It's not often you'll hear me complaining about being a Canadian. Indeed, there are many blessings that come with being a citizen of America's frostbitten northern neighbour, including our preference of the kilometre over the mile, our woollen winter wear, our speciality for ice hockey, and our delightfully idiosyncratic spelling of words like "neighbour", "kilometre", "woollen", and "speciality".
But if there's one time of year where I'll curse my otherwise proud hoserhood, this is it.
While U.S. audiences are quickly crossing the must-see Oscar contenders off their lists, I continue to wait, shivering in the cold cold snow, for several buzzed-about titles to finally see the light of day in Canada (cue "Jeopardy" theme music). Some films that I'm really looking forward to won't even get a limited release until after Oscar nominations are out! Needless to say, the distributors aren't making it easy for me to see all the nominees before the big night.So here's my plea: Release the damn movies already! Stop making me rush around in January to catch this or that. Most years I can't even build my top ten list until months after everyone else has released theirs. I need more time! Open up earlier! Expand faster! People in Ontario like watching movies too, eh!
