Tonight’s Contenders: Shark Week
I’ve always been critical of hopping on band wagons, but as a man raised by the Discovery channel I can’t help but buy into this one. Shark week is an institution in summer programming, forged […]
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Tonight’s Contenders: FREEDOM
As Saturday marked the 239th year since the good ol’ US of A declared their independance from Britain, this week we celebrate FREEDOM. So kick back, crack open a Budweiser and a bag of deep-fried […]
Hard Core Logo; A Rockumentary Done Right
I hadn’t heard of Hard Core Logo until I was researching films for this week’s Canadiana-Rama. It hasn’t been on any of the viewing lists I’ve ever seen about rock-docs, hasn’t been mentioned by any […]
CANADIANA-RAMA
Oh Canada, our true north strong and free. Our national day of celebration and official kick-off to our short Canadian summer comes up on Wednesday, so here at Monday Movie Nights we’re getting into the […]
Camp Nowhere, or Unintentional Free-Range Parenting
Growing up in the age of the internet has its benefits. You have an endless source of knowledge and entertainment, interacting with friends and staying in touch with them is as easy as a few clicks, and […]
God Save The Queen
With this Sunday having been Queen Victoria’s birthday, it seems fitting that we celebrate the rich and famous, the blue bloods, the monarchy. From King Richard the Lion Hearted to the Sun King Louis XIV, […]
Tonights Contenders: The Master, Quentin Tarantino
This week the Monday Movie Night crew watches a film from one of our generations greatest directors, the inimitable Quentin Tarantino. Known for his penchant for bloody violence, inspired dialogue, and occasional biting satire, Tarantino […]
How High: Blaxploitation, Stoner Flick, or Both?
This week for our 4/20 special we decided to watch How High, the Method Man and Redman vessel about a non-traditionally educated but highly intelligent man and his bumbling friend finding their way into Harvard […]
A Scanner Darkly; or Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They Aren’t After You
For Narc Week our (smaller than usual) movie crew watched A Scanner Darkly, a hyper-stylized adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s novel by the same name. The movie stars Monday Movie Night favourite and Island charter president […]
Tonight’s Contenders: Narc Narc, Who’s There?
This week we celebrate movies that in the 60’s would have been booed out of the cinema. We turn our attention to the narc, a character often portrayed as a guns-a-blazing, wise-cracking, shotgun-toting stud that […]