Some time back-you'll notice that a lot of my reviews start like this-Marcin Wrona's final film Demon turned up On Demand, and I watched it; I definitely wouldn't have been able to see it otherwise, considering that it still somehow hasn't gotten a Region One DVD/Blu-Ray release. At any rate, it's an amazing piece of work. The demon in question is ( Read more... )

Just came back from the States again, after serving as co-Guest of Honor with Laird Barron and Weston Ochse at Necon 2017. Everyone's been telling me what a great time that is, and heigh-ho, turns out they're right! Though I could probably have done without literally drinking myself into a blackout on the last night.
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As ever, what I've been doing recently is running in place, pretty much. That's going to have to stop soon, though, because we're coming up fast onto June 26 (the beginning of my new Litreactor course), followed by July 6 et al (my Odyssey Workshop appearance), then teaching frantically, then going back down to Rhode Island by the end of July to be ( Read more... )

I make a point of trying to seek out and watch horror movies by female directors, especially ones that come with a recommendation, and the general consensus on Lucile Hadžihalilović's Evolution (2015)--which I agree with, BTW--is that it crossbreeds Lynch with Lovecraft, which sounded really keen. So when it turned up on Netflix, I checked it out.
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It seems roughly that long since I've posted anything here, and indeed since I've thought creatively or analytically about anything. Part of that is because Cal got strep, yet again; we have an appointment with an ear, nose and throat doctor on May 10, thank Christ, and I will push extra-hard for the idea that taking out his tonsils seems like it ( Read more... )

This movie meme that's been going around on Facebook is predictably baffling to me, mainly because I could answer each category with ten titles and still feel like I was shorting someone somewhere. Do I answer with movies I've seen multiple times, or movies I've seen once but keep thinking about--classics, or something more recent? Do I answer with ( Read more... )

I've spent the last two days transcribing notes from all the notebooks I found at the bottom of my bag while I was mucking it out (finally). Some of them were pretty freaking hilarious. I'm particularly intrigued by the one that just says "David Cronenberg = chimerism" (um...yes, I guess?!?) and the one that read "what is race, what is gender," ( Read more... )

Spent so much of last week looking after Cal, who developed a freaking March Break cold (as usual--and partway through Mom started grilling me about trying to figure out why, like I even could; "Oh, this happens all the time, he's sick all the time, there must be something we can do." Really? Seriously? "He's so thin, he should be eating more stuff ( Read more... )

Okay, so: Yesterday I went by the HMV superstore at the Yonge-Dundas Square, which is unfortunately closing down, which means that everything in there's been slashed by at least 40%. I was thus able to pick up three BluRays and three DVDs for less than fifty dollars, amongst them Damien Chazelle's Whiplash, which I finished watching On Demand in ( Read more... )

So...I finally got the first section of "Always Tried To Be A Good Girl" into postable shape and put it up at AO3, over here (http://archiveofourown.org/works/10268510/chapters/22741202). Up to 21 hits thus far, with one kudos; I personally put that down to a ( Read more... )