Category Archives: movies
The Best of 2013
In 2010 and 2011, I hastily slapped together ‘best of’ lists. Once again I find myself at the beginning of January with regrets I didn’t have more time to read more comic books, watch more movies or discover more music. (I particularly need to read more comic books; I’ve become stuck in old habits.)
So, despite [...]
Also posted in Best of 2012, comics, music, Uncategorized
Tagged bernie, cabin in the woods, carly rae jepsen, chris samnee, daredevil, dark horse, david aja, die antwoord, django unchained, ed brubaker, fatale, grimes, hawkeye, holy motors, hunger games, imperial teen, irredeemable, jay-z, joss whedon, kanye west, leos carax, looper, magnetic fields, Manborg, mark waid, matt fraction, metric, moonrise kingdom, paul thomas anderson, quentin tarantino, richard linklater, rodney ascher, room 237, saga, scott speer, sean phillips, skrillex, sleigh bells, step up revolution, stephen chbosky, Steven Kostanski, the master, the perks of being a wallflower, The Raid, wes anderson
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Revisions = in
The site has been a bit silent lately, but it’s only because I’ve had my head down, working on the revisions to The Dead Kid Detective Agency 2: Secret of the Ooze (title pending). For a few weeks, I did little else besides work at Coach House, come home and revise. But I’m feeling very [...]
Also posted in books, Coach House, comics, Dead Kid Detective Agency, Quarter-Life Crisis
Tagged Authors Booking Service, Manborg, Silver Birch 2013, Steven Kostanski
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TIFF Recap (one month later)
Nearly a month has passed since I attended the Toronto International Film Festival, but I’ve been too busy (or lazy) to recap until now. I’ve been attending the fest pretty seriously for the past five years. (I think the first thing I saw at TIFF was Steve Martin’s Shopgirl, back when a friend and I [...]
Surviving the Shock & Awe Movie Marathon
This past weekend, I participated in my very first Shock and Awe: From Dusk-to-Dawn Grindhouse Movie Marathon. The Toronto institution, now in its fifth iteration, is an all-night screening of some of the finest low-budget films recent history has to offer, beginning at 11:30 at night and ending at some point in the middle of [...]
Also posted in DVD Golden Corral, Uncategorized
Tagged dion conflict, horror hospital, rappin', revue cinema, shock and awe, sleepaway camp, the groove tube, what waits below
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