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For decades, casino movies have filled theaters in America and globally, offering a visually dramatized experience that rekindles the rush, euphoria, and casino lifestyle. With countless hours of cinema depicting casinos throughout the years, we set a goal to try to make a tier list and rank some of the best casino movies ever made. In the article, you can find movies that either depict…
When I meet Jay Baruchel for our interview, on the terrace of the Studio Juste pour rire, he’s coming back from across the street, where he was posing for a photographer who asked him to get into all kind of odd positions while lying atop a bunch of old cardboard boxes. That guy had you do some pretty crazy stuff, eh? “Oh my God… They…
LES RENDEZ-VOUS DU CINÉMA QUÉBÉCOIS February 17>27 in Montreal February 21>27 in Quebec city This annual festival presents the local films produced in the year that just ended, plus a few premieres. The full schedule will be online February 9th eventually. OPENING FILM Manners of Dying (Jeremy Peter Allen) 53 “Regulations”, “schedule”, “as outlined in the procedural checklist”… When death-row convicts come to Harry Parlington…
“NOS 20 MEILLEURS FILMS QUÉBÉCOIS?” On November 1st 2003, La Presse critics Marc-André Lussier and Luc Perreault published a list of what they consider the 20 best French Canadian fiction feature films. One might deplore the absence of genius iconoclast filmmaker Robert Morin and the inclusion of a few downright rotten ‘80s flicks, but otherwise this is a solid selection. 1963 À tout prendre (Claude…
A few hours before the premiere of Pineapple Express at the Festival du Film de Juste pour rire, I got to interview Danny McBride, who pretty much steals the movie as far as I’m concerned. I wanted to interview Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow as well, naturally, but was turned down (James Franco and David Gordon Green didn’t make the trip to Montreal). Still, I…
1981 THE EVIL DEAD 91 [ review ] 1985 CRIMEWAVE 10 [ review ] 1987 EVIL DEAD II 84 [ review ] 1990 DARKMAN 93 [ review ] 1993 ARMY OF DARKNESS 92 [ review ] 1995 THE QUICK AND THE DEAD 79 [ review ] 1998 A SIMPLE PLAN 92 [ review ] 1999 FOR LOVE OF THE GAME 40 [ Raimi apparently really,…
“I’ve always had a fascination with the bizarre, the surreal, the Grand Guignol, the grotesque. I’ve always liked imperfections. I never really wanted to sell perfection.” – Nicolas Cage Born Nicolas Coppola on January 7th 1964, Cage is the nephew of (you guessed it) Francis Ford Coppola. His first credited part is in the classic high school comedy Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982), but…
The American Film Institute’s 100 YEARS, 100 FILMS 1: Citizen Kane (1941) 100 [ review ] 2: Casablanca (1942) 100 [ review ] 3: The Godfather (1972) 100 [ review ] 4: Gone with the Wind (1939) 93 [ review ] 5: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 66 [ review ] 6: The Wizard of Oz (1939) 93 [ review ] 7: The Graduate (1967) 94…
“The director is always the guy who says, ‘Go with me up that hill, even though there is a machine gun stuck there shooting at us’.” 1974 Dark Star 21 “They are bored, their machines are falling apart, and even though it was a complete fantasy, it seems to me that ‘Dark Star’ was telling some kind of truth regarding our lives.” [ “2001” without…