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Toreros' comeback falls short at Pacific

STOCKTON, Calif. USD senior Brandon Johnson wanted to be on the floor with his teammates, but the All-West Coast Conference guard could only watch as the final sequence unfolded last night. Trailing by one, the Toreros inbounded under their own basket ...

From JASON ANDERSON, San Diego Union-Tribune,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: ESPNU

A silent Crouching Tiger

The countries of East Asia have long been the source of some of the world's most exciting movies, but even ardent cinephiles may not realize quite how long that's been the case. The centerpiece event for the 13th annual Reel Asian film festival – ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Toronto Star,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ennio Morricone

Inside Hana's Suitcase: A powerful look into Holocaust

Conveying a child's experience of the Holocaust is a difficult challenge for any filmmaker who's wary of easy sentimentality or condescending oversimplifications. Last year's movie adaptation of John Boyne's novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was an ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Toronto Star,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: CBC

Seasonal disorder: Holiday movies preview

While movie theatres aren't quite desperate enough to offer flu vaccinations to ticket buyers, they'll do everything else they can to get seats filled during the coming holiday season. Boffo box office would be like a booster shot for a business ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Toronto Star,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Clint Eastwood,  Peter Jackson,  James Cameron,  Pixar,  Roland Emmerich

Nick Love: 'I'm more than just a mockney'

'Cockney auteur' Nick Love, director of Goodbye Charlie Bright, The Football Factory and The Firm, talks to Jason Solomons about football, fashion and funk Your IP address will be logged When autoplay is on, videos on these pages will autoplay Please ...

From JASON SOLOMONS, ANDY GALLAGHER, GLENN OSTEN ANDERSON, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Sep 2009

Putting the fun in funeral

S ince it begins with the demise of the narrator's father after a battle with cancer, a book like This Is Where I Leave You would normally open with a poignant deathbed scene. Readers might expect a spare yet carefully wrought description of the ailing ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Judd Apatow,  Nick Hornby,  Tom Perrotta

Quentin Tarantino's 10 Best Music Moments

If Quentin Tarantino's movie career can be encapsulated in a single blast of music, it's the twang-laden rumble of Dick Dale's 'Miserlou.' Energizing the opening credits of 'Pulp Fiction,' it's a hard, fast piece of retro cool set in an eminently ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Spinner.com,  14 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Quentin Tarantino,  Urge Overkill (musician),  Uma Thurman,  Jackie Brown,  Dick Dale

Anvil and Iron Maiden Docs Bring Canadian Class to Heavy Metal Movies

When Anvil opens for AC/DC in Boston and New Jersey this week, it will be no small triumph for a once-forgotten Toronto heavy metal band that has spent the past 25 years angling for another shot at the big time. But these gigs represent something else, ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Spinner.com,  28 Jul 2009
Related Topics: VH1,  AC/DC,  Sacha Gervasi,  Angus Young,  Boeing

3-D attacks!

Movie theatres are filling up with folks in funny-looking glasses again, but the new breed of 3-D technology is light years beyond what’s come before. Forget the red-and-blue motion sickness inducers of the 1950s—today’s 3-D movies are crisp, clear and ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  28 May 2009
Related Topics: Polar Express,  Steven Spielberg,  James Cameron,  Pixar,  Jeffrey Katzenberg

‘It was people's love for Heath that propelled this thing forward'

Terry Gilliam has never been the luckiest of directors. The filmmaker who first gained note for his surreal animations for Monty Python, Gilliam battled with Universal over the final cut of his 1985 black comedy Brazil , suffered an expensive flop with ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  22 May 2009
Related Topics: Terry Gilliam,  Heath Ledger,  Johnny Depp,  Christopher Plummer,  Tom Waits

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