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Favourite Films of 2011

Chris — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:30:41 +0000

While it seemed like a slow year for films (part way through the year I was wondering when the really great films were going to show up), as summer gave way to fall there were a lot of really great films that showed up. Usually there are a cluster of amazing films at the Atlantic [...]

Melancholia

Chris — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:48:12 +0000

Melancholia is quite simply a film about depression that blends a person dealing with depression that expands out to the actual destruction of the Earth by another planet. Neatly divided into three parts with a super slow motion collection of set pieces at the beginning followed by two named parts (Justine and Claire), it dives [...]

Big Day Downtown 2011

Chris — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:30:48 +0000

Last year I was lucky to be one of the bloggers chosen by the Downtown Halifax for Big Day Downtown where people were given $100 to spend and write about the experience. My first Big Day Downtown was a lot of fun and this year the twist is that you need to try something new. [...]

The Tree of Life

Chris — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:45:05 +0000

Terrence Malick makes unique and beautiful films with deliberate rhythms and a tantalizing (or some would say frustrating) ambiguity. With The Tree of Life he constructs a film that is both epic and intimate, almost an inverted version of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey that is built around emotional moments that occasionally expand to form [...]

Reading Things With Instaper

Chris — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:05:29 +0000

One of my favourite ways to read things is with Instapaper on my iPhone. Marco‘s program is simple and easy to use and it makes me think that I would like it even more on an iPad. Instapaper is one of those apps that you may think that you don’t need until you start using [...]