Sometimes I’m loading up my pill organizer and I look at those jewel-bright yellow and pink capsules in my hand and I am once again flattened with joy that I live here, now, and not in the 99.975% of human history in which antidepressants and thyroid medication didn’t exist yet. I spent some of the… Continue reading The fat of the land
Tag: the end of the world
I’m so fascinated
Even if I hadn’t quit my job this year, I think this summer’s strike actions by the Writer’s Guild of America and the Screen Actor’s Guilt / AFTRA would feel like a central idea in … well, everything. My relationship to my own career, both where I’ve been and where I now want it to… Continue reading I’m so fascinated
Mindfulness of mind
What the hell did we just live through?
Deep space time
“The universe is unfinished, you know.”
I lost my Darth Vader action figure
And man, it drove me nuts
Everyone has a Substack now
And worse, I’ve started to subscribe.
Blu-ray Review: An Entirely Archival Criterion Release of David Cronenberg’s CRASH Can’t Help But Feel Very 2020
Advice to Torontonians: don’t watch Crash in a pandemic in December. Read more
Death and transformation at the Toronto International Film Festival
At some point during the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (our first hybrid digital/live event, and the latest in a stream of such styles of festival that will likely be the industry-dominant model for the foreseeable future), we passed the six month mark of Toronto’s pandemic isolation.
THE MOVIES (1895-2020)
For the final episode of Deathwatch, we look at the final nail in the coffin of mainstream moviegoing, and how the movies as a popular art form are about to die, transform, and be reborn.