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So, first thing this morning, my computer informs me it has VERY IMPORTANT updates to install and would like to install them NOW. I said, no, no… I have a Friday Film Roundup post to write and politely asked it to just hold its horses. Then, when the post was near completed, poof! The compute read more

So, first thing this morning, my computer informs me it has VERY IMPORTANT updates to install and would like to install them NOW. I said, no, no… I have a Friday Film Roundup post to write and politely asked it to just hold its horses. Then, when the post was near completed, poof! The compute read more

I’ve always suspected John Barrymore would be a terrible Valentine. Like he would just get drunk, only talk about himself and his famous family, and eventually vomit on your rug and pass out in your bed with a lit cigarette in his hand. Then I find out John Barrymore’s birthday is on V read more

I’ve always suspected John Barrymore would be a terrible Valentine. Like he would just get drunk, only talk about himself and his famous family, and eventually vomit on your rug and pass out in your bed with a lit cigarette in his hand. Then I find out John Barrymore’s birthday is on V read more

Watching old television advertisements is always kind of fun. They’re so quaint and unsophisiticated relatively speaking. But watching old tv ads is especially super fun when they feature Buster Keaton. Just for a little (really cold!) Saturday fun, check out three Buster product appearances read more

Whoa, yet another week down. Tick tick tick. The confusing Toronto weather (Hello there Spring!) doesn’t help matters at all. Did I just not leave the house for four months? No, no – it’s just global warming. And still I dream of a 7 foot snow which apparently isn’t going to read more

Toronto continues to exhaust me with the wide array of silent/classic movie offerings. Really, it could be my full time job to see all these movies. (By the way, is anyone willing to provide a salary for this job? Just sayin’…) Here’ s brief run down of the just some of the upcom read more

Whoa, yet another week down. Tick tick tick. The confusing Toronto weather (Hello there Spring!) doesn’t help matters at all. Did I just not leave the house for four months? No, no – it’s just global warming. And still I dream of a 7 foot snow which apparently isn’t going to read more

Toronto continues to exhaust me with the wide array of silent/classic movie offerings. Really, it could be my full time job to see all these movies. (By the way, is anyone willing to provide a salary for this job? Just sayin’…) Here’ s brief run down of the just some of the upcom read more

I only ask because my totally awesome Silent Film calendar informs me that today is Elmo Lincoln’s birthday. Elmo Lincoln is a completely awesome name, but that’s all I’ve got. To the interwebs! Before you go thinking Elmo Lincoln’s mom was a totally hip chick who looked at read more

There’s a new film distribution company in town, and I wrote about it for The Toronto Film Scene. If you care about Canadian independent film, you’re going to care about IndieCan Entertainment. Veteran film producer Avi Federgreen, the man responsible for productions like Score: A Hock read more

Moon Point opens tonight at AMC, Yonge and Dundas. You can play hooky and catch it at 2 pm. If you’re a stick and the mud and refuse to fake-sick, hit the evening screening for a Q&A with the cast and filmmakers. Moon Point, the first release from new kid on the block distributor IndieCa read more

You guys, this week was way too short. I know, I know what you’re thinking. Week’s are long – too long!- and Friday’s never come soon enough. I do agree, Friday’s are fragile, rare butterflies and should be treated accordingly. But I had one of those Monday through Thu read more

You guys, this week was way too short. I know, I know what you’re thinking. Week’s are long – too long!- and Friday’s never come soon enough. I do agree, Friday’s are fragile, rare butterflies and should be treated accordingly. But I had one of those Monday through Thu read more

In May of 1922, one Mr. Walt Disney opened a little animation studio in Kansas City Missouri. Laugh-O-Gram studios hobbled along with not much money, teetering on the edge of survival. A local dentist name Thomas McCrum extended the life of the studio for a short while with a $500 commission for T read more

I spent hours trying to figure out a way to make this piece for The Toronto Film Scene about The Artist or Hugo or silent movies, in general. Turns out, it’s tougher than you think. Then I noticed two different actresses are nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for the same movi read more

It’s been a fine week for silent film fans. The Oscar nominees for Best Picture include not only a movie about silent movies with Hugo, but also include an actual silent movie. Now we all need to put on our black turtle necks and adopt a disaffected air to assure everyone that we liked silent read more

Could it be that Pretty Clever Film Gal is nursing another cold, waking up all sneezy, and stuffy, and scratchy? I’ve already put in the cold-time this season, so I call bull on that. Fortunately, it’s Friday which means I have a couple of days of rest, fluids, and nourishing movies ahe read more

Do you wish your name was Natacha Rambova? Good news… it can be yours. Ms. Rambova hasn’t used it since 1966 and it wasn’t hers to start with. Born Winifred Shaughnessy in Utah, she was kind of half Irish Catholic with a dash or Mormon, despite her exotic sounding name. Natacha R read more

What happens when film critics critique film critics? You get a double-blind study! At least that’s what TIFF is treating us to this week with “Fifty Years of Discovery: Cannes Critics Week,” a film series celebrating the golden anniversary of that venerable sidebar to Cannes kno read more