The holidays are a big season for movie going, with big movies opening and big ticket sales ringing in the new year. Box Office Mojo totals up the box office each year and here’s the domestic and international tally for the year. Domestic Box Office: 1 Marvel’s The Avengers – $623,357,910 2 The Dark Knight…
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DOXA Documentary Film Festival – Know Future Gala Fundraiser
The DOXA Documentary Film Festival is coming in May 2013 but tomorrow night you can get your first taste of the fest at Know Future Gala Fundraiser. Help support the 2013 festival and enjoy an evening featuring short film screenings, guest speakers and demonstrations, silent auctions with great vacation packages, restaurant gift certificates, fashion, artwork,…
James Bond Day – 50 years of Bond
James Bond Day, October 5, 2012 marks 50 years since we were first introduced to the debonair and charming spy, James Bond. Even after 5 decades of working for Her Majesty’s Secret Service he somehow still finds a way to woo a new Bond Girl, outsmart a new dastardly megalomaniac super-villain and ultimately save the…
84th Academy Awards
Sunday, February 26th, 2012 in Hollywood the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured the best in film for 2011. As always the fashions, hits and misses, were at the front and centre. Comedy sketches also hit and missed and after an 8 year absence, Billy Crystal returned as host of the awards ceremony…
Top 10 Holiday Movies
As the year-end draws near it’s the time to reminisce and read countless top ten lists so I may as well add to the list of lists. Many people will be gathering together and watching a holiday movie over this weekend so I took a look for people’s favourite Christmas themed movies. There’s no way…
Best Selling Soundtracks of All-time
With the release of the remake of the film Footloose, this weekend, and the remake of some of the classic hits from the original soundtrack, it had me thinking of other great classic soundtracks. Some have music specifically written for the film while others are merely compilations of music to reflect the mood or era of…
VQFF: Spotlight Director – Bruce LaBruce
Sunday night’s feature at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival was on the festival’s 6th Annual Spotlight Director – Bruce LaBruce. Pornographer, enfant terrible, provocateur, punk, pervert, guerrilla filmmaker, smut perveyor…these are just some of the labels applied to Bruce LaBruce over the years, sometimes in a derogatory tone, sometimes not. LaBruce certainly doesn’t shy away…