Chasing Inspiration with a Stick
That’s right folks, I was able to cover Montreal’s Fantasia Festival this year. The 2020 Edition was entirely online and I was able to watch more than 20 movies. I also conducted two interviews and wrote about my favourites.
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I haven’t done this in a few years but this year I have declared my most anticipated movies of the year. I’ll revisit the list at the end of the year to see how things panned out!
Every year is a good year for movies but every year there are always those few you are really looking forward to. Here is my list of those movies.
Will these end up being my favourite movies of the year? Who knows! Probably not! The only movies that we know anything about as far away as December are the big-budget blockbusters with marketing pockets so deep we can start hearing about them now. There are hundreds of movies per year that don’t have that.
This list should probably be re-titled “most anticipated big-budget films”, really.
Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2020/02/matts-ten-most-anticipated-films-of-2020/
Every year I come up with a list of my favourite films and 2019 was no different. As I usually do, I came up with two lists to end the year. My favourite films (and performers) of 2019 and then a follow up best of the rest post. Oh, and since I didn’t actually post one from 2018, I wrote my 2018 favourites as well.
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For the fourth time I went to the Vancouver International Film Festival. This year I saw more than 20 films and here’s a selection of them.
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I was invited to attend the 2019 Just for Laughs Film Festival this year and I watched and reviewed four of them.
I’ve been flirting with blogging again. Here are a couple of recent reviews.
I kinda love the Oscars. It’s popular to write it off as a bunch of rich people given each other gold statues but it’s also a celebration of film and it’s a great night to highlight many of the people who most of us don’t think about when it comes to filmmaking: screenwriters, editors, cinematographers, sound designers, and so on.
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Every year regardless of how much or little writing or podcasting I do (and it’s admittedly much less these days) I still like to highlight my favourite films of the year. 2017 is no different. I have a dozen favourites this year and if you would like to check them out you can do so over at Awesome Friday!
Another year, another list of favourites. 2017 has been a … turbulent year in the real world but a stellar one for film. You may have noticed that I haven’t been writing much lately, VIFF coverage aside, but I have been gong to the movies. As of this writing I watched 323 movies in 2017, 70 of which were 2017 releases. Not too shabby considering that I only go to one festival.
Link: http://awesomefriday.ca/2018/01/matts-favourite-dozen-films-of-2017/
I went to the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival! This is my third year covering the festival and this year I reviewed 15 movies for Awesome Friday! Here is a selection of those reviews.
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Wonder Woman, the latest entry in the DCEU is out and, much to my relief, it’s really good. Here’s the review I wrote for Awesome Friday!
‘Wonder Woman’ Review: DC made a good movie and I am SO HAPPY
It’s been a long four years since Man of Steel premiered and started the new DCEU shared universe. It has been a universe of muted colours and asshole heroes, and one that has been hard to be optimistic about future entries in, but I am happy to report that Wonder Woman is a great movie and that you should definitely see it.
It’s not a movie without issues mind you, and it has a lot of the issues that even the best superhero origin stories do. The big CGI laden battle at the end is kinda blah. There’s a twist you might see coming from a mile away that leads up to said battle. There’s a huge lack of closure for some characters. None of this stuff is deal breaking though, and honestly I feel kinda nitpicky pointing it out. There are some things about good superhero movies that I can accept at this point, and a boring final battle is one of them because the big final battle with an ill-defined bad guy is ok when you have a hero who is incredibly well-defined and nearly perfectly portrayed.