Thanks to Canadian filmmakers Mark Archbarand and Jennifer Abbott’s 2003 doc The Corporation (which was subsequently turned into the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and...
The greatest event to grace us in this wretched November month, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo to those of us in the biz), is hitting the home stretch… and if you’re participating this...
Hi, fat black person here. So… Rebel Wilson blew up in a pretty bad way last week, eh? Let’s be honest: white folks not acknowledging the work of people of color and claiming all the credit for...
Watching The Blessing, Hunter Robert Baker and Jordan Fein’s exquisite portrait of one family on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, during the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival this month marked...
Movie remakes and reboots are controversial… right? Horror movie remakes seem to get excessive blow back because you’re dealing with a group of intense – I mean very, very passionate people....
I think we can all agree the cult movie scene ain’t what it used to be. When I see the tag "cult favorite" I have to squint sometimes. What does it really mean anymore? These days, the tag of...
PJ Raval’s Call Her Ganda is a film I’ve been raving about since catching it at Hot Docs last spring. It’s the story of Jennifer Laude – Filipina, trans and a sometime sex worker – whose...
Perhaps the biggest surprise of this year’s Open City Documentary Festival – a five-day, under-the-radar gem situated in the heart of London, and dedicated to championing nonfiction work as an...
Television standby and Lifetime Channel stalwart Rob Lowe adds a director credit to his expansive resume – and surprise, it’s a remake of The Bad Seed! That sounds like a bit of a random choice,...
Romantic comedies and young adult series aren’t really my bag. My romances usually come with zombies and I’m not that involved in YA/NA at all. But sometimes you just have to put down your...
