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#TriviaTuesday: The hugely popular American fried chicken chain "Popeyes" is actually named after Gene Hackman's "Popeye Doyle" character in 1971's 'The French Connection', and not the spinach-munching cartoon sailor.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
#TriviaTuesday: The hugely popular American fried chicken chain "Popeyes" is actually named after Gene Hackman's "Popeye Doyle" character in 1971's 'The French Connection', and not the spinach-munching cartoon sailor.
Reposted by Kevin Yu
In 2016, TIFF’s essential Wavelengths slate had 15 features, four shorts programs and five installations. This year, just eight features – fewer than Primetime, the section that previews TV series – three shorts programs and zero installations. #TIFF50 www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/ti...
TIFF 2025: In defense of Wavelengths, the incredibly shrinking film festival program
Yes, the works showcased can be ‘experimental.’ But we should welcome the unexpected
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September 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In 2016, TIFF’s essential Wavelengths slate had 15 features, four shorts programs and five installations. This year, just eight features – fewer than Primetime, the section that previews TV series – three shorts programs and zero installations. #TIFF50 www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/ti...
My review for Invention, by Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez. One of this year’s hidden gems: cinematravelogue.com/2025/07/17/i...
Invention – the emotional wavelength of inheritance
The first scene in Invention, co-directed by Courtney Stephen and its lead actress, Callie Hernandez, signals two key aspects that contribute to the overall tone and atmosphere of the rest of the f…
cinematravelogue.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My review for Invention, by Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez. One of this year’s hidden gems: cinematravelogue.com/2025/07/17/i...
My review for Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch, a film with some promises but was ultimately very limited:
cinematravelogue.com/2025/07/03/f...
cinematravelogue.com/2025/07/03/f...
Familiar Touch
Familiar Touch, Sarah Friedland’s debut feature, follows the journey of an old woman struggling with dementia, Ruth, as she enters into assisted living. The film has an elliptical quality to …
cinematravelogue.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My review for Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch, a film with some promises but was ultimately very limited:
cinematravelogue.com/2025/07/03/f...
cinematravelogue.com/2025/07/03/f...
My Mother’s Smile, To Have and Have Not, Up Down Fragile, and Hatari!
We're halfway through the year, so we're wondering, what is the best film you've seen in 2025?
Doesn't have to have been released this year, just a film that you saw for the first time in 2025 that you loved.
Doesn't have to have been released this year, just a film that you saw for the first time in 2025 that you loved.
July 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My Mother’s Smile, To Have and Have Not, Up Down Fragile, and Hatari!
Filled my ballot for NYT’s Best of the Century Reader’s Picks. There are so many that I haven’t seen yet
June 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Filled my ballot for NYT’s Best of the Century Reader’s Picks. There are so many that I haven’t seen yet
Corporate Fun Day
Quote this with your most spine-chilling three-word phrase in the English language. I bet you can't beat "replacement bus service" or "family fun day".
June 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Corporate Fun Day
Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia is premiering on the Criterion Channel tonight. It’s one of my favourite films of the year so far.
Here’s a review I wrote for Cinema Travelogue back in April: cinematravelogue.com/2025/04/01/i...
Here’s a review I wrote for Cinema Travelogue back in April: cinematravelogue.com/2025/04/01/i...
In Theatre: Misericordia
A lot of our world can be explained by a guilty conscience and blood rushing into specific body parts. If that is the case, Alain Guiraudie’s newest dark comedy Misericordia certainly encapsulates …
cinematravelogue.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia is premiering on the Criterion Channel tonight. It’s one of my favourite films of the year so far.
Here’s a review I wrote for Cinema Travelogue back in April: cinematravelogue.com/2025/04/01/i...
Here’s a review I wrote for Cinema Travelogue back in April: cinematravelogue.com/2025/04/01/i...
I reviewed Carson Lund’s delightful baseball hangout film Eephus:
cinematravelogue.com/2025/06/06/i...
cinematravelogue.com/2025/06/06/i...
In Theatres: Eephus
On Sunday, October 16th, Soldier’s Field welcomes two baseball rec teams, Battlers Paint and the Riverdogs, for their final match-up, before the field will be closed down for the construction…
cinematravelogue.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I reviewed Carson Lund’s delightful baseball hangout film Eephus:
cinematravelogue.com/2025/06/06/i...
cinematravelogue.com/2025/06/06/i...
#LastFourWatched
A surprisingly fitting double bill last night with Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends and Hitchcock’s Suspicion. Both works featuring a naive person of wealth entering a doomed marriage
A surprisingly fitting double bill last night with Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends and Hitchcock’s Suspicion. Both works featuring a naive person of wealth entering a doomed marriage
June 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
#LastFourWatched
A surprisingly fitting double bill last night with Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends and Hitchcock’s Suspicion. Both works featuring a naive person of wealth entering a doomed marriage
A surprisingly fitting double bill last night with Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends and Hitchcock’s Suspicion. Both works featuring a naive person of wealth entering a doomed marriage
From what’s shown here, it definitely looks better than Eggers’ Nosferatu. At least it’s not all washed-out greys. But can we abandon this soft glow, natural lighting schtick please?
youtu.be/x--N03NO130?...
youtu.be/x--N03NO130?...
Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | Official Teaser | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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June 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM
From what’s shown here, it definitely looks better than Eggers’ Nosferatu. At least it’s not all washed-out greys. But can we abandon this soft glow, natural lighting schtick please?
youtu.be/x--N03NO130?...
youtu.be/x--N03NO130?...
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Clint Eastwood, who turns 95 tomorrow, has announced plans to direct a new feature.
Clint Eastwood Intends to Direct a New Feature: “There’s No Reason Why a Man Can’t Get Better with Age”
It would be no disrespect to imagine Clint Eastwood, who turns 95 tomorrow, might have retired. Even if his nigh incomprehensible age were no factor, last year's Juror #2 was long rumored to be a self...
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May 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Review for Durga Chew-Bose’s newest adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse.
cinematravelogue.com/2025/05/29/i...
cinematravelogue.com/2025/05/29/i...
In Theatres: Bonjour Tristesse
An endless summer of nothingness. Setting almost entirely within the resplendent seaside scenery showered with glistening sunshine, the newest adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel Bonjo…
cinematravelogue.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Review for Durga Chew-Bose’s newest adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse.
cinematravelogue.com/2025/05/29/i...
cinematravelogue.com/2025/05/29/i...
I find targeting all of my frustration and anger on Calvin Booth an extremely helpful coping mechanism
May 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I find targeting all of my frustration and anger on Calvin Booth an extremely helpful coping mechanism
Currently on a heat streak #LastFourWatched
May 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Currently on a heat streak #LastFourWatched
I’m on the floor, praying, weeping
Criterion will release Edward Yang's Mahjong and A Confucian Confusion in a double-feature set this summer!
Explore their full August lineup: thefilmstage.com/the-criterio...
Explore their full August lineup: thefilmstage.com/the-criterio...
May 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I’m on the floor, praying, weeping
Review for Immamura’s The Eel that had a new Blue-ray release by @filmsradiance.bsky.social
cinematravelogue.com/2025/05/16/t...
cinematravelogue.com/2025/05/16/t...
The Eel
Shōhei Imamura’s The Eel won the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival in a tie with Abbas Kiarostami’s legendary Taste of Cherry. Since then, there have been chatters that …
cinematravelogue.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Review for Immamura’s The Eel that had a new Blue-ray release by @filmsradiance.bsky.social
cinematravelogue.com/2025/05/16/t...
cinematravelogue.com/2025/05/16/t...
Four favourite first time watches from April
May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Four favourite first time watches from April
To Have and Have Not, life-changing
April 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
To Have and Have Not, life-changing
Revisited an Ozu I haven’t seen since I was 16. Also two from Canadian filmmakers on Canada Film Day
April 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Revisited an Ozu I haven’t seen since I was 16. Also two from Canadian filmmakers on Canada Film Day
Watched Heat for the first time!
April 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Watched Heat for the first time!