Scribbles and Ramblings

I have to thank Michael Guillen for helping me realize the importance of the human body in David Cronenberg’s films. Michael’s 2007 intervie...

A feisty Copa America 2024 ended with Argentina winning their 16th Copa America title. Argentina’s win wasn’t much of a surprise as they wer...

Wonders in the Dark is running a Best Canadian film poll where each participant is required to submit their top 15 Canadian films. My Top 1...

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019, Canada/Norway, Kathleen Hepburn / Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) In reference to the cinema ...

Enemy (2013, Canada/Spain, Denis Villeneuve) Enemy transports José Saramago’s novel The Double to a David Cronenberg landscape...

Every year I look forward to the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) in order to catch-up with some of the best Canadian & fore...

A few years ago, Verena Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki’s Foreign Parts got some critical love and was a must-see film. The documentary’s setti...

2012 was a really good year in Canadian cinema as demonstrated by the titles below but also by a few that narrowly failed to make the list ...

Calgary International Film Festival 2011 Every year I joyfully look forward to the 10 day cinematic adventure that is the Calgary Internat...

Montreal’s World Film Festival is now in its 35th year but somehow it is invisible to most of English speaking Canada and much of North Am...

Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival is in a class of its own. It is one of the best genre film festivals in the world and as such enterta...

The first time I heard a film described as an actuality was when Allan King mentioned it in the Q&A session following a special screeni...

"This is Canada?" These were the words that came to my mind when I first saw Michel Brault’s Les Ordres a few years ago. The fi...