Having watched Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby this past week, I was completely enamored by the clothing from that time period. Certainly, the 1920′s fashion has been a star in itself as part of the promotion of this movie, with branded window displays in stores like Holt Renfrew and Brooks Brothers. Holts even has an entire section [...]
The 85th Academy Awards
As I usually do, I’ve taken my nominees selection post from January and, while watching the Oscars, have seen how I fared with my picks of who I wanted to win vs who I thought would win. I missed the beginning of the show though, as I was just getting home from being out of [...]
TIFF welcomes Books on Film series!
Presented in association with Random House of Canada, TIFF launches its third season of the Books on Film subscription series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Monday, February 11th 2013. This is a great series for those who love amazing cinema and the brilliant books that inspired it. Eleanor Wachtel from CBC’s Writers and Company [...]
Recap: X-Men Master: Gordon Smith Exhibit
Being a huge fan of the X-Men movie franchise, I knew it was only a matter of me finding time to go and check out this free exhibit at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in downtown Toronto. The X-Men Master: Gordon Smith exhibit opened in August 2012 and I kept putting it off thinking I had [...]
The 85th Academy Award Nominees
How handy! The Oscars website has a section where you can lock in your predictions of who’s going to win! Let’s hope the site & mobile app can hold up to all the traffic it’ll get the night of the awards on February 24th. Years past, I’m pretty sure there were a lot of frustrated [...]
The 70th Golden Globe Awards
I don’t often watch the pre-show red carpet specials, and I remember why now.. I had watched the E! one in the past and got so irritated by the correspondents, and then watching NBC’s coverage last night, the audio wasn’t very well mixed so there was more bleacher-people-screaming than actual interview questions being heard. I’ve [...]
The 70th Golden Globe Award Nominations
Wow, I don’t know where my head’s been lately. I always post my picks for the award show nominations and it wasn’t until I saw Jenn’s post over on Writer’s Block did it remind me I hadn’t done mine yet!! UNDERLINE = who I WANT to win | ITALICS = who I THINK will win Okay, so I [...]
Swoon-Worthy Sundays: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
This week’s Swoon-Worthy Sundays feature really shouldn’t come as a surprise. What does come as a surprise though is how hard it is for me to write about how amazing the Wizarding World was and do it justice. I was in Orlando for 4 days and because we were staying at an on-site hotel, it [...]
Swoon-Worthy Sundays: The Harry Potter Wizard’s Collection
I knew there was a reason why I saved my Best Buy gift card from Christmas. It was so I could save it to use it for the Harry Potter Wizard’s Collection, of course! I remember seeing all the buzz about it when it was first announced, thinking it was AGES away before it was [...]
Bad Boys… with a Heart of Gold
I’ve always had a soft spot for that fictional bad boy; be in it TV, movies or books. Not just any bad boy though, it’s the bad boy with the heart of gold. The one with the tough exterior, but he’s got a vulnerable side that comes through as the story progresses. One that the [...]
