Andersonesque

Here’s a version of the review that ran on Aug 12 in Eye Weekly. A bunch of other fresh reviews can be found at the Eye and Star sites. I’m happy that my Carl Hiaasen story is also up on the CBC’s arts site.

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Here’s the review that’ll be out in Eye Weekly imminently. The web’s filling up with reviews so fast that I thought I’d throw mine into the well as swfitly as I could. Plus, mine will be the only one that makes references to Julio Cortazar, Alain Resnais *and* a tasty snack food.

INCEPTION

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Gonna try to get some new stuff up here, starting with my interview with Vincenzo Natali for the quite fine and admirably pervy Splice. New review of Get Him to the Greek will also be up on Eye Weekly’s site and I’ll post links to the recent slew of Toronto Star reviews…

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Geddy Lee in thoughtful repose

Been busy with travelling and work but finally got the chance to put together the unexpurgated version of my interview with Geddy Lee for the feature about Rush that appeared in the March 2010 issue of The Walrus. Here… for posterity’s sake…

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Jeez, trying to get this updated but I’ve been immersed for weeks in the building of IKEA shelving and the watching of Olympics. I’m going to publish longer versions of the interviews I did for my article about Rush in The Walrus. In the meantime, I want to put up my review of The [READ MORE]

Two recent pieces of film writing here. One is for Eye Weekly in advance of TIFF Cinematheque’s The Best of the Decade: An Alternate View. The other is a review of A Single Man which ran in FFWD magazine in Calgary. January lethargy has a strong hold on me but I keep trucking. That [READ MORE]

Songs from the Second Floor

Yes, it’s one of those stories. You can find it on the Eye Weekly site along with fresh reviews of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Nine. Here’s the full version with dubious best-of-decade Top 20 attached, freshly augmented with titles I forgot!

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My mealy-mouthed new reviews of Avatar, The Young Victoria and Broken Embraces can all be found on the Eye Weekly site, along with this year-in-review essay. I include the lattermost piece here because it feels so damn blog-gy. The decade-in-review essay I wrote for next week is even bleaker. I may expand it for [READ MORE]

Just a quick note to say how much I’m enjoying the panel discussion over at The Auteurs about Clive Holden’s very excellent Trains of Winnipeg. It’s getting me thinking about film distribution and consumption in new and interesting ways, even if I do feel rather out of my depth. Faced with so much seasoned [READ MORE]

Yes, there must be gajillions of these being uploaded onto the web as I type these words. But I do honestly believe my review (also here at the CBC’s arts site) has the two best opening paragraphs I’ve written lately. So all you other Twi-heads types can suck it! Jason out.

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