Episode 24: What I Did on My Summer Vacation

Dec 10, 2011

We're just a little wintry! We're still good! We're still good. Sad Trombone.

We're back after a frenzied summer and a busy school semester.

News, movies and trailers:

• Lorax trailer! By the Despicable Me studio.
• Freleng-DePatie version from the '70s: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6650219631867189375
• Dangerous Method: Cronenberg directs Fassbender and Mortensen as Freud and Jung.

New TV!

• Community!
• Seneca's group of self-loathing misfits.
• Modern Urban Fairytales!
• Grimm and Once Upon a Time - the de Lint collector?
• Why don't they ever get more inclusive about fairytales?

The Summer!

• Justin and FanExpo Canada!
• Admission policy for gaming. But it's worth it - Aaron Douglas, stand-up guy.
• Feedback on FanExpo gaming?

TIFF!

• Etan Muskat in Sorry, Rabbi!
• Marc Slutsky, Jessica Paré, Jacob Tierney
• Other Canadian shorts: Paris Quintet

• The Day - cannibal hilbillies instead of zombies
• Good guest stars: Shawn Ashmore, Shannyn Sossamon, Dominic Monaghan

• Letter to Momo
• My Neighbour Totoro, Summer Days with Coo
• Monster in Paris
• Extra Terrestrial

Non-TIFF movies over the Summer!

• Attack the Block!
• Utter genius: Bromwell High vs. Predator!
• Another Earth
• Drive
• In Time

Digression: Biff, Bam, Pop! The Illuminatus Trilogy!

• http://biffbampop.com/2011/11/13/illuminatus-trilogy-they-with-a-capital-t/

Next time: on Tim Rice and Michael Bay!