The 23rd Annual Gemini Awards were a success this year… Check out just some of the red carpet photo’s…
Shenae Grimes (90210) blew kisses on the red carpet…
Hockey Night in Canada host, Ron MacLean posed with his award for Best Host or Interview for a Sports Program at the 23rd Annual Gemini Awards […]
Canadian Genie-nominated actor Michael Rudder, from Montreal, is stable but in a critical-care unit of an Indian hospital following surgery after being shot three times. He was one of two injured Canadians who took part in a spiritual quest, while visiting India with the “Synchronicity Foundation“.
Rudder was shot three times […]
This weekend Canada’s Avril Lavigne got a few lucky strikes at the LA bowling alley with fellow friend Paris Hilton…
[Source: HM]
Canadian actress Shenae Grimes, 19, has publicly denied all eating disorder rumors… man, tabloids love this kinda stuff! you know, there are some naturally thin people in the world, give her a break…
Nobody has asked me about it. I really can’t help what someone thinks of me because […]
For Christmas movies this holiday season we’ve got Four Christmases and Nothing Like the Holidays as new offerings here in the U.S. Elsewhere in the world there’s Un conte de Noel and Navidad, S.A.
The French film Un conte de Noel (more commonly referred to as A Christmas Tale here) stars excellent actors like Catherine Deneuve and Diving Bell and the Butterfly’s Mathieu Amalric, and has been generating rave reviews. Critics are likening director Arnaud Desplechin’s style to that of Noah Baumbach (”if he were French and a little more hopeful about humanity”), or a combination of Ingmar Bergman and Wes Anderson. The plot description reads: “The Vuillard’s shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn’t lend itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. But can a Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, finally bring peace their clan?” The trailer, which you can view after the jump, completely sealed the deal for me. Apparently A Christmas Tale is currently available from IFC on OnDemand.
Down in Mexico there’s a slightly more innocent and whimsical Christmas story in Navidad, S.A. The movie had a record-breaking opening weekend in Mexico in mid-November, marking the “largest domestic release in the nation’s history.” The sweet-looking film’s plot is as follows: “With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature.”
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a trailer for Navidad, S.A. with English subtitles but the one in Spanish is so endearing even if you don’t understand the words. To check out the trailers for these two new Christmas movies from afar,
The book publisher Random House recently announced that it will be releasing thousands more of its books in digital format over the next few months. The idea is that while the market for regular ol’ words-on-paper books is struggling, electronic books have grown by leaps and bounds over the past year, thanks to Amazon’s Kindle (Oprah’s favorite gadget), among other things.
Still, the overall number of people buying electronic books is still estimated to be pretty small — which got me wondering how you’re reading books these days. Have any of you jumped on the e-book bandwagon? Do you download or rent audiobooks? Or are you content with paper?
Holy frak, Battlestar Galactica fans! The trailer for the show’s final batch of episodes is out now, and it’s a pretty dramatic-looking batch of scenes. There’s Cylon-seeking, lots of talk of suffering, and some things blowing up. Much of the imagery is minimalist, gray and black, and almost more like an independent film than a big-name Sci Fi series.
Battlestar’s final episodes, dubbed “The Epic Journey,” start airing Jan. 16. How are you all hoping it ends? You can always test your knowledge of the last batch of episodes or catch up on the whole show in just over eight minutes, and to check out the final promo, just
