Two more films

I want to add two more to my list of “to watch”

• Family Law - A movie about a man trying to figure out how to be a father.  It is from Argentina.  It looks good.
• Pan’s Labrinth - Guillermo del Toro creates a movie fable about a girl finding a magical world.  The visuals look spectacular.

Movies Coming Soon

From time to time I like catching a good flick.  Here are some movies I want to catch over Christmas Break:

• The Curse of the Gold Flower - This is Zhang Yimou’s third martia-arts film.  If you liked his other films you will like this one. It is about family rivalries between a King and a Queen in China.
• The Good Shepherd - unfortuantely this has nothing to do with the Good Shepherd.  However, this movie does have Christian themes.  It is a story written by P.D. James.  It is a Nativity movie rewritten in modern times.  The world is coming to an end because women are all infertile.  Except there is one woman who is pregnant and this baby holds the future of the whole world.
•   Christmas At Maxwell’s - I think it is a bad title.  I thought Maxwell House was sponsoring this film. But the film is about a family that faces tragedy during Chrismtas. Check out the trailer.  I haven’t heard too much about it.
• Snow Cake - The one Canadian Film in this lot comes out on Dec. 20th, but it has already been out in the UK.  It is set in Wawa, Ontario.  I thought Wawas were a convenience store.  It is a movie about an autistic woman (Sigourney Weaver) and an ex-con (Alan Rickman that are connected through a tragedy.
• Pursuit of Happyness - This is Will Smith playing a homeless single father trying to survive on the street while at the same time working on Wall Street as an intern.

Drop me some of your reccomendations on films.

I never heard of the song

Canadian Idiot by Weird Al.  I don’t usually read the Globe and Mail, but I saved their holiday movie listing back in November and I finally got to read it yesterday.  Liam Lacey writes a funny review of Weird Al’s song. He writes (November 25, 2006):

Dear, America:

Stop sucking up

Look, we’re getting a little cheesed off up here, eh?  As a nation, we took it when Michael Moore and South Park used Candian mildness to satirize American belligerence.  Now there’s this vouge of American teenagers creating homemade vidoes on the net inspired by Weird Al Yankovic’s song, Candian Idiot.   . . Enough with the patronizing.  We’re tough enough, we’re smug enough and doggone it wer, deserve some real abuse. Come on, America - we know you’ve got it in you.

What do you got? I don’t got anything funny to say.  I was talking to a friend about the US and Canada divide.  Carla told
me that she used to think that Americans were arrogant because they didn’t know anything about Canada.  I told her it is not that we are arrrogant it is that Canada is not on our radar screen.  On the one hand, Mexican immigrants stand out more because they are totally different, starting with the language and then to the food.  On the other, Canadians can come to the US and just blend in.  I am not a good satirical writer.  I will think of it Liam, and see if I can come up with anything.

In the same article, Liam said that the Sienfeld Show is now tarnished after the Michael Richard’s blow-up.  He listed some shows that have some type of racial joke and these shows are now questionable.  What were the writers really thinking?  He said that Seinfeld was trying to maintain the $100 million a cash cow by vouching for Michael Richards on David Letterman’s show.

Shout Out to Theo

From 1998 to 2001, one of my friends Theo would try to convince me of Weird Al’s brilliance and one of Lisa’s friends Kenna also had fun listening to his music.  Okay I finally have been won over by his skills.  His paradoies are so well and like many people have said, “I can’t believe this guy can rhyme.  Check out his White and Nerdy Song at his myspace page.

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