Category Archives: CTV

CTV Morning Live. February 6, 2015 — A Most Violent Year, Jupiter Ascending, Mr Turner, and more

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The good folks at the Halifax CTV breakfast broadcast invited me to be on the show again today. Cyril Lunny and I discussed A Most Violent Year: : Jupiter Ascending, and Mr Turner, and I previewed next weekend's Valentine's releases. The big question is, will people flock to see an explicit sex drama in the…Read More

CTV Morning Live: January 9, 2015 — Best of 2014 preview

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The ever effervescent Heidi Petracek kindly invited me to be on CTV again this morning where we discussed my long-gestating Best of 2014 list. In past years I've called it my Top 10 list, but this year it looks to be longer than 10. It's also alphabetized because I couldn't manage to pick one best…Read More

CTV Morning Live: December 20, 2014 — Holiday releases

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The charming Alyse Hand was hosting on CTV on Friday morning when I was invited back to talk about new releases in cinemas. We started with a brief discussion of the craziness this week around the Sony hack and pulling Seth Rogen's The Interview from the release schedule. We also talked about Foxcatcher, The Hobbit: The Battle…Read More

CTV Morning Live: December 5, 2014 — Documentaries, period dramas, and biopics, oh my

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This morning I was lucky enough to find myself back at the CTV studio talking about movies, including the ones I saw this week, The Theory of Everything and Penguins of Madagascar. I previewed a couple of the new pictures opening, Serena and the documentary Citizenfour, and looked ahead to next week and the release of the Ridley Scott…Read More

CTV Morning Live: November 21, 2014 — Four good movies

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On the CTV morning show today Heidi Petracek and I talked up Interstellar, Heartbeat, Whiplash and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (full review on FITI to come). Please go here to check out the clip. Read More

CTV Morning Live: October 31, 2014 — Vampire movies!

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The delightfully be-coiffed Heidi Petracek invited me back on CTV Morning Live today to discuss creepy movies. I talked about the excellent Nightcrawler, the execrable Dracula Untold, gave some suggestions for Halloween vampire movies, including Dracula (1979), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Let The Right One In, and 28 Days Later, which is more of a zompire plague movie,…Read More

CTV Morning Live: October 17, 2014 — More fall movies

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This morning I appeared on the CTV morning show with Heidi Petracek to discuss what's new in cinemas. We talked about The Judge and Fury (blog review coming soon), and previewed The Book Of Life and The Best of Me. You can click here to see the clip.Read More

CTV Morning Live: October 3, 2014 — Fall movies

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After seeing the late screening of Gone Girl at Bayers Lake last night (full review coming soon), I dragged my ass into the CTV studio this morning to talk about it, The Equalizer, A Walk Among The Tombstones, and Pride, (you can click on the titles for my full reviews) as well as preview a…Read More

CTV Morning Live, September 15, 2014: AFF Midway Edition

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The ever-charming Heidi Petracek had me on CTV Morning Live once again today to talk about the Atlantic Film Festival. We discuss Heartbeat, Danny, Canadian Ninja, and more. Go here to see the clip.Read More

CTV Morning Live, August 1, 2014

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This morning the always charming Heidi Petracek interviewed me about a few movies in cinemas, including Lucy, A Most Wanted Man (review coming soon), and Guardians of the Galaxy. We also spoke about a couple upcoming releases, Richard Linklater's Boyhood (opening in Halifax August 15, review will be up here on FITI before it opens) and The F…Read More