I think this is an opportunity for a film person on the Winnipeg St. overpass in Regina.
11foot8 is a website that highlights ridiculous crash videos at a notorious, low, train bridge.
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What’s it like for a Regina cyclist to go see a movie? Besides homicidal/comical drivers (from Alberta), there are flooded Multi Use Pathways, and underpasses that are creeks. Persist past those hazards, and there are gravelly “Shared” bike lanes with parked cars ready to give you the “door-prize”. Can you see drivers being as patient and persistent as Regina’s cyclists? Despite the flooded dead-ends without detour signs, I made the 11km bike ride from the south west, to the north east in under an hour, so I could catch the latest “Star Trek Into Darkness” [10/10]. I’d highly recommend trying (Read more…) . . . → Read More: Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: Cycling In Regina Isn’t Always Easy In the late 1950s, I came across a copy (1912; an original edition, I believe) of Edgar Rice Burrough’s first published novel, Tarzan, The Ape Man, on my parent’s bookshelf in the basement. A forgotten book, one my father had … Continue reading → Taking some time on the weekend to waste a little time, I caught up on some movies. “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” [6/10] was extremely uncomfortable at times, and oh so predictable, but still enjoyable enough to get a passing mark. The Spock on TV joke during the movie helped me figure out the voice of Sentinal Prime, who I recognized eventually as Leonard Nimoy’s, but couldn’t name at first. They later had him make another Star Trek joke, claiming “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”. On Friday I’d watched the end of “Star Trek (Read more…) Watched “Django Unchained” [7/10], and realized that bodies were exploding because it was a Tarantino movie. It went about as expected. Some parts should not be watched, or it will cause trauma; Like the dogs ripping someone apart. However, I was pleasantly surprised to hear this Jim Croce song. Before arriving at the Golden Mile theatre, there was a white husky dog with a green (shock?, tracking?) box collar on, and a Regina tag, but I couldn’t get the number on it to call the City because the dog would nip when I held his collar. It ran The problem with how Sweden, the UK, and the United States have been treating Julian Assange of Wikileaks, has dragged on for years. It’s left the foremost journalist in the world stuck in a London apartment building that houses the Ecuadorian Embassy where Assange is trapped as a political prisoner. He sought asylum from the Swedish extradition order, and Ecuador granted him that request. Assange’s home country of Australia has sided with the United States in wanting him imprisoned and taken offline, because they’ve failed to negotiate his safe return to Australia or Ecuador where he could be free. In . . . → Read More: Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Hollywood Hatchet, Swedish Swindle How ironically fitting that Michelle Obama announced the Oscar for the winning picture. Argo is a putative “true” story from the not too distant U.S. past – a past to which American viewers can easily relate – a feel good story of American perseverance, ingenuity, courage, an inspiring version of U. S. exceptionalism resulting in a bloodless American victory with only, according to the script but not Ken Taylor, a smidgen of help from Canadians. Such an uplifting image was far more appealing to mean-age 63 Academy voters. Does Argo deserve the Oscar? Depends on what “deserves” means. For (Read more…) . . . → Read More: Politics and Entertainment: Why a completely unremarkable film called Argo won the Oscar I grew up thinking that Killer Robots From Venus was a pretty amusing song. Now that we’re living in 2013, the ‘future’, we have to seriously contemplate the implications of building robots that can kill as their intended purpose. Our next-future expectations depend upon what we choose now. I’m not okay with building Terminators, just because have have the technical capability. We should be seriously concerned, even if we don’t think a Skynet scenario will play out as it did in the movies. The consequences are dire and deadly even if the machines don’t ‘decide’ to turn against their human . . . → Read More: Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: Killer Robots From Earth Spoiler alert: The U.S. Navy SEALS murder Osama Bin Laden and several others in his Pakistani compound without mercy and with vengeful malice. Most of the controversy swirling round the film revolves around whether the filmmaker, Kathryn Bigelow – positioned as auteur by most commentators – endorses torture or whether the film’s narrative raises the moral issue of torture for contemplation. There is, in my reading, no overt moral position offered by the film on torture or even the morality of CIA procedures in general. Many commentators have unwittingly bemoaned this absence or taken it as a tacit moral endorsement of torture (Read more…) By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 9, 2013: Nearly ten years after Janet Jackson’s famous wardrobe malfunction, the CBS is on high alert concerning nudity. A “Wardrobe Advisory” email the network’s Standards & Practices department sent out to representatives of stars scheduled to perform at Sunday’s 55th Annual Grammy Awards is warning performers to adequately cover their breasts, READ MORE 
 #Grammys, ARTS & CULTURE, breasts, buttocks, Canada, CBS, censorship, Decency, Dress Code, Featured, genitals, Glenn Gould, Grammy Awards, Hollywood, Janet Jackson, movies, Nudity, Pink, Pop Culture, social media, Society, tv, Twitter, United States, War on Women, Wardrobe Mulfunction, youtube I’d suggest people watch “Flight” [9/10] if you like deep movies about alcoholism. You might end up cheering for the drunk and feeling bad for doing so. I rode the bus, ended up at another mall, decided on a movie, found out it was Tuesday and only $2. Win! “Looper” [8/10] bent my brain a little, but wasn’t a time travelling classic I fear. It was trying to be complex, and although I didn’t predict the ending, I probably could have. It still had enough surprises to be worth watching though. If you don’t mind a gory action pic with time travel, check out Looper. After the movie the next bus home was going to take about 20 minutes to leave the mall. I walked, and think I caught some movies lately, including “Lincoln” [9/10], and “Perfect Pitch” [6/10]. “Life of Pi” [9/10] was much better than both of them, however. “Lincoln” was an interesting history lesson, it just didn’t feel like it was more than a mini-series condensed. UPDATE Dec. 14 – Watched “Lord of the Rings – Return of the King” [9/10] extended cut. It was over 4 hours long, yeesh! I thought it was very good, and I didn’t even fall asleep during it. All three movies in the span of two weeks was almost too much though. Uranowski’s First Law of Involuntary Suspension of Disbelief Even if you didn’t know that the 1999 masterpiece “Deep Blue Sea” was about super-intelligent sharks before hand, Saffron Burrows’s character (Dr. Susan McCallister) interacts with a 3D computer model 14 minutes into the movie showing us all that the sharks mentioned in the previous expository scene have gigantic brains. The plot of the film involves a scientific testing facility located on a re-purposed oil derrick where a pharmaceutical company is expanding the size of shark’s brains in hope of developing a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. The main crew of the facility is (Read more…) A Man for All Seasons (1960) —————————————————————————————————- Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law! More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Roper: I’d cut down every law in England … Continue reading → I’ve seen a few movies the last few weeks, and haven’t yet reviewed them. Tonight I happened upon a Canadian film named “1st Bite” [5/10] which is extremely artsy and doesn’t make much sense. It was slightly interesting though, and showed Thai cooking. “Taken” [9/10] was an exciting movie, with a lot more gruesome action [...] Granville’s last movie theatre closes CBC online Oct 10,2012
I was shocked to read that this is the last of the Granville theatres..when I left Vancouver a few years ago, they were all still in business; the truth is, after having gone almost weekly for many years, home video and the grossly expensive demands for admission killed the experience for me. The dumbing-down of the entertainment industry did nothing for its own continued success, either, too many so-called ‘action’ movies, not my thing (or anyone over 12, mentally) and a lot of ridiculous schlock I wouldn’t have even . . . → Read More: Left Over: (Almost) The Last Picture Show…. Here’s an extended trailer of the ”Innocence Of Muslims”, the shitty anti-Islam movie that unleashed riots in the Muslim world, leading to the assassination of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens. Earlier today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton distance the U.S. government from the movie, and labeled it “disgusting and reprehensible”. When I saw the trailer for Argo, I had a flashback to the Tommy Douglas Story. It was obvious from the focus of the plot that the CIA was going to get credit for saving the American hostages in Iran, 1979, instead of Ken Taylor, the Canadian diplomat. That’s the problem when you let Americans write history with semi-fictional blockbusters. If you have an option to not see “Hit & Run” [4/10], take it. If I’d written this review last night, I might have given it a 5 and said it could be worth rewatching, but thinking about it a bit more it’s not really worth the time. There are some sweet spots, and some funny bits, but the uncomfortable and ultimately unresolved threads of the movie, some which don’t even fit together, make it an overall unpleasant movie. It is a dark comedy that is way too light and not-serious through most of it to actually be worth watching I have been off cigarettes for over 8 years and haven’t had the urge to smoke for years… until last night when I watched Pulp Fiction. What is it about that flick? And what ever happened to Uma Thurman? (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario A lawyer is trying to compel Elections Canada to release more public details of its super slow investigation into the election fraud from May 2011. Apparently the next date we’ll have any news from the Federal Court is August 8th. In the meantime, the greatest crime against this country in modern times goes unpunished, as our illegitimate government rolls on as our elections enforcement agency flounders. How could there be no charges (and no investigation anymore) for the 2008 Robocalls in SG-I that pretended to be from the NDP? Where is the charge against Pierre Poutine, now that Burke’s Conservative . . . → Read More: Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Show The Cards Elections Canada #RoboCon Canadian novelist Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi” is one of the few novels I’ve started with enthusiasm and but couldn’t finish. I simply failed to connect with this award-winning wrenching fantastical story of loss, adventure and hope. But the movie, directed by award-winning director Ang Lee, promises to be something special. The movie, starring newcomer Suraj Sharma as Pi, hits theaters November 21, 2012. Synopsis: “Director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a tragic disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure . . . → Read More: Canadian Progressive World: The “Life of Pi” Movie Will Probably Rock Your World I’m not a fanatical comic book movie watcher. I did go to see “Batman The Dark Knight Rises” [10/10] Tuesday though, and it was great. It would have helped to have recently viewed the previous movie which is mentioned to some degree, but the story can stand on its own. If you trust your comic instincts, you’ll figure out a few things in the plot too. The only gripe I had was one I have with many action movies, and that’s the music soundtrack, as dramatic as it is, is too LOUD. Batman’s witty retorts are almost inaudible at times, . . . → Read More: Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: Batman A perfect example of one of those WTF moments we encounter in life. A Colorado woman, “Diana”, says that Match.com paired her with James Holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people at the Friday screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Diana claims that she discovered Holmes’ profile among her suggested matches on the same day he committed the mass-murder. But that wasn’t all. The profile was created days before the massacre. Diana tells tells TMZ that Homes’ profile also had the same tagline from his adultfinder.com profile: “Will you visit me in prison?” On the site Holmes . . . → Read More: Canadian Progressive World: Match.com Paired Colorado Woman With Aurora Shooter James Holmes |
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