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My Top Five Movies Of All Time
For those of you not following on Facebook, about a month ago I started doing a “30 Day Movie Challenge” to help me procrastinate during school, and it was actually a lot of fun. I’m currently at the...
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Harry Potter And The Exhausted Plot Device
(“what’s so great about ‘noses’ anyway?”) Warning! Spoilers! Warning! When the “Harry Potter” series first began back in ’97, I paid no mind. A young boy attending a Wizard academy for children struck...
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-one
Favorite picture book from childhood: Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak Fuck Curious George, fuck the Bernstein Bears, fuck Where’s Waldo, fuck all that shit; I’m all about them monsters,...
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Oh Behave! Hegelian Master/Slave dialectic in Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Alex, the protagonist of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel, A Clockwork Orange, is a murderous delinquent who enjoys drinking “Milk Plus” and committing acts of...
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How The Solar System Was Won: Thoughts on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
A few months ago, I did a post on my five favorite movies, and included Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I wrote a short piece on it just to explain why I liked it. I’ve always wanted to do a...
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Skinny Love: Thoughts on The Hunger Games
Ever since the Harry Potter film series began, it seems like Hollywood is devouring one young adult book title after another. As I’ve said in other posts, I am indeed a fan of Harry Potter; however,...
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Prometheus Unwound: An angry letter to Damon Lindelof
****THIS IS A REVIEW OF PROMETHEUS AND IT CONTAINS SPOILERS**** Dear Mr. Lindelof, I can’t decided whether I like you or hate you. Note that I didn’t write, “love you or hate you,” for that what mean a...
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The Reek of Human Blood is Laughter to my Heart: Beyond Good and Evil in The...
The Reek of Human Blood is Laughter to my Heart Beyond Good and Evil in The Exorcist *SPOILERS EVERYWHERE* I used to think The Exorcist was this totally subversive film that challenged our Christian...
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Some Days You Just Can’t Get Rid Of A Bomb: Ramblings on The Dark Knight Rises
Some Days You Just Can’t Get Rid Of A Bomb Ramblings on The Dark Knight Rises *SPOILERS! SPOILERS EVERYWHERE!* The Dark Knight Rises is a good movie, not great. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are...
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The Clothes Make the Man: thoughts on the new Iron Man 3 trailer
A week ago, I said I would take a break from the 30 Day Television Challenge because I wanted to focus on some other projects. One of them being a post on the upcoming American election. I said I would...
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Inconvenient History: Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, and American mythologizing
Like many Canadians, I wasn’t overly fond of Argo‘s version of history. As Hollywood is wont to do, Ben Affleck played fast and loose with facts to create a silver screen friendly narrative. In the...
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Byline update: The Walrus Blog
Hey y’all, I wrote about Superman and Man of Steel for The Walrus‘ blog. It’s accessible for non-nerds, so don’t be scurred. FYI, The Walrus is a Canadian general interest magazine where I’m actually...
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Byline Update: Herizons
Hey everybody. Been awhile since I’ve updated this. Apologies. Here is an article I wrote about women in Canadian film. It was published in the fall 2014 issue of Herizons, a Canadian feminist...
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Axis and Allies: Thoughts on Alan Turing and Operation Paperclip
I’ve really let this thing go by the wayside. For the past year I’ve been focused on pitching and writing for publications. But right now I’m employed full-time and don’t really have the time to focus...
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Cool Story, Bro: American Sniper and Toxic Masculinity
I’m a big Clint Eastwood fan. Unforgiven is one of my favourites. But his last few movies have been duds. American Sniper is somewhat of a return to force. A solid 7/10. Certainly the work of a master....
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Misunderstood Mamas
Happy Mother’s Day! Your Facebook feed has likely been ineundated with cute but borderly trite Mother’s Day celebrations. I figured I’d do a post on misunderstood mothers from horror movies. I tried to...
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Perchance to Dream: Abandoning the middle-class fairy tale
Have you seen Straight Outta Compton? You should. It’s an excellent movie. One of the things that really grabbed me was Dr. Dre’s story. He starts out on his mom’s floor, surrounded by vinyl,...
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Winter is Coming (Again and Again and Again): The Eternal Return in Star...
I saw The Force Awakens (TFA) on Christmas eve because Star Wars is the closest I’ve come to a religious experience. I loved it. I have my various quibbles, but it is in the nature of a Star Wars fan...
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Good and Evil in Harry Potter, Buffy, and True Blood
Between Christmas and New Year’s is a strange, directionless void where it’s impossible to decide what to do with your life. I like to rewatch the Harry Potter series during this time. It’s also a...
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Winter is Coming (Again and Again and Again): The Eternal Return in Star...
I saw The Force Awakens (TFA) on Christmas eve because Star Wars is the closest I’ve come to a religious experience. I loved it. I have my various quibbles, but it is in the nature of a Star Wars fan...
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