This Week in Movies for the Week of November 23, 2012
Hans Zimmer Teaches Film Scoring
This Week in Movies returns in vlog form! Enjoy!
This Week in Movies returns in vlog form! Enjoy!
Sean Patrick Kelly is a Toronto-based freelance film critic and blogger with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies from York University. Since founding his site in 2004, Sean has shared his passion for cinema through insightful reviews and commentary. His work has also been featured in prominent outlets, including Toronto Film Scene, HuffPost Canada, Screen Anarchy, ScreenRant, and Rue Morgue Magazine.
Even though it is still technically October, I am going to post the films that catch my eye for November, which is when all the award contenders start coming our way. This month I decided to modify the headings to represent the fact that these thoughts are my opinions. So it’s now movies that I either…
In an interesting pre-festival event, I took part in a free tour of the film reference library today. According to it’s website “the Film Reference Library, with more than 17,000 book titles and 60,000 film files, holds the world’s most extensive English language collection of Canadian film-related material plus the unique archival collections of Canada’s…
After subscribing to Netflix, I found myself watching a wide range of documentaries on the service and I eventually got into the habit of watching them on Sunday Afternoons. So far I’ve watched films such as Bowling for Columbine, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Super Size Me, Who Killed the Electric Car, and The…
Without a doubt, my top pick for this week is TRON: Legacy, which available on Blu-Ray in THREE separate editions. The most appealing (and pricey) of these editions will probably be the deluxe edition, which bundles the film with the original TRON (which is also available on its own). This will be a set definitely worth…
This week my top DVD Pick will be the political thriller State of Play (also on Blu-Ray). Even though I had to end up going to see this film twice in theatres (long story), I thought that it was a very entertaining thriller. Also on DVD this week is the Disney nature documentary Earth (also…
The main release this week is There Will Be Blood, which won Daniel Day-Lewis his second Best Actor Oscar. Another release that might be worth checking out is Judd Apatow-produced biopic spoof, Walk Hard. Rounding out the new DVD releases are the Loch Ness Monster family film The Water Horse – Legend of the Deep…