Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'boogienights'
December 20, 2007
Oh yes. There Will Be Blood is the latest film from P.T. Anderson (he of Magnolia and Boogie Nights). Set across turn-of-the-century America, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a miner-turned-oil tycoon, and scored by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, the film is making pretty much everyone who loves movies lose their mind: Gaze upon its 95% on Rotten Tomatoes! Its 9.3 on IMDb! Its 382 Google results for "'there will be blood' 'best film ever'"! And it's......
Continue Reading "There Will Be Free Tickets"November 26, 2006
It seems ironic that, given the recent preponderance of plays in this city which employ film and video elements for no particular reason, Directors Cut, the new Crow's Theatre rental in the Factory Studio, a play entirely about the making a movie, has none. Instead, Directors Cut attempts to convey a filmic feel by enclosing the action on the stage within a big rectangular window. You can see what they were going for, but......
Continue Reading "Factory Studio Show Could Use Some Work"August 25, 2006
Well, you know, it can’t all be exciting glamorous press conferences for internationally famous film festivals where they reveal huge megastars are going to be attending, can it? Yeah, sometimes we have to cover the films that are coming out in cinemas now. And some weeks they’re all really boring. Invincible, for example. If we follow the ‘Snakes on a Plane’ style of naming, this would be called “Mark Wahlberg is an Unlikely Hero in......
Continue Reading "Film Friday: Billy Zane Was in a Film Called Invincible, You Know."