [...]
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“Our parents had the Beatles, their parents had WWII, we have Harry Potter” Although I knew it was coming, my heart sank when I turned the 607th page of the last Harry Potter book and found nothing on the other side. I was 18 then – roughly the same age as Harry like I’ve always [...]
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Film-making is hard work, but Rodney Mann, Adam Poser, and Christine Arsenault took on the challenge for this year’s 48-hour film challenge.
Continue reading …Competition challenges local filmmakers to produce film in 2 days. Karissa Donkin – The Aquinian – A film can take weeks, months or even years to produce from start to finish. A local competition is challenging aspiring filmmakers to churn out a final product in only 48 hours. The Fredericton 48 Hour Film Competition, brainchild [...]
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Tara Chislett – The Aquinian Although she owns three cell phones now, don’t expect to see Caroline Martel texting or surfing the web from her mobile device. “[Cell phones] make me feel ungrounded,” she said. “I’m a bit old fashioned in that sense. I like a phone when it’s linked to a space and the [...]
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