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My TIFF 2011 movie schedule!
336 films. 11 days. Another year has rolled around. It’s been 12 months since I kinda kick-started my blog for the first time after a hiatus and wrote My TIFF 2010 movie schedule! and TIFF thoughts & 123 movie reviews. … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, featured, Movies, TIFF
Tagged andrea arnold, ben wheatley, Binoche, Carey Mulligan, coming soon, coppola, dardenne, elles, fassbender, film, film festivals, gate theatre, herzog, into the abyss, jason segal, jeff who lives at home, kill list, martha marcy may marlene, Midnight Madness, olsen, preview, prison, prisons, shame, the deep blue sea, the kid with a bike, theatre, TIFF, tiff11, Toronto, twixt, val kilmer, wuthering heights
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Implementing SEO can lead to more conversions
Implementing SEO can lead to more conversions. There are no shortcuts! If you want to grow your business or gain an edge in Google search results, you need to put in the time, effort, and knowledge required to do SEO … Continue reading
I AM ONE // Happy birthday blog
Birthday Bumps!!! So a year ago I was just arriving in South Africa for the 2010 FIFA world cup and figured it would be useful to have an online depository for travel writing, videos, photos and your typical self-effacing and … Continue reading
Q. How many kerrymen does it take to change a light bulb?
A. 100! 1 to hold the light bulb… 99 to rotate the house. lol. I’m sad to report that these tired old light bulb jokes may well be rendered obsolete with the introduction of Peg. (Nothing to do with Peig, … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, featured, Random, Videos
Tagged Canada, design, electricity, hardware, indutrial design, jokes, kerryman, led, lights, stuff. prototypes
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Hot Docs 2011 preview & thoughts
What’s up doc… Without sounding too rosemantic, there are some wonderful things about living in North America. I’m not talking about twinkies, maple syrup or Hershey’s cookies and cream. I’m actually talking about film festivals. Showcases for films looking for … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, featured, Hot Docs, Movies
Tagged Being Elmo, Better this World, Bloor CInema, Conan O'Brien, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, docs, documentaries, Empire North, film festival, General Butt Naked, Hell and back again, Hot Docs, hotdocs11, movies, Superheroes, Toronto, Wiebo's War
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Movie Reviews: The High Cost of Living // Certified Copy
Fin(e) The High Cost of Living directed by Deborah Chow [imdb | trailer] me rating: 2.5/5 saw it: cinema (limited release in Canada for the moment) In the initial months and years “post-Garden State” Zach Braff was considered by some … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tagged Binoche, Canadian Cinema, Certified Copy, cinema, Deborah Chow, French Film, Incendies, Rabbit Hole, Scrubs, TIFF, Uncle Boonmee, Zach Braff
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Ryan Giggs loves yoga
“I hardly drink any alcohol these days. I have taken up yoga, which is great.” Last summer while watching Ryan Giggs continue to defy time I remember thinking he needed to bring out a fitness DVD. If Kerry Katona can … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, featured, Football, Videos
Tagged Canada, celtic, Football, hockey, ice hockey, Manchester United, mufc, ryan giggs, Soccer, stanley cup, yoga
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WRESTLEMAAAaaa…… satellite signal lost
!”£$%^&*)_+!”£$%^&* Just back from Toronto’s Scotiabank theatre where I decided, after this afternoon’s foray into wrestler deaths, to go nostalgia-crazy and watch Wrestlemania XVII live. With other people. And buckets of popcorn. And coca-cola-coked up kids. And a ridiculously extortionate … Continue reading
Movie reviews: Incendies, Unknown & The Reef
Sharks, sabotage and secrets. Incendies directed by Denis Villeneuve [imdb | trailer] me rating: 4.5/5 saw it: cinema (limited release in Canada, wider international release expected) Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s work isn’t all that well known outside of his native … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tagged Australian, Canada, Incendies, January Jones, Liam Neeson, Oscars, reviews, The Reef, Unknown
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MAN MACHINE… IBM’s Watson finally hits Jeopardy! [but thinks Toronto is in the US…]
Isn’t technology wonderful! Our very first home computer, an IBM Aptiva G60, was bought by my parents sometime in late 1994. It ran Windows 3.1 and was a perfect machine for word-processing and tetris. Anything heavier though and it would … Continue reading
Bye bye Incandescent. Bye bye CFL. Buy LED.
Thanks Mr. Edison, we’ll take it from here! I currently work part-time in a hardware store. It’s educational, tedious, fun and repetative, usually at the same time. Makes me feel like I’m in a BBC sitcom a lot of time, … Continue reading
The Walkmen | Live @ Phoenix, Toronto, Oct 9th 2010
When I used to go out I would know everyone that I saw, Now I go out alone if I go out at all…
Posted in Canada, featured, Live Reviews, Music
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Villagers | Live @ The Drake Underground, Toronto, Sept 27th 2010 [w/ Lost in the Trees]
On a sunlit stage… Villagers played here in Toronto on Monday night in the lovely Drake Hotel‘s basement venue for the paltry sum of $10 (€8). I only realised before the show that I hadn’t been to a proper paid … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, featured, Ireland, Live Reviews, Music
Tagged Conor O'Brien, Drake Underground, gigs, Live, Toronto, Villagers
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TIFF thoughts & 123 movie reviews
Cinema ah ah. So the 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival finished up last weekend and while most people with more pressing deadlines will have posted their reviews, recaps and summaries, I figure the casual nature of my blog affords … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, featured, Movie Reviews, Movies, TIFF
Tagged 127 Hours, Bang bang club, Blue Valentine, Canada, Carey Mulligan, Catfish, Cave of forgotten dreams, Danny Boyle, Machete, movies, Never let me go, Spider-man, The American, The Debt, The Town, TIFF
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