Alienated in Vancouver

Next Saturday, Yob , one of the coolest, heaviest, most artful doom metal bands from the Pacific Northwest - Eugene, Oregon, to be precis...

Their website hasn't been updated to reflect the news, but apparently Arkona - who were slated to play Funky's on April 19th - have ...

Zero Dark Thirty is beautifully, carefully made, a pleasure to watch, in terms of craft and construction. If Argo (see below) is made wi...

Four DVDs rented off the new arrivals wall at Little Shop of Movies today: Argo, Killing Them Softly, Zero Dark Thirty, and The Master . Wa...

In the dream, I am with my family at a mall in the US that we visit. My mother is my actual mother; my father is Peter Falk, at least in the...

Take heed, cinephiles: this coming Friday and Saturday, the Vancity Theatre will screen  Wake in Fright . I'm not exactly sure of how ...

So many experiences that went along with the age of the video store are obsolete, extinct, forgotten - or are soon to be. While those of u...

Good news from the land of cinema! William Friedkin's momentous Sorcerer is finally getting digitized and re-released , presumably w...

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at 82. I admired Things Fall Apart and No Longer At Ease , his first two novels, dealing with the ...

Dream I'm part of some fascist future state. I'm a young man, heir to great wealth, being groomed for some important position. I...

Michelle Shocked has published a retraction/ apology for her Yoshi's "rant," as it's being called. At the same time, the ...

Harry Reems died yesterday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. I didn't really follow his career, but he seemed like an affable ch...

Had elaborate dreams of a spur-of-the-moment return to Japan last night, where I spent the whole trip taking cellphone photographs to prove ...

Well, what's news? Michelle Shocked (whom, along with everyone else in the world, I have always assumed was a lesbian) apparently had re...

I have always been interested in seeing Mandingo, but only just got around to it tonight. Directed by Richard Fleischer in 1975, it turn...

Hm. Well, I might end up signing that petition after all. Read David Ehrenstein's update from Mark on this page , re: the Carney affair....

Just discovered with a jolt that, somewhat hidden in  this month's listings for DIM  - the Cinematheque's experimental cinema prog...

I won't recap the situation with Mark Rappaport, but Ray Carney has finally told his side of the story . It is much as I expected it wou...

This looks to be an awesome Saturday show, which I might actually be able to see some of...! I talked to Marco of the Dreadnoughts for t...