Tag Archive for the term: mainstream

File this under “should have bee obvious” but it’s true, there is a bubble culture in the film world and we all see it in effect when sweet, funny, chill (and good at board games ;) Montrealers like Rachelle Lefevre are kicked out of lucrative contracts (Twilight) and replaced with lesser, experienced, cheaper actresses who [...]

Indies have taken over the means of production and broke the back of monopoly capitalism, or so the argument goes, and now we enter a next stage where large corporations try to disguise themselves as independent to fit in – witness Starbucks opening cafe’s disguised as not-Starbucks:
On Friday, Starbucks opened a store in Seattle that’s [...]

Hello!
On September 5th (this Friday), WHO IS KK DOWNEY? opens for a theatrical run at the AMC Pepsi Forum in Montreal. This 3 year-in-the-making feature debut from the Kidnapper comedy troupe has been called “the real thing…a truly funny movie” by John Anderson at VARIETY and “the funniest comedy of the year” by [...]

This article from News and Observer gives a clear explanation of what everyone can see happening – studios trying to play indie by their usual rules are missing the point and putting destabilizing pressure on an organism they don’t really understand.
In the past several months, indie and foreign films seem to come and go [...]

Review of Editors live at Club Soda in Montreal on January 20th 2007
I arrived at Club Soda at 9:30pm (about an hour before I usually think about leaving the house for a show), forgetting that larger venues like Metropolis, La Tulipe, le National, and Club Soda actually start on time, and on time is early.
Here’s [...]

check out Part 1 of this interview with Mark Kennedy.

What do you think is the most important thing to consider when working collaboratively?
You have to be willing to accept that changes will be made to the project without your consent, sometimes to aspects of the project that you may have laboured over and love.
Collaboration [...]