Alienated in Vancouver

This is a fun little thing I did dealing with queer themes in Ender's Game , apropos of the current movie release. I had half-conside...

Here's some fascinating "deep cinema" news for y'all, with a bit of relevant Fawlty Towers trivia at the end. I int...

Wim Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire was a very significant film for me, a kind of gateway drug to the world of serious cinema. I...

Saw Lou Reed twice in my life: in 2000, at the Akasaka Blitz in Tokyo , touring the Hal Willner-produced album Ecstacy , and as part of Will...

A rare screening of an amazing film, one night only, tonight at the Vancity Theatre , after Haxan ...! I'll be on hand with a trivia pri...

See here for my interview with Tom Charity about the Vancity Theatre's Halloween programming!

I frequently have dreams in which I shop: usually in thrift stores and record stores. This makes sense, since I do this often in life. Last ...

Managed to squeeze in a fun but flawed entry in the Hammer Dracula series this evening: Brides of Dracula , from 1960. It has many of the ...

Wow. I just caught up with Halloween III: Season of the Witch , a film I ignored on its release in 1982 and am delighted to have finally g...

...my feature on the Regional Assembly of Text and The Paper Hound. Print's not dead!

Chris Towers of the New Creation and I had a great time on Nardwuar's show, which you can now hear on his website ... the more I see o...

I made my own version of Willow Creek in my sleep last night. Details are foggy, save for the end. My wife and I have successfully trapped ...

Enjoyed The Horror of Dracula with my Ma tonight, but also caught an early Hammer studios Terence Fisher film noir, Stolen Face , starrin...

Looks like Chris Towers and I will be meeting up with Nardwuar for this Friday's show on CITR, talking and spinning records! We'll...

I have resolved to have a Hammer Halloween. That is to say that I'm going to try to consume a Hammer horror film every day - or at le...

Aftershock is online for a free (official) preview, and in stores soon. I thought, after a bizarrely good late-period winning streak ( I...

VIFFers who missed Ryszard Bugajski's grim, very political conspiracy film The Closed Circuit , who would like to see it in the contex...

...after what seemed to this film viewer to be an immensely successful VIFF, Alan Franey has resigned as festival director! I've always...

Where arts and media and writing are concerned, everything feels like a last stand these days - like, "just one more and then I'm n...

Powerful distractions. I need a job - a paying, bread-on-the-table job, need to quit dicking around and get 9 to 5 for a few years - but ins...