Alienated in Vancouver

I'm very curious to see what David Cronenberg's son, Brandon, is up to with Antiviral , playing today at 2:20pm as part of the VI...

Remember the scientist with the eyepatch on TV in Romero's Dawn of the Dead , who gets all passionate about remaining rational? He als...

Bison BC at the Red Gate, RIP; by Femke van Delft, not to be reused without permission I valued the former art space in the DTES known...

Welcome back to Canada, Mr. Khadr. Really sorry we didn't do a better job looking out for you. I hope your new prison is a big improveme...

Okay, so: following up on that Bruce Sweeney piece below, The Crimes of Mike Recket is definitely worth seeing. It's NOT an ensemble pi...

Hm. Just stuck my head up from VIFF coverage to read  this story , alleging that VANOC's John Furlong came to Canada five years earlier ...

Turns out that Street Dogs of South Central isn't at all what I thought it would be. Given the subject matter - stray dogs roaming th...

Herbert Lom died! (He was 95, and long inactive as an actor). Best remembered by me for his rich, deep voice, his delightful turns in th...

Bruce Sweeney's 1998 feature  Dirty is my favourite film about life in Vancouver (I'd go further and proclaim it the "great...

Now on eBay : the very rare debut 7" from Slow, " I Broke the Circle " - a great, fun tune and a genuine Vancouver rarity. ...

Wow: Faust is still functional? They're still touring? They're playing the Waldorf October 17th, with von Bingen? I mean... it...

Substantial changes have been made to Canadian copyright law; if you're an artist - particularly one working with samples or doing mash-...

Granville St 1959, image provided by Graham Peat Graham Peat is the co-founder/co-owner of Videomatica - the former video rental instit...

Back when Vancouver's Record Row still existed, I bought many, many CDs and VHS tapes at Sam the Record Man. The VHS tapes are long gon...

Sometimes it can be very hard to pin down what makes one film work and another not. James Benning's 13 Lakes , for instance - consisti...

Two VIFF documentaries deal with carbon credits this year, to very different effect. If you don't really know how carbon credits work -...

I previewed a remarkable VIFF documentary today called  Leviathan  (that's a VIFF link; the official site is  here , a NY Times artic...

Does Julia Dietze in Iron Sky remind anyone of a certain former frontwoman for a well-loved Vancouver band ? Granted, her eye-makeup isn...

Any other ghouls like me out there? Not since David Carradine  have I spent so much time revisiting someone's Wikipedia page trying to s...

Filmmaker Jon Jost -whose work, it happens, I first heard about through Ray Carney - has posted an update  re: the attempts to restore to fi...