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Top of the World : 15 Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners

Oscar season is ending tonight as we are finally reaching the award ceremony! I don’t know if I’d be able to watch them (I hope yes), but regardless, it’s an occasion to go back on this blog since it’s been a long time. And now that I forgot to cancel my Grammarly subscription, I have […]

Top of the World : 20 New-to-Me Films Watched in 2022

Happy New Year to all! I’m taking a little break from the Ealing Comedies Blog Series because, as the year 2022 recently ended, it’s time for me to do a recap of my favourite films watched that year! So, for the occasion, I’ve decided to go with a top 20. I’ve spent long periods not […]

Short Film Review: Meet the Author by Steve Blackwood (2018)

A few months ago, actor Steve Blackwood (Days of Our Lives, In the Light of the Moon) contacted me via The Wonderful World of Cinema‘s Facebook page to talk to me about his short film Meet the Author (2018). He directed it, wrote the screenplay and plays the main role. I felt highly honoured when […]

Fantasia Film Festival Discoveries: “Dans le coffre” [In the Trunk] (Olivier Séguin-Dang and Jacob Marcoux, 2019)

On August 19, 2019, premiered the film Dans le Coffre [In the Trunk] at Fantasia International film festival, an even mostly taking place in Montreal since its creation in 1996. Directed by Olivier Séguin-Dang and Jacob Marcoux, this short black comedy stars Marjorie Gauvin, Léo Dumas-Chalifour, and David Lévy. In the trunk was presented for […]

Learning more about ‘The Great Buster’ (Keaton)

A few weeks ago, my dad told me they were going to screen a documentary on Buster Keaton at the Cinéma du Musée in Montreal. We watched the trailer and came to the conclusion it looked like an amazing film and that we had to go see it. Working myself in a movie theatre which […]

The Beauty of ‘Au revoir là-haut’ (See You Up There)

I don’t watch so many “recent” films, but as I work in a movie theatre, I try to take advantage of my free admission privilege and see some when I have the occasion to. Au revoir là-haut (See You Up There), a 2017’s French film directed by Albert Dupontel was one of them and it’s […]

My Favourite Spanish Film: También la lluvia (Even the Rain)

When Aurora from Once Upon a Screen announced that she would be back hosting her Hispanic Heritage Blogathon, I couldn’t resist writing about my favourite Spanish movie: También la lluvia, directed by Icíar Bollaín and released in 2010. Since I participated to the last edition of the blogathon with my entry on Sarita Montiel in […]

Irish Film Studies: Irish Horror and The Hallow

This semester, I’m attending a course on Irish cinema. Each week, we are expected to write a blog-like journal about the film we watched in class and/or our class discussion about the film. I’ve decided to include those entries to my blog, so it would be more agreeable to read than a Word document. This […]

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