Guzzo is doing searches
The federal government’s new law against recording video inside movie theatres has come to its inevitable conclusion: Cinema Guzzo is now searching people who enter its theatres and seizing any type of...
View ArticleWhat’s the opposite of d’oh?
Yeah, I know this is stupid PR-driven non-news advertising crap, but go Vermont! And nice video. Maybe I’ll come visit someday. Related Posts CHOM changes its logo, launches new ad campaign focused on...
View ArticleYASTGB: World Film Festival
No posts yet, but the Gazoo is starting a new short-term blog about this year’s World Film Festival, with contributions from six different staffers. Related Posts Ted Bird joins Gazette as a blogger...
View ArticleYASTGB: FNC
I’m not a cinema buff, but since I’ve announced all the other blogs The Gazette has launched recently, I shouldn’t ignore this one. The Festival du nouveau cinéma blog (2007) is getting contributions...
View ArticleGuzzo patron caught camera-handed
Jean-Michel Vanasse reports someone has actually been caught allegedly filming a movie at a Guzzo theatre, and arrested for copyright infringement. I wonder why he wasn’t searched for the camera before...
View ArticleNo more no more late fees
Hey, remember No Late Fees? Yeah, not so much anymore. Turns out economic reality still requires a financial incentive for a high turnover of new releases, otherwise video rental outlets would have to...
View ArticleMontreal Geography Trivia No. 3
Name the metro stations featured in this short film (YouTube version, QuickTime version). Related Posts Numbers — not politics — is why the metro should extend toward the east first The sad reality of...
View ArticleJust give us the disk and we’ll give you your life back
Builders of the CHUM mega-hospital (that’s the French one) were showing off a prototype of their state-of-the-art patient rooms last week. They include the latest in accessibility and technology: It...
View ArticleOn the improtance of copy editing
From the website for an awesome-sounding new movie: Dear Newline Cinema, I’m available to proofread your websites in the future. Related Posts Epic gaffe sees wrong phone number shown on TV to millions...
View ArticleLet’s make fun of Indian people
This is a joke, right? I mean, they’re not actually making a movie about the Maple Leafs, with Justin Timberlake playing a Québécois hockey player? And one whose jokes are so racist that they end up...
View ArticleThis is how to bring the two solitudes together
Something you don’t see that often: A Quebec film screening at Dollar Cinema. Sci-fi parody flick Dans une galaxie près de chez vous 2 (not to be confused with Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2) is...
View ArticleLe Cas Roberge: Failure
Want to see the feature film based on the online hit Le Cas Roberge? Well, tough. It’s been pulled from theatres after a disastrous $40,000 over two weeks in cinemas. The problem, apparently, is that...
View ArticleCanadiens need extras
TVA Films is doing a movie about the Canadiens for their 100th anniversary, and are filming at the Bell Centre this week. They’re looking for extras who want to be a tiny blip on a screen for a...
View ArticleSlacker
I just finished watching Michael Moore’s free-to-web (but only in the U.S. and Canada, wink wink) documentary “Slacker Uprising,” about his tour of swing states just before the 2004 presidential...
View ArticleBut I want interstellar diplomacy to be debated in endless detail
Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’ You know, as funny as this is, it’s also kind of why I’m not crazy about this Star Trek movie. If I wanted to watch Armageddon, I’d … well, that...
View ArticleYou had me at “Good Morning Vietnam”
(via Lagacé). Though I really have to disagree for their selection from Die Hard. Related Posts Dollar Cinema is dead. Long live Dollar Cinema
View ArticlePour toujours? Not so much
TVA Films has released the trailer for “Pour toujours… les Canadiens“, a kinda-fictional movie about the team’s 100th anniversary that will be released this Christmas. It stars Saku Koivu, which means...
View ArticleLet’s give Tierney’s comments some thought
In case you haven’t been keeping up with Quebec movie news (or haven’t been around Brendan Kelly for the past two weeks), there’s been a bit of a media dust-up over comments made by director Jacob...
View Article“Expert reacts” videos and accuracy in TV and movies
I’ve recently stumbled on a new trend in YouTube videos: experts taking popular movies and TV shows and reviewing scenes from them for accuracy. Wired and Vulture have done several of them, and some...
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