Alienated in Vancouver

I have heard very good things about the Romanian film Police, Adjective , which I hope to catch at the Pacific Cinematheque on Friday. It...

I wonder - I know that there's a long tradition worldwide of having underground punk clubs and rave houses and such, but is it normal f...

Antichrist is a remarkable piece of cinema. I highly recommend it for a certain stripe of cinephile, though I have reservations, which I wi...

My only real association with Paul Quarrington is Whale Music ; I'm familiar both with his novel and the delightful film made from it (...

There will be a free performance of Phil Minton's Feral Choir Sunday at the Ironworks , starting at 4:00. I honestly don't know if I...

...So I ended up returning that king sized bed I'd bought, having discovered that my greedy addled impulses had not accounted for just ...

Antichrist opens later this week at the Vancity Theatre , brilliantly double-billed with Day Of Wrath . I simply need to see both these fil...

Jeffrey Allport at Solder And Sons, photo by Dan Kibke. Not to be reused without permission. I've written about Jeffrey Allport before...

Hah!

Well, Dad never got to see this one: I have my first cover story in a non-English-language magazine, a German feature on Motorhead, in the D...

It's been a bit of a year of loss, for both me and for the scene I've participated in in Vancouver. I lost my father, and my mother ...

Sigh. So, I haven't had a bed since October, been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor - quite comfortably, really (but what will pe...

Nicholas Ray is one of my favourite "Hollywood renegades" of the 1950's and 1960's. I was first impressed by his charasmat...

I found something really special at the Audiopile Boxing Day sale today - a copy of the Dead Kennedys' In God We Trust, Inc . Not a gr...

I've spent the last four days spent intermittently moving my Mom upstairs - with the invaluable help of two good friends - and organizin...

Phil Minton by Francesca Pfeffer, not to be reused without permission With apologies to Paul Dutton, Koichi Makigami, Maja Ratkje, Ja...

I always had great regard for Canadian-based film critic Robin Wood , who died this week. His Hollywood From Vietnam To Reaga n - subtitled...