The call-in show over lunch today on the CBC, as I enjoyed my very first kefir smoothie (quite enjoyable, in fact, made more so as I thought it was not invented by, nor named after, Kiefer Sutherland…somehow, I connect him with the CBC, perhaps going back to that anti-Catholic CBC screed of a movie he […]
My movie selection over the past few months has been in the science fiction genre, which is often heavy on the ‘fiction’, and light on the ‘science’. The recent, visually impressive Christopher Nolan-directed Interstellar attempts to balance that, telling the story of mankind’s search for a new habitable planet with some degree of scientific accuracy. […]
Corruptio optimi pessima, the corruption of the best is the worst, a Latin aphorism that has been adopted into Catholic theology, is a pithy, three word description of the effect of the metaphysical basis of evil: Evil, as a privation of good, must always exist in good. As something ‘good that is missing but that […]
No, this is not a review of an X-rated version of the Transformers movie which, felicitously enough, I have never seen (the Transformers…there is no X-rated version, so don’t go looking). Rather, a comment on a report I heard last Monday, January 26th, 2015, that Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (how’s that […]
I just finished watching the most recent Bourne movie. For those of you not up on the franchise, a secret agent-assassin loses his memory, and runs from shadowy CIA-types who are trying to kill him. That was the trilogy with Matt Damon. In the newest one, the Bourne Legacy, the protagonist, played by a less-charismatic […]
I recently watched, under some level of duress, Marvel’s adaptation of the Avengers. Well, I say duress; it was at the recommendation of a colleague, whom I respect and admire, and still do so (chaque a son gout…). Yes, here we have yet another superhero movie, this time a whole panoply of superheroes, battling some […]