film
Coast Modern Living
(May 29, 2013) Architecture‘s not usually one of those things that ends up getting a lot of love in Vancouver, we’re guilty of too ma...
Colombian cartels: from narcotraffic to the big screen
(Oct 19, 2012) “El Cartel de los Sapos”, a film based on the novel written by former drug dealer Andrés López López, one of the p...Holy Motors
(Jul 24, 2012) Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is a surrealist travel into a director’s mind and his concerns about the decline of cinema. Accordin...
Kibatsu Cinema: Not Just For Jooshi Kosei Anymore
(Jul 09, 2012) For anyone with a passion for the weird, the wonderful and the occasionally profane, Kibatsu Cinema has become a Vancouver tradit...
Show me the way to go home
(Apr 15, 2012) Christ on a Harley, the Hunger Games was crap. I got sucked into seeing it despite knowing before I went in that the critics wer...
Miyazaki’s Latest Masterpiece (hopefully)
(Feb 24, 2012) Is this ok? Am I allowed to love it? What will my friends say? These are the questions I must ask myself every time Hayao Miyazak...
The Eternal Quest For Redemption That Is Lance Fiero
(Feb 17, 2012) Never let it be said that Vancouver film makers don’t have a sense of humour. STEEL VIPER FORCE: Fiero’s Redemption ...
Mzansi Magic, a boost for local film and TV
(Feb 03, 2012) It’s been just over a year since M-Net and DSTV launched Mzansi Magic. In that time the channel has impressed me, especiall...
A little love for Kodak
(Jan 27, 2012) It’s been talked about for months now, and yet when I got home the other night and saw that Kodak had declared bankruptcy, I wa...
Three Cheers for Movies and Beer
(Dec 31, 2011) The Mission district in San Francisco needs a movie theater that can sell beer like, well, every neighborhood needs a movie theate...
Equally Blessed and Cursed
(Aug 10, 2011) It’s a mixed blessing to live near a place that sells things that are increasingly hard to come by, that you want. On the one h...
Hot For Holga
(Aug 05, 2011) There once was a time where you couldn’t just fire away 10 shots in a row, review them and delete the ones you don’...
Little White Lies
(Feb 12, 2011) My favourite film magazine Little White Lies is now available in Sweden from Press Stop and the best magazine store in the whole o...
Finding things, long forgotten, still useful
(Feb 01, 2011) I found several rolls of Advantix (APS) film in a pocket, which I didn’t know existed, of my bag that I didn’t realize ex...