I think it’s safe to assume that we’re on the verge of new footage being released from next spring’s tent-pole film: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Yeah. It’s still … Continue reading Pick Up, Up & Away SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN #1 On The Wednesday Run
Grade five was a year of experience. Looking back, it was a year that really started the process of maturity for me, of becoming a fully formed adult, full of … Continue reading JP Fallavollita On… Susan Cooper and The Dark Is Rising Sequence
A retro-past. A dystopian present. A hard-boiled mystery. And monsters. There are always monsters. Look, I know it’s November. I know we’re post Halloween 2015 and that we should have … Continue reading Go Hard, Go Boiled With JOE GOLEM: OCCULT DETECTIVE #1 On The Wednesday Run
Music, experience and memory. This is how I remember the haunting: In the early nineteen nineties, I signed up to be a disc jockey for Radio Erindale of the University … Continue reading 31 Days Of Horror 2015: The True Story Of The Haunted Set List
In grade five, we had, like many other schools, a monthly book club. A thin newsletter full of colour pictures of all types of books would arrive on our desks … Continue reading JP Fallavollita On… Lloyd Alexander and The Chronicles of Prydain
What was your first wuxia film? Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)? Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2003), or House of Flying Daggers (2004)? Maybe an old classic, like the Shaw Brothers’ The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)? With its balletic, often on … Continue reading To Kill or Not to Kill? Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin
The reinvention of Vertigo Comics continues apace! Earlier this month, the mature and sophisticated publishing arm of DC Comics turned a new leaf, and began releasing the first of twelve … Continue reading Art Imitates Life Imitates ART OPS #1 On The Wednesday Run
Frankenstein’s monster is one of the true classic horror tales. It’s incredible to think that the original novel, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus appeared in 1818 (anonymously—Shelley wouldn’t lay … Continue reading 31 Days of Horror 2015: Patchwork
Everyone who watches movies knows about the anti-hero. Hell, there are entire fandoms devoted to monstrous murderers in horror movies like Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and Jason Voorhees. Thanks to … Continue reading 31 Days Of Horror – The Hexecutioners
I’m new to the blood-drenched idiosyncrasies of Sion Sono, the Japanese filmmaker getting a double-bill tonight at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. Sono takes the word prolific and makes … Continue reading 31 Days of Horror 2015: Tag
October 21, 2015. We still have roads for our cars. We don’t have hover boards. I’m still forever tying knots in my shoelaces. I do believe the Cubs are still … Continue reading We’re Finally Outatime With BACK TO THE FUTURE #1 On The Wednesday Run
By the numbers and with its fair share of familiar faces, Gridlocked (2015) is a serviceable action flick showing tonight at Toronto After Dark. In the style of The Expendables franchise, it’s a bullets and brawling … Continue reading Toronto After Dark: Gridlocked
