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Marginally Maudlin McCarthyism

Nothing as exciting as communist blacklisting, I’m afraid…just this guy. If there’s one thing I enjoy more than almost anything else, it’s a good memoir, biography, or autobiography. The more salacious the better. Reading about the lives of famous and infamous people brings me an extreme amount of pleasure and always has; I think it…

October 10, 2025
The horrendous, un-mockable “Anora.” It’s just so, so awful.

Gurl, you didn’t earn it…or maybe you did. I don’t even know anymore. I’m several months behind on addressing last year’s “Anora,” but who cares? It isn’t like it is, or ever was, a movie of the times. It’s not like this confounding cinematic release is a contemporary, popular, cool, hip, with-it, groovy, bitchin’, of-the-moment…

May 8, 2025
2024 Horrors: The Final Chapter

Me, watching “Kill List” for the fourteenth time. Released in 2012, it’s in my Top Five of all-time favourite scary movies. It’s late on a soggy Sunday afternoon and I’m delaying my bubble bath so I can write this. Let’s just finish this off, shall we? There have only been a small handful of topics…

February 23, 2025
2024 Horrors!

…and by “horrors,” I am referring to the pleasant glut of movies that were released throughout last year, as opposed to the punishing series of events that transpired. While, so far, 2025 has started out strong and some excellent developments have already unfolded, 2024 seemed to specialize in teeth-rattling events both personal and public, and…

February 17, 2025
Taylor-Made For The Masses (First Part)

I said I was going to write about this, and I generally do everything I say I’m going to do. However, as soon as I decided to set aside the time today to finally tackle the topic of The Glittery Weekend Taylor Swift Came To Vancouver (TGWTSCTV doesn’t really work going forward, so we’ll just…

December 23, 2024
Tap-tap-tapping on heaven’s floor

Yes. That is me after winning a musical theatre award for some number called “Vaudeville.” I was about eleven here. This year of our antichrist, 2024–one of the most challenging but transformative epochs to date–marks the 45th anniversary of Coquitlam Centre. What’s that, you may ask with soaring ignorance? Why, it’s exactly what it sounds…

August 15, 2024
What happened to sexy legs? [UPDATED WITH A NON-HYPOCRITCAL VISUAL]

No, really. What happened to sexy legs? Do we not care about sexy legs anymore? I sure care about them. And considering it’s summertime–the worst time of year without a doubt–we should be thinking about, and admiring, all sorts of sexy legs. Yet here we are, not even giving them a second thought, and…

August 2, 2024
The Great Grime of Granville Strip [UPDATED ONE DAY LATER…]

I’ve been immersing myself in all sorts of things Vancouver-related, largely because I’m stuck here. I know, I know: there are worse places to be stuck, and no matter the myriad challenges that life can throw at you (my second cousin, a Saskatchewan boy and therefore one of the most down-to-earth people I know, listened…

July 22, 2024
Favourite (with a “u,” please) Book From Childhood Was…

Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren. I wish I could remember how I first heard about it or got hold of it. Actually, strike that: I now completely remember. Our elementary-school librarian, Ms. Boniface, used to gather the first- and second-grade students together a few times a week to read aloud to us from her books…

June 4, 2024
Jon Favreau Is A Cinematic Genius

No, really. Hear me out. Jon, if you’re reading this–and I assume everyone in Hollywood receives Google alerts for anything containing their name–you outdid yourself with this flick. Consider this my ode to “Chef.” So, for the rest of us armpit-scratching plebeians: Never heard of this movie? That’s a shame. I think it’s on Netflix…

May 1, 2024