Baubles and energy. That’s what our modern lives revolve around. Our beautiful distractions and the juice that makes them go. Technology has revolutionized our lives a thousand times over in … Continue reading TIFF 2015: This Changes Everything
BASE jumping is back, baby. The acronym stands for Building, Antenna, Span and Earth. In practice, it means strapping on a parachute and hurling oneself off a tall, fixed place, … Continue reading Icarus, Reversed: Sunshine Superman
Great artists are kinda fucking nuts. They don’t always seem that way. Sometimes they come across completely normal, as normal as you or I. (Well, you anyway.) Sure, some have … Continue reading Living in the Shadow – Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World
The Wolfpack, the 2015 Sundance documentary winner, is about the six Angulo brothers who have been locked away in an apartment for their whole lives and still love each other’s … Continue reading Hot Docs 2015: The Wolfpack
Chameleon, the Ryan Mullins-directed documentary on vigilante Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, is filmed like a spy mission. Mullins takes us behind enemy lines in and around Accra to follow … Continue reading Hot Docs 2015: Chameleon
If you grew up in Staten Island up in New York, you might have heard the stories of Cropsey, an urban legend of a monstrous boogieman who kidnapped children. Imagine … Continue reading 31 Days of Horror 2014 – Cropsey
There’s really two schools of indie. That’s what you realize watching director Gabe Klinger’s Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013). The documentary is charming and laid-back, much like the … Continue reading Friendhood: Double Play hangs with James Benning and Richard Linklater
Oh my. There’s so much to George Takei. Part of the original, legendary Star Trek crew, beloved as helmsman Lieutenant Sulu of the starship Enterprise. Countless TV appearances, on everything from Perry Mason to Heroes. … Continue reading The Man in the Meme: To Be Takei
There’s no Aunt Jemima. Not a real one anyway. The idea came from a song in old minstrel shows, that homey old aunt often played by a white man in … Continue reading Balms Away: Burt’s Buzz Homes In On An Unlikely Icon
Boy do we have it good. For sure, every place, every culture has its struggles, its persecuted communities, its tensions between wealth and poverty and how to mitigate the differences … Continue reading The Cost of Courage: Human Rights Watch Festival 2014
So Justin Bieber’s partying with Brazilian call-girls and Lady Gaga sleeps with her bandmates. It’s all a bit… *yawn*, ya know? Each era has its debauched poster-children, from Pete Doherty … Continue reading What Blues Now? Ultra-Rare Stones Doc Screens at TIFF
Quick, name another physicist that’s been on The Simpsons. They’ve had a Nobel prize-winning chemist (Dudley Herschbach), and a renowned paleontologist (Stephen Jay Gould). But in the public mind one … Continue reading A Brief History of Steven Hawking
