Alienated in Vancouver

So Martin Scorsese responded in more detail to his comments about about Marvel movies not being cinema, but theme parks. Along the way, t...

Folks: Jeffrey Lewis is the subject of a big, new feature I did for the Straight site (and several old ones on this site). Really enjoy...

Sometimes I have dreams that could be movies, or novels, or such - that have a really interesting logic to them, that could end up being use...

It is very cool to hear that a) Keithmas is celebrating its 10th anniversary and that b) it is spreading to Calgary, for the first time! Th...

News broke this week that the SBC Restaurant has had its liquor license revoked , and that all gigs there have been cancelled, seemingly pe...

Maybe my favourite of the sorta-recent Hammer horror movies is The Resident. It's got a very interesting story, some rich psychology...

...so if I'm going to write about China Syndrome's new video, I should also mention Sunday Morning 's one, too! Quite hauntin...

So I've been doing this book challenge thing on Facebook, posting seven books and tagging seven friends and yadda-yadda, which is only p...

China Syndrome by Justin Lim The strangest thing about the conversations with the Nick Cave event the other week was finding myself sta...

For awhile now, I've been hoping for an occult-themed horror program to play at a Vancouver arthouse, with films like The Devil Rides...

Erika and I watched Rambo: Last Blood today. We kind of enjoyed it. Allow me to explain that. Agreed: the only actual good film of t...

Well, it's better than a Conservative win, and not much different than I expected, but I thought the NDP would do better. Not the first ...

There's a sort of subgenre of thriller, not to my knowledge being presently grouped together and acknowledged as a subgenre, where a ...

So Theatre of Hate plays tonight at the Rickshaw ! I did not manage to get anything written in time for the show, but I did interview Ki...

EDIT: since he isn't actually known by his usual alias on Facebook, I decided to give one of the two people I singled out a break, and h...

I didn't get very far in my intended VIFF blogging this year. Between having very little freetime and a wife keen to watch Season 9 of T...

I am excited to see that Roger Avary has a new feature film, Lucky Day, slated for theatrical release next weekend. (I have no idea if i...

I don't usually self-censor but have decided that the last thing I posted here had, uh, potential for misuse. I've thought about it ...

At the tour kickoff gig the other night, as a "congratulations on touring Japan" present, I got Bert Man a gift: I had stumbled ac...

Note: all images illustrating this article are taken from Northmen: A Viking Saga and/or the promotional material for that film. It...