Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Growing up the movies were my refuge; a place where I could escape for a few precious hours from the melancholy of my daily life (so much so that as a child I often daydreamed that my family had moved into an apartment adjacent to a multi-cinema plex where I’d discover a secret passage in […]
“Lucas had controlled the way his movies were filmed, edited, financed, and merchandised. Now he would control the way they sounded in theatres as well-and get paid to do it, no less.” -Brian Jay Jones (from George Lucas: A Life)
“Who do I think I would’ve been if I hadn’t been Princess Leia? Am I Princess Leia, or is she me? Split the difference and you’d be closer to the truth. Star Wars was and is my job. It can’t fire me and I’ll never be able to quit, and why would I want to?” […]
By Andreas Kessaris I was a child of the ‘70’s who came of age in then ‘80’s and bore witness to the rise of the muscle-bound cinematic heroes who spoke incoherently and carried bazookas. The Reagan era was a time when action stars like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were in their prime, worked […]