ON THE DOLL (2007)
WELL SHOT FILM
THAT BORED ME TO TEARS,
SKIP THIS FILM
Directed by: Thomas Mignone
Written by: Thomas Mignone
Starring: Brittany Snow, Josh Janowicz,
Stephen Sowan, Clayne Crawford, James Russo
Rating: 
IMDB
ROW THREE
OFFICIAL SITE
Have you seen this film?
leeny’s notes #08 ~ Blog-a-thon-a-go-go
Back again.
Yes it wasn’t that long ago when I did the last update, but a couple of things have come up in short order.
The 24hour Vancouver Blogathon 2008 will be taking place this weekend. I have decided that I will be joining the fray and blog every 30minutes for 24hours. Thats a whopping 48 posts in one day. From 5am Saturday July 26th till 5am Sunday July 27th yours truly will be pounding back the coffee and try to develop a mean case of Carpal tunnel syndrome.
Why would I be doing this to myself?
To test my limits and to raise money for a good cause.
What’s the cause?
My charity of choice is the CKNW’s Orphan’s fund. I swear I was listening to our local Talk radio station Inutero, and over the years have grown to admire this small charity for their work in helping special needs children every day of the year. more info at the end of this post.
How can you help me, Help the children?
If you wish to pledge my film related blogging efforts please send an email to Blogathon [at] gmail [dot] com.
Please include your name, any messages of encouragement, and amount you would like to donate to this great cause. At the end of the weekend you will be contact as how to donate directly to the CKNW’s Orphan;s fund.
Will I be doing this alone?
Heck no, there will be 14 intrepid groups that will be challenging their Keyboards to a pounding they won’t soon to forget! These blogoholics are Rebecca Bollwitt, Tania Morrison, Raul, Shane Gibson, Karen Hamilton, Ayeza Garcia, Isabella Mori, Danny Dang, Mehnaz Thawer, Barbara Doduk, Chris Richardson, Colleen Vince, and Duane Storey. I encourage you to check out these other fun loving typists.
From the CKNW Orphan’s Fund web site
“Where the Dollars Go
The Picnic has become a day at Playland for many elementary school children, during which some 3,000 children with challenges, some confined to hospital beds, community homes and other institutions are given free run of all the rides, are sumptuously fed and royally entertained.
In excess of $200,000 a year is provided to camping organizations to provide fees for special needs children whose parents cannot afford to send them to camp. Applications must be made to camping organizations.
We make funds available for needed equipment and services for children. Anything from a specially adapted tricycle for a spina bifida child, to emergency dental work for a child in pain or buying a computer for a child who is bedridden. We have funded horseback riding lessons for muscular dystrophy children, purchased hearing aids, eyeglasses & electric sports wheelchairs funded speech and language therapy, mentioning only a few of the services we provide.
We respond to appeals from charities and organizations whose commitment is to work for and with special needs children.
In 2007 we funded over $100,000 to Lower mainland hospitals for their infant care nurseries to purchase critically needed equipment; incubators, fetal monitoring devices.
Over $100,000 a year is provided to individuals attending specialized schools, devoted to working with children diagnosed with learning difficulties.
One hundred thousand dollars was provided Children’s Hospital to partially equip a research lab to study inflammatory bowel and crone’s disease in children.
An endowment was established to fund a UBC professor heading up research into the immunology of children’s diseases.
Endowments have been established at most community colleges, BCIT and the Open Learning Agency to provide bursaries for single parent students. Applications are made to the schools.
An endowment fund was established at SFU to provide one scholarship per year for a student from an income assistance background. It pays 100% of the cost of tuition, books, housing and other expenses for up to four years.
Each year a grant is provided to an organization whose sole purpose is to assist “youth at risk” –.Administered by the Orphans’ Fund interest from the Josiah Vandreil Fund has supported youth for the past decade. “
WHAT IS IT? (2005)
SINGLE MOST
UNIQUE FILM I’VE SEEN!
SUCH MADNESS
Directed by: Crispin Glover
Written by: Crispin Glover
Starring: Crispin Glover, Fairuza Balk, Michael Blevis,
Rikky Wittman, John Insinna, Kelly Swiderski, Lisa Fusco,
Steven C. Stewart, Robin Adams, Cheryl Brown
Additional Syllables: This film is an event, not a movie. Crispin Glover travels the globe with his one copy of the film showing it to packed Art Houses. Its not just the movie either. He presents a slide show of the books he has published. Readings have been polished to become performances worthy of their own billing. An hour of crispin bizarre delivery of his bizarre thoughts really put you in the proper state of mind for the film. “What is it?”, good question. The tagline for the film is “Being the adventures of a young man whose principle interests are
snails, salt, a pipe, and how to get home. As tormented by an
hubristic, racist inner psyche.” Yep…Madness! The cast is made up predominatley with people that have Dow Syndrome, and naked monkey women. If you like Surrealism, or just generally the pecular appeals to you, keep you eyes out for the next time Crispin Glover comes to your town. He also stayed for a very interesting Q&A.
Rating: Hahahaha.. How do you give a rating to a film
thats this bizzarre? Well you don’t! I couldn’t look away.
I think I loved it, and hated it at the exact same time.
MADNESS
IMDB
ROTTEN TOMATOES
CRISPINGLOVER
Have you seen this film? What did you think?
THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)
SACRIFICE
FOR THE GOOD OF ALL
LIKED THE FILM
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Written by: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger,
Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine
Additional Syllables: I really wish I liked this film more. From the almost constant praise for this film,I have been reading, I feel I missed out on the “Dark Knight” experience. It looked great, Ledger was great, the story was good… Yet I just didn’t seem to be drawn into the film. The films I truely love all have one thing in common, and thats, I never seem to be aware I was watching a film. I just didn’t get that out of TDK. It a Shame!
Rating: 
IMDB
ROTTEN TOMATOES
OFFICIAL SITE
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Did you think Ledger’s performance was Oscar worthy?
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
MOTLEY CREW,
JUGGLING THE BODY
WEIRD FUN FILM
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Jack Trevor Story, John Michael Hayes
Starring: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine,
Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock
Rating:
IMDB
ROTTEN TOMATOES
QWIPSTER
What is your favorite Hitchcock film?
FREE MOVIE TICKETS (Vancouver,BC)
Win tickets to the July 24th advance screening of
Jack Brooks Monster Slayer
How you ask?
Simply email me, Haiku Girl the answer to this skill testing question.
Name a character Robert Englund
has play in a film that isn’t Freddy Krueger?
JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER (2008)
NEW FORM OF
ANGER MANAGEMENT
FUN HORROR
Directed by: Jon Knautz
Written by: John Ainslie
Starring: Trevor Matthews, Robert Englund, Rachel Skarsten
Additional Syllables: In recent years the world of the creature feature has been in steep decline. So I am particularly happy to see this Canadian film enter into the cinematic fray. Jon Knautz, in his first feature film, has done a great job at handling the fine line of horror / comedy. Trevor Mathews makes a great anti-hero as Jack Brooks, but the movie was stolen by the fantastic performance by Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) as the Professor. If I was to have any complaints about the film, It would have to be over some of the dialogue. At times I felt the lines were a little on the forced side. This being a fun little horror film, that wasn’t that big of a draw back.
Overall a great first film for Jon Knautz, and I am hoping to see both Jon and Trevor back in sequels … please!
Rating:
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TWITCH
OFFICIAL SITE
Now, Is this the kind of film you would like to see?
“200th review”
leeny’s notes #07 - FREE MOVIE PASSES
It’s been a while since I did a update on the state of the haiku blog. Everything is running surprisingly good at the moment, but I will be tempting fate in the near future with an upgrade to Wordpress 2.6. Last time I did a major update a few little things needed sorted out, but nothing major. Here’s hoping the next upgrade will go as smoothly.
So a few things are going on in the immediate future. The first being, a press screening for the film Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer is taking place Wednesday morning. A representative of Jigsaw Communications has very generously given 353 Review three sets of advance screening passes for Jack Brooks (more farther down the page). In addition to the passes, they are also setting up an email interview with Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger). So stay tuned for that in the future.
My review for Jack Brooks will also be a bit of a milestone. It will be my 200th review done in a Haiku format. When I started this site, I had a goal of doing at least 365 reviews in a year. I am on track to making that goal, and even exceed it. Yaa me!
Some of my readers may have heard that I was attempting a 48hours movie marathon on the August long weekend to raise money for my favorite charity. Well stuff happens, and I have been asked to not do the marathon as a fundraiser. The concerns of the charity were valid (if perhaps a little weak), so I am no longer going to be doing the fundraiser. I will still be attempting the 48 hours of madness… Just, now I get to pick the films! It will still be live blogged, and most likely web cam enabled (depending on the spotty internet connection).
But enough of all that stuff.. You’ve read through my blatherings for one reason only.
FREE SWAG
353Review.com is giving away three sets of Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer movie passes. This is for the July 24th 7pm advance screening at Tinseltown in Vancouver B.C.. If you are available that night and want to get your dirty little mitts on one of these passes,simply email me HaikuGirl the answer to this insanely difficult question.
Name a character Robert Englund has played in a film other than Freddy Krueger?
*** UPDATE: The tickets are good for the Empire Granville 7 theatre, not Tinsel town!
Thanks to all my regular readers and commenter’s. You make my efforts seem only mildly tedious =D
Peace, Love and Zombies
Colleeny aka Haikugirl
LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC (1928)
THIS IS WHAT
FILM COULD BE…SHOULD BE
FANTASTIC
Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Sylvain,
Maurice Schultz, Antonin Artaud, Michel Simon
Notable: The score that accompanies the
Criterion edition of this film works great!
This may just make it into my Top Ten Films Ever!
Rating:
IMDB
ROTTEN TOMATOES
SENSESOFCINEMA
What do you think ~ Please leave a comment
REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES (1936)
ONE MAN RULES
THE HYPONOTIZED HORDE
SUB OK
Directed by: Victor Halperin
Written by: Victor Halperin, Howard Higgin, Rollo Lloyd
Starring: Dean Jagger, Dorothy Stone, Roy D’Arcy, Robert Noland
Notable: Sequel to the movie White Zombie
Rating:
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AYCYAS
What do you think ~ Please leave a comment
