tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39184247764183057512024-02-20T00:14:21.769-08:00Feed the Voices in Your HeadCale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-36063257958771946472021-03-31T17:59:00.000-07:002021-03-31T17:59:03.797-07:00Then Along Came the Bad BatchThere is perhaps no modern mythology more compelling than the western, and no modern mythological figure more captivating than the cowboy. The term "western" itself is so ingrained in our cultural lexicon that nobody batted an eye when in reviews of the movie Logan, people started referring to it as a western or neo-western. The rest of us nodded along knowingly at this obviously deep insight Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-27213681075360834842021-01-31T16:58:00.003-08:002021-01-31T16:58:41.892-08:002020: A Year in ReviewYou're welcome, 2020.For those of us who lived through 2020, it is our sincerest hope that we never encounter another of her like in our lifetimes. Normally, I wouldn't feel comfortable speaking for the entire world, but this is one of the rare cases where things went so terribly sideways, and the citizens of little planet Earth were united by the common desire for something or someone to fuck Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-89377840015478005832020-12-31T17:30:00.000-08:002020-12-31T17:30:26.591-08:00The Mandalorian: For Every Character There is a SeasonEvery since Disney bought out Lucasfilm and announced their plans to carry on the Star Wars franchise, I've approached each new installment in the Star Wars story with a mix of trepidation and excitement. Like a junkie, part of me wanted to keep chasing that high I felt from the Original Star Wars Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy, to recapture that same feeling of wonder and adventure and Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-8646917837131402792020-11-30T18:31:00.001-08:002020-11-30T18:33:20.020-08:00Running Low on Blood and Oil in East Texas... No Corpse is Completely Silent and No Chainsaw Can Drown Out Their Cries CompletelyDeath is, of course, the core anxiety that drives horror films. It's an experience that is fundamental to the human experience, not just in the sense of its inevitability as an endpoint for all of our journeys, but in the sense of how the knowledge of that inevitability shapes our perspectives and behaviours. This isn't any kind of groundbreaking proclamation; any first-year philosophy student Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-2501789803426726622020-10-31T18:53:00.001-07:002020-10-31T18:53:50.045-07:00The Legend Never Dies: Sean Connery and the Inevitability of ChangeSome of my favourite memories of my grandfather involve sitting around basking in the warm glow of the TV screen. Whether it was at family functions or those times when I and maybe one of my siblings was visiting for the summer, there was something special about going through stacks of movies and TV shows on VHS, making a bag of microwave popcorn, and then settling in, preparing ourselves to Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-33068428280182232902020-09-30T18:42:00.002-07:002020-09-30T18:42:47.967-07:00The Bourne Legacy: An Origin Story In Search of a FranchiseThe worst thing about The Bourne Legacy is probably that it felt like a puzzle piece that was desperately jammed into a spot where it didn't belong in the wrong puzzle. I absolutely love the original Bourne Trilogy, which is probably why it took me so long to get around to watching The Bourne Legacy (eight years after the fact) and Jason Bourne (four years after the fact); I had such high Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-11645151124826216752020-08-29T12:35:00.000-07:002020-08-29T12:35:11.948-07:00Feel Free at Any Point to Tell Me Exactly What the Poets are Doing... Centuries Ahead though Years Behind... The Tragically Hip and Landing the BalloonLike most Canadians, I can tell you exactly where I was on August 20, 2016. The Tragically Hip was a staple of Canadian music for the last three decades, and whether you were an ardent fan of the band or merely the proud owner of a Canadian passport, it was impossible not to know who they were in this part of the world, especially in the summer of 2016. This was the summer of their final tour Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-70703071539987763042020-07-31T14:19:00.004-07:002020-07-31T14:20:32.343-07:00Talking the Talk... And You Can Quote Me On ThatLife has a way of throwing us curve balls, sometimes seemingly more than our fair share. But every once in a while, it gives a little something back. We're often faced with challenging situations that put us in direct conflict with other people, whether we're having a heated discussion with a coworker on how best to tackle an assigned project or forced by our code of honour into a private war Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-40743644328452826382020-06-30T17:07:00.000-07:002020-06-30T17:07:10.080-07:00A Movie a Day Keeps the Boredom Away: A Modern-Day Odyssey About four months ago, my wife and I sat down to have one of those conversations that every couple dreads. Yes, it had come time once again to take stock of our finances. It wasn't that there was some seismic shift in our life circumstances like the loss of a job, a new child, or an inheritance from long-lost relative in Nigeria (still waiting on that cheque, Prince Abdulla). No, in fact, quite Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-71246249281663377342020-05-31T19:12:00.001-07:002020-05-31T19:12:05.227-07:00The Dawn of the Dawn of Justice... Again! Release the Snyder Cut with a Side of MayhemEvery once in a while, the story of the making of a film can rival or even eclipse the actual film itself. Movies like Apocalypse Now and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote are examples of films that faced such legendarily troubled productions that they each spawned their own documentary films chronicling the sheer, nearly inhuman struggles that they faced and the Herculean efforts it took to Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-12108410520538584582020-04-10T18:11:00.000-07:002020-04-10T18:11:00.659-07:00Legacy of the Twelve Colonies Volume IV: Battlestar Galactica... There's a Starbuck Waiting in the Sky
Forgiveness, like revenge, is a dish best served cold. At least, that's what mom always told me. Learning to move on from any kind of sustained animosity or after being wronged is no easy feat for either the forgiver or the forgivee (unless either one of those parties is a complete sociopath, which in that case, problem solved, I guess), and in my own experience, forgiveness is almost always Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-51544631375235127442020-03-29T19:41:00.003-07:002020-03-31T13:44:37.656-07:00The Deafening Sound of Silence and The Virtues of Failure: Why Everybody Lives by a Code and Nobody is Ever Completely Right
There are very few films I can recall that sent a chill down my spine after watching them, but as I sat watching the credits roll for Silence, I felt that familiar vibration creeping across my vertebrae. It wasn't that the story of two 17th Century, Portuguese, Jesuit priests travelling to Japan to search for their missing mentor who was rumoured to have rejected his faith while at the same Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-16528001578935575412020-02-17T12:21:00.002-08:002020-02-17T12:21:19.924-08:00Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back... Again: There's a Little Reboot in All of Us
"Who wants a free joint?"
This was the call not of the wild, but of exactly the type of fan you'd expect to be in line at the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Roadshow. It was the equal parts depravity and generosity that would have made Kevin Smith proud; a true disciple, doing Alanis Morissette's the good lord's work (or a reasonable facsimile thereof). It was because of Mr. Smith and his Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-24542350990625443652020-01-30T19:19:00.000-08:002020-01-31T10:46:36.823-08:00Go Then, There Are Quieter Places Than These
Pop quiz, hot shot. What's the first film that comes to mind based on the following description:
A group of isolated survivors try to escape from a group of strange, alien creatures that hunt their prey by sound alone. These seemingly unstoppable creatures stalk their prey relentlessly, as the survivors try to make as little noise as possible to avoid detection. Eventually, the survivors are Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-25505314979803621982020-01-19T19:01:00.004-08:002020-01-19T19:01:46.890-08:002019: A Year in Review
Like most years, 2019 seemed to pass by all too quickly, like KFC through your digestive tract. On their own, every moment seems so insubstantial, but each one bears the weight of each that preceded it, so that to examine one in any detail is to stare into that terrible abyss of all of the other moments that had to happen for that single one to come to pass. How many civilizations had to rise Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-8156379831365194932019-12-11T19:20:00.002-08:002019-12-12T10:49:54.748-08:00The Joke's On You... We Are All Clowns: Some Days, It Just Seems to Rain Crazy
The door to Ryebone's apartment was slightly ajar when I arrived, and immediately the hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end. I didn't know what this omen boded, but I knew better than to let my guard down whenever he was involved. Carefully, I pushed open the door and closed it behind me as I entered the apartment into near total darkness. Almost immediately, I nearly tripped over aCale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-28563345938399864712019-09-08T11:09:00.001-07:002019-09-09T06:50:28.108-07:00Decoherece of Expectations. Into the Inevitable Beyond
We all aim to be the best possible version of ourselves, however we choose to define the specific benchmarks by which we measure our achievements and our character. Who we are is the sum total of the choices we make, and in the absence of an alternate reality that we could use as a control group, we have no idea whether those choices are the best possible considering the circumstances or, Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-37650441487823396562019-04-08T17:53:00.004-07:002019-04-10T11:47:51.006-07:00Son of a Gunn: Checking the Urine Content of Your Local Digital Swimming Pool
So, you're a giant megacorporation and you've fired a talented director from one of your most profitable movie franchises based on a targeted campaign of hate from a real-life lewd, crude, rude, bag of pre-chewed food dude. What do you do? Trick question: If you're Disney, you can do whatever the fuck you want, completely unchecked by law, reason, or decency.
Last July, Disney fired director Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-26054678347130002272019-03-31T18:07:00.001-07:002019-03-31T18:07:16.049-07:00Supernova: Of Combustion and Cosmic Matter on the Big Stage
A Star Is Born is a story that seems destined to be retold as long as a single Hollywood producer has even a single dollar left to their name. It makes a certain kind of sense; like most people, people in Hollywood like to talk about themselves. There's a reason movies like The Artist and Birdman tend to get a lot of recognition come awards season, and it's the same reason the dicks of every Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-58214110466680937682019-03-17T14:31:00.000-07:002019-03-31T16:13:56.312-07:00Total Recall and Other Tall Tales. Reality is as Reality Does... When is an Alien Artifact Not an Alien Artifact?
Paul Verhoeven's movies are almost as well-known by this point for being chronically misunderstood as they are for their over-the-top violence and sex and their underlying subversive social commentary. His storytelling style is perhaps one of the most unique in the history of film, and it is both the most significant factor in understanding the core messages of his films and the largest Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-78978138638235801412018-12-08T14:52:00.005-08:002018-12-08T14:52:54.341-08:00Yours, Enemy Mine, and Ours
Enemy Mine tells the heartwarming story of how Dennis Quaid overcomes space racism in either the not-too-distant or incredibly distant future. I'm not sure exactly, and the film isn't too big on specifics of chronology. The movie is truly an artifact of its time, that time being the 1980s. In fact, if one were to describe the genre of Enemy Mine, it would be "The 1980s", with "drama," and "Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-29979726476710847152018-09-25T18:39:00.002-07:002019-04-06T15:57:19.573-07:00Under the Gunn: Disney and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Decision
By now, you've most likely heard the tragic tale of the firing of James Gunn as Disney decided to go in a different direction with the director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. It's a tale as old as time: man begins his film career with low-budget, ultra-violent films and develops fan following, that same man makes some off-colour jokes on Twitter involving paedophilia, years later that man isCale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-50877335842238355412018-08-19T13:09:00.001-07:002018-08-19T13:09:21.640-07:00I Feel Like a Million Dollars, But Nobody's Picked up the Tab Yet... Amy Schumer is Better than Hitler, and So Can You
The Internet has proven to be a revolutionary force, not just in terms of communication on a global scale, but in terms of how it has impacted society as a whole. And while it has also made clear that very rarely can any significant cross-section of people agree on anything, even pizza toppings (I will never understand the hate for pineapple), there are a few general, truths (nearly) Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-73257517463796851402018-07-28T18:14:00.002-07:002018-07-28T18:14:16.148-07:00Star Wars Episode III: The Sith, The Clones, and the Jedi
“A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left.” – Mr. Goodkat, Lucky Number Sleven
I remember going to the theatre to see Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith for the first time, and kind of being blown away by the opening sequence. I couldn’t shake the feeling that George Lucas had completely pulled the rug out from under the audience in the best of ways. As Lucas Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918424776418305751.post-86300516410838611052018-03-19T18:14:00.004-07:002018-03-19T18:14:50.769-07:00Life, The Universe, and Stephen Hawking
On March 14, 2018, the world witnessed the passing of Stephen Hawking, world-renowned (dare I say legendary) physicist and one of the truly greatest minds of this or any other time. To say Professor Hawking was a significant contributor to human progress is a bit of an understatement; his name is now mentioned in the same breath as Newton and Einstein as one of a very select group of Cale Morsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365838001032156788noreply@blogger.com0