Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category

Wow, its mindblowing to think how fast the last decade flew by. It seems like it was just yesterday that I was busy updating thousands of router configs to combat the Y2K bug. Hard to believe that this was 10 years ago already. Like many sites out there, I felt compelled to come up with [...]

rapid-fire (rap′id fīr′) adjective done, delivered, proceeding, or carried on swiftly and sharply On Monday July 13th I finally got to see a band that I’ve been wanting to see in concert for many many many years; Stone Temple Pilots. STP were playing the  Cisco Bluesfest festival here in Ottawa. Even though we were cold [...]

rapid-fire (rap′id fīr′) adjective done, delivered, proceeding, or carried on swiftly and sharply Summer movie season has started, and right out of the gate we have a front runner for best movie of the summer. Its a really great story, with great characters (with a different twist from the characters we knew before), amazing acting [...]

Watchmen. For many years uttering that single title sent shivers down comic readers’s backs. It is considered by many as being one of if not the best comic. I rate it in my top 5, along with Sandman, The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. For years Hollywood and comic [...]

rapid-fire (rap′id fīr′) adjective done, delivered, proceeding, or carried on swiftly and sharply Finally, a world war movie that shows the Canadian point of view. A powerful film about the sacrifice made by Canadian soldiers during World War I. Written by and starring Paul Gross (of Due South fame), who based the story on war [...]