While most children watch Charlie Brown and the gang for their annual Christmas cheer, I relished in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. I thought Jack Skellington’s vision of getting the ghouls and goblins of Halloween Town to celebrate Christmas was fascinating, and I loved the songs! I distinctly remember my parents saying “well that [...]
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Eject “The Missing” and “Rewind” “(500) Days of Summer”
September 4, 2009 – 6:04 pm
Movies are never what you expect. A Brad Pitt cop-drama turns into a gruesome psychological thriller in Se7en, a Hugh Grant chick- flick becomes a father-son dynamic in About a Boy, and a Johnny Depp biopic is a story of friendship in Finding Neverland. And although when you take your seat, clutching your bag of [...]
Day-dreaming Alice, Heaven-bound Salmon, and Doctor Parnassus’ Deal with the Devil
August 11, 2009 – 3:56 pm
A few weeks ago I had a very strange and disturbing dream. In my dream, I was sitting on my bed doing homework. Across from my bed is a vanity with a large jewellery box resting on it. In my dream, an old book lay face down on my wooden jewellery box. Looking up from [...]