The Grey: A film review

 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Survival stories are hardly anything new, as they have served as the foundation for many tales of man's conquering over the elements and the beasts. The Grey is a film that presents us yet another modern re-telling of such story. Survivalist stories tend to have two ways that they go, the route of the thriller where we simply do not know if who will still be alive in the end, or of the horror, where we watch as our heroes are slowly, but methodically killed off one by one. I'll leave you in suspense as to which one The Grey is, because quite honestly, it is a film that we never really know which it is throughout, and oddly enough, it works to its benefit.

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The Pacific: An HBO mini-series review

- Burnaby, British Columbia - In the wake of the glorious success of HBO's Band of Brothers, which covered the experiences of Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army across the European theatre of war, calls for a similar examination of the Pacific theatre of war. When watching The Pacific, it is nearly impossible to not at least try to compare and contract it from its predecessor and that's not merely because Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were the executive producers (plus Gary Goetzman). The Pacific instead follows three eager, enlisted Marines through their travails across the Pacific Ocean against the Imperial Japanese Army.

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