Simon Pegg, Nick Frost talk about Worlds End
British pals Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been working at the acting game together for a long while first on the English TV series Spaced, later in two films for director Edgar Wright Shaun of...
View ArticleThe Readers Writers: Award-winning romance author Vicki Batman
Texas-born Vicki Batman has worked as a lifeguard, ride attendant at an amusement park, in a hardware store, department store, book store, antique store clerk, as an administrative assistant in an...
View Article2013 Toronto International Film Festival preview
Theres plenty to do in Toronto any time of the year. The largest city in Canada, and fourth largest in North America, and the capital of Ontario, its got Ripleys Aquarium, the Royal Ontario Museum,...
View ArticleBook review: The Kid Who Missed the Bus
Matt McCoy, a former pro hockey player and first-time author, has packaged his experiences into the funny and sometimes uncomfortable autobiographical novel The Kid Who Missed the Bus ($13.95, 226...
View ArticleMovie review: Closed Circuit
You dont really need to know much about the British legal system to get totally involved in the stories and the accompanying tension of Closed Circuit. You dont have to understand the difference...
View ArticleBook Notes: J.K. Rowling goes undercover
The Cuckoos Calling, by Robert Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling. Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company, New York. 464 pages, $26.J.K. Rowling keeps us guessing, not just about who wrote The Cuckoos...
View ArticleHollywood hits and small pleasures at Toronto Film Fest: A report
The Toronto International Film Festival is still going strong as I write this. I made it through the first six days of movie madness before deadlines and a desire to keep my sanity brought me back home...
View ArticleHugh Jackman talks about his latest project, Prisoners’
Its been a good 12 months for Hugh Jackman. He voiced the boomerang-slinging, Australian-accented Easter Bunny in Rise of the Guardians, was Oscar-nominated and won a Golden Globe for his Jean...
View ArticleBook Notes: Handling the Truth’
Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, by Beth Kephart. Gotham Books/Penguin Group, New York, 2013. 254 pages. $16.Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir by National Book Award...
View ArticleJoseph Gordon-Levitt talks about Don Jon’
It took only a couple of years for Joseph Gordon-Levitt to start auditioning for parts, then break into the acting career thats made him one of the busiest guys on the screen today. Thats no big deal...
View ArticleThe Readers’ Writers: Literary author Lorrie Thomson
When Lorrie Thomson began writing her debut novel Equilibrium, she never imagined how drastically her perspective would change before the storys conclusion.Equilibrium is about a family coping...
View ArticleMovie review: Sandra Bullock gives a heavenly performance in Gravity’
Its curious that no movie set beyond the stratosphere has ever won the most coveted of Academy Awards. Apollo 13 couldnt do it. Neither could 2001: A Space Odyssey. Heck, even the highly praised...
View ArticleReview: Two new Bruce Springsteen books offer all sides
By Peter ChiancaApparently everybody has something to say about Bruce Springsteen. Theres been a virtual deluge of books about the rock legend hitting the market, and recent weeks have seen the...
View ArticleThe Readers’ Writers: Author Alison Ellie’ Heller
Alison Ellie Heller is the acquisitions editor for an e-publisher, dedicated blogger and single mom who also writes paranormal and fantasy romance novels.Her latest book, A Matter of Fate, follows...
View ArticleBenedict Cumberbatch takes on Julian Assange in Fifth Estate’
Though hes not instantly recognizable with his hair bleached blond-white in The Fifth Estate (which opens Friday), its clear thats Benedict Cumberbatch playing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...
View ArticleGet Reel: Romcoms with affairs to remember
It was the best of times and it was the worst of times for moviegoers last month with the releases of Enough Said and Baggage Claim. The former represents all that is good about romantic comedies,...
View ArticleMovie review: The Fifth Estate’
Any protagonist in any movie has got to have at least some little something that draws you to him. I mean, cmon, even Hannibal Lecter exuded some charm when he wasnt ripping the faces off of...
View ArticleMovie review: Carrie’
Three things crossed my mind during the end credits to the remake of Brian De Palmas 1976 adaptation of Stephen Kings book Carrie: a memory of Gus Van Sants 1998 remake of Psycho, the phrase...
View ArticleMovie review: Ender’s Game’ should never have begun
Enders Game is a puzzle. Make that a series of puzzles that Ill put in the form of questions. Who will want to see this? Yes, there are supposedly hordes of people who read the young adult science...
View ArticleMovie review: Kill Your Darlings’
The title refers to some literary advice doled out in the film by a college professor who suggests to his students that they shouldnt be afraid of editing their own writing. But this based-on-fact...
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