The Collected Neil the Horse revisits one of the craziest comics published during the eighties black-and-white boom
Making the world safe for musical comedy (and Canadian comic books)
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Back in the day – Mark Yarm’s oral history of grunge
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Jennifer Egan on shoplifting and music journalism
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Never meet your heroes pt.1
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Looking back at Judith Rossner’s Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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Weird, wacky and often well-written, the 1973 bestseller-turned-into-a-Diane-Keaton-film was based on a true story.
“I never met anyone I didn’t like at a record company…”
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Like myself, Bif Naked was raised in Winnipeg and moved to Vancouver in the early nineties. Unlike me, she’s been successful. Ba dum tsh! I like Bif. I think she’s a nice person (I’ve interviewed her – twice, I think;…
‘Ants cannot be wrangled,’ and other life lessons from Werner Herzog
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Coming in at nearly 500 pages, A Guide for the Perplexed is enough Werner Herzog for even the most ardent fan of the German (he would say Bavarian) director. Throughout the book, which is a series of interviews with film…
10 Days of Leonard: Get Shorty
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In honour of the passing of Elmore Leonard last week, I’ve embarked on a mission to watch 10 movies based on the writer’s books. In the first entry, I reviewed 52 Pick-Up, a 1986 film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring…
10 Days of Leonard: Killshot and Jackie Brown
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10 Days of Leonard: 52 Pick-Up
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It was with great sadness I learned of Elmore Leonard‘s passing yesterday. In honour of my favourite crime writer (at least, among the ones I’ve read, including Hammett, Chandler and Highsmith), I watched the 1986 adaptation of his novel 52…